First go with Blue Styrofoam - Osgiliath Building

[2close2theflame]

wow, wish i had this during my old rings phase. killer job bud, keep it up!

[NORTIVS MAXIMVS]

Great!

I really appreciate your methodical approach - the uniformity is well worth the preparation of the templates. I think I’ll make a note of this

[MediumAl]

Hi - Thanks everyone for the comments.
I'm a bit of a slacker, so over the years I've dabbled in lots of periods. Here's some snippets from across the years;

Wings of War (now Wings of Glory) planes on a home-made mat. Some light green cloth with features painted on - about 10 feet by 6 feet.
http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee19 ... 0of%20War/

Here are a couple of buildings - one of which is another Osgiliath model, made with Hirst Art Blocks, papier mache, wire and a balloon!
http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee19 ... Buildings/

For a 15mm ancient city and some jungle/Darkest Africa bits, you can find them on a friend's site here; http://www.warfactory.co.uk/ - My stuff is in Alan's Stuff on the gallery page.

Something else that isn't mine, but which might be of interest to LOTR folk, is a super Corsair's ship scratchbuild - you can see it along with a detailed step by step description in the Gamers Guild Forum here; http://www.thegamersguild.co.uk/forum/f ... ORUM_ID=14 - look for the threads Terrain Making and painting tips No. 5. While I was checking it to post this, I noticed a castle in part 2 of those threads which is absolutely fabulous.


Hope you like them.

Al

[Cubster]

And there lies the benefit in combining inspiration with perspiration and planning. Al, that is superb and your amazing results are no less than the sum of your hard work. Seriously well done that man.

[clivethecelt]

Blimey, those are great! The level of resourcefullness on this forum never ceases to amaze, but these blow the bell curve. Terrific!

[carvel2]

Delightful Italian manor house....HOW did you do the pan tiles?

[MediumAl]

Er - this is a bit sad - even for an anorak like me. Each one is an individual bit of card, curved round a pencil I think? So long ago I can't remember for sure.

The worst bit of it was the bricks. I'd read the Pendon modelling guide, where they emboss the card with the back of a scalpel to mark the bricks, then paint the mortar, then paint each brick individually. I did one side, decided it didn't look much different from brick paper, and decided to render the rest. Life seemed too short!

Al

[shadegate]

Brilliant job, the template is genius.
Are you in the UK and if so where did you get the blue foam. All I've ever seen is the coarse grained polystyrene?

[Correus]

SWEETNESS!!!!!!

[MediumAl]

Hi,
I got my styrofoam from the 4d Modelshop which is not far from the Tower of London. Loads of great stuff there - worth a visit if you're going to Salute.

The 25mm sheet used for that building was better value than the 10mm sheet I'm going to use for some smaller buildings - I can only guess that the 10mm is more awkward to cut. Unless my memory is playing tricks. I suspect that for 10mm then Antenociti's Workshop might be cheaper. They do mail - I think both do - so compare prices. There's white, green and blue - slight differences in price and maybe density, but I like the blue.

Al