Queen Victoria Building

[Fjodin]

Just want to share interesting thing. I've just returned for shop when I ussally buy paints for Victorian Science Fiction minis. The shop located in... Queen Victoria Building!!!!

Here is QVB on Sydney map:


Sattelite pic

photos of interior and exterior






19 century photo(rest of these here - http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/cbd/250px-QVatQVB.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/cbd/cbd3-007.htm&usg=__f93RRc4BSXUxMgOKqpvSvPpYZkQ=&h=321&w=250&sz=28&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=f-OgThv3dyOyeM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=92&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dqueen%2Bvictoria%2Bbuilding%2Bstatue%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1W1GGLL_en%26um%3D1:

[Fjodin]

Statue of Herm Majesty (God Bless Her) at front of building:



The QVB's wishing well:


Closeup photo of  Queen Victoria's favorite dog "Islay":


Aireal photo:


Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria_Building

[Christian]

Quite an inspiration, right in your back yard. I've walked passed it thousands of times and never thought twice about it

If you keep walking down York St. to the Tin Soldier there's a few other interesting buildings, and the old Post Office is a really grand building.

That reminds me that I haven't been to Hobby Co. in a very long time... what VSF project are you working on and do you play it in Sydney?

[Michi]

What a pity to erect all those skycrapers around such a fine building. Thanks for the pictures and report!

[former user]

thx for sharing
I like this style of late 19C a lot, because it approaches the romanesque theme from it's early roots in Byzantine and Muslim Architecture, rather than from the end transition to gothic style or from the classicist revival side.

I would expect this style usually not associated with victorian mainstream, which is rather refreshing to see.
Are there possibly any kits of it available? Or at least the same style?

[marianas_gamer]

Ok when is Svenn going to get on the stick and start modeling this one? 

[Fjodin]

2 Christian

I have 8 bases in 2mm Brittish and some Land Ironclads. Also, I've just recieved an order of 15mm colonial minis
Only rules that I have are Aeronef and Land Ironclads. I am VERY NEW in wargaming. Only a year, and wholw year was spent on painting, not playing

[Christian]

That is tiny! It's not a scale I've ever played with, but it looks like fun...

Actually if you lot like this you will definitely like the following:


Sydney Town Hall: http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/cbd/cbd3-001.htm

"Town Hall was built in the 1880s from local Sydney sandstone in the grand Victorian architectural style, and remains the only non-religious city building from the era to retain its original function and interior"... I wonder if the youth of 1880s used the steps as a meeting place like they do now!


Art Gallery of NSW: more like neo-classical style former user mentioned. There are two statues out the front. One is called Offerings of War, the other Offering of Peace (someone clever so and so put a beer can on it once).

This is a pretty good website: http://www.sydneynaturally.com.au/sydney.htm

And here's our old Post Office: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MNNty0rLlyI/Rt0TFhOSalI/AAAAAAAAAMA/lyI-u2zwda4/s640/100_0030.JPG

Hopefully some inspiration It's an interesting city. A wrong turn can either find you dead, or looking at a building that has been there for ~200 years.

The Rocks is a bit like the latter. There is an old puppet shop you can go into, and you walk downstairs, potter around amongst the muppets, and then walk out the back into an alley that used to be a fireplace from Colonial times. It's good for the imagination 

[Dewbakuk]

Stop it. I love Sydney and haven't been in a couple of years now

I'm a big fan of those buildings and made my wife walk round them when I took her with me on a trip

[Thunderchicken]

Best sausage roll I've ever had was in Sydney.

[Sterling Moose]

Thunderchicken,

Best sausage roll I've ever had was in Sydney.

Your sexual conquests are of no interest to the readers of this forum!!

[Thunderchicken]

Thunderchicken,

Your sexual conquests are of no interest to the readers of this forum!!

Steady the Buffs! 

[former user]

the nice thing is that there are some railway kits in these styles that fit 28mm and You can use them from 1870 onwards and almost everywhere in the world (not always Americas). I have some which I need to finish.

[oxiana]

And if you look closely at the statue of Her Maj, you'll notice that she's actually holding a paintbrush, as if you add the final highlights to her entry for the Lead Painting League...

[former user]

oh, I thought it is the stick with which to beat those who didn't finish in time....