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Offline marell le fou

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Dwarven fortress
« on: July 23, 2019, 10:45:44 PM »
I have been working on this fortress for few weeks and forgot to publish y stuff here.

I have started from the 28 mm "Dwarven Stronghold" GW scenery.





I have removed the rocks to give some place for a gate.



Prepared two emplacements for canons on the left and right.





Prepared the main stair.



Added a door and sculpted the floor.



Changed the 28 mm door for a round 10 mm gate.



Added floors on the walls.



Cut down the base of the scenery at the gate level.



Too add a piece of solid foam to have more place.



Prepared some pavements for the circular wall floor.



And glued them.



Added a small platform on top of the inner round gate.



Started to work on the gate...



And decided there was enough place for two gates and new walls !



Cut down en balcony on the rear.



Transformed the top floor on a gyrocopter area.



Added stairways everywhere i could.





Went for round massive dwarvish protection on top of walls.



And massive dwarvish crenels.



And went on with them... At the same time than preparing new walls.



It was long but i'm happy of the walls aspect.



Modified the inner stair. It looked too big compared to the newly sculpted ones.



Negan to work on the first gate.







And decided the second one should be crown by original stone, as if the dwarves had decided to let it as is on purpose. To honour the mountain.



Crenels again...



Fortification above the main gate.



And crenels, again. I'm now expert in cutting them :)



Addition of small decorations (molded Kharardron shoulder pads).



Addition of reinforts on main tower.



And finaly working on the idea to add a tower on the left.



Happy to have reactions and ideas if you feel it :)

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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2019, 01:09:18 AM »
That looks great.

Offline Chios

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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2019, 06:43:15 AM »
Awesome build!

Offline Apocolocyntosis

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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2019, 10:00:57 PM »
wonderful, great to see attention to that old piece, i remember it from white dwarf

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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2019, 01:37:41 AM »
Oh wow this looks wonderful!
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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2019, 06:07:08 AM »
Thanks a lot, all !

I think the main gate will looke like that, more or less.



Or maybe with that main shield on top. Hesitating a bit.


Offline marell le fou

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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2019, 12:59:09 AM »
Hestitating finaly between those two options..




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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2019, 04:05:32 PM »
The extra work you did with the green stuff really helps it!
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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2019, 12:55:36 AM »
Thanks mate ! I will continue to use GS modling here or there. Mainly those Kharadron Overlords shoulder pads to decorare my walls reinforcements ;)

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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2019, 08:45:16 AM »
Awesome! You have the best ideas!!!

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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2019, 05:32:13 PM »
Ha ha, I guess Age of Sigmar has it's uses for 'bits' after all! =P
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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2019, 04:52:32 AM »
Thanks mates ! It really helps keeping on working.

Yes, AoS bits can be really usefull. Kharadron i uses either for WM or for my 40K Squat army ;)

Adding some rosky parts here where i had removed too much to put the pick on.





Preparing the second gate.



A small stair.



Texturing the main gate...



Some few advances on the tower too. I'm still unsure if i add it or no.



I have added a large top... And i'm hestitating. It's frankly very very large. Must i make it smaller ?



But then i could not put two standard bases on it. And that was the point...



Here it is in what should be its place.



I think it's pretty bad like this. Maybe with more reinforcments up and down.



It looks like a modern ship carrier like this...



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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2019, 09:35:15 AM »
This has to be the best use of that piece of scenery I have ever seen. That's awesome stuff mate.


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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2019, 07:39:33 PM »
It's going to be great when it's painted up!
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Re: Dwarven fortress
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2019, 03:24:42 PM »
The stone slab battlements/walkways - what is supporting them?
Wouldn't they be the top of a stone wall as thick as the walkway is wide?
Excellent model, really coming together!