I'm guessing the answer is not even Leon and Dave! :)
Lo-res pic of the process of building the towers and a montage of various stages of building the city below (I hope!)
Bases are 60mm square Pendraken bases (BS6060) which I also use for the bases of my units.
Towers and walls are mainly 40mm x 20mm (BS 4020) bases with non-standard 18mm square bases as base and upper floor. Thanks to Leon for the 18mm squares!
18mm allows me to wrap the 40 x 20s around so that they overlap at one corner giving a 22mm square tower.
Other 40 x 20mm bases were then cut to form walls and the gateway.
A pair of pinking shears and some light card provided the "hounds tooth" crenellations. I cut 10mm strips of card with a hobby guillotine and cut them in half with the shears - looked about right to me.
Still some painting of the walls to do - I'm thinking maybe blue crenellations and a light dry-brush of white on the walls themselves.
Buildings are by Leven and Hovels and will be glued in place. I currently have two different centres with alternate "palaces" on them. Plan is eventually to make a few more sections so I can ring the changes.
There's a couple of Border Forts from Hovels and a Temple that started life as an Old Crow sci-fi warehouse iirc as scenery too plus a stack of plastic palm trees to form woods and an oasis. The temple sits on a stack of 60mm bases to form a very small ziggurat indeed :)
I'll post a pic or two of the finished item when I get there.
It'll be just my luck if they now release a chariot-age range just after I complete my early ancient armies!
:-bd =D> :-bd
Impressive and a very flexible design
Great idea.
Superb!
also nice to see stuff from bronze age!
Ahh, seige games ;)
Great job :-bd
Clever! 8)
Very much so.
Cheers - Phil
Great idea. Look forward to seeing these painted :).
And garrisoned.
Good looking miniatures and some imaginative use of those Pendraken bases. keep up the good work and I'll look forward to more photo's
Excellent! =D> =D>
I want one :'( :)
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 14 February 2015, 10:03:31 AM
Excellent! =D> =D>
I want one :'( :)
He has a point Ithoriel; you could bag 'em and sell 'em as kits ;)
Very well done.
I especially like the well. Is it just an eyelet?
I think you deserve a gold BP badge for the project
Ingenious and highly effective, Ithoriel.
Thanks for all of the nice comments.
Initially I'd assumed I would just be able to buy something like this, went rummaging on the web and found plenty of 15mm - 28mm scale stuff but nothing in 6mm so decided to work out how to do it myself. I'd already done some conversions to get my Sumerian "fleet" so there's going to be quite a bit of stuff pretending to be Sumerian :)
Well spotted Fenton, the well is part of a cardboard document folder. Originally it held a bit of string in place to hold the folder shut. The folder disintegrated and the widget wound up on my painting table for a while. I dropped it onto one of the bases while moving bits around to glue on the battlements and decided it would make a good well.
At present the plan is to use it as scenery, so no garrisons as such, though enemies getting too close can expect to come under fire!
Frustratingly we know the Sumerians took cities, their kings loved to list the cities they'd taken, but we have even less idea of how it was done than we do about their battles. I imagine it was a matter of starvation, escalade or treachery and am trying to decide how, if at all, I model that in an interesting fashion ... it's all linear after all :)
Crimping shears...brilliant idea. The rest of it...brilliant idea.
This is really good.
Some more shots of the now completed town plus a couple of shots of the temple, which will sit outside the town protected by it's own sanctity (they hope!), an alternative palace and a Hovels walled farmhouse as a Border Fort.
Most of the buildings are by Leven with a couple of houses and the fort by Hovels and the temple was actually sold as a sci-fi storage unit by Old Crow.
Must get back to painting the armies and navies!
Even better now it's painted. Excellent stuff, it all fits together very nicely and gives the impression of a city. Plus I should imagine that using a standard sized base for the floor plan, it wouldn't be too difficult to make it bigger.
Nice one Ithorial! 8)
:-bd =D> :-bd 8)
The rest is begging for an Assyrian siege, but I'm not sure about the buttresses on the Dr Who structure in blue outside the walls. Or have my middle-eastern archaeological studies not taken me far enough?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 February 2015, 06:08:56 AM
The rest is begging for an Assyrian siege, but I'm not sure about the buttresses on the Dr Who structure in blue outside the walls. Or have my middle-eastern archaeological studies not taken me far enough?
Vaguely based on the picture below, though intended to be a rather lesser temple than the Ziggurat of Ur! But yes the buttresses are probably a little over-scale :-) But then it's a sci-fi building .... so clearly Von Daniken was right ;D ;D ;D
(http://www.bible-history.com/babylonia/ziggurat_ur.gif)(http://www.islamic-architecture.info/WA-IQ/MFD05-15.jpg)
Excellent job you've done there, 'I'. :-bd
Cheers - Phil.
Very, very impressive =D>
Excellent work, the Arabs i'm doing would look great in that fortress,
kev
Su-bloody-perb!
Very nicely done 8)
Very innovative and enterprising. =D>
(Intrigued by the blue top on the Ziggurat - not quite the same colour, but is it a coincidence that 'blue stone' was used at Stonehenge?)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 17 February 2015, 12:59:47 PM
Very innovative and enterprising. =D>
(Intrigued by the blue top on the Ziggurat - not quite the same colour, but is it a coincidence that 'blue stone' was used at Stonehenge?)
Once again, thanks to all for the kind comments.
Sumerian temples were apparently highly decorated
I went for the darker blue colour to represent either a rich temple able to afford to cover itself in lapis lazuli or a poorer temple painted blue in an effort to look richer than it is :-) Similarly the door surround may be gold leaf or bronze sheet!
As to the bluestone circle ... yep, entirely coincidental :)
Looking really good
Quote from: Subedai on 17 February 2015, 12:39:46 AM
Even better now it's painted. Excellent stuff, it all fits together very nicely and gives the impression of a city. Plus I should imagine that using a standard sized base for the floor plan, it wouldn't be too difficult to make it bigger.
The upside is it could be expanded almost infinitely.
The downside is it could be expanded almost infinitely. :)
=D> =D>
Really great stuff!
Really great work. Impressive in the 'idea stage' but thoroughly magnificent in the exeecution of the idea. :-bd