A 1/35 European Cobbled Street.

[spanner570]

I've been quietly working on a base for my Tiger 1., and I enjoy making cobbled streets.
However, every time I used to stand and stare at the pattern, my eyes would go all over the place trying to figure out the various designs. Luckily, when me and the present Mrs. Ron were in Holland and Belgium late last year, we visited the delightful Bruges, where we came across a street with the cobbled pattern highlighted in lighter, almost white cobbles - not painted.....Bingo, a photo obtained!

Here is my interpretation of the pattern. Done on a piece of polystyrene, and painted with 'poundshop' acrylics. It still needs a dusting to bring out the gaps, and mucking up, but what do you think so far, folks?

Paratrooper shown for scale purposes....

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All comments and suggestions well received - unless it's likely to hurt me carrying them out!

Ron

[Guest]

Looking mighty fine if you ask me!
I thought for quite a while that the top photo was the photo you took in Bruges and not your reinterpretation so there's proof it's more than plausible

[Snowman]

Damn impressive work!!:thumb2:

[papa 695]

Cracking work Ron

[flyjoe180]

Well, that's looking top notch Ron. The cobble effect is realistic to my eyes.

[Guest]

Excellent work Ron, looks spot on mate :thumb2:

[Steve O]

Fantastic job, love it.

[Mr Bowcat]

That's fantastic Ron. How are the cobbles formed?

[dave]

Looks good to me.

[spanner570]

Thanks for your most encouraging posts gents.

It's still in it's raw state, but judging by your comments, at least the scale and general look of the thing passes muster.


Thanks again for your input.

Ron

[grumpa]

Great work Ron:thumb2:

[col68]

Very nice Ron.

[monica]

looks great to me,Ron very well done,
and the cobbles look about half a foot,and that to me would be in scale,nice work,:hugging-face:

[Guest]

Love it!

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Ron
The overall effect works really well, the colouring is good as well so they will make an excellent backdrop. Only thing for me is that the cobbles themselves appear square in the pictures I’ve looked at, but these are round?