Medieval Fortified Village by Ekis - 1/87 scratch base kit Aedes Ars

[Old Collingwood]

Excellent work, I hope I can do my La Haye Sainte  farm as much credit as  you are doing with this  - "Superb Skills"

 

OC.

[Egilman]

I love watching a master at his craft.... (you sure you aren't a reincarnated Medieval stone mason?) chuckle....

[fnick]

Congratulations Ekis you have just invented a time machine to go back to the middle ages!😀. Stunning work.

 

Nick

[popeye the sailor]

look'in superb Ekis!  the more you add,  the more detailed it looks    again, the melding of stone and wood is fantastic......gives it so much realism and visual appeal!  great job !   

[Ekis]

I resume the construction of the lord's house. 😃

And I started with the tower - keep - on which all the buildings are based. I added some openings and Romanesque arches. The top will also be modified...

I also started with the half-timbering of the facade, starting with those above the lower door (the simplest ones).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kurt Johnson]

Ekis,

 

Each building is better than the last one! The first one was pretty nice too.

 

Kurt

 

 

[Old Collingwood]

Very very nice work  - more of an architectural  builder than a model maker.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

the keep looks very nice.....are you planning on opening the rest of the windows?   the entire structure looks awesome  

[Ekis]

Thanx all ! 😃

 

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are you planning on opening the rest of the windows?

@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. 🏰

 

[Ekis]

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kurt Johnson]

Ekis,

 

This must be a very satisfying journey, creating your village. You have really mastered this medium very well. It’s a pleasure to watch the progress, but it’s very hard to wait for the updates! The entire project has become a work of art. I have always loved dioramas ( which in a sense this is) because you have a much better connection to the subject than a stand alone model can bring. I can’t wait for the street level tour. Gotta get a GoPro. I would especially like to see the village during Advent or Christmastime. Being a creator comes with certain responsibilities, it’s not all fun and games!

 

Kurt 

[Ekis]

😂🤣
Thanks Kurt!
But I think you are very optimistic... Christmas seems to me very close to end! 😁

[Kurt Johnson]

Ekis, 

 

Just teasing. The journey is still a pleasant one. Just don’t get the idea that you can slack off! For me history is not about dates and facts, but what an individual actually experienced at the time, comparing that with what I have experienced. In the end it’s much more the same than not. So get busy, and bring us to the next chapter. Remember you have a responsibility.  😁😁

Kurt

 

[Ekis]

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Waitoa]

Very cool, looks like a photo rather than a model.  Was thinking of something similar and have seen images of the square tower at Castle Foix.  Was this the inspiration?

[Ekis]

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...

[FriedClams]

Sweet work Ekis - very nice progress.

 

Gary

 

[Kurt Johnson]

Ekis,

 

A very interesting building and well done.

 

Kurt

[popeye the sailor]

you've really embraced this project.......it shows greatly in your progress     the tower is a work of art!  love the wood accents.

[Ekis]

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...) :

 

 

 

[mtaylor]

Wow, the wood work makes the house visually an attention grabber.

[Canute]

Masterful work there. Tres bien!

[Kurt Johnson]

I like the glass effect.

 

Kurt

[Egilman]

Nice work on the Main entrance and the Dressage entrance, can't wait to see what you do with the servants entrance and gallery........

 

A right proud manor house I would say...

[Javlin]

everything has already been said

[popeye the sailor]

gonna look awesome when you pull it all together      nice!

[Ekis]

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! 😁

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kurt Johnson]

Ekis, 

 

Very, very nice. I can see where the staircase is going to take some work to build. But of course you’ve hired all the very best artisans from near and far to construct a house befitting a lord. Do you have any plans of giving the stone work some sort of subtle tonal washes to accent the various structural features when it’s completed?

 

Kurt

 

 

[Ekis]

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.

[Waitoa]

This just gets better and better, will continue to enjoy and learn as much as possible as again very cool