{bravo}}{bravo}}{bravo}}Ken what a creative playground your in the process of building a the outstandig detailig you've accomplished to date. There's no doubt the enjoyment you'll have in placing an setting our figures in play an can't wait for the time to come.{bravo}}{bravo}}{bravo}}
3 months in Fall - Winter 2010
and now
3 months in Fall - Winter 2011, but I had no idea what I was doing in 2010. Progress in 2010 was very slow and there was a considerable learning curve involved around all the miter cuts needed.
Very and well built....great job...I will shade down and weathering the wall fortification, is too reddish, also a bit of vegetation will give a more natural look to diorama...
Regards
One year anniversary for the thread, so taking the opportunity to update the photos. Still "years" to go, but some progress in the last year. You can get an idea about the ditch feature from the middle photo, right-hand side. Two sides of the fort have ditches.
The inner wall surrounding the paradeground is done. Outer walls are completed up to the gun embrassures in all locations. Constructing a gun embrassures is simply slow and painful. But 15.5 completed, 10.5 to go. After the embrassures are done, hundreds of stakes to make. Then on to the bastion floors (1 completed) and then the barracks. The JJD buildings will be replaced. For now, not even thinking about the gate (2-3 years away).
As it regards the color of the timbers, I failed at "graying and naturalizing the wood". I tired, but hated the results. So I picked a decorator color I liked and just ran with that. Happy, I did.
Ken...your fort looks fantastic...this is the first time I have seen a full size photo of it...you have made a lot of progress recently...I hope the basement stays warm enough to work a little longer...I'm anxious to see it finished...and I also think the parade ground is much larger than you had led me to believe...it looks fine...much bigger than I thought it was going to be...good work...
It is a square bastion fort. From the tip of a bastion to the tip of the adjacent bastion, the distance is 7.5 feet (90 inches). Scales to a fort 225 feet x 225 feet, bastion tip to bastion tip.
As it regards the parade ground, after the barracks are built, the remaining parade ground will only be 25% of the "ideal" size and occupy just under 5% of the table
And yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and he has promised to paint the basement walls a sky blue, someday before I die.
hey Mark...I spoke to him by phone the other day...he has been working long hours and has not had much time to work on his fort....but plans to get back on it soon...
October 2014: Buildings partially done, shutters soon and the roofs need more detail work, but some progress. Tons of some detail work still to be done.
the I love the roofs and the chimneys look really good...I like the cap at the apex especially...looks like you cast a whole lot of molds...are you finished casting shingle molds?
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