Captain Blood's Renedra Tower project (8 July - Finished. Many pics P10.)

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking good but why are the buttress bottoms a totally different grey?

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

Cos they are raw plastic and need to be painted to match the tower now they are in position 

[Dr. The Viking]

Cos they are raw plastic and need to be painted to match the tower now they are in position 

Ah, you smug exotic self contained islanders are always ready with a simple answer.   


I can't for the love of Goat understand how a model of a tower came to take up your time this way, but
it is looking excellent. I'll give you that!   

[verd]

Splendid Work. Great Detail. I like it all.

[archiduque]

Excellent work Richard!!

[OSHIROmodels]

Ah, you smug exotic self contained islanders are always ready with a simple answer.   

Bollocks 

[Mindenbrush]

Very nice build 

With regards to the time you spent cleaning up the pieces etc, would you say it is a lot quicker than scratch building your own?

[OSHIROmodels]

I would say that it's much easier to clean them up but the point would be that there seems to be an unnecessary amount of cleaning for a kit from a leading manufacturer.

This is of course my personal opinion and may differ from Richards.

cheers

James

[Ogrob]

Very nice build 

With regards to the time you spent cleaning up the pieces etc, would you say it is a lot quicker than scratch building your own?

I'm not a great scratch builder (or the person asked, but whatever), but yes, cleaning the plastic is definitly quicker then building terrain from foam and stuff. I've built a full size castle, and the cleanup was by far the most time consuming part but pretty quick all told. Unlike the captain, I used PVA to fill the gaps and found that to work just fine.

[Mindenbrush]

Cheers jimbibbly & Ogrob, still undecided as although the kit will save time on details such as archways, windows etc the challenge of scratch building is intriguing. I still have plenty of time to decide as my Frostgrave is still in the de-flashing the figures stage...............

[jon_1066]

Great work as usual. 

Just to chip in on the issue of clean up/effort, etc.  I have been hacking the castle about and found it quite fun.  My pieces haven't had much in the way of mould lines and those there are are most often not on visible bits.  In terms of the fit I guess a little filling is required but since I have been chopping it up it is minimal compared to the great gaps I have been leaving.

I think it is a pretty flexible kit and fun to build.  It is also massive.  Much bigger than the GW watch tower for instance.

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Jon. Yes, I agree with you, it's impressively big - especially when stuck on a mound

I found scraping off the mould lines pretty tedious, but maybe I just have a low tolerance for such unproductive tasks  
I think scratchbuilding would take a lot longer and the result probably wouldn't be as good.

Now here's the tower in situ with the steps and groundwork complete and painted.
Just the greenery to add now. I must admit, I rather like it as it is, sitting on its blasted, muddy wasteland. Then again, I know that adding greenery to the base will make it pop even more, so that's the final step...

[Silent Invader]

Looking excellent. 

You and others are tempting me into the fray.....

[Andym]

If you like the muddy look, why not just green up the edges of the base? I imagine people would walk around the base of the tower messing up the grass anyway.

As for the steps, what about a railing? Maybe around the steps and around the entrance door too? It maybe looks a little bear without it.

Looking excellent. 

You and others are tempting me into the fray.....

Knowing your current projects, should that not be "into the Frey"? (I think thats the spelling of the GoT family? )

[Captain Blood]

As for the steps, what about a railing? Maybe around the steps and around the entrance door too? It maybe looks a little bear without it.

Thanks Andy. I actually built a handrail up the stair, and a section of balustrade for the platform. Then decided the whole timber edifice was starting to look a bit over-fussy, so went for the Spartan look instead...