Ekis
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Thank you Waitoa! 😁 For the moment, before adding -maybe- details to the different parts already built, I'm just doing what I had originally planned... building after building. When everything will be in place, then it will be time to see if I am still motivated enough to add things. -
Wow ! Thanx ! 😎
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Thanx all: comments are always greatly appreciated! 😁 @Kurt Johnson : no, for the moment, I don't plan to light up this village... I started this project at the beginning to make a model close to an architect's office, rather than a diorama very realistic in every detail. But today, I still don't know very well what finish it will have. It's partly due to the fact that I discovered some kits and modelers who do great things like World In Scale ! So, I'll see in the end...
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I advanced on the lord's house and I will show you this at the end of this post. But first, I built the village forge! Go, the continuation of the dwelling with some arrangements of walls, aging, back door, etc... I will attack the roofs.
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Egilman said it all! 😁 Just to complete, I wanted to contrast a little bit the colors, the rigidity and the very luxurious side of the lord's house with an all-wooden house and a roof less straight than those next door. Usually, I reinforce the cardboard of the roofs with structural rods. For this one, I didn't put anything on, I even moistened the cardboard roof to deform it before installing the shingles ! Having said that, the workshop on the ground floor is quite sophisticated...
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Again the continuation of the work on the house. The staircase is done, but not yet its roof. The small semi-detached house is on the other hand finished with its twisted roof made of wood carvings and its workshop on the ground floor. The main facade is glued to wedge the staircase, not the other facade pieces. I still have some work to do on the back wall: I avoid to dust too much... And finally, just a blank view (not glued) of all the available elements. I think I'm getting as close as possible to what I had planned with the elevation done on photoshop... There is still a lot of work to do, especially all the roofs ! 🤪
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Thanx !! To fill the half timberings, it is in fact a very fine filling paste, which I mix with dust from the stones. It's a long enough work to put it in place, level it, then let it dry and scrape off the excess to bring out the woods. Finally, a stroke of stain with a very fine brush, and voilà!
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Thanx Ron ! And indeed, this card looks like solar panels... waiting to receive tiles! 😁
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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
Yes, but just the gate of the watchtower and the gate of the current dwelling ... The fortified gate of the village for example is made of arches glued on the whole structure... 😁 -
Building a Medieval fortress - by Waitoa - Del Prado 1/87
Ekis replied to Waitoa's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
This is also exactly how I treated the larger doors with a pointed arch. Mounting the stones on a separate cardboard box on the facade allows the arch to be properly aligned and sanded quietly. Your door with the 2 columns looks great ! 😉 -
Thanx Kurt 😉 Yes, of course, there will be an ageing of the whole when all is finished. It serves to bring out the reliefs, to give a bit of life and also to bring out the materials used.
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Continuation of this dwelling. I spent little time on the construction, but I still made progress on the stone part of the complex. The façades are important for the design, but I haven't forgotten that everything else on the other 3 sides of each building body is also to be built . And then, I made a little evolution of the project by adding a house on the left, next to the dwelling. I also adjusted the roofs (not glued) or recreated certain parts to make the whole thing coherent. The next step was to make all the façades with wood sides, and above all to create the outside covered staircase. And that is not easy at all... I put all the chronological images of the building site, even if some are a bit repetitive! 😁
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Building a Medieval fortress - by Waitoa - Del Prado 1/87
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Nice! I have one just like it too, and it's really not what I prefer... 😁 -
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Your pillars are not necessarily painted pink. Clay soils can have several shades depending on the stone quarries used. You can always say that your cloister was built with stones coming from the whole region, and not from a specific point of extraction. 😁 -
Now that the tower of the lord's house has been completed, I'm taking care of the two main buildings. 😉 First of all, I'm making the exterior side of the building out of dressed stone. A detail for the moment: For the facade on the village side, I'm putting back the scheme I've decided on: And here are 2 parts made of these facades (it's long and quite precise to make...) :
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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
I think that for a very small cloister in this small country village in southern Europe, the stone used had to be closer to white or pink sandstone (as in the region of Albi or Toulouse in France). Granite has no place in the southern regions, marble was reserved for much more prestigious buildings! Granite or marble are very difficult rocks to extract, even more so for stonemasons hired for this small religious construction of the Middle Ages. That's just my opinion, but it seems to me more consistent with this period and the geography of this village. 😁 -
Thank you! ☺️ I would be lying if I told you that the castle of Foix is the model! No, actually, I have dozens of dungeon photos, but also the reading of the Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, plus my personal culture that inspired this tower. I wanted a real medieval tower with a wooden marquee, stone hoarding, decoration in the style of Romanesque art. In short, it's a mix...
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Continuation and end of this tower before moving on to the rest of the building. Of course there are still the tiles on top, but I will make all the roofs of this dwelling at the same time
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A particularly neat and precise shipyard: bravo! 👋
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😂🤣 Thanks Kurt! But I think you are very optimistic... Christmas seems to me very close to end! 😁
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I take this opportunity to show the construction site still in progress of this tower and its evolutions with the ledges and the stone hoarding.
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Thanx all ! 😃 @popeye the sailor I don't understand what you mean by the rest of the windows? Maybe you're talking about the 2 series of 3 Roman arches that decorate 2 faces of the tower? If yes, then, no, they are not windows at all, but an architectural ornamentation typical of Romanesque art from the 11th to 14th centuries on important buildings. Something like in the attached pictures. 🏰
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Just to answer to Louie da fly's post on the shrouds. I think that the Cogs of the Middle Ages were built with a great influence of the Mediterranean boats and their oriental rigging. The crusades and other Viking voyages brought the technique of these boats to the West. The shrouds were probably attached identically to a chébec (xebec). It is an extremely effective and simple means that has lasted for centuries.
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