Continuing with my plan to highlight some of my older terrain pieces I have chosen this huge Russian Church. Which I built nearly twenty years ago.
The model is one of my largest pieces of terrain standing nearly 18inches (450mm) tall. The main structure is foam-card with plain card cladding and DAS modelling clay roof tiles. The golden dome was scratch-built by constructing a card skeleton and then wrapping masking tape around the form before cladding with newspaper scraps and uPVA glue.
The building is unusual in my collection, being built on a cardboard base rather than plastic card or MDF.
I based the building on a small 15mm Russian Church that I saw in a model shop in France. I was able to make some sketches and then built the model on my return to the UK. Just in case it is not obvious - the model is a solid construction, no lift-off roof. While the colour scheme was inspired by a small painting from the Russian artist and illustrator Ivan Bilibin.
The miniatures are Alternative Armies, Bog Orc Zombies from the 1st Moldsk Guard (LEU02). See this link.
The images are taken in shaded sunlight on my flock-covered gaming board with a large holiday brochure poster as a backdrop.
Tony
Lovely building, I especially like the weathered effect painting of the dome
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely lovely. Packed with character and in amazing condition after so long.
ReplyDeleteMore great modelling - looks wonderful.
ReplyDeleteSimon.
Excellent scratchbuilt dome for the church, sir.
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