14TH CENTURY WATCH/SIGNAL TOWER...RUIN.

[eddiesolo]

I have been busy working away on a 14th Century watch/signal tower. This is quite big and is made from real stone bricks and real tiles. It has had some weathering and is going to sit on a nice wooden bowl with foliage around it, also foliage will be on the tower and roof area. It isn't round as I wanted some nice angles and slipped stones etc, it has taken be ages to construct using a cardboard back to apply the bricks to.

Build so far.

UPDATES FURTHER DOWN AND ON PAGE TWO + WEATHERING TECHNIQUES USED.

Si

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[flyjoe180]

Looks pretty good to me Si. The photo background makes it hard to look at, but the brick work looks good.

[eddiesolo]

Looks pretty good to me Si. The photo background makes it hard to look at, but the brick work looks good.

Ta Joe, picture taken on the stairs, so really not the best. But it is a work in progress, still some more weathering and detailing to do. I know it may not be too exciting but all the little bricks too ages to glue, then sand, then a PVA and grey brick dust filler, then the weathering...phew, something different anyway.

Si

[monica]

nice job Si, its in camo nice blend with the back round ,

do like your brick work, did you make or buy the stones, as you can see so much work has gone in to it, and the painting weathering is top notch

looking forward to seeing the rest done please do post pics ,like to how you do the foliage

[eddiesolo]

nice job Si, its in camo nice blend with the back round ,do like your brick work, did you make or buy the stones, as you can see so much work has gone in to it, and the painting weathering is top notch

looking forward to seeing the rest done please do post pics ,like to how you do the foliage

Thanks Moni, glad you like, yeah, it does look like it is blending in to the stair carpet lol. It started out as a lighthouse kit, but the there were issues then I saw an old picture of a noblemen near an old tower and thought...hmmmmm. I love the look of old ruins there is something magical about them. So, the bricks came with with the kit as did the tiles, but all the faffing, cutting, trimming, filling etc was down to me. Glad you like it, will be adding more pics as I do more.

Si

[Alan 45]

Now I like that it looks so realistic I can imagine rapunzel looking out for her fella

Seriously though it looks cool mate you'd never think it was a model if it was put in the right setting

[eddiesolo]

Now I like that it looks so realistic I can imagine rapunzel looking out for her fella Seriously though it looks cool mate you'd never think it was a model if it was put in the right setting

Cheers mate, needs some more weathering and then I want to grass the tower itself in places and add other growth, I want that overgrown, yet one you want to go and explore look.

Si

[Alan 45]

Sounds cool , any chance of getting a William Wallace to go with it

[eddiesolo]

Sounds cool , any chance of getting a William Wallace to go with it

Funnily enough I have that set of Airfix Sheriff of Nottingham and his men in 1/72, they may work, forgot about them.

[Alan 45]

Oh yes that sounds good mate

[Guest]

Mmmm, different and original

You will do a genial work! I'm sure about it

Polux

[Guest]

Cool work young Si me lad, yer missed yer vocation. Yer should have been a brickie

[The Migrant]

That looks awesome Si.

[geegad]

looks superb top weathering

[eddiesolo]

UPDATE.

Various grasses and foliage added to structure, some 'real-life' type shots and some on my 'lazy-susan' to show the weathering and foliage in natural light.

Si

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