Yes, Central Europe - 1806 -1809. Mainly Germany/Austria I suspect.

It won't surprise you that I'm working on German buildings in 10mm! 

The problem I would anticipate with downscaling my designs would be finding a solution for the roof sections. I solved the problem for 3mm (imagine 3mm card roofs!) by incorporating the roofs as part of the building structure. I don't think that would be appropriate for 6mm. It may be that I would need to find a tougher/not too expensive material than the card I use for 10mm for 6mm roofs.

Yes, I was dubious about laser-cutting 10mm buildings before I saw your efforts. However, I'm confident you'll solve the problem eventually, Michael.

'Tiling' card for a 6mm roof may just shred it. Alternatively, not so many tiles? Or textured paper? Something to break up the flatness of the card.

Since we are kind of on the subject of LOTR, Id love to see a Helms Deep set in 10mm.

Quote from: Bloodaxe on 01 May 2015, 05:02:22 PM
Since we are kind of on the subject of LOTR, Id love to see a Helms Deep set in 10mm.

Are you thinking like the film or more like Tolkien's drawings? Tolkien's is more Early Medieval than the High Medieval style used in the film. Also, the rock wall is more integrated in the film's design, which may be difficult to resolve.

This is drawing done by Tolkein of Helms deep

Probly more like movie. One part the wall and the other part in the moutain. I'll try to find a decent pic. Maybe something like the sideshow Weta model. Probably without the mountains would be easier.
I thought I'd be able to find a paper model. Havent. Best idea I had was Kallistra castle pieces and throw it together myself.

I've designed a 10mm bridge.





It has a footprint of 150 x 50mm. The roadway over the bridge can accommodate a 25mm wide base.

It's not clear in the pic but the roadway and the sides of the bridge have a textured finish.

I plan to put the kit up on my site soon, selling at £5.

Cheers, Michael

Looking good

Nice one.  I will definitely be getting one of these.   

Looks great but can you vary the width, as I use 30mm & 40mm bases?

cheers
Ian

Getting a model bridge able to handle the width of a base is a frequent problem, isn't it?

Quote from: Sandinista on 02 May 2015, 11:59:20 AM
Looks great but can you vary the width, as I use 30mm & 40mm bases?

cheers
Ian

Can do. I also thought of having a narrower bridge. The present model looks nicely to scale. Do you think that widening it to  40mm might make it look rather out of scale? I could design a larger bridge to suit wider bases but it might bring up issues with ground scale.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 May 2015, 12:08:42 PM
Getting a model bridge able to handle the width of a base is a frequent problem, isn't it?

It's an impossible problem if the base represents a formation that would never be expected to cross a bridge without narrowing its frontage.

Kind of what I meant. I've ended up almost always using a timber bridge without rails as a result.