Cathayan Scenery & Buildings (WIP+completed)

Ah ha, Weed Hopper, I found your source of inspiration in the Inspiration Sticky Thingy [HOW appropriate ]: The Yellow Crane Tower. WOW, what a GREAT choice! It's JUST GORGEOUS AND I think you are going to do it justice. This may well be your MASTERPIECE! OH BABY

DeafNala wrote:

I think you are going to do it justice. This may well be your MASTERPIECE! OH BABY

I really hope so. considering how long it takes me to achieve some notable progress it better be.


Here are some more current pictures, by the way:




The balustrade and the woodwork in general are quite time-consuming for each level. I hope to finish it someday!






Complete view:






As always I made a roof proxy first. This one is only to give me a rough idea of what the tower's gonna look like and when I have decided on how to do the roof I will do another more exact proxy roof.

yet again awesome cianty! you keep stunning me !
can't wait to see it finished.

You, my good man, are AWESOME! *bows in the distinct cathayan respectfull manner* I love the way this will go! I'm very VERY anxious to see more updates!
Keep up the work, and motivational posts will follow!

Ohhhh how I wish I was back home to work on my own pieces now!

wonderfull work so far mate!

Butt-ugly tower. Sorry.

























No i'm just kidding. It's awesome! I never seen someone do proxy roof like that. It's definitly something I'm going to try next time I plan a complex roof-work, so it doesnt end up being a mess, like it usualy does <.<.

JohnYoung wrote:

Butt-ugly tower. Sorry.

Ha ha!

JohnYoung wrote:

No i'm just kidding. It's awesome! I never seen someone do proxy roof like that. It's definitly something I'm going to try next time I plan a complex roof-work, so it doesnt end up being a mess, like it usualy does <.<.

These corrugated paper roofs are way too time-consuming and and inflexible to do them without properly calculating and experimenting what the correct angles, proportions and sizes are.

Basically I'm just a sissy, yes, and I'm afraid to mess it up midway.

Awesome job, Cianty! I've already seen some of your works before and I'm stunned - you're an experienced and skilled craftsman indeed !

P.S. I like the idea of using this corrugated cardboard to make roofs - simple and very effective !

As much as I admire your work, I thing you might want to take a look at this guys site:
http://nikolairuskin.com/miniatures_pages/tea.htm
brilliant chinese building (the rest is fairly ok) and it might inspire you, it sure as hell inspired me!

Ezekiel wrote:

As much as I admire your work, I thing you might want to take a look at this guys site:
http://nikolairuskin.com/miniatures_pages/tea.htm
brilliant chinese building (the rest is fairly ok) and it might inspire you, it sure as hell inspired me!

Yep, great stuff over there. The Tea House is awesome. DeafNala posted a link to his site some days (weeks?) ago and I have it bookmarked since then.

whot? I'm running behind on awesomeness?! crappppp i should have kept up to date, now there is no saving my sorry little skin from doom and mass mentality!... noeeees!

god damn puts my tower to shame ..... hahah ....

great work .... man i gotta getta my camera skills up to scratch ....

The Gate
With the Boring Meeting at my place approaching quickly (starting this Friday!) I am currently speed-building a wall section with a gate so that we can play the Siege! scenario from the BTB supplement. I didn't have a proper gate before as we've been playing with proxies in my group until now, but for the meeting this would not suffice. There will be lots of photos taken so I won't be able (allowed!) to place lousy markers.

You can see the existing walls here on page 2 and here on page 3.

And now for some first photos of the gate section WIP:










More coming soon!

VERY NICE, Weed Hopper...VERY! There are some WONDERFUL things coming out of the Big Bremen Bash AND this is up at the top of the list. Your creations are SO GOOD it surprises moi that your buy store bought thingys for the GREAT Gierburg project.
I LOVE the Gate House; VERY Eastern & BEAUTIFULLY made.Keep up the SPLENDID WORK...quickly!

DeafNala wrote:

Your creations are SO GOOD it surprises moi that your buy store bought thingys for the GREAT Gierburg project.

Thanks, Al! Well, there are different conditions for the two projects: BTB is a Mordheim supplement and I don't want to use non-GW miniatures and terrain to make it feel as "real" as possible. Gierburg doesn't have these restrictions and I want to create the best possible terrain for that - which is why I don't have to limit myself to scratch-built scenery, or let's say, I CAN use ready made resin scenery and as long as I find that that looks better than my scratch-built houses I will use that. It's hard to scratch-build buildings that are en par with Tabletop World's stuff so I will go with that. Because I want the best possible terrain. I will definately build my own houses sooner or later, though, to see how that looks and what I can come up with.

Alright, back on topic - the gate is finished and awaiting undercoat:

Ohhh! you're making us such little happy panda's!

Can't wait to play on this smashing scenery!

see you tomorrow!


-we'll just have to hurry our bands... :S

Looking great Cianty! Can not wait to see it in one of the battle reports

Matt: Ezekiel, you can't be on the forum while working, can you ?
Very good job Cianty my ogres can't wait to wreck it !

LOOKS GREAT, but the KUNG FU PANDAS COMETH!

Wow, you really speed-built that wall so fast! It looks great, I'm REALLY looking forward to play on your table(s)!

My warband is near completion as well, just need to paint a lot that's all..

It's done!

And the guests will arrive any minute!

Hwo do you texture those walls? awesome gate btw! rlly well done!

The woodwork IS BEAUTIFUL; it REALLY enhances the piece. WELL DONE as always!

Enarion wrote:

Hwo do you texture those walls? awesome gate btw! rlly well done!

Thanks, Enarion!

I used spackle on the walls. And for a less strong texture I usually use a mix of wall paint and sand.