The last time I had one of these Wargame Forge cathedrals on the blog, it was the undamaged one, and I stacked it with a bunch of other prints from the same source. This time, my photos are of the building solo (except for alongside that undamaged one), so it’s all about the Ruined Gothic Cathedral today.
As you can see, it’s not been a good day for the Cathedral today. For me, this did kinda drag out a bit – trying to match the colours I’d used the previous time caused some delay, as it was often just a lot easier to put it to the side and work on something else instead. It wasn’t until the second half of September when I had some time and just forced myself to start getting some models finished that I was able to really get to work, doing my best to match the colours and eventually even the “stained glass” windows – only with some black for the “shatter” effects. If this was more of a centrepiece model, and not an optional piece of terrain, I might have tried to add in fake edge highlights on the broken window edges, but as the meme says: “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”
Here it is alongside the undamaged version. This will allow me to use either as I can’t see both being on the same table at the same time – they’re not generic buildings! – or to use the Undamaged one and offer it some “progression” if need be.
And here they are alongside some little army mans and toy robots. And so this cathedral counts towards my tally of models for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition.
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Nice work! 🙂 I like both versions!
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Thanks John – more options are never a bad thing!
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Lovely stuff mate – great to be able to represent the rigours of battle as a game progresses! I imagine that would be great at 28/32mm as well, but much less practical 😬
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Thanks Alex – I agree! I think for this sort of thing at larger scales modular terrain is the way to go, so you can just replace a (specific) bit or two with a ruined bit. The old
“Mighty Fortress Ruined Wall Section” kind of thing, essentially. 🙂
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It feels a little heretical to say but I like the damaged cathedral! The stained glass windows do look tough to paint but I think they came out nicely. There is a Cathedral in Monsterpocalypse and I can’t decide whether I want to give it a go and include it in the diorama or not. It would certainly be a great painting challenge, much like this was!
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Thanks mate – the broken/sharded windows were one of those things that looked a little sketchy as I was starting them but eventually turned out all right.
If the Monsterpocalypse Cathedral isn’t too expensive, I’d say go for it! You can always choose to use it in the dio or not (or how close to the front it is) depending on how satisfied you are with the final product!
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That makes sense and I think you’re right. I’ll check prices and see if I can source one 🙂
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