MexRev scenery

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Looking at the pic I think I've placed the forge in the wrong corner. It is too close to the stables and sources of ignition for my liking... thank goodness it is modular!

[Leman (Andy)]

Looks very good all the same.

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

And a few more days into the project, now 3/4 complete... the main build is complete bar scenic scatter, a few plants and drybrush highlights. I'm adding an approach to suggest a dry moat. Detailing still to do is populating and roofing the stables and the forge...

[Colonel Kilgore]

That's lovely work, Neil. I particularly like your choice of colours and effects for the outer and inner walls.

Simon

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Thanks, Simon.
The colour scheme was influenced by the fact that the outer faces of most Spanish colonial style Forts with the typical rolled moulding below the parapet were usually of dressed stone. Images of Forts all over seemed to show that a greyish stone finish was more typical. I shall whiten it further with drybrushed highlights. I should probably have opted for a more brow/tan sandstone to be truer to the geography of my fictitious Northern Mexican town of 'San Miguel'. The interior walls are of the more conventional adobe and will have a brighter whitewash finish by the end of the process.
I have still to create strewn hay for the stable stalls and add a few occupants, add stall doors and an open timber and thatch roof. I've carved an anvil out of styrofoam and have to model a quenching trough, tool rack and bellows etc. for the forge before I add an open beam roof... The final touch will be to add a Mexican flag to the flagpole...
I hope to finish it off by the end of this week, all being well.

[Anatoli]

Superb ! Really superb !!

The work you did is brillant !!
I really like very much the way this fort is organized, the details you created (the front gate, ...).

So immersive and very inspiring... Bravo !

Cheers,

Xavier

[Leslie BT]

Some more lovely and detailed scenery Neil.

[Leman (Andy)]

Who's to say that the Mexican government of the time it was built decided that this (fictional) bit of Mexico was so important that it was worth using a stronger rock than sandstone. This is how to counteract wargame show know-alls.

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

I like your thinking, Andy. A temporary structure would use the local resources readily to hand while a more established fort would be upgraded with imported materials. Kind of like the Normans using timber to start with then importing Caen stone for their buildings...
Anyway I think the Sierra Madre Occidental in N Mexico would be a source for most decent building stone alongside its rich mineral deposits which would help pay for the improvements.

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

2022 gets underway with two new small to medium sized scenery projects... a hacienda, and a single road engine shed (somewhere for my branch line loco and to keep the station company). Both ways of using up foamcore and modelling scraps from earlier projects. Step one with the hacienda is an imposing gateway, followed by a tree lined avenue or fruit tree plantation (trees are on order), some perimeter walling and a hacienda/ranch building - not too grandiose but with a few Spanish Colonial architectural touches to set it apart from the hoi polloi.

[Colonel Kilgore]

That certainly is an imposing gateway, Neil!

I do like all this stuff you're scratch-building.

Simon

[martin goddard]

Nice work Neil.
The project goes on.
I will start taking the game to some shows to see if the public like the period?

First outing will be at Bournemouth Beach head show 12/13th feb.

If you can produce a set of photos of your whole Mexican project so far and put it in the MILL 12??


martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

Here is something I bought off EBay the other day. Very Western and Mexican style.
Miles

[martin goddard]

That is an excellent building Miles.
Pale ,worn and  dusty?


martin

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

That's a lovely chapel, Miles. In rustic surface treatment it looks a lot like the chapels of Santa Ana or Las Cruces in New Mexico...

I'll see what I can do about photos of my Mex Rev progress so far for Mill 12, Martin. My laying out options are somewhat limited