As the weeks before I'm still working on the buildings we'll need for our Plancenoit game at Crisis. At present I put the wonderful Stronghold Terrain ruins aside and pottered at another estate. One of my friends from the club gave it to me to modify it for the Napoleonic wars. Actually it was part of Grand Manner's excellent range but I think it's out of production currently. Since it was too modern I had to alter it here and there:
- remove gutters (not on the picture)
- remove remaining parts of the broken fencing (green)
- remove the roller shutter front (green)
- make new roofs
- the plate may stay (blue)
- the decorative-moulding as well (red)
Now I don't want to bother you with too many details. There were a couple of other alteration on the gable end of the estate but I'll cover the whole project in a couple of posts as soon as it's finished. But this is the result I achieved during the last days:
Next will be the new roofs that I'll construct with cardboard and Warbases lasercut roof tiles. Afterwards some finishing touchs to make the scene more vivid. A wonderful inspiration was Pat's last piece of art that he presented on his blog 'Wargaming with Silver Whistle' (here). Don't miss this wonderful estate!
Besides that please don't forget to have a look at the Google+ community dedicated to 'Paint Table Saturday'.
Looking good Stefan and certainly more appropriate to the period. The colour choices are great! Can't wait to see if roofed and finished off.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, Millsy. I'm doing my very best to make some progress until next weekend.
DeleteVery cool!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Al.
DeleteGood work and good luck with the roofing!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Fran. The roofing goes very well with the pre-cut tiles by Warbases.
DeleteVery nice, I painted that one myself last year.
ReplyDeleteI think I recognised it on one of your later WW1 posts... A very nice piece of resin indeed!
DeleteGreat work on the building! Looking forward to see the finished result.
ReplyDeleteSo do I Jonas. Although I love working with this kit I'll be happy when all the things for Crisis are done.
DeleteIt's already looking good in the second photo. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dean. I'm doing my very best to improve its look from picture to picture.
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Nice looking building and it's coming along smashingly!
ReplyDeleteMany, many thanks, dear Anne!
DeleteThe 'still-building' is coming along handsomely, sir.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Jay.
DeleteAn excellent job in de-modernising the building Stefan, looking forward to seeing the Planceniot project complete. Thanks also for the mention with my blog.
ReplyDeletePat.
Wait until you see the pieces of art my club fellow Michael is building from skratch! I'll have a camera in Antwerp and will do my very best to catch the whole table.
DeleteNo need to thank for mentioning your blog. It's always a source of ideas and the chateau even stands out.
Lovely tinkering Stefan, it is really taking shape my friend.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for your encouraging words. The project kept my busy rather long and I'm glad to see the finishing line now. I'm simply too slow for such large projects...
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