Final bit for today.
Though the scaffold for the floors is made from foamcore, it’s actually got a thin sheet of plasticard on top as a temporary glue barrier.
The new floating floor, looking through the doorway above the great hall to the doorway the other side.
And from the other side of the great hall (or whatever it’s called in a monastery) showing the rest of the steps up to the first floor.
I think that’s pretty much the basics of the block work done, which is much quicker than I expected. Next stages will I think be as follows:
1) tidying up the blocks (scraping, cutting, drilling, etc)
2) filling the gaps between the blocks
3) adding plaster to finish off the stairways and to form vaulted ceilings beneath the floors
4) flagstones
5) a limited amount of rubble
6) sieved sharp sand for the earthen sections (such as either side the path through the courtyard)
Edit: BTW, I’ve decided not to add windows as I don’t think they’re necessary (they could have been in
The sections of wall that collapsed)