I've got some exciting news for people. Jim Clouse, Ron's sculptor, has been working on expanding and improving Ron's adobe piece range for some time and, WOW, has he done a great job. What an incredible sculptor. All new is a LARGE hacienda bldg that's 16" long, 9" deep, and 6.24" tall that's multi level and that has a ruined wall extending from it that connects with Ron's existing adobe wall sections.
Speaking of adobe walls, BTW,all three of them (the oven wall, the non oven wall, and the gate wall)have been completely reworked so that they're a great deal more detailed (including brick rubble on the top of the walls,reworked adobe surfacing, beautifully etched cracks in the walls/adobe,some new stonework), but they still fit/blend in nicely with the original wall sections.
And part of the big news is that all of these pieces PLUS the old adobe pieces now come painted (the church, the towers, the old adobe bldgs)in a really neat pinkish and cream paint scheme that make the bldgs suitable for a variety of different venues, including North Africa, American Southwest, Northwest Frontier, Carribean, Spanish Penninsular war, etc etc. While the new paint scheme does not replicate the original Triploi adobe bldgs paint scheme, it does provide a complimentary paint scheme which offers nice diversity for a Tripoli village scene. I gather that all the new Tripoli adobe bldgs will be released in the new paint scheme in the future. To my eye, the new paint scheme more closely approximates the Tripoli Fort paint scheme.
I've included pics of Ron and Jim's as attachments, hopefully. These pics depict the fortified hacienda you can now create with the new pieces as well as diorama scenes from the Indy show dramatizing aspects of the Battle of Buena Vista. Also to be seen is a close up sample of one of the resculpted adobe walls, the oven wall, so people can better appreciate the enhancement in detail now available (this piece is the wall section painted gray).
Just WOW.
Dick
Speaking of adobe walls, BTW,all three of them (the oven wall, the non oven wall, and the gate wall)have been completely reworked so that they're a great deal more detailed (including brick rubble on the top of the walls,reworked adobe surfacing, beautifully etched cracks in the walls/adobe,some new stonework), but they still fit/blend in nicely with the original wall sections.
And part of the big news is that all of these pieces PLUS the old adobe pieces now come painted (the church, the towers, the old adobe bldgs)in a really neat pinkish and cream paint scheme that make the bldgs suitable for a variety of different venues, including North Africa, American Southwest, Northwest Frontier, Carribean, Spanish Penninsular war, etc etc. While the new paint scheme does not replicate the original Triploi adobe bldgs paint scheme, it does provide a complimentary paint scheme which offers nice diversity for a Tripoli village scene. I gather that all the new Tripoli adobe bldgs will be released in the new paint scheme in the future. To my eye, the new paint scheme more closely approximates the Tripoli Fort paint scheme.
I've included pics of Ron and Jim's as attachments, hopefully. These pics depict the fortified hacienda you can now create with the new pieces as well as diorama scenes from the Indy show dramatizing aspects of the Battle of Buena Vista. Also to be seen is a close up sample of one of the resculpted adobe walls, the oven wall, so people can better appreciate the enhancement in detail now available (this piece is the wall section painted gray).
Just WOW.
Dick