Good evening,
for some time I'm working on a new subject - crusades and Middle East. Since I have learned making trees and buildings in a rather efficient way - thanks to our Master Classes at last FIGZ meeting, I've chosen a - well an ambitious center piece : the Krak des Chevaliers. My idea is that figures will follow - many already done.
Unfortunately, this year I won't be able to come to FIGZ. So at least I try to compensate with a bigger contribution. Let's wait and see.
So here are the readily avaiable pictures of the Krak, a major defensive work erected by Templars as far as I remember. Defendable by approx 500 people but with space to lodge up to 5000.
The style is of early Middle Ages - purely military style, massive, little or no ornamentation, with successive defensive rings and located on a dominating landspot.
From here I made my initial drawing - not a joke, the main info is already in the pictures. This drawing was just to get my proportions right.
Now some first cuts into the pink foam and off we go...
The model is greatly simplified. It is in modular form so that I can use and reuse the elements. I start with the inner bourg. Also, there is a tower like a dungeon, but as the complete castle was built in one shot, very unlike all castles in old Europe, it is not central in m model (artist's choice
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More in a next posting.