Back of Beyond Lamasery

[marianas_gamer]

Lots of fiddly work on crenelations but the entry wall and front tower are completed with a small gate all but finished.



Here are some pices of the finished tower.





Next will be work on the portion of the mountain base that supports the fortifications and also a courtyard. Then depending if I can get some more cork pads the base of the build and a entry staircase or the next level up with the lamasery itself. I haven't decided whether I will an upper tower or not.

[Tom Dulski]

 This looks amazing

[marianas_gamer]

I have started work on the part of the build that I was most concerned about, the complex roof for the Lamasery. I have had to make multiple cuts that I messed up Than I laid out my plan on graph paper and cut out the lower roof portion. Here is the base of the roof.

Yup, pretty basic and the corners will need to be trimmed. I also plan on gluing a thin piece of rod for the lower roof to be balanced on when it glues. Here are the lower roof pieces being laid out before I cut them. This was post mistakes (and I don't even have drinking to blame ).

This is the initial layout of the lower roof prior to trimming the corners and gluing.

Next will be the upper roof.

[marianas_gamer]

Progress is being made on the roof. Everything was finally put together on the under structure (with a couple of small patches)





Pan tiles are slowly being applied but it should be completed this weekend.





The roof has turned out to be substantially larger than originally planned, which may mean that there will not be an upper tower. Time will tell.

[marianas_gamer]

As it was a long weekend I was able to complete tiling the roof. There are a couple of rough spots but a bit of spackling after everything dries shouls take care of that.




Work on the main building will start next week.

[Hammers]

It is going to be really cool to see the finished result.

[Patrice]

Fascinating! 

[OSHIROmodels]

Coming along nicely 

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks fellas.

[aircav]

Cracking job on the roof Lon 😎😎😎

[Codsticker]

That is great miniature carpentry.

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks guys! I have made some progress on the Lamasery itself. The door frame and the windows are on. The door itself needs more work.


Here is a picture of the side of the building. Both are the same and the back does not have any windows.


Here the lamasery is with the roof in place.

Lots of masonry work to go!

[marianas_gamer]

Masonry and the door are finally finished. This is the main building sans some final spackling and very minor masonry work.



and a view from the side



The building with the roof on



and another view from the side



What remains is to tie everything into a substantial base, a number of staircases to be built and the gate to be finished. Then, of course, the painting. Lots of work to get stuck into.

[Vagabond]

That's pretty impressive Lon, both in structure and design, the roof must have been a nightmare to design, unless you have the math capability to calculate the angles. .
Crack on there

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks John (math skills not so much).

My body has decided to further break down in order to confound me and provide a bit more pain in my life. The results of misspent youth and middle age, and...... One of the only consoling benefits is that chair bound hobby time has actually increased a bit. This has allowed me to work on a 1919 story rpg game with a friend, plot for the upcoming Kriegspielers campaign, and actually get some work done on this lamasery

With most of the building and structural work completed I have turned to the terrain aspects of a fortified, mountain lamasery and how to emphasise verticality. I have decided to build down from the top. I am concerned that if I started from the bottom I would terminally mess up spacing of the building elements. I believe that this will also allow me to modify the base as I go eliminating the look of the perfect circle of the cork pad.

Here is the incomplete base for the lamasery itself that will be located at the the top of the build. I expect to add two more layers. I am using thick darker cork tiles that I purchased several years ago. I believe that this cork has been heat treated because it has a slightly smoky smell right out of the packaging. It also has proven to be very crumbly, dirty to work with, and doesn't take glue as well as other cork tile, necessitating longer intervals for drying. Note that I have put a block on top to hold the hollow core building in place. I am going to do this for all buildings for stability, storage, and so the building can be used in other settings.



Here is the lamasery in place. Again, there will be several more layers to the base and I will need to construct a staircase entrance.



Finally, here is a picture of the elements mostly in place and an initial impression of the future verticality of the build.



I will need to start cutting the underlying cork and gluing other sections in place to support the fortifications and to give a more cragy look to the base. There will also be a final staircase built, perhaps with a draw bridge element to access the fortified lamasery. Then all the painting