The Liberation of a Normandy Village - and some cheese and wine too!

[spanner570]

Thanks J & J. I'm chuffed you like it thus far.

Here's a down shot of the pavements glued on to the base. You will see on the left of the model I've changed from paving slabs to tiles. A bit of variation kind'a breaks things up and adds a bit more interest. See the pavement bottom right? It's flying over the river. Honest mistake guv'!
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The next picture will show it better, but it was about this stage I feared the whole thing was going to look flat and boring. So just prior to this photo, I made some drastic alterations.
More to follow .....

Cheers.
Ron

[Guest]

Man I enjoy this so much ! Thanks for sharing all of this diorama action !

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
If nothing else you are always entertaining - actually looks very nice indeed.
Jim

[JR]

Don't think it would ever be boring Ron .
J

[spanner570]

Thanks for your posts boys.
As mentioned, the base was starting to look flat and boring, so I decided to put the two rendered buildings on a higher level, looking down on the village square. I used a thick piece of polystyrene for this. Where I can, I prefer to build any ground up, rather than dig into stuff. No mess or dust - :thumb2:

Incorporating a higher level gave me a nice sloping road running down into the square - bonus!

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I've placed a building on to get a better idea as to what's what.
That flying pavement is starting to annoy me!


Here's a closer look at the setup. I made the two set of steps out of scrap stuff.

Note the up and down, all over the place tiles and paviours....Luuuurvely. I added small wall up stands with stone cappings to the raised areas, then gave them all a grey wash to highlight the 'joints'

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Cheers.
Ron

[papa 695]

Coming along at a steady pace Ron, nice work too.

[Gern]

Fascinating and great stuff as usual Ron, but that 'flying pavement' is bugging me too! When you gonna do summat with it?

[minitnkr]

How about a stone or cement retaining wall beneath flying pavement to prevent further erosion by the stream? PaulE

[spanner570]

Men, stand at ease! Already sorted, but thanks for the concern and suggestion. Quite reassuring to realise that my buddies on here are looking after this old f**t! :upside::thumb2:

Your Servant.
Sir Robin Day

[Gern]

[QUOTE="spanner570, post: 387085, member: 161"Quite reassuring to realise that my buddies on here are looking after this old f**t! :upside::thumb2:

Your Servant.
Sir Robin Day[/QUOTE]

Well, somebody needs to - and us old f***s need to stick together!

[JR]

To one Old F*** from an even older one . :smiling3:

They must have a Depot near you .Get that retaining wall shored up ! and begin the pour .
John

[spanner570]

To one Old F*** from an even older one . :smiling3:
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They must have a Depot near you .Get that retaining wall shored up ! and begin the pour .
John

Jawohl! Mein GruppenKapitan........:tongue-out3:

[BigGreg]

... Ron... sorry for not posting before... l just saw it coming together... that looks really promising... i'm getting very excited....
Hope to see very fast figures and action in it

[Pikeman]

Just caught up,great work on the buildings Ron,looking good.
Will be watching

[spanner570]

Thanks Greg and Stuart.

Gregory - Sorry, but it will be modelled shortly after the village has been liberated. So not much going on, besides I can't stand the sight of blood!
Stuart - Nice to have you along. Anything in the pipeline?

Ron