So for some time now, I’ve been looking for a simple way to make a Northwest Frontier/ Back of Beyond hill fort. Something that can guard a mountain pass or a river crossing.
I’d seen images and had ideas of how I could do such a thing, but, as normal, I was looking for a quick and cheap way of doing it.
I finally went down the road of building a fort, that could then be offered onto a hill or high ground, making it more useful in more games.
This is what I’ve ended up with -
And this is where I started -
The original tower was bought from Blotz. A corner tower from their 28mm fort range.
Here you can see the process I went thro.
Firstly is added the off cuts from the mdf, to get a flat wall running round the edge (later known as mistake number 1).
Then I drilled and fitted cocktail sticks to support the coffee stirrer walkway.
Here’s the trial to see if the stirrer walkway would work.
I then added a walkway halfway up the tower, and blocked in a door and a couple of windows.
Next the question came up, well how do you get to the upper walkway ?
I added a modified stairway from Blotz, as it came up a little short, plus I added side walls and a door to the tower.
The whole tower was then polyfilled on the outside, and at this stage, I discovered the walls at the top of the tower were way too tall, so they were trimmed down in height.
Undercoat in brown.
Dry brush in yellow then an off white, whilst leaving the woodwork brown, to be dry brushed a lighter brown later.
And there you have it.