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Author Topic: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - P2 - started Citadel  (Read 2362 times)

Offline black hat miniatures

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The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - P2 - started Citadel
« on: January 06, 2025, 05:41:57 PM »
A project that I have been working on slowly (very slowly!) over the last year is to reproduce the Siege of Dendermonde game run by Ron Miles in the 1970s and documented over 8 articles in Battle Magazine in 1977 and 1978.

I am hoping to get cracking with it this year so have been making some plans on how to tackle it.  The game will be on an 8' x 6' board, half of it city and half of it siege lines.
 
I decided that if I really am going to crack on with the Dendermonde scenery I need to have it setup so I can tinker when I feel like it.




This is the city half of the board setup on a 4' x 6' at the end of the games room.  I decided in the end to go with 6' wide and not compromise the size of the city walls.

I still have space for a 6'x 4' table for games when I need it.

I spent some time yesterday cutting 11 more hex board to complete the base board and I can start to spray the city boards grey and the ditch boards brown (they will eventually be textured) to give a better feel of how the areas split up.

I spent some time drawing up plans for the glacis and laying big bits of paper to get a feel for size and shape - a couple more revisions should have the base areas of the Glacis worked out.

I have also planned where the citadel and the ditch surrounding it will go and settled on a 75mm x 95mm footprint for the basic houses.  I will also be adding a set of 1/4 depth houses along the back of the board to give the illusion of more housing, etc.



I printed out some Gabions I had downloaded and resized them to 75% to get what seems to be about the right size.  These will be combined with laser cut trench sides and either plaster or DAS to create siege lines.



Finally I started sorting through the Minifigs French and British Grenadiers that I picked up on Facebook before Christmas for less then £1 each.  I'll be adding French Grenadiers and some extra officers to bring the units up to 24 strength.  The painter has picked units with all the same facing colours, so it will be easy to mix them, and I'll probably repaint some stockings, etc to distinguish the units.

Still lots to get on with....

There are a lot of details on how I built the Bastions and Ravelins, etc and design plans and thoughts on my blog here:

https://littlewars1913.blogspot.com/search/label/Dendermonde
« Last Edit: January 29, 2025, 06:44:15 PM by black hat miniatures »
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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2025, 08:48:40 PM »
I recall bits of the original in Battle. I dodn't remember the finale as copies of the magazine were available sporadically where I lived.

This is a fabulous project, will be watching with great anticipation.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2025, 09:34:45 PM »
Great project!

The scale of the bastions is huge - shows more in the blog photos - so worth a look there.

Interesting to see your construction techniques, with laser cut MDF as the base structures. Then more traditional modelling on top, but some 3d printing thrown in too!

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2025, 09:58:33 PM »
This is excellent! And brings back some memories of those articles. Shall be following the blog now.

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2025, 01:49:12 PM »
Thanks for the comments.

Finished cutting the first protoype house for the city of Dendermonde.




Still need to make some changed to how the walls connect to make it easier to put them together.  Next stage is to find some 1mm card and cut some shutters to go round the windows. And add a chimney.

It is deliberately downscaled against the 25mm figure so it has a smaller footprint.

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - Prototype House
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2025, 02:37:22 PM »
would the stepped brick eaves bits not be above the roof? I'm no expert on Dutch architecture, but a bit of it crops up in East Anglia from around that period due to the drainage.

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - Prototype House
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2025, 04:32:10 PM »
would the stepped brick eaves bits not be above the roof? I'm no expert on Dutch architecture, but a bit of it crops up in East Anglia from around that period due to the drainage.

Well spotted - it needs to be higher and I've adjusted that already - only realised it once the roof was on.

Mike

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - Prototype House
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2025, 12:29:14 PM »

 This is a project I will follow with great interest. Can we see some more picks of those Vauban fortifications?

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - Prototype House
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2025, 03:29:59 PM »
This is a project I will follow with great interest. Can we see some more picks of those Vauban fortifications?

There are quite a few on the blog link in the first post.  There will be more as I add the city gate, Citadel, Glacis, etc

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - Prototype House
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2025, 12:55:26 PM »

 I found them thanks. Looking at your 3-d images it seems you still have a lot of ahead of you.

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - more houses
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2025, 12:16:01 PM »
Still working on the Dutch style houses.



This is the prototype for the 1/3 relief houses that will sit on the back of the city board giving the illusion of more houses, etc behind.  Still need to make a couple of tweaks - they will be in strips of 3 mainly. I have left the fronts separate so I can mix and match.



These are the 4 style of house front I've drawn up so far - will probably add a couple extra and also want to do a couple of shops and perhaps a couple with slightly different window arrangements.

Onto shutters next as my 1mm card has arrived.

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - more houses
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2025, 06:08:45 PM »




Managed to finish the multiple low relief houses as well. Took a while to get the roof pieces right and I have rejigged the base to give 1mm space between the houses as the fronts were really tight to fit into the base.

Starting to get a feel for how the city might look.

Now the weather has brightened up I can get some baseboards sprayed and start undercoating some more figures...

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - more houses
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2025, 01:25:15 PM »
These look very nice

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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - more houses
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2025, 09:03:20 PM »
I don't suppose you have shareable SVG files for the fortifications?
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Re: The Siege of Dendermonde - Ron Miles - more houses
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2025, 09:22:30 PM »
I don't suppose you have shareable SVG files for the fortifications?

My laser files are dxfs not svgs and they are slightly bodged…

 

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