Many of you may have followed Claude Joachim''s painstaking progress whilst building his magnificent model of Clervaux castle entirely from scratch. And whilst he is steadily working away on the remainder of the village, here is the castle in all it''s glory.



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Hi Claude,

It's really great to see this again. Been following the build and it's just stunning. The workmanship and effort you have put in to the setting is a credit to you and an inspiration to us all.

Good luck with the remainder of the project, the model as it stands is amazing with the continuing work on the village this will betruely awesome, well it is already .

Cheers

Al

Claude that is one sweet Diorama!. The work you have put in is amazing!.
Good luck with the rest of your project !

Simply stunning, Claude you have created a piece of art, the workmanship and dedication you've put into this are an inspiration. With the village in there it will be astounding.

*fall from chair, speechless*

I hope this piece will be preserved and shown to entire generations. We see many impressive pieces over here, but this one is absolutely stunning.

AWESOME, this is a piece of work that is "2nd to None". ! Cant wait to see more . milvehfan

Man. This is amazing. Brilliant. Superlative. Each cupboard is a work of art.

a very stunned Scott

Amazing work Claude! I already saw it in real-life at Euro Scale Modelling in Nieuwgein, the Netherlands. The photoshopped images could be real photos!

Lars

Beautiful work it is an absolute pleasure looking at this model and trying to take it all in thank you for what you do and for sharing it


Ron.

When I think of the accomplished builders.......your place is forever with Greats my friend!! Well played.....to say the least. Outstanding work there. A true example of all the best elements of our hobby. Do you have more 'in process' photos posted online? Please share more of your work soon!!! Fantastic!! Robert Liles

Hi everyone,

Thank you very much.
Thanks also to Henk who reminded me that i did not update you all with those finished pics a lot of moon's ago. Sorry for that. Thanks also for putting this online.

As normally i post on the diorama section and this discussion landed in the Armor discussion, it has the advantage of finding a few new viewers.

For those interested in the progress of the overall dio, the second module is covered in this blog
Village

The third part i started recently is covered here
Annexes

I will cover the build of the castle in a book expected to be published after this summer.

Thanky ou all
Claude

My wife saw this and thought I was looking up a hotel to stay in when we go to France in the summer . . . she didn't twig it was a model. The stonework and roofing in particular are *really perfect*. I would assume this is destined for a museum or somewhere public?

Thanks Matthew

Looking real is probably the best compliment i can get for the dio!

I'm in discussion with the municipality of Clervaux to display it in the actual castle. But only after i have finished the whole diorama.

Thanks
Claude

AWESOME...! i like architecture on a 1:35 scale. the style and attention to details is very impressive. thanks for sharing..some tips. i read the related threads and they're lots of things to learn from. maybe we can build a 1:1 scale replica of this castle. again..i'm more impressed on your architectural side. hope to see more of your work. thanks again. edssarao

SO great, I know your work really well and since a lot of time now, but i just can't seem to get enough of it.
keep on being that great forever Claude!
JB

I think I want to draw myself a hot bath and open a vein....

This is simply stunning. I watched it come together on the dio forum and am just sick with envy over how good it is. Fabulous.

@ed Unfortunately , we are 800 years late to build a 1:1 replica
http://www.clervaux.com/

@Jean Bernard, i will do my best!

@Bill, i heard a lot of praise already , but you defintely get a price for one of the most original quotes.

Just for fun, here is the first picture i posted on this board, more then 3 years ago. It has been a long way


Thanks to all of you

Claude

Claude, this is very impressive and inspirational. Thanks for sharing and good luck with the last two parts!

Cheers,
Ian

Thank you Ian,

Hey, this are the "next" two parts, not the last two parts, there will be more .

Cheers
Claude

Bill, I can add nothing to that.

Claude, simply incredible!

Claude,
Put me down for one of your second books. I can't wait for it to come out. I look foward to all of your updates. Keep up the great work.
Tom

I hope your castle gets into the castle, so it's legacy can live on. I'm particularly fond of all the nature details going on around the castle too. Amazing project

$&%$ing fantastic. Makes me ashamed of my work, LOL.