Making some city walls

[Jorgta]

Hi!

I love making terrain but suffer from starting way too many projects which then ends up half done in the drawer of shame... (actually It's drawerS of shame by now )

But this time I am going to finish it! That's why the overall concept for this city wall-project is; not to get hanged up on stupid details that no-one will notice anyway. But rather say: "This is good enough, lets move on". Hopefully I will end up with a nice, practical piece of terrain.

Heres some pictures of the progress so far:

Just look at all those crooked bricks! But it doesn't bother me, nossir, not at all.... not a bit...

The plan is to make 4 towers, 4 wall sections and a gate so that I can cover the breadth of a normal gaming table. Hopefully I can do it fast enough to avoid lack of concentration this time.

 

[Lynks]

Is that tower all glued together or just precariously balanced? a slight knock could see all that lovely work tumbling down

 

[Jorgta]

Ah, guess I should have specified a bit.

The tower is made from bricks cut from styrofoam, glued onto a empty beer can. I have great access to the stuff from work... the styrofoam I mean, not the beer.

The wall is made from two bathroom wall-boards glued toghether. It's really easy and quick.

 

[Underdawg]

This looks great!! When can we see some pics with paint in them?? And will the sections and towers be "modular" (meaning: is alternate setups possible?)

MOAR pics!!1!1

 

[Jorgta]

Hehe, it's totally modular of course.

Here's some pictures of the gate and another tower:

I've magnetized the gate so that I can just have an ordinary wall instead:

 

[Lynks]

Nice progress,I think I might be stealing this design soon for my own purposes

 

[Jorgta]

Thanks Lynx steal away!

I've actually made some more progress:| I have built 3 out of 4 towers, all 4 wall sections are constructed and I have even managed to paint a bit.

Some more pictures:

Notice the lurking Slann in the background there, just waiting to tear my lovely walls down with his magic... Lousy frog:swear:

Heres one finished wall section and a finished tower.

Heres one possible setup, but many more are possible. Now I just have to construct one more tower, then finsih the gate and paint everything!

 

[Underdawg]

This is totally bad azz. Am I the only one who cant see any frog?? I think it would look good to dress up the buttresses with some bits, they look very naked now. Less naked butts please.....

EDIT: now I see him, he must have used his hypno power on me........

 

[Reaper]

It looks impressive! :| You can add a bit of static grass between the stones near ground, it could look good

 

[Santawraith]

Very impressive and here all I did was use the terrain from gw to make mine.

 

[Duke Danse Macabre]

Impressive indeed.
The towers are by far the best part and to be honest the wall can not hold a candle to them.
If you ever decided to do more I hope you do that same for the walls as you did the tower, nice touch with the plant life up the side of the wall as well.

 

[Johnny-Crass]

How are you painting them?

 

[Jorgta]

@Underdawg: I thought naked butts were rather appreciated her :lol: I will probably add some details after I have finished the main parts.

@Reaper: Thanks, static grass sounds like a great idea. I will try it as soon as possible.

@Duke Danse Macabre: Yeah, the walls are a bit lacking I suppose... But so easy to do though.

@Johnny-Crass: I use a watered-down grey colour first to get in all the cracks, then I just paint normally with the same grey. Next a wash with watered down black, then drybrushing with the same grey and finally a light drybrush with white. The green is just orc-hide shade or whatever they call the green wash these days.

As I said earlier I want to add some details later on, any ideas on what?

 

[Adam_Barrow]

Wow, your progress on this project is moving very quickly. I wish I could make myself work that fas--ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.

 

[Santawraith]

each time I look at it im in awe have rep,

 

[Jorgta]

Thanks Santawraith, much appreciated!

I tried to add some static grass as per Reapers suggestion, and I'm very satisfied:

So thanks for that Reaper.

I have now finished painting all 4 wall sections, they look like this:

And here's my progress on the last tower:

The beer is not named Ass by the way, it's Aas which in norwegian means hill. It's the best norwegian beer

 

[Reaper]

Nice job there! I hope to do something like this one day

 

[untitled_musketeer]

These are looking great. I bet it's a pain staking process cutting the Styrofoam and then building it up around a can. Still at least you can treat yourself to the beer when it's done!

Keep up the great work. I'm looking forward to seeing the gate done!

u_m

 

[Jorgta]

Did someone say gates?

Well after a very nice summer where I managed to get much painting done (on the bedroom walls) I have again made some progress on my city walls. The gate is now what I call done and I have finished all but one tower.

This is fortunate as my gaming group (read: my brother) has decided that we will play a siege campaign where my walls probably will see a lot of action and where i crush his Imperial so-called troops

 

[Reaper]

Looking great!

 

[Santawraith]

Nice set of wall's good luck in the battles to come.