Just a quick post to share my build progress. I've built the roofs for all the main buildings. The middle main building has a parapet roof so its completely different to the others. I have built it so that there is room for figures to be positioned around the roof. All the roofs come off so it will be possible to position figures within the buildings (on both floors the ground and 1st)
In reality this is a three storey building but in order to accommodate that the building would have been so big it would have looked grossly out of scale therefore the buildings are all two storey. The two end turrets will have crenelations or something on top (the left one has some crudely cut ones just balanced on it at the moment for test fitting purposes.
I now need to make all the chimneys and bits for the roofs before we get to the decoration stage.
I am terrible at painting buildings so I intend to cheat and use my favourite terrain medium, which is printed brick textures. I have used them before on walls and other bits and the effect on the war gaming table is (to me anyway) very satisfying and neat. The bonus is it makes a build much quicker and the building more robust as paint etc wont be rubbed off by handling.
Thanks for looking.
great work, this is going to be a great center piece
ReplyDeletePeace James
Fine job of modeling. As regards "size issues" of the hospital, I applaud you for obtaining a pleasant scale size for the building, by using a time honored design technique that many Model Railroaders utilize of scene compression.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a hospital to me.
ReplyDeleteThanks chaps, I'm pleased with how this is progressing. Even more so now that you fine gents have mentioned that it looks like what its meant to! always a good start. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm away on business next week so it might be Thursday or Friday before I can get any more work done.
Looks brilliant mate great job. Look forward to seeing it bricked up
ReplyDeleteAlso looking forward to seeing this come along. Good choice on reducing the floors
ReplyDeleteIan
I can't wait to see how it all turns out.
ReplyDeleteThis is already looking rather impressive and access to all the floors - wow!
ReplyDeleteOh I say there Mr Smillie that has come along very nicely and I like what you have done. Its going to take pride of place on the table.
ReplyDeleteThanks guys, I'm pretty pleased, I just hope that it ends up looking good.
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