* Silent Invader's Build Something Too - Sentry Rock (28/9 WIP finished!)

[Silent Invader]

Well, it's something I need for a game I'm in the throes of putting together for my 18thC North America project (you know the one, I've made a few bits already!).

Basically a watchtower for a non-fortified settlement.  Something like the one in Sleepy Hollow or (I think) The Village.  

I aim to have it completed by mid-October (as other deadlines come to bear).

EDIT = change of title

[OSHIROmodels]

I would have thought that CD would be very useful for this forum 

Nice idea and in keeping with what you have already, good stuff 

cheers

James

[kidterminal]

This is not a realistic structure no one erects a roofless structure in New England. You have no idea what the winters are like here. Also I've never seen a colonial tower that wasn't attached to another building. Here's an exact replica of a New Hampshire frontier fort from 1744. Note the attached watchtower.

http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2010/todays-news/new-hampshire-fort-to-reopen.html

Rob

[Hammers]

This is not a realistic structure no one erects a roofless structure in New England. You have no idea what the winters are like here. Also I've never seen a colonial tower that wasn't attached to another building. Here's an exact replica of a New Hampshire frontier fort from 1744. Note the attached watchtower.

http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2010/todays-news/new-hampshire-fort-to-reopen.html

Rob

Well, you know, people of the New Hampshire frontier weren't exactly 28mm tall to the eyes and I haven't seen any evidence they had a large metal disc glued to their feet either.   

[Malamute]

Build it, Who cares if its not historically accurate! It looks great in the movie and will make a nice addition to your games.

[gamer Mac]

Build it with a removable roof so you can have it both ways. Opened or closed

[Hammers]

Build it with a removable roof so you can have it both ways. Opened or closed

Your intelligence is blinding, GC... 

[kidterminal]

Build it with a removable roof so you can have it both ways. Opened or closed

Always a good idea.

[Hammers]

Eat hot steaming refuse and pass away, kidterminal!

[Hammers]

I just joshing away. 

[kidterminal]

Instead of a ponder, I had a google.

Folks, I present to you, a period temporary platform structure without a roof! 

 

That's terribly interesting siege tower! I wasn't able to find any pictures of the later western frontier watch towers built all over the west during the Indian wars. I did find these Fire watch towers though. They are nearly the same as the US Calvary ones I saw as a kid. The military ones lacked the porch-like outer railing and either had a chest high outer wall or loop holes instead of windows.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/fire-lookout-towers-of-pacific.html

Rob

[OSHIROmodels]

I think the walls on that are very interesting and I'm wondering on how much is artistic license and how much is 'real'. I'm also wondering how the hell you get in 

cheers

James

[kidterminal]

We know   

Ha ha my little joshers I will now unleash upon you hours of colonial fort/stockade research guaranteed to give you fits. Or at least a burning desire to build all you're about to see. Which, well is another kind of fit I think.

More permeate wooden fort towers. 
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/the_athenaeum/2010/04/archaeology-in-the-americas-part-1-ocmulgee-mounds-macon-ga.html

A wooden stockade and blockhouse.
 http://prickettsfort.blogspot.com/

An interesting article on early American stockades.
http://www.fsgfort.com/DB/C085/36/Text.htm

Interesting facts and drawing of Fort Sackville built by the British Empire in 1777.
http://www.nps.gov/gero/historyculture/fort.htm

Another British blockhouse fort.
http://brownsguides.com/diytours/dariens-fort-king-george/

French wooden fort built about 1730.
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Archeologists+unearth+fort+battle+North+America/2717921/story.html

Rob

[kidterminal]

This looks great Silent I can't wait to see it finished.

Rob

[Sir Dryden]

Looking really good, but I lost my tower-brother

Yours truly,

Sir Dryden