October 2024 - day 23

This is another sketch inspired by a TV show - in this case Wednesday Adams which is available on Netflix. The barn appears in season 1 and I was struck by the lopsided construction and off set doors. I thought it would make a great piece of scratch built terrain for the wargame table and after pausing the episode, I drew this simple rendering.

Tony

October 2024 - day 22

This is another sketch inspired by images from Oliver Chipping. I have already built a model based on these Disney images - The Jabberwocky Tower (see this link for more information). I would hope that I will scratch build another model based on these sketches soon.

This quick sketch is much 'looser' than most of my images and was done with a soft pencil on smooth sketch paper.

Tony

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