October 2024 - day 7

And now for a bit of fun.....

This coloured pencil sketch was copied from the Disney animated film Robin Hood. It is the church mouse house that appears towards the start of the film - a rough stone cottage built into the roots of a large tree. I would have thought it would make a great Burrows & Badgers themed piece of terrain.

Tony

October 2024 - day 6

In a change from sketches of wargame buildings or terrain, today's sketch is circular water tower re-drawn from an illustration in Continental Railway Modeller. I have drawn the European water tower to 1/43.5 or 7mm = 1 foot (O gauge) with the intention of one day building it, but it is way too big for any of my model railway layouts and the wrong scale as I have been working in 1/35th and 1/27.7th scale.

The sketch was done in pen over pencil.

Tony

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