Next we have four art magazines and once again all four for just £1.00. I'll enjoy reading these and then passing them on as I have a friend who also loves these magazines.
With magazines today regularly costing over £6.00 I believe that picking these up is a no-brainer and the added benefit is that once I have read them, they will go on to someone else to enjoy.
A great example of re-cycling.
Tony
As you can see it is still in it's original packaging and in good if not perfect condition. I cannot remember where or when I bought it and it could very well have been in the attic for years.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Tony
The latest issue of Miniature Wargames, issue 500, December 2024 features this scratch built windmill that was built and painted by me. It was commissioned as a celebration of Ian Weekley who built a similar model that was featured in the very first issue of Miniature Wargames, back in 1983. For more information, see this link.
MW issue 500 which is now available to purchase which also includes a free sprue of Wargames Atlantic werewolves.
The model was inspired by the initial article and various illustrations found on the internet as well as images from various books on windmills.
Construction commenced with a simple cardboard box clad in scrap wood (old fruit packing cases) and a cereal box roof. The wooden support or 'post' was constructed from balsawood and textured foam on a cork and DAS modelling clay base. The old mill wheel was cut from 5mm thick plastic card and textured with a scalpel.
The sails were built from wood, card and plastic card while the additional detailing came from either card of scrap wood. The main body of the mill can be turned on the post and the sails revolve on a knitting needle and pen barrel axle.
The finished windmill was painted in less intense colours than I would have usually used as I once read that Ian Weekley preferred muted colours on his wargame terrain. The base has been decorated with static grass and ground foam applied over superglue.
It was a real privileged to be asked to build a model inspired by Ian and I would hope that he would have been pleased with the finished windmill. In addition I would like to thank robh of The Lead Adventure Forum for the help that he supplied in sourcing various articles and images of Ian Weekley's models and articles.
Tony
But first I should repeat that all of the images posted this month are sketches done by me for the purposes of scratch building models for the wargame table or my narrow gauge railway layouts. I have many, many books full of such drawings and have in fact been adding to these during this month when I have been taking part in my own version of Inktober - drawing an image a day for the month of October.
This particular tower was seen on the front cover of a fantasy novel in a toy and book shop in Bruge. I spent some time studying the image while in the shop and then went outside to try and copy the tower from memory, as you can image this was not that successful. However as I stood outside with my sketchbook I saw that the same book was in fact on display in the window! This made it much easier to copy, although I sometimes wonder what the shopkeeper or passers by thought of me sketching book covers through a shop window.
I hope you have enjoyed these sketches and would welcome any comments or suggestions as to what model should be next on my schedule to build. Also if you have used any of the images to build your own wargame terrain, I would love to see them.
Happy Halloween
Tony
I have modeled similar structures in the past and many have appeared on this Blog. Like all the earlier sketches these are structures/buildings from my many reference sketch books showing model making inspiration - that I have NOT yet built.
Tony
It is copied from a small image in one of the early Warhammer Fantasy Wargame rule books. I thought it would be easy enough to model from a large cardboard tube but so far it has remained one of my many 'too-do' pieces of wargame terrain.
As with all of these October 2024 sketches - these are models I have at one stage thought about scratch building and hopefully I will get around to one day - but as the saying goes,
"So many models, so little time!"
My sketch books are a little like my own, personal paper 'Lead Mountain'.
Tony
