Quote from: Nosher on 03 May 2015, 09:51:00 AM
Lovely indeed. Is there a link to your webstore? Probably me being dim/shortsighted.....

http://www.supremelittleness.co.uk

and the FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Supreme-Littleness-Designs/1427541787548130?ref=hl

Quote from: WeeWars on 02 May 2015, 08:04:18 PM
Do you mean the 2mm high 'riverbank'? The card roadway fixes onto it and it protects the card at the same time.

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I wasn't talking about the bridge but some of the other buildings which looks bang on, the base is more noticable on the 3mm. As I said, there's probably a very good reason why this is so.

Quote from: Subedai on 03 May 2015, 11:14:38 AM
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I wasn't talking about the bridge but some of the other buildings which looks bang on, the base is more noticable on the 3mm. As I said, there's probably a very good reason why this is so.

For my 3mm buildings, there really isn't much choice what to base them on. Thinner material like card would be less robust and plywood and metal would bump up the price. I haven't seen any but I'm guessing that most gamers base their 3mm on the same 2mm bases. Standing them alongside (they're never going to fit in BUAs on their big Blucher bases) their heights will match.

An idea I would suggest for 3mm gaming would be to make light infantry markers that can be placed in a BUA to show that it is occupied.

@ Westmarcher

Like yours (as anyone who follows my 1809 Blog  http://www.michaelscott.name/1809/1809.htm  will know) my Napoleonics are based on 25mm square bases.

I like the aesthetic of wide bases for wide formations but for Napoleonics I like even more being able to also represent the aesthetic of troops trailing down roads and over bridges – and there were a lot of bridges in the war of 1809!

The truth is that in battle games, model buildings and bridges are simply markers of what they represent. We don't expect 10mm figures to be able to occupy buildings and fire out windows so why should we expect them to be able to cross a bridge?

A bridge model should mark a bridging point but at the actual ground scale it's likely that it's too long to accurately represent where the road narrows and the bridge begins and ends.

As to the width of the crossing, free movement across a bridge should never be assumed. In 1809, certainly, weakened troops regularly blocked bridges and were pushed off to a watery grave by more able comrades.

Thanks for all the comments.

Here's the bridge painted.





Although subtle, the textured surface makes a difference when painting the model – it definitely hasn't the normal smooth flatness of most sheet material.

Cheers, Michael

I've been experimenting with designs for a 10mm Helm's Deep as suggested by forum members.

This is a rough/mock up for a wall section. The grey card pieces will all have engraved stonework detail added.

I'll also remove the side doors as they will never be seen.

The battlements of this wall section accommodates two 40 x 20mm bases comfortably. The full height of the wall is a crazy 130mm – and, believe or not, is pretty stable thanks to the weight of the scary stairs that would never pass a health and safety check!

Cheers, Michael

Brilliant!

What a transformation! I like that very much! 

Amazing. Is the gallery below the parapet as described in the book? Didn't know about that (or forgotten). Very impressive. Should the crenellation be so narrow? I'm not saying this from any knowledge from the book, by the way, but it doesn't look 'credible' (for me) for shielding the men / figures (not that such a thing would necessarily matter for Tolkien).

btw, feedback given with good intent, Michael.   

Awesome!

Seems a little tall. For Helms Deep you might not need inner works with arrow sits. Just the upper ramparts.
Great stuff!

Maybe a destroyed section and a section with a sewer opening.

Quote from: Westmarcher on 04 May 2015, 05:01:33 PM
Amazing. Is the gallery below the parapet as described in the book? Didn't know about that (or forgotten). Very impressive. Should the crenellation be so narrow? I'm not saying this from any knowledge from the book, by the way, but it doesn't look 'credible' (for me) for shielding the men / figures (not that such a thing would necessarily matter for Tolkien).

btw, feedback given with good intent, Michael.   

All comments are welcome.    Much more preferable to online silence.  

As we began discussing in this post

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,12007.15.html

from Tolkien's drawings, his vision was more Early Medieval (Dark Ages, if you prefer) than the more High Medieval style used in the film. I'm happy to go for a later Medieval style than Tolkien intended if that's what people want. I'd like to add fantastical design elements (like the design of the crenellation) rather than just create a Medieval castle. However, I'm tempted to invent my own rather than copy the work of the film designers – just in case the copyright police get interested.

10mm, I believe, allows the heights of fantasy buildings to be exaggerated, look great and still practical to game with – never mind that none of us would willingly climb those scary stairways! The battlements really give a castle character and I'd want this castle to have a style that looks fantastical – however unpractical.    I experimented adding detail to the crenellation but I reckoned folk would find the small pieces too frustrating to fix on.

Cheers, Michael

Quote from: Bloodaxe on 04 May 2015, 05:21:24 PM
Awesome!

Seems a little tall. For Helms Deep you might not need inner works with arrow sits. Just the upper ramparts.
Great stuff!

Maybe a destroyed section and a section with a sewer opening.

This could be the general idea for the towers of the Deeping Wall and the wall sections not so high. An alternative destroyed wall section is a must for the Deeping Wall.

Fantastic work, I am starting to save up my money already.

Simple test on the crenellations, can a dwarf see over them?

Quote from: mad lemmey on 04 May 2015, 06:44:08 PM
Simple test on the crenellations, can a dwarf see over them?

Very true! Also those kneeling down Empire hand-gunners and hunched-over orcs and teeny goblins. It's my exaggerated battlements that are on the tall size. But the design is partly to allow small Fantasy types to see over the on-the-low-side crenellations.