Challenge Accepted

  
     I was so stoked about the Angry Piper's Terrain Challenge that I started at midnight and worked until 2:30am on this little project. As usual blueboard and my faithful friend Proxxie were involved. I wanted a castle big enough to be used as both a tabletop feature and used in RPG as a model that we can play inside. I was also looking for something decidedly different looking.

 

a nice, large piece that doesn't take up too much table space

 

it took a lot of time to get the angles right and a 

few pieces got chucked in to bin because they were the wrong size

 

the building is made in two layers to allow for action on both floors

 

I used a wide-tip ball point pen to draw the stone work on the outside

the soft blueboard is indented by the pentip and provides a degree to depth to the brickwork

 

drawing the random stonework without letting the pattern get too regular was a challenge

 

after an hour and a half I had the lower level done

 

after I had stuck the gateway to the front of the wall I carefully cut the archway

 

this was a real change as my freehand skills were a bit rusty

 

gluing the joints was a problem, when I tried to push the parts together they slipped apart because I couldn't push in six directions at a time, it occurred to me that I needed to control the outside edge of the joint, masking tape neatly solved this issue 

 

I lightly sanded the surfaces to ensure that the woodglue had a good grip on the material

 

waiting for the glue to dry is always the worst