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Wider Wargaming => Painting & Modelling => Topic started by: FierceKitty on 17 December 2022, 01:19:11 PM

Title: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 December 2022, 01:19:11 PM
Would the walkways and the floor section of a tower be wooden, or masonry? I note that some surviving Legion forts are pretty solid stonework, and timber must be pricy in Morocco.
Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 December 2022, 01:29:06 PM
Stone would be more likley I suspect.
Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 December 2022, 01:31:42 PM
Pro'bly rite.
Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: sultanbev on 17 December 2022, 05:14:56 PM
found these if it's any use:
https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/forts-of-the-french-foreign-legion/
https://monlegionnaire.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/french-blockhouses-part-3-africa/

This photo shows wooden walkways, but I presume it's a movie set?
https://images.dailykos.com/images/280276/story_image/Beau_Geste_Fort_Zinderneuf.jpg?1469799657

It's clear from googling images that no one knows for sure, half the models made show wooden walkways, half stone.

Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 December 2022, 05:20:42 PM
Ta.
Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: d_Guy on 18 December 2022, 07:39:23 AM
Using a rather different authoritative source:
In the early 1950's I had a Marx "Captain Gallant of the French Foreign Legion"play-set. The walls of the included fort were folded tin with printed details. While only two dimensional it was clear that both the stairs and the platforms were stone (or more correctly, adobe over brick IIRC). I hope this is somewhat useful.
Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: FierceKitty on 18 December 2022, 08:03:43 AM
Thank you, everyone. It seems clear that these forts were more than charge-stoppers, and that some anticipated serious incoming fire merited labour-intensive construction. Stone it shall be, then.
Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: FierceKitty on 11 February 2023, 04:04:14 AM
https://aurora-dioramas.com/shop/medieval-history/1000-1250-ad-high-middle-ages/the-crusades/the-crusades-middle-eastern-rural-compound-6mm-resin-model/

Both armies painted (one will be my entry for the contest), but heaven knows when the fort will be arriving. I think it'll make a good Fort Soixante-neuf, anyway.
Title: Re: Fort Zinderneuf
Post by: paulr on 11 February 2023, 08:13:54 AM
Looks promising :)