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Author Topic: NWF WOW! This is quite the model.  (Read 3398 times)

Offline sukhe_bator

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Re: NWF WOW! This is quite the model.
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2013, 08:34:11 AM »
I'm afraid I'm with Hobbit on this one - yes it is impressive but also far too grand for an Afghan hillfort... This is more based on the illustrations of the fortresses of Ghazni and Kabul
One only has to go online to see the standard of local building in the Afghan hills. At most you are looking for a Chitral-esque watchtower and a few fortified compounds and houses... Ian Weekley did a magnificent version of Chitral back in the day...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ian+weekley+chitral&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=qlXmUY2uFMuW0QWooYHgBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=576
Don't mean to rain on their parade - it is a lovely build, but will it prove practical enough for 15mm for punters to shell out the cost? I'm converting the 1:72nd Zvezda timber fort into an Ottoman Haiduk fort in 15mm - but even then that will have limited playability (at a fraction of the cost). In 28mm at least there would be scope for colonial skirmish/pulp scenarios for a building of this kind...
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Offline moonshado

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Re: NWF WOW! This is quite the model.
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2013, 11:32:16 AM »
I go with Hobbit  and Sukhe on this, far too elaborate for NWF. If I was to use it, I would be looking at making it into a Rajput hill fort for late 18th Century or early 19th Century warfare(maybe a scaled down version of the Seiges of Bhurtapore).  Maybe with a lot of verdant vegetation around it, move it further south for use in the Mysore Wars.

Offline Hobbit

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Re: NWF WOW! This is quite the model.
« Reply #17 on: July 18, 2013, 07:26:13 PM »
I'd like to reiterate that I did say it was a very lovely model and I didn't want to ruin anyone's day.

 

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