Italian Wars Buildings

This post is just to show three buildings that I recently made for my Italian War Scenery.  They were made using dental stone molded in Hirst Arts molds.  I will do another post showing how I constructed the buildings.  The building are a Castello (based Castel Pietraio near Sienna, where I spent a few days on holiday), an outer building and a bell tower.  I am currently building the bells to insert in the tower and will move on to the church later this year.

The first photo shows the three buildings with some landschnekts (Foundry), a Papal pike block (TAG) and some Papal Knights (Steel Fist)

Overall the buildings are quite large compared to those that most people use for 28mm figures, but I really wanted to make something quite impressive to go with the Italian Wars figures.  These are the first three buildings that I have ever built, and overall, I am quite pleased with how they turned out.

28mm Italian Wars Castello, out building and bell tower

This next photo shows a more ground level view.  I like how the lions head on the castello wall turned out.  It started life as a lions head fantasy shield that I purchased on the internet.

28mm Landschnekts pike block advances on the Papal States pike block

The next two photos show more of the bell tower.

28mm Papal Troops hold off Landschekts near the Castello

 

28mm Italian Wars Bell Tower

The final photo shows the bells that I am constructing to go inside the bell tower.  They are made from a stained balsa support and counter weight, wheels and brackets from an old napoleonic canon I had spare, and rope and bells from a model ship building supplier.  I hope to be able to finish and insert the bells into the tower next week.

28mm Bells for the Bell Tower..

 

Here is a picture of Castel Pietraio near Siena, on which this model was loosely based.

 

 

 

 

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