Vesely Kopec

**Mike Stamper** · #1 08-27-2017, 02:49 PM

Or "Merry Hill"

Over the last few months, Minibox have come up with a few new kits. One is a 1:300 model of an Art Nouveau Museum, which doesn't seem to follow the usual Minibox patern but looks like an interesting build. The other is the subject of this thread and is 100% Minibox in the "Skalka" mould. The kit consists of many sheets - some postcard size and others A4, containing more than 20 buildings, Dozens of trees, fences and horses and carts. There are three A4 pages that make up the base. For some reason one of the pages needs to have an area from the middle cut out and placed on the side of the base. I've looked at various picture of the completed kit and they all have different ways of dealing with the void. I copied the ground pages and managed to make up an area that fitted the hole. I added a few buildings and trees to hide the space.

There is the possibility to contour the base but I decided to leave the base flat.

The kit is a copy of a real open air museum South East of Prague.

https://www.gigaplaces.com/en/article-vesely-kopec/

I enjoyed making the village but with all the trees it became a little monotonous. I made it worse for myself because there are many more circles, representing the position of the trees, than there are trees! so -- I ordered another lot of trees. It was worth the effort - the trees add so much to the overall model. One of the photos shows the parts needed for four trees with on completed - only another 40+ to go!

https://106004.myshoptet.com/stavby/vesely-kopec-2/

I ordered the kits and the extras by email from the above site. The postage seemed to be cheaper than it was in the past and the kits arrived promptly.

Look out for the other museum some time soon....

Cheers
Mike

**SCEtoAUX** · #2 08-27-2017, 03:09 PM

Very nice, and yet tedious, looking.

**Tomdaviesclay** · #3 08-27-2017, 04:07 PM

Congratulations on another great job. It is a very interesting model, particularly the trees. Hope you are ok. Will write soon- have some interesting news.

**whulsey** · #4 09-06-2017, 11:03 AM

Nice work. Wish I could live there.

**Mike Stamper** · #5 09-06-2017, 03:15 PM

I'm not sure you'd like it. It's a bit cramped at only 2 feet long and one wide... also the "facilities" are non existent ;-)

I see you are from AZ - I'm not sure you could cope with the Czech winters.

Cheers
Mike

**didibuch** · #6 10-08-2017, 12:14 AM

Hi Mike,

a nice little village, very well build.
I like this kind of muzeums. You go through the streets and slowly change to another century...

Regards
Dieter

**southwestforests** · #7 10-08-2017, 05:10 AM

Ya know, I'd never thought about paper trees and how they would be done.
What is that bird house tower looking thing called?

**Mike Stamper** · #8 10-08-2017, 05:20 AM

It's a posh bird house tower, call a Dovecote. A good source of food for the owner ;-)

**Don Boose** · #9 10-08-2017, 07:26 AM

Nice work on this ambitious project, Mike!

There is a similar collection of 18th and 19th century houses near Cape May, New Jersey, here in the USA: Coldspring Village.

I always enjoy these models of villages, parts of towns, harbors, and the like.

Thanks for the info on how the trees go together.

Don

**sander1942** · #10 10-08-2017, 12:44 PM

Mike,

Well done. Looks like this was a considerable project with or without trees. Nice project.