Continuing to build some sort of infrastructure for the 'Jono's World' project, one needs of course a place of worship. The limits to my imagination and constrictions imposed by modelling skills that will carry me so far and no farther, led to to construct this ecclesiatical edifice - rather more Western in style than I would have preferred. Never mind.
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| Showing the 'lift-off-able' roof and 'storage space'. A real church would not, of course, have that partition down the middle. The boxes kept their fourth sides simply to add strength to the whole construction |
The thing was simply constructed from the bottom parts of two cereal boxes glued side by side. One was cut in such a way to allow for the addition of the corner tower.
The stone pattern you might have seen before in earlier articles on this subject. However, this time I altered the colour, giving it a more yellowish tinge before printing. The doors and windows were made from what was left of the cereal packets and simply glued on. The doors are 'self coloured', that is to say, I cut them out from bits of box that were a solid red colour, and then glued a door frame over it to give a 3D effect. I drew on the black lines to suggest timber doors. Not sure yet what to do (if anything) about door handles. Door and window frames were painted white.
I made the roof lift-off-able so that the interior of the thing could be used to house a garrison (not important) and to provide storage space for figures or models (very much a consideration). This is actually quite a large building model, with a 'footprint' of 23cm x 17 (not counting the 'buttresses'), and a height of 17cm. Note that the thing is designed with function very much in mind as much as form.
At this point I reckon the other constructions I have in mind for this project - Town Admin/CBD block, Aircraft hangar, Airfield control tower, and maybe some further vaguely 'Industrial Wasteland' type impedimenta - can wait a little. All I have to do is wait until the weather improves for these to be taken outside and the war to begin...
A very impressive construction. Will there be a cross or weathercock?
ReplyDeleteYeah... I've been wondering what to add into the tower. I still want it available for dudes to stand in, but a little bell or gong tower, and maybe a religious symbol. Not a cross, though - or at least not something that would suggest a Christian symbol.
ReplyDeleteI may decide that the people of this World are so strongly iconoclastic, they eschew not only images and statuary, but all visual religious symbolism. It is possible that even constructing places of worship grates against the sensibilities of the more conservative followers of IAM (?) I'm not sure whether this is a solution, or I'm just baling out.
Areligious myself - a disbeliever rather than a non-believer - I think I would lean heavily towards the iconoclastic myself. But that hasn't stopped our having a Greek icon in the hall...
Another very nice building. I really enjoy the look of these.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sean. At some point I hope to do a litle bit of Urban Warfare with these. Meanwhile, I've discovered some instructions in an old Mil Mod magazine to construct a light armoured car. I'll have a crack at this shortly...
ReplyDeleteVery impressive ... and I look forward to seeing this (and your other) buildings in use.
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Bob
Cheers, Bob -
DeleteI'll see if I can't finish my cardboard Bugmobile Armoured Cars, first...
Lovely work Ion. Graveyard needed!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes: the geographical dead centre of town... Crumbling stone walls, ivy-choked, tumbling headstones and lonely crypts...
ReplyDeleteShe's a beauty, damn well done that man!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Francis - though in fact I now wish I had thought more about it more and made it in two pieces. Never mind: 'twill do.
DeleteI think that turned out real nice....that paper stone looks real
ReplyDeleteI find stone and brick patterns useful for this sort of thing. Just hunt them up on the internet and copy them. Then you can manipulate colour, scale - all sorts. There is actually a word half-hidden in the pattern, but it's not at all noticeable on the finished building.
Deletegreat stuf Ion. a very useful bit of terrain.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gowan - We'll see how it shapes once I get the armies sorted...
DeleteLooks good to me. And well done for remembering to remove the cornflakes before you cut up the boxes....
ReplyDeleteNeeded to make room for the congregation, eh? Or whatever will get put in there. And I'm doing my small bit to recycle waste materials...
DeleteLooks like quite a world of buildings you are growing here
ReplyDeleteIan
Yes! I have to watch that it doesn't all get out of hand! But there are a few more to come, a couple of large, and a few small.
DeleteExcellent work Ion, love what you are doing.
ReplyDeleteBarry
Hi Barry! I've been hearing that you have been in the wars again. I was going to drop by with Geoff Mahon a couple of weeks back but I gather you weren't up to receiving at that time. Have things changed?
DeleteAll the best,
Ion
Been a little better thanks Ion, Paul was going to arrange a game for the three of us sometime. Would love to catch up.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work on the buildings, they look great.
We'll see what we can manage (I've started root canal work on a cracked tooth that started playing a week ago - hope it's not too distracting!). Meanwhile I've made a wee bit of a start on the soldiery, and some cardboard weapons and vehicles will shortly be in the pipeline...
DeleteGlad the weather's on the improve...
Cheers,
Ion