My Vauban Fortress (8th update 28.04.12 - page 11 FINISHED!!!)

[Frank]

WOW! It’s growing…and it is huge! Splendid work!

[Johnno]

 
More please

[Colonel Tubby]

That's impressive - I look forward to seeing the next update.

[Flynn]

Very impressive, i will watch this thread with interest.

[Sangennaru]

this project is becoming more and more impressive!!! O_O

[Admiral Benbow]

Really fantastic work even at this "early" stage. If I can though, I would like to see a figure with your next WIP shots. It will give a better idea of the size of the whole Bastion.

No problem, Calimero, and many thanks for your (and everybody else's ...) nice comments.

[Captain Blood]

Teutonic efficiency at it's finest 
Wonderful precision.

[anevilgiraffe]

great stuff... the bit you painted, is that textured? looks great...

[Admiral Benbow]

great stuff... the bit you painted, is that textured? looks great...

No, it's just a first (under-) coat of a paint-and-white-glue-mix to strengthen the foam components. And I wanted to see how the terracotta pieces align with the white parts under colour; as expected, they need a white undercoat first ...

[OSHIROmodels]

Here's a question 

How big is the rest of the table going to be, or is that the table 

cheers

James

[meninobesta]

really excelent work!

[Admiral Benbow]

Here's a question 
How big is the rest of the table going to be, or is that the table 
cheers
James

It's not a gaming table on its own, but a large terrain piece. It will consist of two pieces: the one you have seen here with dimensions 82 x 58 cm, and a smaller one about 55 x 50 cm closing the gap on the main piece. Both together form the fort and will be surrounded by a small strip of rocky terrain. The plan is to use it either as a land piece - just placed on flat terrain boards building the larger gaming table, or as an island fort placed on a sea board (for pirate games for example).

Two pieces for easier transport. I'll build a transport box for the fort, with the smaller piece on top of the larger one - if everything works as planned ...
 

[Calimero]

... How big is the rest of the table going to be, or is that the table 

My thought exactly

This is HUGE!!!

[anevilgiraffe]

No, it's just a first (under-) coat of a paint-and-white-glue-mix to strengthen the foam components. And I wanted to see how the terracotta pieces align with the white parts under colour; as expected, they need a white undercoat first ...

I meant the ramp, not the other obviously painted bits... 

[Admiral Benbow]

In the meantime ...

Started the curved ramp to the upper level bastions. The choosen material was Selitron as it can be curved by kneading and pressing it slowly and carefully with fingers. the callenge was to get the gradient and curving correct in one go ...



So I used paper templates first and had some waste in between, but finally it looked right:







All parts were glued with white glue and fixed in place with pins.

Next came the arsenal gates on a decorated wall which should get a typical spanish/caribbian deteriorated finish. At the Tactica I had bought three very nicely sculpted resin doors from Gerard Boom (a member here known as geboom) which came closest to my vision. The wall is 5 mm foamboard, decorated with half-round wooden pillars and plastic parts from the Advanced Heroquest set I had in my spareboxes for decades ...
I added some border stones and everything got a layer of ready made plaster.





After hardening the part was painted using Vallejo and Ral Partha acrylics, using a limited palette of browns and ocres.







This wall shows the final colour of the fortress, thoese yellowish walls will also look like this in the end.

Till next time ...