A Song of Ice and Fire in 25mm

[**GS**]

Very nice!
As you have mastered the art of sculpting polystyrene to stone walls , let me suggest a few little things that make your works masterworks instead of very good work:

Keep a keen eye on the link between to wall sections. Try better to hide the straight line between the two styrene plates.

Second, try painting in at least two basic colors, as stone walls don't normally come in just one color.

Last, try to sculpt the base to resemble normal ground. It's too thick for my part.

All in all, this is still very much more than most wargamers have in their games and it still looks stunning. So, keep on making such wonderful scenery.

Greetings GS

[sukhe_bator]

fastolfrus - the windows are simply the cut out arch shapes trimmed down in thickness then repositioned in the aperture and held in placce with a foamcore plate in the back of the wall. I add another 5mm layer of arch head detailing. The columns are made from thin balsa dowel or in this particular case modelling lollypop-stick of finely rolled paper.
GS - I agree the styrene sheets could have been better aligned to mask the joins. This is something I always struggle with. The baseplate is foamcore trimmed down at the corners. I have had problems in the past with bases warping when I use the woodworkers PVA adhesive. When I've added the flock to the base it should be less obvious.

My Sept is 3/4 complete and despite being polygonal I have pretty much eliminated any joins in the styrene by covering them with pilasters and buttresses

[majorsmith]

magnificent building! i love it!

[**GS**]

My Sept is 3/4 complete and despite being polygonal I have pretty much eliminated any joins in the styrene by covering them with pilasters and buttresses

Hi,
I am looking forward to seeing it!

Happy Easter !

GS

[Suber]

Absolutely great!

[Painting Princess]

Great thread! I like the Night's Watch; and the tree is fantastic!

[Captain Blood]

Excellent conversions - you're a dab hand with the old Green Stuff. Love that tower too.

Good to see something so creative happening in darkest Surrey 

[sukhe_bator]

Finally my Sept nears completion. My inspiration is Romanesque/Byzantine architecture which I have also used with some success for my LOTR... The pan tiles give it a foreign 'mediterranean' touch. These are Wills 1:72 scale model railway accessory sheets.

Martin makes much play of the 7 sided Sept but it makes no architectural sense. If there are supposed to be 7 niches or walls to worship inside, how do you get in?- the logical 8th side has the door! The octagonal layout and roof tiling

The main doorway with thee 7 pointed star of the Andals as a central motif

With doorway and lintel detail and showing the iron studded door

Clerestory level without stained glass - these have to be designed, drawn, reduced in size and transferred onto acetate then painted and glued into position - another project in itself!

View of blank arcading on exterior walls

[Suber]

Woah...
Incredible piece of work!

[Wilkins]

Sheer brilliance!  Very impressive!

[tomek917]

That's simply amazing! 

You are a very talented man! More please! 

[max]

That is excellent, the painting makes it look like a plastic kit. Brilliant!

[Elk101]

That is a bute!

[Limaike]

Martin makes much play of the 7 sided Sept but it makes no architectural sense. If there are supposed to be 7 niches or walls to worship inside, how do you get in?- the logical 8th side has the door!

My wife is a big GRRM fan and now you've got her scrambling for explanations. So far she's got-

1. the sept has 7 sides and the entrance is on a point
2. the sept has 7 sides and all the niches are located on an internal seven sided wall
3. the entrance is located below floor level and you walk under the wall, into the body of the sept

Personally i think GRRM just screwed up.

Your sept looks amazing by the way.

[Painting Princess]

Wow, that's fantastic