The moria column is a bit large

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I am going to start on the tower and rock outcrop to the right of the stairs. I will need to cast more blocks. The plastic tower is standing in for the present

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Wow thats pretty darned close to the picture. Quality stuff!

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Amazing man, your Ravenhill is truly inspirational! I'm planning to make Ravenhill aswell after I finished building Dale wich will take a long time still :p. And I'll definetly be using your WIP as my guide.

Thanks. I started on the next core sections. I found two doors I could not see on the drawings.



I am unsure The door under the stair may be an arch.



I may trim the pink foam a bit more when I add the rock face.

warrior of the north
I am looking forward to photos!

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What book is the picture from Charles? your work is always impressive, but this is even better

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Harfoots-The first of the Hobbit people to cross over the Misty Mountains and enter Eriador.

Page 235 Chronicles BOFA



Many of the concept drawings were modified by the set designers. Then came CGI I am not sure how much of this will end up a old fashioned matt painting.

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Thank you
The book Harfoot asked about contain lots of good photos of Dale and lake town too I can not recommend it enough.

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Ruff cut held together with foam pins.





No way to avoid it now 4 feet high

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it's growing out of hand I think u could use a couple of more sheds in the garden.
Looks great so far tough, keep it up. Expecting another brilliant work now.

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And I thought my Cirith Ungol was tall, sheesh. It looks fantastic though with a lot of play room to make great battles on.

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Thanks Charles, i have the book, just haven't read that far yet! Agree with you it is excellent, the whole series has been, hope they do the 6th to complete the set

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garmenhord, Yes it is getting out of hand.

Harfoot, "hope they do the 6th to complete the set"

Me too! I hope Allen Lee does another sketch book too!

Sithious, "a lot of play room to make great battles on."

I had the Raven Hill scenario in mind before I got carried away.

Thanks all for the nice comments.





I need to get a sheet of MDF to cut this base. I am going to keep this modular.





I will finish the roof today.

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amazing work! very impressiv! i'm looking forward to the finished piece

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if I make mistakes, please tell me.
I do not trust google translated and although my english is good but it is not the best!

The Alan Lee Sketch Book, easily my personal favourite book LOTR related ever released, i find the pictures very inspirational.

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Your attention to detail and faithfulness to the film designs is something to be admired. Great work!

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Well it is not exactly right. I would need to use all pink foam to get the texture right. I like using the Hirst Arts blocks. Thanks for the nice comments.



I cut a template from foam core. I will use it to cut MDF tomorrow. I discovered an error. I could not see this side from the set photos. Easy enough to fix. I am going to use the light gray cracked flag stone for the roofs. I will use the field stone bridge mold parts to make the bridge more obvious.



The bridge will look better with an arch.

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4 feet of goodness! This will be ridiculously cool!

Mate that is class! Are you using hirst block moulds?

Thanks.
Yes,
floor#203,281,282,
walls#281, 200,51,
stairs#53,60,63
fieldstone#70,74,75

I would have had to cast #53 over a hundred times for the fan shaped staircase. I have some custom/homemade stair molds to speed that up.

http://www.hirstarts.com/molds/moldscast.html

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