PART 9
The doors have been attached to the
tower.
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| The tower has doors. |
This was more difficult than I imagined, but so far the
results look good. I still need to figure out how to make handles and
hinges but I figure I can work that out bit later. Note that the
upper level door will be opening up to a deck/balcony that will be
used as a fighting platform.
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This pic shows how the tower is going
to relate to this section of the castle and I put a few models near
it to get a vibe of what it all should look like after I complete it.
As you can see I’ve base coated the castle walls already. I’m
going to take the whole castle up to one more level of painting
before I permanently mount it to the base.
Back to the tower, I began work on the
tower’s crenelations. The main crenelations were made from the
pieces originally cut from the walls at the start of this renovation
project. As they are only vaguely the same size I’m hoping this
unevenness will give the appearance that this castle is old and
weathered.
This first pic shows the first two
corners with a model on the tower’s top to give me a sense of
scale. Note that one corner has a metal tube ‘bracketed’ to the
tower’s base. This will be a banner holder. Once the project is
complete I will make a series of interchangeable banners that can be
switched out during play for different occupiers. The metal tube came
out of an old Motorolla cell phone (Nextel i90). It’s amazing what
kind of cool junk you can get out of old tech devices, but it’s
usually more appropriate for 40k instead of fantasy.
Here is the tower with all of the main
crenelations. In between them will be a short wall that extends the
main wall up a bit provide a tad more cover the men on top. I’ll be
adding that on tonight I hope. Again, the unevenness of crenelations
will help convey that old worn-torn weathered look that I’m going
for. Hopefully when the whole project is down one will think that the
castle and tower were always part of the same model. I’m not sure
how well it can be seen in this pic but there is now a wooden door in
the center of the tower roof.
PART 9.1
Note: This 9.1 post was never posted on Warhammer-Empire for some reason, and the next post, Part 10, posted almost 2 months later, covers some of the things I wrote below. Never-the-less, for prosperity's sake and the simple desire for completeness, I shall include it here .
I’ve finished the basic construction
of the tower. I took a long time to fill in the gaps. By the way, I
used Jo Sanja’s Texture Paste to do this. Texture past is usually
used my painters to provide rugged surfaces for some embellishing
techniques, or to fill in and smooth out a canvas before painting.
I’ve found it works great with Styrofoam and cardboard. Some of the
smaller gaps I used Elmers glue.
I then carefully added on the arrow
slits. I’m glad that I bought these when I did as I’ve discovered
they can be a bit of a challenge to find now.
I then decided the doors needed more
detail. I added crossbars to the 3 doors, and handles using wire
rings.
This is basically a progress shot of
the whole project.
What still needs to be done:
Painting, but at this point just base
coating and maybe the second layer.
The tower’s balcony still needs to be
completed and attached to the tower.
Expanding the main castle’s upper
deck/ramparts of the walls.
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| Majestic in it's base coat. |
And the whole thing needs to be
attached to the base. I’ve noticed, and you can see it in some pics
throughout this thread, that since the two halves of the castle were
joined together, it resulted in slight warping which is preventing
some wall sections from touching the base. I’ve come up with a few
ideas that can correct this and may actually work to the overall
benefit to the castle’s overall look when completed.
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