A little of my Hobbystyle Work

[Iain]

As requested…, some of my work;
https://i.postimg.cc/qv8Xv2c3/1-Madonna ... linton.jpg

[Susofrick]

As requested…, some of my work;
https://i.postimg.cc/qv8Xv2c3/1-Madonna ... linton.jpg

Maybe a little like this?

[Beano Boy]

Very good to be able to view your photographs via your Link at long last. A Link is much better than nothing, Well done Lain.

Of course i have never seen that modern sliding metal entrance before, however i was fully aware of that corner nook to the wall from studying photographs of buildings to determine the angles best as i could before cutting my picture framing card out.

THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION

The total destruction of the battlefield leaving it now just a stark emptiness is the greatest loss of all to history.The all important ridge line destroyed with the resulting Lion Mound a blot on the landscape, and Bonniers Wood totally gone.

I`m not a historian, but feel that all this should be viewed as a contaminated crime scene. BB

[Iain]

Quite true BB !

Getting back to your image of the western door…, fascinating !
I now believe we are the only two on this planet who know about TWO western doors.

If you look carefully at the aerial view, we can see your bricks to the right of the main door. (above the midden)
If you look again at the byre’s interior, there’s a small step on the left. It stretched the whole length of the room. I couldn’t fathom out why the farmer had this because the cow muck would have needed to be lifted to the higher level, in order to be evacuated through the door.

However, it all makes sense now. Your bricked-up door was a second door and obviously used to evacuate the muck and there’s every possibility that the sliding metal door belonged to the midden. (and those trees were growing in the muck)
Because of it…, we are now more to the right and due to the angle of the image, we see the sky over the curtain wall. Lol…

In the meantime, these were modifications done to the farm when they had to abandon their apple production for cows. Meaning that in 1815, the midden and the second door surely wasn’t there.
However… They did have pigs in that room on the day of the battle !


…, Iain.

PS Susofrick…, thanks. I have experimented with this this image; hope it works ! If not, I’ll ask my grandson for help.

[Iain]

However…, I have still to understand why we have the same number of red bricks for another door.
Obviously the builder followed the same design !

[Beano Boy]

Well it does sort of make some sense....... There were two doors according to the aerial photography at the time the aircraft passed over.
Upon reading your input Lain, A jog to my memory!!!! Many years ago i remember reading of a pigpen in the complex of Hougoumont, and a British soldier taking refuge there,lost his fingers on the door frame when that axe was swung after the break in by the French troops. i cannot remember the book, and i have never thought of his fingers flying since this very day.

The style of the rounded over door edged in stone, was i suppose the same size as the Chateau`s door near the little Chapel. The later a place that i find quite chilling to my nature and belief.

There is a map showing another gap in that lower wall whether it be a window, door or gate i do not know as the reference went way back to the Knights of Malta...... It was they who sold Bonnier Wood for silver coin.which makes a modern report on the age of the wood being 50 years old at the time of Waterloo, Utter Tosh! Nonsense.
As the wood existed during Medieval times. BB

[Michael Robert]

Lain , BB,
Your discussion is a real entertainer. Well I knew there are button counters, but you are brick counters! That’s just elevating by an entire category.
To me your love of this level of detail is bluffing, and really interesting.
Curious of the results
Michael

[Beano Boy]

I meant to mention this before, it concerns copying pictures for posting to Forums.

TO HELP LAIN

Drum roll please.

Lain,
Lets say, you have clicked on a picture and have copied it ,and you have placed it at postimage
So you will see your picture appear there! yip!

Click on Share in the left hand blue corner.
A list will appear.
Go to the one titled, Hotlink for Forums. Click onto the end blue box on the right of that Link.
It will read, Copied.
Now click on this Forum
Chose were you wish to post.
Go to, Full Editor, bottom right and click on it.

OK!

Right click your Mouse, a list will appear. Click on Paste.
Your picture address should show up on your screen.
Click onto, Preview, on the list below .
This will enable you to see your picture you have posted.
You are doing well ..... You can type your comments underneath the picture or above it.

Click , Submit, to post whatever it is.

If you want to post your own topic, and BECOME A STAR . Click on Post a new topic.
You will find it on the left of any Subforum you wish to use.
Add your tile, and follow the posting instructions set out above.

i Sincerely hope this helps you Lain.

For all you younger ones, i will explain in the next one , How To Tie Shoelaces. BB

[Beano Boy]

My old French toy soldiers enter the wood.



My new fantasy trees will be far more creepy than those in the picture displayed above.

Many Thanks Michael Robert.
Never been one for much brick counting myself,
but i have noticed the crosses the bricks form in the walls of Hougoumont.

i guess it is the teacher i have inside my head that always wishes to serve when i can.
Communications Skills, via writing can be highly rewarding at very odd times.
i made a living from it in many sways and ways.

Always look up the little words,they reveal many an enlightenment BB

[Beano Boy]

.................................. A SIMPLE TO DO SAND BASE








A bin bag was laid out on my table top to avoid damage because this rough tough stuff will stick rock solid hard to any surface it is employed upon.

Although there is no skill involved a beginner should do a small ,
sample first before laying the M1 motor way.

Dry Sand heaped on top of P V A Glue.
Left over night to dry off,
then brushed away.
Other layers can be added.
That alone is down to the individual artist author to decide upon.

French Cuirassiers painted by little o`ll me in my younger days of wishful display. BB

[Beano Boy]

It was some time in 1999, that i began to scratch-build stuff out of picture framing paper card, and cardboard. i used Plastic Drinking Straws for the rooftop pan tiles.

While i made rather crude wire tree`s, a haystack plus hay wagons to complement this odd complex of buildings,it would be my Mrs B, who painted all the buildings along with the plastic rooftops.

Mrs B,found my old picture album , it had been lost for many years.
The year the original snap shots were taken in 2006.
i have photographed those snaps which are the only record it ever actually existed.

Our first.... CHATEAU HOUGOUMONT




Nassau infantry march in to take up their defensive positions .





Mrs B, painted all the buildings for little o`ll me.



o`, my what a blaze.



The French Advance

Sorry for smudge on the left of the picture it was on the original second hand camera lens.



Without Cuirass French heavy cavalry.





Mostly they are all HAT conversions.



The Thunder of Guns





All the heads came from little Plaster of Paris molds i made which were cast up using a hot glue gun.







"Get some Guns there and set it ablaze".



More Guns and Bayonets.



French heavy cavalry pass the ominous sight of the wood, with Chateau beyond.



Grand Poetic Licence



That`s it Guys. Many thank`s for looking. BB

[MABO]

Huge armies marching on the scene. Interesting to see your older works. And I would say: Your skills improved a lot since then. Even if thinking big was always your idea!

[Beano Boy]

Did they really land upon the Moon?
Well Pards, these 20mm figures sure enough landed upon Beano Boys painting table.


............................................... BB`s RESTORED PHOTOGRAPHS



Photo Print Flag

Set against the black of outer space. No Stars.





They came in white,and needed to remain so,
so only needed a color wash of white spirit and black.
Simple but nice. BB

[Beano Boy]

Nothing much to show.
No paint spraying. Just two hours a day brushing until you cannot see the wood for the trees.
The branches were a bit eye straining at times ,but being able to bend them outwards without damaging them sure eased that situation of double vision.



My oblong color pellet, makes mixing and then dry brushing rather easy.
Dip mix and dry the brush on the soft Balsa Wood.

Thank you Jan. i guess we all improve with practice ?
Or get worse? Ya! Like a Wing Nut going rusty?

Very true______ So onward Mac Duff. BB

[Peter]

Cosy workspace! I just miss the hot water!

Keep those t(r)ees coming Paul!

[Beano Boy]

75 Trees have now been based Peter. The three important ones i left untill now to make a start on them.



Horse Chestnut Trees
There is a man standing beside the middle tree. At a guess around the year of 1900, when this picture was taken.



Second stage construction of the first wire armature above.
It took three hours to make. i expect to finish off these rather large trees over the coming weekend.

i do believe that the actual trees represent the Roman Church Trinity at Hougoumont, which was a hospital for the sick,and so never a fortress. The trees live for hundreds of years.



The Knights of Malta,built Goumont, by1358 and they were Hospitallers in the Holy Land , and later on Malta. They were Masonic Freemasons, and Holy Knights,Warrior Monks under the Order of Saint John.

We know them today as The Saint John Ambulance, in the United Kingdom . BB

[MABO]

I have seen this tree together with my son!

[Peter]

Looks fantastic Paul!

[Beano Boy]

Guess who ran out of wire, and with only four more tree branches to do?

i hand hopes of getting them ready for casting up the bases next week, but i certainly have other more important things to do. Like having a well earned break. BB

[Beano Boy]

Nearly forgot.
Thank you Peter.
They should dress up well. BB