Bazaar WIP

[gamer Mac]

Now that I know how to work this I thought I would post some pics of a setting I am working on for .45 adventures. It is supposed to be a Bazaar at a dock side. What do you think?

[fastolfrus]

Looking good so far.

How did you do the striped archways ?

[Operator5]

That's excellent. I love the added touch of the storm drain. If used as part of a series of games, you could create an underground sewer board as part of it.

[Malamute]

Looking great so far.

[Argonor]

Nice!

[gamer Mac]

I used a rather long winded way of making the arches. I drew the shape I want on a thin piece of card. Cut it out. Scanned it into my computer. Used paint to copy it six times, them printed that out on the thickest card my printer could handle. Then cut those out and used them for templates on a piece of foam board. Cut out the arch shape in the foam board. Glued on the card arches around the cut outs in the foam board and used polyfiller to tidy it up. I painted the black and white stripes after dry brushing the rest of the walls.
Told you long winded!

Arch templates

Closer view before painting.
Used similar process to make the doors and windows of the house in the back ground.

[argsilverson]

It sounds promising. Keep on!

My only reservation is that usually the markets in Middle East are in small streets full of everything (people, animals, goods, street vendors, shops, beggars, kids, magicians, street shops the list goes on)

Very good work on the arches, thanks on the templates.
[In painting: usually in ME there is no black, I suggest to change it to blue.
If you like it do it, if not make it whatever colour you like]

[Calimero]

I really like what the direction your project is taking  , but I have a small request... could you use slightly larger pictures? 

[Doomhippie]

Amazing board. Lots of atmosphere here. Can't wait for a battle report...

[oxiana]

Very good work on the arches, thanks on the templates.
[In painting: usually in ME there is no black, I suggest to change it to blue.
If you like it do it, if not make it whatever colour you like]

In Old Cairo, Damascus and Aleppo you see plenty of black/white stone striping like this - it was a particularly popular Ottoman style during in the 17th/18th centuries... Sorry to be pedantic!

[gamer Mac]

Done some more work on the Bazaar setting. Reading some of the comments I have change the layout of the board to make it busier. I am adding a lot of small stalls up either side of a narrow stepped street. But first I have added the second floor to the main Bazaar, along with the roof and a staircase up to a balcony.


second floor


Staircase


Balcony

Below are a couple of photos of the new setup



The bazaar entrance gateway



One more picture below. I am looking for ideas for the inside of the main bazaar. Iwas thinking of splitting it up into smaller shops. What do you think?

[Doomhippie]

Actually why not leave it as a market hall? Lots of peddlers with their small stalls in the hall plus loads of people buying and looking.

[Ruarigh]

Wow. That board is brilliant. I can't wait to see the finished product. If you need somewhere to store it, I have a wargames room that it would fit into!;)

[gamer Mac]

Ruarigh
No its OK I still have some space left in my garrage. Sorry should call that my wargames room. In the eight years I have been in this house the car has never seen the inside of the garage. The previous owner, kindly, had left two off 8' x 2' floor boards which I soon made into a wargames table. So the garrage for the car was history.

Doomhippie
I was thinking of maybe splitting it up in to four small shops. Maybe modular construction so that I could change the interior layout. The peddlers with their small stalls are going to go out on the street. See pic below for my idea. Each of the small modules would be a box with everything built inside.


Ideas for the modules so far are -
Book shop
Tailors
Barbers

Trying to think of other shops that would be useful in pulp games

[Argonor]

Antiquities. You have to have a place to hide the small statuette with the secret compartment, containing the 13th clue to the mystery... or the Scarab of Doom...