"Scratch Built Granary 28mm" Topic

Latest addition to my terrain, an 18thC era Granary building usable for Battles of Aspern Essling, Raab, Austerlitz, and maybe some other battles featuring such buildings. Some more on design choice, construction and history here:
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Nice.

Lovely

It is much, much longer.

Thank guys!
Old Glory – I'm aware of how long it is, read the design notes and you'll see why it is not, i.e.

"The building I ended up making is clearly based on the Essling Granary at the Battle of Aspern Essling, even including the sundial. However the aim was not to create an exact replica, but rather an isomorphic transformation of it. I.e. I wanted to keep a similar height to the building and to the size of doors and windows (so they don't look out of place with 28mm figures), but shrink the length and width so that the total area of the building was about 200cm squared rather than 600cm squared. The reason for this is the ground scale in wargaming. Similar to many other 28mm gamers, I use 25-50 yards represented by 2.5cm or an inch. So even a large building like a hundred yard long Granary should only be 10cm or 4 inches long at most. If I allow that it also represents some nearby features like the northern walled Master's Garden at Essling (which was in a mutually supporting position), then 15-20cm would be ok. This would also allow a building that would still look large and imposing enough next to 28mm figures."

Great job!

It is instantly recognisable, that is what counts.

Aerial photos of LHS show just how much bigger the courtyard is than any models suggest. one has to compromise or use a a very large table indeed!

Nicely done.

Thanks again!

Liam I find Waterloo is one of the most common wargames where you see 1:1 or similar models of walled farms throwing out the ground scale. Unfortunately many commercial models are too big, and shrinking the courtyards and reducing number of outbuildings is pretty important. Done right you can still make these pieces attractive, and instantly recognisable as you say.

I do find it odd when people think a small fortified position like a granary should be 1:1 when they are quite happy for wargaming units to be 30ish guys representing 600! :) Fair enough if you are just representing a town with a few buildings, but if it is a smaller hardpoint that makes no sense. Using reduced scale models (i.e. 15mm with 28mm figures) is another option, but my preference is that doors at least are the same scale as figures.
Of interest, here's the museum model of the Granary inside the actual Essling Granary, smaller scale also, and I included the arched end door because it has it.
A pic of it from here:
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And from here:
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The photo below is from another New Zealand wargamer, and is the sort of scale for Essling I'll be doing. They have used a similar compact Granary, though I would likely use mine to represent both the Granary and nearby Garden, depending on final scale I end up with.
From here:
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