The League of Augsburg

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stairwells just to be weathered. Basic shape of removable Armoury roof

Building this project has taken quite a lot of time. One of the advantages of such a protracted construction has been the frequent ideas which have come to me as the whole thing took shape. Experiments and triumphs have begat ideas. Leaving things not quite complete has allowed me to revisit and extend or...

Raw internal view - a front face will conceal the lower floor

One of my big dilemmas building this project was deciding whether to have removable roofs on the buildings. As many of the scenarios in the book are Donnybrook scale skirmishes and involve missions which have to be completed by various factions I thought that have internals in at least some of the buildings was a necessity.

mock up with...

Although not finished this piece is getting close with natural weathering taking place

At the approximate mid point of this project and having listened to the comments and feedback from Blog members and friends I thought it would be good to include a few shots of the walls of Derry provided by Peter. I used as my inspiration the drawings of Philip Armstrong (Painting the Past), old prints, modern...

roof tiles from cheap cardboard found at the back of notepads

The early stages of this project saw big progress. Walls appeared, stairways,a breach and a  gateway filled six feet of boards. Gouging and plastering and sanding and painting created a real sense that things were cracking on apace.

this middle board has taken over 40 hours alone so far.

When I started assembling the buildings around the...

Now, I know a few of you will be reading this and saying - 'what breach?' but actually there were various points around the walls which had taken a bit of a pounding. There was a serious Jacobite assault during which they attempted to destroy a damaged bastion near Butcher's Gate facing out on to the bog side (west).

This is what I originally planned using the Kallistra pieces.

I intend to use these...

Gateway placed on in front of wet ditch under construction

Having fallen at the first hurdle with the 10mm medieval  piece from Kallistra I bit the bullet and decided to make a gate house for myself from scratch.

buildings on the inner wall under construction around the gateway

The original gates of Derry are long gone and have been replaced by semi ornamental arches and bridges. The available...

The original idea - jacked up Kallistra 10mm walls x 4 feet

You have got to be careful with titles like 'Derry's Walls'. It might attract the wrong kind of traffic. Needless to say, it was hard to keep certain ear worms from taking over during my construction project. I managed to suppress that particular demon by running the entire boxed set of MORSE in my workshop as I indulged in my most...

Looking northwest from beyond the Tristuan stream toward Aughrim

Since Adrian Howe forsook the uncertainties of the financial markets to literally build his new career in the wargaming world (or is that.. build the wargaming world?), he has been a  very busy man.

As his mates we have watched his progress with interest and admiration as he powers through an enormous quantity of projects and ideas....

Swedish field gun and crew... not a common sight!

OK so perhaps I have taken this too far but I really enjoyed making snow for the 'Lund' period bases in the Scanian War project. For those non British-Scots (I think that's what we are now or is is Scoto- Brits?) the title of this post is a little play on Glaswegian.. SNO' FAIR is a version of it's no' fair or  it isnae fair meaning of course... it...