The Tower of Skratch-Bi’ilt
Full confession: I’ve spent a lot more money than usual on wargame terrain lately. My side gig paid off, and I’ve dumped a lot of the extra dough into terrain that I don’t have time to build. Plus, it was my birthday. You’re going to start seeing a lot of pre-bought buildings which goes against the core mission of cheap, portable wargames on a budget.
But not this day!
I couldn’t find a decent wizard’s tower in 15mm scale, so I built one. What you see here are three large cork stoppers glued together and secured with toothpicks. A little plastic-card from a debit card that I think was left over following a trip to Dave and Busters makes for great decorative spiky flourishes, and a pair of gears from the box make for a fine magic wheel thing over the door. The rest is pretty self explanatory.
After a quick paint job, we get a little something like this.
I originally conceived of the dome as a sort of observatory and tried to make a telescope bay, but it turned out rough and delicate. A second wood ball was pressed into service and painted gold because MAGIC!
The blue symbols are the twelve signs of the zodiac, the sigils on the red doors represent the four Archangels, and the chalk above the door…well, it’s a Catholic thing. My Papists bros know what’s up with that.
That is excellent!
Very nice.
Well done!
Very nicely done.