POTW for January 9, 2010 [Archive]

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dansls1

01-10-2010, 09:23 AM

This week I decided to pick one of the many nice architectural models that Mike Stamper has been building lately - so I came up with the Tower of London. Build thread is here (http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/architectural-models/6277-tower-london.html#post97529).

http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/images/potw/potw1002.jpg

B-Manic

01-10-2010, 11:36 AM

Great choice congrats Mike - I really like this big / little model.

D-H

01-10-2010, 01:24 PM

Quite simply fantastic!

D

Retired_for_now

01-10-2010, 03:37 PM

Great job Mike, and great selection Dan. Seconding Douglas - is this a macro-build or braille-scale?

Yogi (relentless categorizer?)

Yu Gyokubun

01-10-2010, 06:02 PM

Oh, base size is only A4 paper!. Very small yet very fine build!

Thomas Meek

01-10-2010, 06:16 PM

The Tower came out very well, Mike! I love the look of the older hand drawn models. Not as technically accurate perhaps, but they make up for it in pure charm, and you did a fine job of building it.

cdavenport

01-10-2010, 06:39 PM

A Well deserved kudo!

Barry

01-10-2010, 06:42 PM

Good choice

Jan Kytop

01-11-2010, 06:47 AM

Beautiful model!

tazman3

01-11-2010, 09:54 AM

Hey, what a great choice! Way to go Mike!

Wyvern

01-11-2010, 10:01 AM

Gorgeous! Bravo!

Wyvern

Mike Stamper

01-11-2010, 04:29 PM

Thanks for the compliments - they malke a not too easy build worth all the effort !

One advantage of the handpainted kits is that all the reverse sides are unpainted so all the battlements had to be painted, so this blends in nicely with the original art work.

I'll have the model at a UK show next month - see the "shows" section for info.

Thanks again

Mike

30-06

01-11-2010, 05:55 PM

Wonderful Mike!
Gregor

Getter 1

01-12-2010, 11:50 PM

Congrats on POTW :D

Great build there, however when the wife saw the pic she said I want one :P Did I read right that it was a micro model scaled up? I know nothing about micro models but did find one of the tower itself on Cannon's site. Not the type of model I normally build but looks like it will be doing my 1st building soon :P

Agian congrats :D ...............and thanks for inadvertantly giving me another job to do :P

G1

Mike Stamper

01-13-2010, 06:06 AM

The kit was published by "Heritage Models" This company doesn't exist any more. The style is very similar to the Micromodels but at least twice the size.

The kit is not easy to find so you have a good excuse for making the Canon version ! Their kit is just the white tower - the main building in the middle of the castle complex.

I would guess that it's a lot easier to make as well!

Cheers
Mike