Warbases Watchtower Step By Step Complete

[TWD]

I've started assembling a Warbases watchtower.


Behold the work on my blog:
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/warbases-dark-ages-watchtower-1.html

[steharan]

Nice review Tom, I look forward to the finished product.

[TWD]

The second part is now on the blog



http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/warbases-dark-ages-watchtower-2.html

[WillieB]

Really like this one. I'm going to get me 2 at Crisis. Thinking about adding a lower (stone) storey on one.
Thanks very much for sharing!

[TWD]

The exciting tale continues with added thatch and render:



More here:
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/warbases-dark-ages-watchtower-3.html

Thanks for the feedback chaps. I think its a nice, cheap piece of kit.

[TWD]

Now with added paint



More here:
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/warbases-dark-ages-watchtower-4.html

[TWD]

At last, all done:



More pictures and brief explanation on the blog
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/warbases-dark-ages-watchtower-finished.html

Really enjoyed puttting this together and it looks great (to my eye) for the time and money spent.

[warburton]

Simple and effective. Looks great!

[Mitch K]

Smashing work - you'll get tons of use out of this, I'm sure.

[TWD]

Thanks all it was easy to put together and a bargain too.

Hoping to burn it to the ground tomorrow night.

[guitarheroandy]

Bloomin' Saxons...always burning and looting... Why can't you do something constructive like flower arranging or something??!!! 

Seriously (for a mo) that's a great little model. Total bargain by the sound of it and even something that my hamfisted building capability might manage...

[axabrax]

Looks really nice. I thought about grabbing one of these for our Dux Britt games, but weren't these towers pretty much exclusive to the walls on the German frontier, and wouldn't they function primarily as observation posts/barracks behind a separate wall? They don't really seem to afford much defense other than climbing in and hiding and I wonder about their use in other places than Germany. I settled on something more like this tower from Grand Manner.

[Mitch K]

Looks really nice. I thought about grabbing one of these for our Dux Britt games, but weren't these towers pretty much exclusive to the walls on the German frontier, and wouldn't they function primarily as observation posts/barracks behind a separate wall? They don't really seem to afford much defense other than climbing in and hiding and I wonder about their use in other places than Germany. I settled on something more like this tower from Grand Manner.

The reconstructions of the towers from the Gask Ridge in Scotland resemble these pretty closely.

[axabrax]

Yes, I think you may be right: I just leafed through my Osprey volume on the Arthurian Forts, and it looks like this style of tower was in fact used in Britain. It would still be behind a wall and not a lone-standing structure, but now I have a reason to pick one up as well!

The reconstructions of the towers from the Gask Ridge in Scotland resemble these pretty closely.

[Mitch K]

Yes, I think you may be right: I just leafed through my Osprey volume on the Arthurian Forts, and it looks like this style of tower was in fact used in Britain. It would still be behind a wall and not a lone-standing structure, but now I have a reason to pick one up as well!

Have a look at http://www.theromangaskproject.org.uk/index.html There is some evidence that these towers were not in fact behind a wall, but were a set of separate signal stations. Note however the Gask Ridge is an early frontier, centuries before the Dux Brit era. Still the existence of a tower type that could be copied in an area where there were few fortifications is not totally implausible.