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Offline alcal

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #30 on: April 25, 2021, 06:01:27 AM »
Have you done any tuitions on how you make your scenery.
Or painting guides for buildings.
It’s very excellent.

Hi Buildings are 3d printed is that the scenery you mean.I used to do pictorial posts of my layouts as i designed and built them but Photo Bucket (still don`t like saying the name) destroyed posts with 4,000 pictures in them.I was derailed for a long time after that, now i post a few odd pics but never to that level anymore.
Cheers AL

Offline Eclaireur

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #31 on: April 25, 2021, 08:37:27 AM »
Looking fab Al  :D

I couldn't find that wallpaper on the Graham & Brown website but I didn't find this, which looks like a close match

https://www.wallpaper-it.com/18935-master.html

one other random thought - which you've probably already had! What about shell damage to the roads, gardens, etc? The barrage that knocked all those houses about would have fallen all over the place.
EC 

Offline alcal

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #32 on: April 25, 2021, 10:27:21 AM »
At the top of the pictures on page two it says 85% and this is why:

Ok to add , signs , posters , telegraph poles and lines , craters , rubble , shell holes in cobble , trees , dust , garden/park  plants and foliage, creepers, so that`s  the other 15% cheers AL

Offline alcal

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #33 on: April 25, 2021, 10:30:54 AM »
Looking fab Al  :D

I couldn't find that wallpaper on the Graham & Brown website but I didn't find this, which looks like a close match

https://www.wallpaper-it.com/18935-master.html

one other random thought - which you've probably already had! What about shell damage to the roads, gardens, etc? The barrage that knocked all those houses about would have fallen all over the place.
EC

Thats the same name and the same SKU number it IS the same paper :-) cheers AL

Scrubber

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #34 on: April 25, 2021, 11:18:12 AM »
Al. I was thinking more about the setting for your building, the field look great, are the scratch built?

Offline alcal

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #35 on: April 25, 2021, 11:44:21 AM »
Ok i had an 18`x 5` fur cloth and i cut two 7`x 5` out of it and taped them together to create a 7` x 10` the fur is shaved with hair clippers then painted with a badger air brush (the £20 paint comes from the glass jar one) using only water based paint (household emulsion watered down).When it was the full cloth it had wheat fields left taller and painted to suit built in , but shaved them all off and did a re-paint .
Cheers AL


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« Last Edit: April 25, 2021, 11:47:15 AM by alcal »

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #36 on: April 25, 2021, 02:14:01 PM »
Where do you get 18`x 5` fur cloth? :o
Cheers,
Poiter50

Offline alcal

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #37 on: April 25, 2021, 02:19:51 PM »
Thats a smile at you question , reason is Teddy Bear fur is a cloth hence it is 1.5m wide but sold per linear meter so it can be up to 40-50 meters long but only 1.5m wide,so what i did with it means i now in essence have a 6` x  10` game cloth , cheers AL

Ps in the picture it is more to one side of my 6` x 8`table ,that is so most of the seam is hidden under the road.
« Last Edit: April 25, 2021, 02:22:22 PM by alcal »

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #38 on: April 25, 2021, 02:31:00 PM »
Thank you.

Thats a smile at you question , reason is Teddy Bear fur is a cloth hence it is 1.5m wide but sold per linear meter so it can be up to 40-50 meters long but only 1.5m wide,so what i did with it means i now in essence have a 6` x  10` game cloth , cheers AL

Ps in the picture it is more to one side of my 6` x 8`table ,that is so most of the seam is hidden under the road.

Scrubber

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #39 on: April 25, 2021, 03:26:39 PM »
Ideal for wargames tables, but would make one hell of a big teddy bear.

Offline Hu Rhu

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #40 on: April 26, 2021, 04:02:53 PM »
That village is just fantastic.   :-* :-* :-*  Thanks also for the tips on the teddy bear fur.  I have a slightly smaller one I am going to use for the Eastern FRont and it has given me some ideas.

Offline alcal

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #41 on: April 26, 2021, 04:32:31 PM »
There is another way to use it here you can see it in 600mm square boards part of 30 boards for Gettysburg.

IMG_6527 by alcal50, on Flickr

IMG_6511 by alcal50, on Flickr

Offline Roo

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #42 on: April 26, 2021, 05:04:59 PM »
Wow need to see more of that set up please Alcal

Scrubber

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #43 on: April 26, 2021, 05:16:03 PM »
I would so love to be able to play on a board like that.
Stunning.

Is there a link to that ACW game.

Offline alcal

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Re: Normandy Village
« Reply #44 on: April 26, 2021, 07:56:17 PM »
90%
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« Last Edit: April 27, 2021, 06:36:21 AM by alcal »

 

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