October 2024 - day 21

Another tower. I have sketched quite a few and some day I will get around to modelling one (or two). This sketch was inspired by an image from the internet, a small tower built in to the side of a hill or mountain pass. I liked the timber framed upper section but I think if I were to build a model, I would need to add some additional window openings or more look outs.

A coloured pencil sketch on smooth sketch paper.

Tony

October 2024 - day 20

This is another 1/35th scale narrow gauge railway engine - a battery mechanical that I drew from an old photo image I found on the internet. My intention is to scratch build it on a HO-OO Hornby 'Smokey Joe' chassis and run it on HO-OO Peco 'Crazy Track' which represents a two foot or 600mm narrow gauge  scale/gauge.

Once again, I am not pretending that this is a detailed and scaled drawing, but close enough for me and my purposes.

I already have a spare mechanism and with slight alteration, I have to widen the body slightly, it should easily hide an unmodified chassis. I would expect the model to be constructed from plastic card - my preferred material with a 1/35th scale driver donated from some military figure.

Tony

October 2024 - day 19

This sketch was inspired by one of the Manga cartoon films we watched on TV. As usual I paused the images and got out my sketch book. This 'quick and dirty' drawing was then coloured with pencils. It is a typical rough and ready drawing the type that fill many of the pages in my sketch books. It may never be used as inspiration for a piece of terrain, but I do enjoy just scribbling.....

Tony

October 2024 - day 18

Today's sketch was inspired by The King's Man (2020). It is the main barn that features in the final act which takes part on the huge outcrop which is accessed via a cable car or crane. This image is of the front or main entrance I have also sketched the side view. It was my intention to build a smaller more compact version but even so this would have been a huge building.

Once again it is a working drawing with loads of notes and even colouring details added in coloured pencil.

Tony

October 2024 - day 17

This simple church is drawn to 'Epic scale' and was planned to be built to accompany the Warlord Games Epic Battles of the American Civil War figures and rules. It was inspired by the lower image which was used in a newspaper article about the Alec Baldwin fatal shooting on the set of the film Rust. I have  a number of scratch built buildings based on used CD's which I have built from card, some of which have appeared in Miniature Wargames and which have been built as terrain pieces for this system.

As you can clearly see it is very much a 'working' drawing with notation and modifications.

Tony

October 2024 - day 16

I can't recall where I copied this particular building from. It is a stone built hovel with a huge Dolmen style roof and should be fun to build with large foam blocks and a one piece roof.

With half the month gone, it should be clear - but ALL of these images are of structures I have NOT built and remain un-used in my collection of sketch books (I have dozens). I could just as easily have had a series of sketches that I HAVE used as inspiration, maybe another month of sketches!

Tony

October 2024 - day 15

As you can see this sketch was inspired by an image in the Rackhams magazine Cry Havoc, volume 05, page 49. I was lucky enough to find a number of these old Rackham magazines in a charity shop some time ago and although I have since sold them on I did sketch a number of images and even scanned some of the pages, which I still have. I have modelled a number of buildings that were inspired by these publications, but this one remains a to-do and I would hope that one day I will get around to scratch building a model of this charismatic house.

Cry Havoc had some fantastic 'how-to' articles and I have used both these and the tutorials as inspiration in many of my terrain builds.

Tony