The Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem A.D in 1:72

[miniaturen-painter]

Hello,

here som pix of my last Work
"The Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem A.D. with Figures from Strelets & the New Jewish People
from Linear-A

Have Fun

Thomas
http://www.TSMiniaturen.de

[stenfalk]

Another one of these nice works that comprehensible convey the history of civilization as if you have been there. I like it...

[sansovino]

It´s an wonderful work but I would like to see it in brighter light. And maybe it can be still more figures, especially animals, peoble who are waiting and more turmoil for an city-gate of a big capital. It´s an idea and not more.

[Mário]

It is a very nice diorama but all those beautiful figures will be crushed in a few moments. The wall will tumble down on them and all that will be seen is rubble and we will hear the sound of the (plastic) cries of all those (plastic) men and women.
Jokes aside. You cannot have an opening of a stone wall without having an arch. Over the opening the stones forming the arch are laid resting on each other, accompanying the line of the opening. Just check the photos of some ancient buildings.
I also have my doubts about the stones chat are cut in an L shape on top of the wall. Normally European and Middle Eastern stonemasons would use two parallelepiped stones, avoiding to cut reentrant angles.
Please consider this critic as positive, all I want is to improve your diorama, with some reality check.
Regards

[sberry]

Well done! I generally like dios with the combination of monumental architecture plus people who illustrate the dimensions of the buildings.

[Cryns]

Your digital effects of taking out much of the color, diffusing the image and adding darkening borders to your picture gives it a very realistic and cinematographic feeling. Though making your picture unclear to the spectator should not be what our work is about in the first place. I would like to see some clear pictures and close ups since those Jews look very good and are a new product so of interest to many of us.

the combination of monumental architecture plus people who illustrate the dimensions of the buildings

You succeeded in this very well, I agree with sberry.

You cannot have an opening of a stone wall without having an arch.

Mario is absolutely right, I don't understand at all how you can pay so much attention to every single stone and come up with such poor gate construction.

But most important of all:

The Jaffa Gate was build in the 16th century by the Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Especially the magicoulis you show is a typical item of Islamic military architecture. How does that relate to your Romans guarding it?

[miniaturen-painter]

Hello,
Thanks for all the comments and the criticism
it is always a good reason at the next building to be sure.

Unfortunately, I had only 3 days Time to plan , build the diorama and paint the Minis !!!.
Since the collector or manufacturer Linear A only had that one date , I unfortunately had to improvise some stuff .
The Roman guards was a desire of Linear-A
Unfortunately, I should also only the figures of Linear-A used here had more ( more ) figures and animals
certainly more profound created .

My presentation comes from a picture of Wikipedia at the time from 1900

Unfortunately, the missing Gate is a problem of missing Time

Thx for all
Thomas

next Diorama comes lighter and full Pic of the Diorama

[KenzoSato]

Very good