Drum's Terrain/Painting Thread

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:16 pm

By making big holes in the roof from catapult fire - more floors could be visible and used to play on.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:38 pm

Very nice! :yay:

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:00 pm

Very nice terrain Drum! I especially like the Helms Deep, the attention to detail is amazing.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:36 pm

Wow, that is looking excellent!

valpas · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:31 am

Very good! How did you make the windows? Plasticard? They look really neat.

-- Pasi

edge67 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:48 am

The terrain is starting to look great. Don't know if you need to replicate a brick effect. It looks great as is.

polarbird2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:56 am

for the roof you could just leave the arches that were supporting the whole structure and have a lot of (playable and standable) rubble in the middle and pretty much covering the whole floor just to represent the whole thing collapsing and leaving the strongest parts still standing. that way you will have a big hole that you can put models through and something you can still call a roof

polarbird2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:41 pm

this is kind of what i meant in the top right hand corner you can see the arches with small bits of the ceiling still attached. you could have the arches on both sides- different lengths of course :-D

and have them along the main hall.

apart from the fact that its not exactly possible (in real life) the arches would be too weak so support themselves but since its a fantasy world i guess you can just go and get creative

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:59 pm

Quote:

its a fantasy world i guess you can just go and get creative

"they are baked by little elves and there is no factory" :rofl:

aqan · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:41 pm

terrain is looking good (as usual :wink:

)

About the roof, I would personally go for something like this.

It's not entirely gothic, more like roman architecture.
If you want to see more of it try this link.
From about 33:00 you get a nice view of the castle and it's roof (or wat's left of it.)
And if you want a ruined cathedral you don't have to look further than the Pillars of the earth.

Looking forward to the next update.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:54 pm

u could always make the complete roof - drop a heavy stone on it and see what gives...

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:20 pm

garmenhord wrote:

u could always make the complete roof - drop a heavy stone on it and see what gives...

Second that!

polarbird2 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:22 pm

@aquan that is EXACTLY what i meant!

but i just couldnt find a good enough picture :oops:

but i dont think The Pillars of the Earth has a good enough example of a ruined roof (even though half of the series is about that

)

and on that note... you could make it wooden, half repaired. id doesnt have to be completely destroyed. maybe try something like the building site piece i made. have it under contruction and just leave it at that. i think it would look quite interesting

Drumstick · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am **Posts:** 1223

Thanks everyone for the kind comments

@Valpas - The windows were just made out of foamcore and it seems to have worked well.

@edge67 - Yeah exactly my thoughts...

@aqan - Liking the idea aqan, quite a spectacular roof there too! Yeah I've seen Camelot (which I thought was a little cheesy) and Pillars just blew my mind. In fact I just finished reading the squeal and there working on that film now.

@garmenhord - haha lol!! :rofl:

@polarbird2 - Love the idea of the cathedral in mid repairs or something, I'll have to come up with a few things for that.

Update

Right I got the other tower finished today and it's slowly getting there. I'm not sure which bit I'll start on next, we'll see what turns out.

Next update soon
Drum

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:08 pm

Really impressive work!!

draked · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:17 am **Posts:** 266

I must follow this thread, spectacular work here Drum! :yay:

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:17 pm

really awesome! It makes me feel like I'm back in Scotland with all it's great ruins!
TOP mate!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:23 am

Wow, that is really cool!!

karavatis · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:24 am

Totally awesome. Very nice, I'm waiting for more. Congratulations

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:53 am

Can't wait to see more

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