A couple more buildings have been added to the Town of "Scalpere Aedificare" along with some paving.The paving is printed out from a free pattern found on the web. In construction or Planned, is a slave market, a Temple, a quarry, an upper class house with courtyard and one or two more houses.
The cellar tavern.......Tabernus Cellarium
The town guard keeping an eye on any vagrants who might be causing Trouble.
The buildings are detachable so they can be used in gaming, possibly using the Song of Shadows and Dust from Ganesha Games, which I only found out about fromthis Review over at Iregular wars Blog
The Progress so far on the small island town of Scalpere Aedificare. Not a lot, especially considering that it was started in Febuary of this year, but there´s always something else that gets in the way. The two house on the quay side have been completed. The building to the left is from the original Roman town I made years ago, but the Roofing is being replaced, doors, Windows reconstructed and the whole frontage has been shortened.
New style roofing, using the inner protective sheet of corrugated paper from rolls of biscuits.
Not 100% to scale but it looks way better than my previous attempts with insulating foam sheeting. It´s much easier and quicker than sticking on 100´s of individual card tiles, and looks better than my previous method with insulating sheeting. It paints up ok, but as the paper is thin you need to be carefull not to use paint that´s too watery or press too hard with the Paintbrush otherwise the ridges get crushed. One or two isn´t too bad, it gives the roof a bit of an aged look. The ridge tiles are made from thin card curved over a pen.
The old style roofing, using thin insulation sheeting. Some of it might find a use for paving or brickwork in some future Project.
For getting some sort of texture on the walls I´ve smeared them with PVA and scattered a thin covering of sand over them. The Card to provide a base for the "tiles" is cut to shape as in this "how to"
And, a new range of Medieval ship sets from Medieval Model Ships created by Valdemar.
Some of them are a bit pricey but when I win the euro lottery, I´ll get me a fleet of them :-D
Stalingrad 2013.
This looks a pretty amazing film. A handfull of russian soldiers, cut off on the "wrongside" of the Volga, defend a house and a woman at all costs. The film set has a life size mock up of Pavlov´s house which was re-captured and then defended by a platoon of the Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division led by Junior Sgt. Yakov Pavlov from the 27 September to 25 November 1942.
The Music in the 1st trailer "What a wonderfull world" is by Brazzaville.
Taken from Strelets Caesar Army on the March and Caesar Army Before Battle,. I´m only going to have a Contubernium to guard the town, "Scalpere Aedificare" (which has actually seen some Progress recently) as having any more would mean a barracks, barracks means more officer types and then nags and..... Anyway, they´ve got the cushy Job of being the face of law and order in Scalpere Aedificare.
For some reason, they have a "I don´t give a ****!" look about them, the poses and the expressions on thier faces. Even when the Decanus is shouting at them on one of the rare moments he´s in uniform and not drunk, they show only mild interest.
The two from the "on the march" set have different shields to the "before battle" set..which is a pity, but they make good "patrolling around town" bods
Even whilst getting a telling off, one of the legionaries is more interested in Scratching his butt than actually listening.
A Military official has turned up. He outranks them but as can be seen from the way the Legionary on the right is looking at him, you can tell any orders will be carried out grudgingly.
Over at Loki`s Great Hall blog, the Grand Milestone of 200 followers has been reached and there´s a lovely limited edition Scottish warlord up for grabs in a giveaway. To find out the "rules" and enter get over there and join in :-D
and...there´s another giveaway over at Sam´s Mini´s world blog. There you could be one of 5 winners of 1 Mithril figure of choice
and......there´s another Giveaway at Monty´s Caravan Blog. Different prizes to be had on dofferent days.
As with the last lot of "battlefield scatter" I´m not sticking to using just Strelets bods.
Removing the injured from the field. Both are from Strelets Army of Henry V set
Injured horse thrashing about as it tries to stand up. The nag is from Strelets The Scottish Army of Wallace. All of the nags in the set are oversized, lanky looking beasts and look bad stood up but ok for dead and dying
Delivering the "mercy blow"
Yesterday I recieved the Cröbern 1813, the battle of the nations book.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hardback, 200 pages, a great read, loads of info, loads of pics (there´s 249 of the dio itsself) and well worth getting hold of, which you can do so from here; History, Die Welt in Miniaturen.
A couple of pics from the book.
Double page pic of Bianchi´s Division.
Pictures of the Austrian pioneers and the church.
For me it was great seeing the Pioneers.......
.....and the austrian cavalry that me and Peter painted, actually in place on the dio. Just think, in the above pics there is 394 cavalrymen, a mere handfull in comparison to the numbers of bods actually on the entire dio.
You get two in the set but I didn´t want to just paint them both up the same...or even look the same so the cover was discarded, hoops for the canvas, brake, Jockeybox (Toolbox) and necksling added.
Here´s the wagon with the Johanssens as they take a dinner break on thier Long journey from Bodstown to the Great lake.
A bit of a Story and a "who´s who" HERE
Removing the Posts from the inside of the wagon was difficult and I broke two stanley knife blades before I came up with the idea of heating the blade over a candle. The Jockeybox is made from a lump of balsawood, the hoops from plastic Card as is the brake handle.
A heavy Transport wagon for Bodstonia, the Conestoga Wagon from Imex. I´ve had the set for a while now but everytime I looked at it, the size of the wagon and the number of nags put me off..until recently I saw Brian´s paintjob of both the wagons in the set over at A Fistfull of plastic blog.
The horse traces are made from very thin strips of paper...which took Ages!
So it fits into the world of bodstonia, the Driver got a head swop using one of the heads from the Italeri (AWI) American Infantry set. By the look of him the ride hasn´t been too comfortable!
Another 1/72nd scale crane, this time from Fredericus-rex. Quick and easy to build, a very nice little machine.
Direct link to the crane at Fredericus-rex HERE
What build advice can I offer? Basically, the most difficult part of the build is putting the two halves of the "mousewheel" together, but if you stick to the instructions and take your time it´s easy.
Both sides of the "mousewheel"come as two pieces which have to be glued together. While they are drying put them between two Sheets of plastic and put a weight on top to stop them warping.
The only bit I changed was to make a new hook from wire. The original broke when I added the load.
For anyone who wants to know, it Looks fine alongside 28mm bods.
and a pic of a 28mm bod alongside the Roman crane ...
...Sven Slawrta and friends. At the battle of Stamford Bridge it that it´s said that one viking Held up the english Forces, killing 40 on the Bridge. I have to have a bod to represent such a warrior.
Most of the conversions are simple weapon changes, like the following 4, axes instead of spears or a bow.....
....or very simple ones like putting the arrow on the correct side of the bow stave.
The most complicated was Sven. Lining the head, Body (from the caesar orcs set) and legs up was a real pain.
6´8" in his knitted socks,
The entire Viking force to date;
A Clip from the film, 1066 - The Battle of Middle Earth, The fight on Stamford Bridge with the Viking working his way through endless challengers. "Stop pushing at the back, stop pushing at the back!!, for god´s sake, st..............."
Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: a Viking Murder Mystery
Interesting bit of archeology about the mass excecution of 50 plus vikings HERE
