October 2024 - day 5

 

Today we have yet another roundhouse with a thatched roof. Over the years I have produced a number of similar structures from a wide variety of different materials and for games such as Pax Bochemannica, Slaine and my Pen & Sword book Wargames Terrain & Buildings North Africa but I can still find inspiration for new versions. This sketch shows another variation with rough stone walls and a canopied doorway.

This quick sketch was done with pencils.

Tony

October 2024 - day 4

This particular sketch is well over ten years old and although based on the iconic La Belle Alliance is way to small to be an accurate representation of this building. It would be a perfect small cottage model, similar to a number of compact model I have made for Miniature Wargames being about 6 inches long. Maybe one day I will get around to it.

I should also note that I have built models of La Belle Alliance in the past, the first was a master for Grand Manner and the second a highly modified MDF kit for my Pen & Sword book Wargame Terrain and Buildings - The Napoleonic Wars.

Tony

October 2024 - day 3

Some time ago, I watched a review on you tube for a game called Mork Borg, for more information, see this link. I found the illustrations in the rule book to be full of inspiration and this Demon Pump is a sketch I produced copying an illustration from the rule book.

I could imagine a similar pump either free standing or mounted alongside a large building, maybe dripping blood rather than water! I would hope that one day I will produce a model of this pump for either Flintloque or The Silver Bayonet.

Tony

October 2024 - day 2

Today's drawing was inspired by a simple image of a cottage that I found on the internet. The original was a rough drawn cartoon but had enough going for it to want me to re-draw it in a more realistic form. I particularly like the door and window design.

Tony

October 2024 - a sketch a day

And now for something completely different.....

Regular followers of this Blog and readers of the many magazine articles I have written will know that I enjoy sketching various terrain and models prior to scratch building them for example - The Jabberwocky Tower post from last month. As you can image I have books full of sketches of these models but occasionally illustrations that have not been used as inspiration or models that are yet to be built. It is my intention to post some of these sketches during the month of October and give details of when and where the inspiration came from.

Sketch 1

A Scottish cottage or croft sketched in pencil and inspired by an illustration I found in a tourism leaflet on the islands and history of northern Scotland.

Tony

Flintloque original artwork by Edward Jackson

I am lucky enough to be the proud owner of a number of Flintloque Themed original artworks by Edward Jackson. Following a comment on the new Retroloque Facebook site I went searching in the attic for some of these. The first is The Princess Juliana Chasseur Elite regiment that were sculpted by me and released by Alternative Armies as a limited edition regiment.

The second is one of two pieces of artwork that I own showing Foul Mouth Freddy (the second is framed in my office) a Flintloque character that was also invented by me and is available as a limited edition metal miniature from AA.

The third image is of a Toadaroni character.

Thank you to Edward and I hope that you enjoy these 'blast from the past' images.

Tony

The Jabberwocky Tower part two - Miniature Wargames issue 498

Miniature Wargames issue 498 (October 2024) has the second part of a two part series in which I show how I first built and then painted this Disney inspired Jabberwocky Tower inspired by the artist Oliver Chipping. For more information about the magazine contents see this post.

The magazine articles give much more detail than this brief Blog post, but I have included a number of illustrations to show how this model was inspired, built and painted.

Image 1

This was a sketch inspired by the Oliver Chipping illustration I found on the internet. My model copies the main themes, but does deviate from the original in some ways.

Image 2

Construction was based on corrugated cardboard and foamboard cores detailed with balsawood, card, blue foam and DAS modelling clay. It is mounted on a 3mm thick plastic card base.

Image 3

Painting commenced with an all over grey undercoat/basecoat followed by the thatch. The whitewashed walls were built up with diluted white acrylic paint.

Image 4

More acrylic white for the walls and the wooden areas picked out in brown. The base was painted in a Snakebite Leather colour that I have had mixed up as a tester pot by my local DIY store.

Image 5

the model Jabberwacky Tower completed, varnished and decorated ready for the gaming table. For more information, see the Miniature Wargames magazine issues 497 and 498.

Tony