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superb progress since I last looked in :)   the lord's house is very well done.......the detail you're putting into it really shows!   to see the village in its entirety  is awesome.......seamless when it's all put together.   being one that has seen your work from the start,  I can see your evolution as well :) 

you've come a long way my friend!  ;) 

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Wonderful work Ekis!  You seem to be ever raising the bar on your own work.  Each new post is more detailed and more perfectly executed than the last.  Nice.

 

Gary 

Current Build   Pelican Eastern-Rig Dragger  

 

Completed Scratch Builds

Rangeley Guide Boat   New England Stonington Dragger   1940 Auto Repair Shop   Mack FK Shadowbox    

 

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2 hours ago, FriedClams said:

Wonderful work Ekis!  You seem to be ever raising the bar on your own work.  Each new post is more detailed and more perfectly executed than the last.  Nice.

 

Gary 

I was going to say a similar things  - each stage you move through  - the more impressive it becomes  - changing from a model  into a scale  scene.

 

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Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

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The roofs are advancing, but while waiting to be finished, a series of intermediate photos with aging already well underway and 2 courtyards on the right to properly insert the building in the village. 😁

 

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Thx Kurt ! 😉

In fact, the local lord has no garage at all... 😁


The passage on the left will surely serve as a wood cutting workshop for the village, in addition to being a back yard for access to the fortified tower. The one on the right is on the side of the grain barn, and should accommodate a manger or something, I don't know yet.
Finally, there will certainly be a fence between the two arches to park the animals.

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Amazing work  - Top Notch  craftsmanship.

 

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Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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Nice work with your camera. Almost feel like I was walking around the structures. Beautiful work.

Ken

Started: MS Bounty Longboat,

On Hold:  Heinkel USS Choctaw paper

Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1

Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section

 

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Thanx guys ! 😉
I'll make better pictures on a neutral background when all the roofs are finished, as I did for the other buildings.

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That's it, it's done: the Manor is finished!

A last series of photos (probably duplicates of the last publication, but too bad!) on this building that took me a lot of time... 😁

 

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The continuation: the houses in the center of the village! 😉

 

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An absolutely stunning building, your designs are amazing! The whole village is just so lifelike.

Excellent work 😁

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Providence whaleboat- 1:25     HMS Winchelsea 1764 1:48 

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HM Cutter Sherbourne- 1:64- finished    Triton cross section scratch- 1:60 - finished 

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That is one heck of a vision my friend....

 

And excellent execution of such....

 

An artist at work.....

 

Well done, I'll bet the finished item it going to be even more spectacular....

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It seems that every time I think you must have reached the pinnacle of your abilities, you reach a new plateau! Your work is truly amazing and spellbinding. I would love to be able to walk those streets in person and experience the magic firsthand.

 

As a side note of curiosity, do you have any idea just how much the village at this point weighs? It must be considerable. 

Lou

 

Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence

Currant builds:

Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold)

Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral)

1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin)

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Thanx all !! 😃
@lmagna I don't know the weight of the set with the bases that are not yet worked with the cutouts, the feet underneath to equalize the 3 bases ...
But since several people on the forums asked me the question, I just weighed this building, the Mansion, alone: it's about one kilo! 🤪

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just when you think you can't outdo yourself!  it's a work of art........    you have clearly defined yourself as the 'go to' person in this type of medium ;) 

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Still under construction with the houses in the center of the village... 

 

And more particularly the first one, near the fortified gate, adjoining the next house.

Maybe an inn, I do not know yet... In any case, with rougher half-timbering than the mansion, walls with angles that are anything but straight, a stair tower and its separate roof, etc... 😊

 

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Amazing work  - truly  wonderful work.

 

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Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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53 minutes ago, Kurt Johnson said:

How many years would you guess it would have taken for the village to get to stage it is presently at?

Thank you Kurt!
To answer, I'm missing some information about the number of possible inhabitants (I didn't really count).
But we can think that the church was the first construction, then surely the brick house (it looks like a farm), and then the cloister and all the rest...
According to the way I built this village (which actually corresponds to my own skills, more advanced today than at the beginning...), I would say that this village was built over about fifty years, very slowly, according to the religious needs at the beginning, then the attachment to a small lord afterwards with his sharecroppers and other craftsmen...

 

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Also will any of the village extend outside of the wall?


I don't know yet... Maybe one day with a windmill (made of wood in the 14th century), a wash-house, and then a port on a river with a cog being loaded... We'll see ! 😁

 

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Ekis,

A windmill would be so cool. You can always build it as a stand alone and in a larger scale too. Please don’t look to any of us to help curb your addiction. We’re only going to feed it.😁

 

Maybe you can keep going and compete with Denmark’s Legoland as a tourist attraction. If I ever get to France, I’d definitely come to see it!

Kurt

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well.........your running out of room :unsure:   you may have to annex ;)    beautiful workmanship !

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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The mill might look something like this picture. The wings being made of wood completely: the fabric was too precious to be used in the 14th century.

 

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It would be a pleasure for Kurt to see the village, but for the moment it is only visible in my studio. And there are no plans to have a public place of exhibition... 😉

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