RMD wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 9:52 pm
Her Majesty's Inspector General of Artillery and Engineers is pleased to report that construction work has finally begun on the fortress of Jemimafawrenberg...
These are the old Ian Weekly 15mm 'Vaubanesque' models, which I was very pleased to discover (via this very page) are now available from TSS. These are now rather ancient models and so instead of going 'all-in', I bought a few sample pieces to start - a very nice (and large!) 'ravelin', a length of wall with gate and a length of wall with 90-degree angle (which I will use as a 'lunette'). Here they are drying on the draining-board at work (the sight of which raised my boss' eyebrows when he came in for a visit, but he's seen me do far worse...).
The moulds do seem to be a little 'tired', which is a shame, but not excessively so and not entirely unsurprising given the age of the models. They look really great now I've sprayed them with primer. I've actually seen far worse casting quality on some new ranges! I have already therefore, ordered some more pieces and should have a 'proper' fortress ready for the Christmas game, with a few bastions, curtain walls and ravelins.
However, I didn't like the gateway, which is just a boring, square hole. I've therefore hacksawed that section out of the wall and have added the rather spiffing Vaubanesque gateway by Total Battle Miniatures (TBM), which looks perfect.
I'm really looking forward to getting Jemimafawrenberg on the table! I know that a lot of my wargaming friends won't be interested, but it's the fort that counts...
There are some very talented painters and modellers on this forum. Thanks for sharing, you lot. I take inspiration and occasionally despair at ever reaching anything like the same standards, seeing this sometimes.
Since we're almost all of "that certain age" can anyone recall what was the product that "fortifies the over-forties"?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 9:16 am
Since we're almost all of "that certain age" can anyone recall what was the product that "fortifies the over-forties"?
Spanner wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:10 am
They are nice, aren't they?
See what you've done, Willz? You started a fortification race!
Since posting these on FB, the algorithm has been directing batshit-crazy pages to me about star-forts being ancient power-stations, built by the 'Tartarian Empire' (whatever the fuck that is) and then 're-discovered' by the European powers... They were also apparently 'never' used for military purposes...
There really are some deeply, deeply stupid people out there.
"There really are some deeply, deeply stupid people out there."
And social media gives them a platform to display it..........as well as the self absorbed narcissism of the current culture....
God I feel old..........
I see TSS hasn't listed the fortifications yet in 15mm or 28mm; so how did you buy them?
These are now rather ancient models and so instead of going 'all-in', I bought a few sample pieces to start - a very nice (and large!) 'ravelin', a length of wall with gate and a length of wall with 90-degree angle (which I will use as a 'lunette'). Here they are drying on the draining-board at work (the sight of which raised my boss' eyebrows when he came in for a visit, but he's seen me do far worse...).
