| ansbachdragoner | 19 Aug 2010 7:02 p.m. PST |
Hey Guys, Here's the latest addition to my Late Roman project, a fortified high status villa. As usual there's more info and pictures over on my blog, littletinmen.blogspot.com This is my first crack at any kind of wargames terrain, so let me know what you think. Ben link link link |
| DeanMoto | 19 Aug 2010 7:10 p.m. PST |
That is quite impressive. Well done, Sir. Dean |
| Skeptic | 19 Aug 2010 7:14 p.m. PST |
Nice work, and nice units on your blog! What is Theomar Pius' technique? |
| ansbachdragoner | 19 Aug 2010 7:18 p.m. PST |
He scores blue foam with a pencil to make stone patterns, seals it with white glue before painting. I used the technique to create the tiling under the porticoes. |
| Mithridates | 19 Aug 2010 7:20 p.m. PST |
Great looking Villa – I especially liked the tip about the cobblestones (may take a trip out to our local Spotlight and see what they have). Just reading the latest Sidebottom yarn so your blog is quite atmospheric! Was thinking maybe there should be a statue on each side of the main entrance – or maybe looters have already been there? Cheers Garry |
| Jamesonsafari | 19 Aug 2010 7:57 p.m. PST |
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| oldbob | 19 Aug 2010 8:27 p.m. PST |
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| SgtPerry | 19 Aug 2010 11:05 p.m. PST |
Very nice building! Great job. |
| plutarch 64 | 19 Aug 2010 11:24 p.m. PST |
I love the slight bowing of the roofs, almost as though they are sagging under the weight of the tiles. Very tidy indeed! |
| aercdr | 20 Aug 2010 3:56 a.m. PST |
As nice as anything that I have seen in a museum. |
| cyrus5 | 20 Aug 2010 3:59 a.m. PST |
Excellent building Ben I really liked the mosaic. We were in Italy last year and your building brings back memories of Pompeii. |
| LEGION 1950 | 20 Aug 2010 4:00 a.m. PST |
Great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mike Adams |
 BigRedBat  | 20 Aug 2010 2:36 p.m. PST |
Very nice indeed. I have a nice villa but your's dwarfs it! Simon |
| Howler | 20 Aug 2010 5:43 p.m. PST |
That is very, very, very impressive!!! |
| Swampster | 21 Aug 2010 6:45 a.m. PST |
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| ansbachdragoner | 22 Aug 2010 1:42 a.m. PST |
Thanks for all the kind comments guys. I don't suppose anyone has any idea where i should start regarding references for Sassanian Persian architecture? |
| Mithridates | 22 Aug 2010 4:04 p.m. PST |
Have a look at the latest Sidebottom work on Ballista (V3) – lists some handy Sassanid references. I got my copy from The Book Depository. |
| ansbachdragoner | 24 Aug 2010 3:20 a.m. PST |
Thanks Mithridates, ill check that out. |
| Mithridates | 26 Aug 2010 10:14 p.m. PST |
Ben Had a look around my shelves. Dr Kaveh Farrokh's "Shadows in the Desert, Ancient Persia at War" has a few snippets on architecture and engineering that may be of interest. Apparently al-Mansur selected the small Iranian estate village of Boghu-dad as the site of Baghdad. There is reference to the debt owed to Sasanian architecture by the later Islamic states so the traditonal domed Islamic structure might not go astray. Farrokh quotes A J Arberry (editor) "The Legacy of Persian" Oxford The Clarendon Press 1953 and B Lewis (ed) "The Legacy of Islam" London Thames and Hudson 1997. Farrokh notes that the Sasanids redesigned an ancient Greek invention to create a working windmill built within a mud brick tower with air ducts to turn fabric blades. Designed as a corn mill in eastern Iran. Might be an interesting feature! A book I picked up years ago by Dr Georginia Herrman, "The Iranian Revival" Oxford Phaidon Press 1977 has quite a bit on Parthian and Sasanid palaces and architecture. Hopefully some of the above may be available on inter-library loan? Good hunting Cheers Garry |
| Come In Nighthawk | 25 Apr 2013 10:24 p.m. PST |
Sigh… The links, they are no more…  |
| French Wargame Holidays | 26 Apr 2013 2:02 a.m. PST |
here you go link cheers
Matt |
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