| David Manley | 26 Dec 2013 4:10 a.m. PST |
The latest in this years very irregular blog entries, covering the creation of my new coffee-inspired fort to accompany my 1/450 Peter Pig pirate ships link |
| Shedman | 26 Dec 2013 4:31 a.m. PST |
Lovely centre piece for the Christmas table |
| OldGrenadier at work | 26 Dec 2013 5:16 a.m. PST |
Absolutely brilliant! Inspirational :) |
| Who asked this joker | 26 Dec 2013 7:32 a.m. PST |
That's a great looking fort! A coffee cup lid you say? So while it looks like a fort and I'd be happy to see it in any game I played, how historically accurate is it? (ie Were there round forts like that?) |
| jpattern2 | 26 Dec 2013 9:49 a.m. PST |
"Fort Barrista," very clever! |
| David Manley | 26 Dec 2013 9:52 a.m. PST |
Henry VIII was building round artillery castles along the coast of England in the 1500s so its possible someone else was building similar structures elsewhere in the word in the 18th and 19th century I guess :) |
| Chacrinha | 26 Dec 2013 11:39 a.m. PST |
Plenty of examples of round forts in the new world. The original fort that guarded Cartagena de Indias, San Felipe del Boquron was a round tower. A later round construction, not unlike the model still exists there, the Castelo de San Fernando guarding the Bocachica channel.
Similar simple round forts were built in Brazil in the 16th C and one of the most famous, Forte São Marcelo in Salvador still exists. Famously described by Jorge Amado as ' o umbigo do mundo', the navel of the world. I used to live nearby.
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martin goddard  | 26 Dec 2013 12:07 p.m. PST |
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dragon6  | 26 Dec 2013 2:47 p.m. PST |
What scale were/are the old galleons by… Airfix? Would they work with the PP models? If not are there any other models that would? Thinking a bit more variety would be nice |
| David Manley | 26 Dec 2013 2:51 p.m. PST |
I think they are more 1/300 ish so a bit too big. I'm hoping Martin will, one day, bring out a few new models for this range. A schooner and a galley at least would open up all sorts of new possibilities |
| vtsaogames | 26 Dec 2013 3:36 p.m. PST |
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 Condotta | 26 Dec 2013 5:06 p.m. PST |
Wonderful and imaginative. Save some coffee grounds and mix with the sand for texture : – ) |
begins his series on how to paint a 15mm DBA army well, in a reasonable time frame.
