Roman Buildings

[paulsmodellingworkshop]

Hello all, I may have mentioned I was working on some roman buildings and thought you might like some more eye-candy!

First up a late roman temple - based on the greek one I do for WG but with a few 'tweaks'. I was trying to make this one a bit run down which is why I added the weeds/ivy to the walls and cracks.

and from the rear....


Also some simple (ish) roman/provincial townhouses/insulae/domus:




Cheers! Paul.

[carvel2]

Very nice I cant keep up..can we have a rest please

[Biggus Dickus]

superb as always Paul!!
I will be making a Roman town at some point so your building style will be of great architectural value!!!
Copycat Greek and Roman towns will be popping up all over the country!......in 28mm scale of course!

[Fury]

Curse you for raising the bar for us all!

[Cubster]

Gorgeous work yet again. Thou art the scenery Daddy.

[Invisible officer]

Very nice buildings for a big game. And a lot of work.

But my old professor in classical archaeology would get , you totally ignored the metope / triglyphic conflict.

If you had spent hours and hours in a darkened room viewing pictures of myriads of temples you would be conditioned like me. Pawlow's dogs are nothing compared to that.

[paulsmodellingworkshop]

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciated.

@Invisible Officer: If your old professor would get because I ignored the metope/triglyphic conflict, he would get a beating so bad, he would be able to spell 'I SHOULDN'T BE SUCH A PEDANTIC GIT' in his own blood.

I would explain to him that I am building models for wargamers and modellers and therefore 'liberties' have to be taken with dimensions, scales, appearances etc etc. I am NOT trying to exactly recreate every architectural rule - I charge more for that

Perhaps if less time was spent in darkened rooms and more time spent in social situations some people might not come across so condescending.

[Stuart]

That's amazing, I really don't know how folk such as yourself can do this, whenever I try buildings it looks as though the cats done it!

[Invisible officer]

Did'nt intend to offend you.

99% look at your model and say: Temple. (And a good looking table model it is!)

I guess most tourists in Rome or Athen don't care that the Romans and Greeks took great pains with the positioning of the pillars in regard of the frieze. And even more for the distance between the pillars.

Would the same people look at a Tiger with a 37mm gun and say: Tiger tank?

Or would some nagging like me notice that there's something not exactly like the real thing?

Again, your models look great.

[carvel2]

Tea and biscuits all round : ) NO ...BEER!!!!!