Roman limes watch tower - completed
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1 19 March 2017, 15:48
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Hi Bernhard, interesting subject. I will definitely follow this.I had a lot of fun building my Germania-Figures civil war vignette. The Germania-Figures are really nice in detail and a fun to build and paint. The Roman watchtower looks interesting too. Looking forward how it will come out at the end.
Cheers, Christian
19 March 2017, 16:56
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The fit of the laser cut parts is excellent. It was pure fun to gluing the balsa and card work parts together. I use watter thinned "white" wood-glue an applied them with two brushes: wide and flat for large areas and fine for tiny parts. Unfortunately I make a mistake (overlooked a clear hint in the instruction sheet) and mounted the wider "stone base" too low🙁
20 March 2017, 15:08
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Grabbing my virtual popcorn!
I also have the Limesturm in my stash but what I had in mind was way too complicated, so I shelved it. Following your project might inspire me again 🙂
20 March 2017, 15:20
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Your welcome Martin.
Für dich als Stash-Mate paar Zusatzinfos: die tragenden Seitenwände sind auf "Nut und Feder" zusammengefügt. Wichtig, dass sie ohne Spiel und Spalt zusammengeklebt werden. War mir klar aber dennoch habe ich an einer Stelle nicht aufgepasst und der Papierstreifen mit dem "Mauerstück" war zu kurz. Da half nur 180er Schleifpapier. Übrigens klappt das kleben mit Weißleim prima: m.E besser als mit Kontaktkleber da Weissleim eher matt trocknet und gut Fügen füllt.
20 March 2017, 17:27
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Bernhard, Du bist immer für eine Überraschung gut. Danke für die zusätzlichen Informationen in unserer Muttesprache 🙂
20 March 2017, 19:35
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All 4 gallery-parts in place.
Picture 9: The support arms on the right side consists of long pieces through the inside building and short drag struts: because of this the alignment is automatic. The support struts on the left side are v-shaped. I glued them first only on the lower side and after drying I aligned them. All the trapezoid-shaped walkways parts should be shortened about 0,5 a 1 mm for perfect fit.
22 March 2017, 20:33
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Hi Bernhard, spannendes Projekt. Ich habe den anderen Limesturm Federicus Rex und bin mal neugierig wie es hier weitergeht. Viele Grüße Stefan
22 March 2017, 21:07
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looks good, a bit of a pitty that the woodstructure of the reinforcement beam for the walkways doesn't go lengthwise...
23 March 2017, 08:40
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I'm glad that you like them Mates. Indeed I'm have a lot of fun🙂 It's stunning how thoughtful designed is this kit. Excellent fit especially on the galery railing.
29 March 2017, 17:48
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Today morning I finished the roofing. So the soldiers can move in without there bunks getting wet (by the way: the kit contains two bunks, one table and two chairs. 🙂
1 April 2017, 12:27
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Yesterday I looked in the net for ideas for the diorama and discovered several cut out pictures showing the interior of the limes towers. Of course the beds were on the second flor, and my roof was already glued in place🙁......
But there is always good side: the windows in top flor are much bigger so you can see more🙂
2 April 2017, 19:20
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Ist mal was gänzlich anderes und ist auch sehr schön ausgeführt...ich bin hier dran, hast einen neuen "Verfolger"! Bin gespannt was du mit dem Turm machst und welche Figuren dazukommen!
15 April 2017, 12:42
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Looks great Bernhard! Though, every time I hear Romans, I think of Asterix and Obelix....
16 April 2017, 13:09
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I never thought that it would be so difficult to fit the figures on the grass. One could think that the soldiers have drunk too much wine....🙂 A piece of 0.4 mm wire glued into holes in the legs helped to hold the figures in place.
By the way: to break the monotony of the very clean walls (white paper) I used different pastels here and there.
21 April 2017, 15:47
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Looks great! Congratulation!
(If mine - to be built - looks only half as good, I would be totally happy)
21 April 2017, 18:37
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You seems to build all kind of models in all scales from all materials! After the funny Fahrvergnügen now something completely different. But one is common: a very good quality of your models 👍
21 April 2017, 19:03
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A very nice model of a unic object!! Nice to look at and no common subject!! Very nice!!!
21 April 2017, 19:51
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Very nicely done! I read somewhere that Roman soldiers drank a lot of wine (in fact, particularly so before battle), so you were on the right track 👍
21 April 2017, 20:52
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Realistic looking scenery ! Like I said, when I had the opportunity to see this project "live and direct", the weathering of the wooden parts, especially the roof, looks superrealistic to me, excellent !
27 April 2017, 20:15
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Thank you mates.
By the way: I'm looking already for the next building of Fredericus Rex.
28 April 2017, 20:22
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In the past I've build a lot of plane plastic models... Now it's time for a "back to the paper card and wooden roots". A good time to build the very interessant kit of Fredericus Rex which I buy 4 years ago in Heiden.