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The Projects


The "Projects" page shows all kind of scenic structures I've made over the years for 25mm table top games. Being more a builder then a player I rarely use my projects in table top games. I do however enjoy seeing people play using my scenery pieces and as long as this is the case I will keep on building scenery.

"The Amsterdam Canal Project"

Quite a challeging project since the scope of this project is not a sole object but an entire skyline. The Amsterdam Canal shows a series of unique facades, waterfront pieces and ships.

"The Outhouse series"

I recently picked up sculpting again. To get the back the fine skills I started to do some small projects to train myself again in sculpting stone and wood structures. I also tried to sculpt fine details. I simply started sculpting and from that came this small series of outhouses.

"The house of Lady Bloomburry & Nylon Ykes"

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The second house that goes with the docks is finished. Again we see 2 facades both with ship elements worked in to it. Another feature is the use of elegant facing-bricks.
The basic archetecture comes from the period between 1620 and 1650. From this point on I also will focus on more realistic structures from that time.

"The house of Nucklebones & Merchant Smoothes"

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The launch of the first house is finally there. I did a lot on designing and sculpting tests the last few months. I realy got a creative boost during my holliday last july and the first result is a house, designed using early 17th century examples with fantasy elements worked in to it.

Boats, Subs & Docks

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"The naval theme" Cought by the pirates theme the imagination got wild again. It all started with a tiny boat and there it went totally out of hand. The latest update is the Buccaneer ship.

Pimp my Carabande part 1

Pimp my Carabande part 2

Pimp my Carabande part 3

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Carabande is a fun game where you shoot wooden disks over a racing track. The game it self is a lot of fun but it can be lots more. Let the disks fly.

The Wild Wild West

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"The Wild Wild West" is a theme project for the entire year 2005. This theme includes buildings as well as miniatures and is started because of the fun I have in playing a game called "Wanted: Dead or Alive".

The City Plan

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"The City Plan" is a project that consists out of 16 floor. (or city tiles) The idea behind this is to be able to make different lay outs so the games you play doesn't look the same all the time.

The Ruined Chapel

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"The Ruined Chapel" is one of the more difficult projects. Besides the use of the normal building blocks there are also custom made building parts in this project.

The Tavern

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The Ruined Tavern is the first large multi layer project I made using Hirst Arts Castlemolds ™. The idea comes from a cardboard house from the “Mordheim” game.

The Ruined Bridge House

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 "The Bridge House" was the house of a wealthy mercant. It was common for the middleclass people to have houses that consisted out of more than one building.

The Ruined House

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The Ruined House is a simple rectangular building. If you really want to make a city that looks like a city, you have to built a number of these small houses and some even smaller than this one.

The Ruined Watchtower

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"The Ruined Watchtower" was one of the many City Guard Watchtowers along the city limits. They were built to defend the city but also came to use during revolts.

The Venetian Tea House

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The "Venetian Tea House" was once situated on the harbour site from where the merchants could see their ships set sail to the corners of the world. Nowadays rich people come here to have afternoon tea.

The Dice Roller

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"The Diceroller" is a multi purpose building within a game. Fist of all it is a building like any other building to game on. Besides that this building can be used to roll the dice.

The Wizards Tower

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Unlike most other projects on the buildings page, I built this tower out of card board, foam board, paper, wood, clay and sand. A fully scratch build tower.

Wizards Workout

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Wizards Workout (The Emerald School of Magic) Winner of the 4th Hirst Arts Design Derby (HADD4) with a complete written history.

Hills

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I designed this piece of scenery for a great Wargame Weekend. We needed a hilly piece of terrain that could be used as “Hobbiton”.

The Castle

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This project is the greatest and most challenging I’ve done so far. Actually it isn’t that big. Its even a bit off scale comparing to the miniatures some manufacturers produce today. The castle is fully scratch build and please looks closely at the court yard

Hirst Arts Originals

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The Hirst Arts Originals section is where I display the buildings as they are designed by Bruce Hirst. These buildings are designed to help people on their way when they buy a certain mold.

Amon Sul

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The custom built watchtower of “Amon Sul” a great challenge since almost the entire structure is custom build. In this project I first used textured silicone strips to produce custom building blocks.

Helms Deep

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This article is about my Helms Deep project. I will try to explain how I build this monster so this means lots of pictures and text. The first project build out of resin.

First Pirates Table

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The first Pirates table I made. Right after playing the game at the "Origins"convention and when I got back home I started working on this table since I had so much fun playing this Pirates game.

Second Pirates Table

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This is the second "Pirates" table I made after I sold the first table.

Catan the 3D version

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Lets play Catan in a 3D setting.



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