One of the few cards you can find on the internet of La Haye Sainte. On this photo you can see that the hills behind the farm are already gone. |
This original oil painting must have been made not long after the battle. |
My first step was to recreate a perfect scale model of La Haye Sainte. This was the farm were it all happened. The central point of the battle. In the 70's we had a model from Airfix, that had to be suitable with scale 1:72, but that was really nothing. On the photo you see the plan of La Haye Sainte, found on the internet. I builded the farm in wood. |
The model had to be like it really was on that time. I used plaster on the wall and roofs to create a real effect of stone and rood tiles. In the plaster that was still wet I pushed relief paper that is used for model trains. |
On these photo's you can see the effect of using relief paper in the wet plaster |
The first scouts arriving at the farm... |
This was going to be the place in my landscape, central in the middle. |
Creating the landscape |