My previously-reported paper chateau now has some walled grounds and a wrought iron gate. As you can see from the picture, the finished model goes well with 28-30mm figures, such as this eighteenth century gentleman by Willie Figurines.
I used some brick-paper to make the driveway, and flocked the lawn. The trees are cheap buys from a Chinese mail-order company, attached to some large square washers that have been given a ground effect. The front lawn is completely surrounded by a paper walls.
Both the chateau and the walls come from Florian Richter and Peter Dennis’s wonderful book European Buildings: 28mm paper models for 18th & 19th century wargames. You simply photocopy the drawings and assemble them. I did add some inner strengthening with heavy card, but otherwise my models are straight from the book.
Here’s the rear-view. I imagine those French windows looking out over a rolling Capability Brown (or Bloody Stupid Johnson!) landscape.
The building can be removed from the garden. I intend to make some more removable walls to fill the gap, so that this terrain piece can be used as a park, churchyard, graveyard, or anything else I want.
And here’s the other building I’ve made recently from the same book – a Mediterranean church. The walls also come from the book. This model will fit nicely into Peninsular War games.
This 28mm Perry Miniatures figure gives a good idea of the size of the model church. As you can see, the church doors are actually a little bit too small, but the overall effect works well, and provides a smaller footprint than if the church was to exactly the same scale as the figure.
Here’s the rear view of the church, with its classical Mediterranean style.
Keep visiting this blog as I report on further buildings from this great book.
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Hi Roly ,
Thank you for this nice series of paper buildings and armies .
The Mediterranean Style church would also be good in a Battle of Crete Scenario -as the Greek Orthodox Churches on Crete and certain other [- now – ] Greek Islands were once occupied by the Venetians and /or Genoese who were Catholics and hence the architectural style of churches on those islands did not follow the standard blue dome look of traditional
Greek Orthodox churches . The majority of churches on Crete look like your paper model – some small and some large as you show .
So a WW 2 scenario … or Greeks versus Turks or even the Knights of St John versus Turks on Rhodes…???
Cheers,
Nick Papadopoulos.
Very nice Roly – I like the Willie figures – I do realise they are not the point of the post, but they are very nice!
wonderful buildings. they look perfect