Church on the Moor update - 12 Jul

[Sheerluck Holmes]

While waiting for the rules to arrive in the mail I have decided to jump the gun and make some scenery in advance so that I can get a game up and running ASAP.

After a quick "google" I came up with some photos of a church I would like to build around which a scenario would be based:



After drawing up my concept and making measurements, I started to build the church using foam card.

This is what I have done so far:



Nothing has been glued together yet, but once the glue starts drying I will be adding bricks to the walls, as well as embellishing the windows.

The model is quite big compared to the handful of buildings I have made in the past - it is about 30cm long and 12 cm wide, but it is supposed to be the key feature for the games it will be used in.

I will be using the church as a base for a cult, complete with grave stones, dead trees, and a stone wall around the church grounds.  Outside the church I plan to make a bit of a moor - complete with a little creek, a bit of a swamp and more dead trees.

[Lupus]

Nice i like the look of it.  I ahve a large manor house come tavern that i plan to use in some of my games.

Though i also have world works sewars that i'm doing for another project but i think they may have more than one use

Can't wait to see what else is to come with this.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

I like what you have done so far and the photo of the actual church is great inspiration.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[ZenWired]

This is quite nice - please keep us updated! 

[Sheerluck Holmes]

The original is in Cumbria, U.K. - those wanting to see more photos of it can visit: http://www.visitcumbria.com/churches/croglin.htm

After doing a google image search I found this web site had links to many other churches, so there is plenty of inspiration out there.

Update - no photos yet (as I was on afternoon/night shift) but I have started glueing the walls together, and preparing the 'bricks' for gluing onto the walls, and designing the windows. I hope to have some more photos today.

[Sheerluck Holmes]

I have now glued the walls and the front entrance onto the model.

I put some figures in front of it for a scale guild



The bottom foundation stones are of balsa and the side wall bricks are of card.

 I did start gluing bricks onto the wall, but pulled them off as it look horrible... I now have slight damage to the wall because of this, but I am hoping it wont be that bad when I paint it... I could always use textured paint to help out here.

[Sheerluck Holmes]

I forgot.... this is what I want to do for the windows.

 It is fly wire painted silver with black card behind it.

[ZenWired]

It is fly wire painted silver with black card behind it.

Very nice - I like it! I was working on a church several years ago, but at 80% complete it ended up sitting on a shelf - mainly because I couldn't come up with a satisfactory solution to the window dilemma. Problem solved. Thanks. 

[jnr]

Sounds like water works sewers

[Lupus]

Lupus
Sorry, I cannot work out what this is? Could you explain....

Worldworks card stock terrain.

http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/

Really good stuff, can take a while to do and such but its not that hard.  I did a nice review of it In Issue 3 of The ancible (www.the-ancible.com) and part 2 is in Issue 4.

You have a huge operitunity to do a lot of different things with it as well, it can be set to be multiple layers and so on.

[Sheerluck Holmes]

Very nice - I like it! I was working on a church several years ago, but at 80% complete it ended up sitting on a shelf - mainly because I couldn't come up with a satisfactory solution to the window dilemma. Problem solved. Thanks. 

Glad I could have helped... only I can't claim the idea - i saw something similar on the Teragenisis site.

 if the fly wire was bigger i was tempted to make it a stain glass window but painting different colours in the gaps

[archangel1]

Hirst Arts has some stained glass patterns you can print on transparencies that you might be able to adapt.

http://www.hirstarts.com/plans/plans.html

About half way down the page on the left.  Plenty of other useful items there for free download, too.

[Sheerluck Holmes]

very nice - I wish i had seen these before cutting the windows to the shape I did 

[Uncle Mike]

This looks great so far. I'm always a little frightened to tackle a building project as big as this...never end up finishing details and little stuff...so, never end up finishing anything bigger than a ruined corner. Can't wait to see this painted up. Should be a real hoot to play with.

[Sheerluck Holmes]

Work and other annoying life things delayed work on the church a bit, but here is an update on what work I have done:





I have added the bell tower to the left of the church, given the front its first coat of paint, completed the windows on the front side, and begun work on the roofing tiles on the entry.