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Smuggler Bill needs a Mill

“Smuggler Bill Dashes round by the mill That stands near the road upon Monkton Hill” My searches of the internet for information about Monkton Hill, seemed to suggest that such a place exists in Chippenham, Wiltshire, but I could find no trace of it in Kent, except in references to the Smuggler’s Leap story in […]

Scenery Props – Cobbled Streets & Muddy Roads

When I started constructing this set, my terrain was a plain flat grass covered field. When I began adding houses, it looked a bit unnatural to have nice undamaged grass streets, so I decided some detailing needed to be added. I considered purchasing some cobbled streets and may still do so for some sets. The ready made ones […]

The Set for the Final Scene

OK, so Bill is on his horse and ready to go. Gill is also on his second and final horse and ready to catch Bill. All I need now is the scenery for the action to take place in. Yes, I know, this means I will be shooting the end of the film before the […]

Rebuilding St. Mary’s Reculver

As mentioned in an earlier post, my first attempt to build Reculver was done entirely in iClone2 and did not take into account that in the early 18th century (early 1700s) that St. Mary’s would have been a complete church not just a couple of towers. I did some internet research and found a small […]

Transferring Earth Sculptor Terrains into iClone

I wanted to try out the Trial version of Earth Sculptor before committing to buy it. The problem is that certainly at the time, there was no trial version of the iClone Earth Sculptor plug-in, so I had no way of knowing how terrains would look after they had been transferred into iClone. For the trial […]