Palazzo Project Completed

It seems to me like eons since I foolishly embarked on this project to build a Palazzo as a centrepiece for our Italian Wars games. But here it is completed and well before the end of the year, which was my target you may recall. As Grand Designs go it is '...on time and under budget...', a very rare creature indeed! Of course, I had some help with the final dry brushing of the buildings' walls, but the rest is as they say, all down to me. Here is a final photo report on the processes and the more of the finished article. I hope that it meets with some degree of approval after all the hours spent on it~

Aerial view to show the planned layout of the Palazzo.

Front view ~ from left to right ~ three Warbases Modular

buildings {Tower, Tall Modular, Small Modular} with

Supreme Littleness Designs Ornate Window added; Warbases

Villa Gateway {front} and Charlie Foxtrot Spanish Tower

{rear}; Sally Forth Tower and Italianate fortifications added;

hidden are the Warbases Modular Low Building and the

Gateway. The Statue is a Foundry Roman Officer on a

Sarissa Precision Plinth.

The whole textured with Fine Polyfilla. Messy and fiddly!

The basecoat of Golden Brown by Crafters' Acrylics.

After successive dry brushing of Fawn and Light Antique

White, a wash of GW diluted Seraphim Brown, and a final

dry brush with Crown Emulsion Lime Wash.

The Wills Flagstones have had similar treatment to maintain

the sense of colour for the piece.

A view from the side rear. The Foundry Madder Red Shade on

the pantiles has been dry brushed with the same firm's Orange

Midtone and Light.

View from the right rear aspect showing the side gate.

View from the left rear aspect to show the small Warbases

Shed filling in a corner.

View from the front left aspect to highlight the Supreme

Littleness Designs Ornate Window added to the Warbases 

Tall Modular Building.

Final view from the front right aspect to show the courtyard

interior, minus the statue which is being Satin varnished by

Phil for me.

To recap if you've just arrived at this final stage, the buildings are all MDF shells: from Warbases; Sarissa Precision; Charlie Foxtrot Models; and, Sally Forth. I can't praise all of them enough for the advice and help offered in the planning and purchase phase of the project, but particular thanks must go to Martin and Dianne at Warbases who cut the base to my specifications and made a number of parts from whole kits available to me. They are the stars of the MDF firmament for me!