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Moroccan Marabout

Posted by Pivo on 04 Mar 2011, 03:20

I recently tried my hand at scratch building some table top terrain. The subject I chose was a "marabout" These structures (qubbah in Arabic) dot the landscape of North Africa and are actually tombs of local holy men (or saints). The following pictures show the final results. This could be a good addition for any desert table. The link is to a walk-through on how I completed the project.

http://monlegionnaire.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/making-a-marabout.pdf

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Posted by ModernKiwi on 04 Mar 2011, 06:40

Looks most excellent, very authentic.
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Posted by Maurice on 04 Mar 2011, 08:16

Thanks for sharing, that technique can be used for many things :thumbup:
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Posted by MABO on 04 Mar 2011, 20:21

Really nice, what you did here... Thanks for the tutorial...
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Posted by Old Wolf on 04 Mar 2011, 21:10

thx for sharing, Pivo-
i m sure i will copy this very soon
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Posted by Peter on 04 Mar 2011, 21:39

Thanks for sharing :thumbup:
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Posted by leifkarl1112 on 09 Mar 2011, 14:33

Very nice...................... :thumbup:

What scale is it?

Karl.
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Posted by Pivo on 13 Mar 2011, 02:16

leifkarl1112

Scale is 1:72. I came to this exacting measurement by seeing if an Italeri 1:72 scale plastic soldier would clear the door way. His helmet was just under the top of the door so I declared the scale 1:72. (not very scientific).
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Posted by KenzoSato on 13 Mar 2011, 09:41

Excellent work :thumbup:
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Posted by leifkarl1112 on 13 Mar 2011, 23:14

Pivo wrote:leifkarl1112

Scale is 1:72. I came to this exacting measurement by seeing if an Italeri 1:72 scale plastic soldier would clear the door way. His helmet was just under the top of the door so I declared the scale 1:72. (not very scientific).



Scientific enough for me!! ;-) ;-)

Thanks for showing, it's really nice.

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