Mixed media coming soon... Towers, Mr. Phelps! Towers...
Mar 11, 2014 13:30:22 GMT
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Post by sgtslag on Mar 11, 2014 13:30:22 GMT
This will interest AJ, but I hope it will interest others, as well. My middle son works at a local Walgreen's Drug Store in my town. His photography department has some type of photo-paper which comes on heavy cardboard tubes, which, when empty, they pitch. He thought they might be of use to me in making towers for a castle/keep, so he brought a bunch over for me, to try.
It took a while to decide on how to do it: glue on a few ovals of card stock, to simulate a plastered tower, with a few stones showing through; or, print out cardstock castle wall sections using Fat Dragon Games/Worldworks Games castles, cut to size and shape, glue on, and done? I went for the easy-cheesy method -- quickest bang for my buck!
I printed out the original Castleworks tower section, on card stock, but it didn't fit well enough to be workable; the classic Castleworks wall sections were a no-go, as well, due to size and shape. Then I looked at the basic castle sold by Fat Dragon Games, and I printed out one of their square tower wall sections: I had to cut and paste a few pieces, to make it cover, and I will do the same for the parapets, but it worked. I used a square printout of their Copper Dungeon series, square stonework, in similar colors, to make the floor for the tower's top: I applied the floor printout to some scrap vinyl tile cut-off's, then I traced the tube on vinyl's surface, and I cut out the circular floor. I then Hot Glue'ed the floor to the top of the tube. I am still working on making the parapets, with Merlons, for the top, but it is rapidly coming together. I put three towers together last night, in less than three hours, up to the point of cutting, scoring, folding the parapet sections, with the rest of the tower completed, except for gluing on some steel doors, at ground level (will pull these from the Copper Dungeon set, as well).
I can either use these as tower fortresses, for small villages, or wilderness outposts, or I can make wall sections, and use them as round towers. I am also thinking of cutting them in half, on my bandsaw, to make barbicons -- round half-towers, stuck in the middle of walls, to give defenders a jutting out perch, to attack sieging enemies, below/along the walls.
I will post some photo's of the works in progress, this evening. Cheers!
It took a while to decide on how to do it: glue on a few ovals of card stock, to simulate a plastered tower, with a few stones showing through; or, print out cardstock castle wall sections using Fat Dragon Games/Worldworks Games castles, cut to size and shape, glue on, and done? I went for the easy-cheesy method -- quickest bang for my buck!
I printed out the original Castleworks tower section, on card stock, but it didn't fit well enough to be workable; the classic Castleworks wall sections were a no-go, as well, due to size and shape. Then I looked at the basic castle sold by Fat Dragon Games, and I printed out one of their square tower wall sections: I had to cut and paste a few pieces, to make it cover, and I will do the same for the parapets, but it worked. I used a square printout of their Copper Dungeon series, square stonework, in similar colors, to make the floor for the tower's top: I applied the floor printout to some scrap vinyl tile cut-off's, then I traced the tube on vinyl's surface, and I cut out the circular floor. I then Hot Glue'ed the floor to the top of the tube. I am still working on making the parapets, with Merlons, for the top, but it is rapidly coming together. I put three towers together last night, in less than three hours, up to the point of cutting, scoring, folding the parapet sections, with the rest of the tower completed, except for gluing on some steel doors, at ground level (will pull these from the Copper Dungeon set, as well).
I can either use these as tower fortresses, for small villages, or wilderness outposts, or I can make wall sections, and use them as round towers. I am also thinking of cutting them in half, on my bandsaw, to make barbicons -- round half-towers, stuck in the middle of walls, to give defenders a jutting out perch, to attack sieging enemies, below/along the walls.
I will post some photo's of the works in progress, this evening. Cheers!