Images from its start to its finish, ideas taken from Guy De La Bedoyere’s book ‘The Buildings of Roman Britain’ a treasure trove of ideas for terrain builders.
It’s sized for use with 28mm figures.
Temple base, there are large stones scribed into the base material which is a plastic foam sheeting that signmakers use.
Here with the pillars added, they are plain as fluting at this scale is beyond me at this time!
Inner sanctum added, made out of mounting board with card setails added.
Mocked up roof supports to check the cant of the roof and the inner tower, again made from mounting board. It was at this point that an executive decision to make the building whole and not have a detachable roof was made.
Here is the roof tiled by the painstaking method of cocktail sticks and then individual paper tiles stuck on, its even worse than it sounds but it is good looking when it is finished and painted.
And here it is completed, the figures are Citadel Miniatures skeletons in 28mm as I had no painted Romans to hand.
Next is to paint it.
Neat – nice work!
Yes, looks great.
Has given me the impetus to make a start on my Warhammer buildings….
Great work!
Have you thought about those plastic inserts that you get at the hardware store. The ones the builders use for screw holes. These would be useful for your pillars perhaps.
Sorry I can’t discribe them very well.
Wow – that looks really fantastic! And I think I’ll pick up that book now, as well…
Mark, yes I did, they are called rawlplugs, but they didn’t look as good as the smooth ones.
Very nice, a book I must look out for myself.
In UK hardware stores and presumably in the USA as well you can buy fluted dowel in various diameters. It chops up nicely to make pillars though you are still stuck with making the bases and tops. A more expensive alternative are wedding cake pillars, one of the styles available is Ionic.
very nice, great work, congratulations !
That is very nice, Kudos.
Lovely work! After reading about the book I tracked down a copy on eBay. I finally received it today and I must say it was well worth the wait.