Dice Towers

[fastolfrus]

Just a thought.
There are a few (commercially made) dice towers around, but most look like a square medieval tower, often with crenellations & arrow slits.

If you were designing a dice tower to use for ACW or VSF/EoTD what style of architecture would you suggest?

For ACW I was wondering if a clapboard American church belfry might be suitable. Does anyone have a link to a decent picture?

[OSHIROmodels]

For VSF you want a pumping station tower or smelting chimney 

I can do that 

cheers

James

[FramFramson]

For ACW you want a shot tower. 

[Barry S]

For ACW I was wondering if a clapboard American church belfry might be suitable. Does anyone have a link to a decent picture?

A chap on the WD3 forum was building a Wild West Town and planned to use the church belfry as part of the dice tower.I'm not sure if he ever finished it or it's still a work in progress, but here's a link to the thread.
http://wdlovesme.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=4905&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=dice+tower&start=625

Barry

[Mitch K]

Just a thought.
There are a few (commercially made) dice towers around, but most look like a square medieval tower, often with crenellations & arrow slits.

If you were designing a dice tower to use for ACW or VSF/EoTD what style of architecture would you suggest?

For ACW I was wondering if a clapboard American church belfry might be suitable. Does anyone have a link to a decent picture?

Build a suitable "generic" one, and paint it black, then...

Build slip-over covers from plastic card / foamboard.

ACW: Shot tower, timber church, wooden warehouse;
VSF: Gasworks, watertower, aether-vrill energy collection house...

[fastolfrus]

For ACW you want a shot tower. 

Not something I'd heard of before.
Do you have pictures or links?

[fastolfrus]

Build a suitable "generic" one, and paint it black, then...

Build slip-over covers from plastic card / foamboard.

ACW: Shot tower, timber church, wooden warehouse;
VSF: Gasworks, watertower, aether-vrill energy collection house...

What a corking idea!

[fastolfrus]

A chap on the WD3 forum was building a Wild West Town and planned to use the church belfry as part of the dice tower.I'm not sure if he ever finished it or it's still a work in progress, but here's a link to the thread.
http://wdlovesme.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=4905&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=dice+tower&start=625

Barry

Cheers - there are some very impressive buildings there, and the still looks great.

[bluewillow]

AWI period shot tower

[FramFramson]

There were round ones too. The historic one in Baltimore is definitely round (and was one of the biggest in the Union).

For the uninformed, a shot tower was a tall, hollow building for making well, shot. Suitable lead or lead alloy was dripped slowly from the top, the drop more or less rounded and cooled as it fell, and fell into a water basin as lead shot.

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower

Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Shot_Tower