Vauban fort - updated w/FIELDWORKS - Feb 6

[Mad Guru]

Fifteens -- thanks for sharing your thoughts!  the gateway roof is meant to be exactly that: verdigris copper.  I gave my friend 3 suggestions: terra-cotta red-brown, slate gray, or copper green.  He enthusiastically chose the green and I do think it was the best choice.

[Mad Guru]

I finally got around to organizing the pics I took of the multiple gabions, fascines, earthworks, etc. which I painted for my same friend for whom I painted the Vauban fortress.  As I sent him pics showing my progress on the fort he got excited and decided to buy a bunch of these commercially available fieldworks & send them to me to add to the painting list.  I didn't mind.  In for a penny in for a pound, so to speak!


I just put a post on my blog re: painting it all, and also basing some of it in small groups to make them easier to use on the tabletop.  I also included LINKS to all of the 5 different suppliers.

Most of these pieces could be used for many 17th to 19th Century battlefields in a variety of different theaters of war.

If interested please stop by to visit my blog at the LINK below, and if you do so, thanks in advance for investing some more of your time!

https://maiwandday.blogspot.com/2020/02/c18th-field-works-siege-fortifications.html

Meanwhile, here's a dozen or so pics:

*NOTE: Everything in the post is store-bought except for a table I built so the besieging high command can have a place to confer re: the progress of their attack.

[FifteensAway]

Well, where to start?

Um, magnificent work.  Of course, we expect no less from you at this juncture.

Love the mine head bit, not often seen modeled (first time I recall, actually).

Nice collection.  Again, you have a very lucky friend to have you as his friend. 

And this has naught to do with you but seems an under abundance of gabions and an over abundance of chivaux-de-frise - but maybe that's just my not knowing better.  Always thought of them as gateways into the works - and too many gates make for vulnerable works.

And, last, for now, for all the joy of your 18th century sojourn, I am happily ready to see you return to the 19th century!

Thanks for sharing.

[DintheDin]

Nice items! Well done! They will add life to your fort! Cheers!

[Captain Blood]

They’ve all turned out extremely well. Love the mine entrance and the table of books 

[Treebeard]

Splendid Mad Guru ! Epic !

[Silent Invader]

Great stuff. The mine entrance is inspired 

[ragbones]

Mad Guru, you always know how to set a beautiful table!

[Mad Guru]

Many thanks!  You guys are too kind, and I sincerely appreciate all your comments.  Hopefully I'll be back before too long with some higher quality photos of the Vauban layout.