Slitherine

Here's a Roman or Mediterranean Village I completed recently. I play in 15mm but the buildings are 6mm scale. This way you get something that actually looks like a village, rather than just one or two 15mm buildings. Each building can be removed so figures can be placed in the village.

It looks very nice. I miss one miniature as a sculpture. It could give it more "life"

Strategos69 wrote:It looks very nice. I miss one miniature as a sculpture. It could give it more "life"

You mean something like a 15mm figures painted white as a mable statue?

That would probably work well...

ravenflight wrote:

Strategos69 wrote:It looks very nice. I miss one miniature as a sculpture. It could give it more "life"

You mean something like a 15mm figures painted white as a mable statue?

That would probably work well...

Yeah. Even bigger (20mm) or smaller (10mm) as deem necessary.

ravenflight wrote:

Strategos69 wrote:It looks very nice. I miss one miniature as a sculpture. It could give it more "life"

You mean something like a 15mm figures painted white as a mable statue?

That would probably work well...

Full colour (bright colours at that). Greeks and Romans never left statues unpainted.

tadamson wrote:

ravenflight wrote:

Strategos69 wrote:It looks very nice. I miss one miniature as a sculpture. It could give it more "life"

You mean something like a 15mm figures painted white as a mable statue?

That would probably work well...

Full colour (bright colours at that). Greeks and Romans never left statues unpainted.

Absolutely right. It's a common modern misconception that Greek and Roman statues were as we see them today, the bare marble. Most statues have detectable levels of paint deep in the crevices, and there are a few surviving examples of statues with their paint intact. I've seen two of these in person, and I have to tell you the painting is so realistic it's haunting. It looks much more realistic than anything at Madame Tussard's.

nice job indeed.
for those, like me, who want a similar village but arent skilled enought to do their own, where can we buy a roman 6 mn or 10 mm building? I saw many spanish mediterraneans but never saw the antic roman villa and other roman buildings.
Edward

Yes, that is a nice-looking village. And I like the idea of "compressing" the scale down to 6mm to get more of a village in the area. I'm also interested in finding a good-quality, not-too-expensive set of miniature buildings to use in making a FoG village or town terrain piece.

How did you make the cut-outs for the buildings? Is the base of your terrain piece built up of layers of MDF or plywood?

Zephyr40k wrote:Yes, that is a nice-looking village. And I like the idea of "compressing" the scale down to 6mm to get more of a village in the area. I'm also interested in finding a good-quality, not-too-expensive set of miniature buildings to use in making a FoG village or town terrain piece.

How did you make the cut-outs for the buildings? Is the base of your terrain piece built up of layers of MDF or plywood?

http://romanseas.com/

http://romanseas.com/roman_building_set1.html

Nice work. Good terrain makes better game, I think.
I know what you mean about squeezing them in. I play 28mm, and I can only fit 2 buildings and a fountain on the "large" size village. And that's taking some liberty with the actual sizes. I tried going smaller scale, but with overlarge 28mm figures it looks like the hoplites are going to kick-over some kid's dollhouse. Mommy!

Outstanding camp - very nice job