Martin's Oldhammer courthouse

vintagephreak

Vassal
Hi all,

Inspired by GW's modelling guru Dave Andrews' wonderful creations through the years, I knocked together this courthouse last year both for use in games and to test my skills. Had to plan the construction carefully and make decent blueprints, which served me well later in the process. Materials used were mainly foamcard, plasticard, balsa strips and cardboard. So in the course of three months it went from this:



...through this:



...to finally this:










Suspected chaos cultist hung out to dry (or perhaps he just stole some apples and met a tough judge):


I can only say thet the airbrush is a wonderful invention ;) I'm very happy with the result but ironically haven't been able to use it in a single game so far due to time restraints. What I need to remember next time is how utterly boring cutting/gluing individual roof tiles can be, so I need to find a better method for this.

Not sure what to do next though ;)

Martin
 
Absolutely Brilliant !
You've no choice but to give us hint sand how to's now becaus ewe all want the same.
The architecture is perfect and so old world, the modelling is breath-taking.

Would you mind sharing blueprints for this? Even if not to make th eexact same building (impossible anyway, there are several very good ideas to use here. You've just convinced me to spend some moretime on scenery now.

Sincere congrats...
 
Man, it's an amazing building !!

It's perfectly built, and the painting is really good.
And the small details really bring it to life.

Thanks for sharing it with us, but now I must find me some time to build one for myself ! :mrgreen:
 
Cheers guys, I'll see if I can find the blueprints. Thing is, I've no doubt the foamcard skeleton could have been assembled in an easier way and I did take some shortcuts when planning since I only did it for myself and not for others to copy. So there goes my career as an architect ;)
 
That's gorgeous!
You really hit a home run on the details, which make this piece amazingly fun to look at.

Quick question: The leaded glass windows were done with p-card or screen?
 
When are your organising the scenario that we can play around this truly amazing building? Name the time and place!
 
Amazing piece of work! Must have been intimidating once it was built sitting down to paint the thing but the paint job is fantastic too.

I'm curious to know how the stonework was done - amongst all the other impressive details I like the dimpled weathered effect on the chimneys.
 
Grumdril":1ymb74gu said:
Amazing piece of work! Must have been intimidating once it was built sitting down to paint the thing but the paint job is fantastic too.

I'm curious to know how the stonework was done - amongst all the other impressive details I like the dimpled weathered effect on the chimneys.
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Thanks! Foundation stone wall is really pre-shaped plasticard I had in my boxes from ages ago. Chimneys were cut from thick sheets of high density Styrofoam. Then I cut the separating "brick" lines with a scalpel and pushed some of the "bricks" further in than the others with a small brass brush. This created a nice 3d effect plus gave a realistically rough surface. Glad you like it!

 
Well done, a well designed and executed piece, IMHO a excellent centre piece for any table. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Paul / Golgfag1
 
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