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Building a Medieval fortress - by Waitoa - Del Prado 1/87
Ekis replied to Waitoa's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Good job ! But you're going to keep going, right? You really have to ! -
Building a Medieval fortress - by Waitoa - Del Prado 1/87
Ekis replied to Waitoa's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
You can, perhaps, find these covers (in France, they are used by schoolchildren to cover their class books) in transparent plastic of color (red, blue, yellow, ...) which you would cut a small square to put from behind in addition to your current glazing. It would give a more religious side to this skylight, I think, and it's easy to do, isn't it? -
Some details on the extension of the Harbour for this village. Here is a diagram for the situation: At the same time, my friend (for 3D) offered me his help for all the equipment on a scale that would be almost impossible to reproduce in wood with such finesse: various carts, boats, wheelbarrows, grinding wheel, wooden crates, barrels... And I can stay focused on the construction without spending tens of hours on accessories. All this with things I already have in wood and cardboard will give life to the whole!
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Thank you for this very complimentary post! I'm just answering this part: there is no particular place to display this village, except at home like all my other models. Maybe one day, I will have the opportunity to participate in an exhibition, but for the moment, nothing else. I'm currently on the terraforming of the bases of the village: not much to show you, it's a long and tedious work! I also took all the roofs to make them appear more "14th" with older shades, dust between the tiles, moss and a bit of dirt everywhere. It's also quite long to do and I have to make sure that all the roofs have the same weathering. As soon as I have something interesting to photograph, I'll show you! In the meantime, I wish you a very happy holiday season! 😉 And thank you all for following this thread...
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@Egilman No, I don't have the skills at all to advise you. That's why I'm calling on a friend who has mastered... As much as my job could be useful in photography or graphic design, as much in 3D, I'm really bad, except for a few basic notions like everyone else here. ☺️ The only thing I can say about this hull is that the departure is a classic paper plan for a boat of this era. Once this hull is assembled (in 6 pieces) at the right size, I'll have to do the rigging... and put it in the dock in the middle of other small fishing boats...
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A seaport or river harbour, I don't know yet (as I told you in PM)... But I'm collecting things to think about it. 😁 I'm also thinking about which side of the village could have an extension. There are buildings I've been thinking about for a long time that I can't do with the village, such as a warehouse with pontoons, a wooden quay or a medieval washhouse. And then for a very long time, I've wanted to try resin to simulate water! This village with an extension finally gives me the possibility to do things ! Well, I'm not saying it will be right away, but when you start to think about it often to visualize things... I'm weak, I tend to let myself do it ! 🤣 @lmagna Yes ! There is not much to create a boat from the 14th to the HO scale... So, a friend offered to help me to have a cog that is perfectly consistent with the time, while remaining focused on the construction without spending months only on the boat! And as it's one of the best I know in 3D with a perfectly adjusted printer... The image above is one of the prototypes in progress.
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I finally finished this last block of houses! They were the last ones in the village. I still have one or two walls left to finish the enclosure and then I go to work on the pedestals. While waiting for some pictures of the block with its roofs full of angles... A series on all the houses that form the central stop of the village (with the covered passageway that connects them), Some views of the hall that I never took the time to do on a neutral background, Some pictures of the Windmill on a neutral background as well...
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I hadn't thought about it before, but the explanation of what one honestly thinks when looking at your church really corresponds to what Egilman wrote! It really looks like this church was hit by an earthquake, and has been repaired as best it could be. The stone bell tower is also something very rare, especially at a time when people were very careful about the weight of a roof on the building. The window stiles of a single vertical stone is a bit out of scale, the lifting means of the time did not really allow for such large stones to be adjusted. Your frames, whether stone or wood, should be really well perpendicular. It reinforces the idea that everything has moved... Finally, the flat stones over your support pillars could not hold up very long because of the cements which were not really like a glue, but more like a way to fill the gaps between horizontal stones. Moisture and frost would have had a destructive effect and would make them come off very quickly. But overall, bravo for the construction and the speed of the site : your workers are much faster than mine ! 😁
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