SanchoPanza Rides Again - ReVamping Gangs of Rome

This is the third building in the series and many that I have upgraded and revamped to hopefully improve the look of it. Dating back to the 2nd century BC, Roman public toilets, often built with donations from charitable upper-class citizens, were called foricae. These toilets consisted of dark rooms lined with benches dotted with key-shaped holes placed rather closely together. Romans therefore got pretty close and personal while using the foricae.

They were also never far from a large number of vermin, including rats and snakes. As a result, these dark and dirty places were rarely visited by women and certainly never by rich women.

Elite Romans had little need for public foricae, unless they were desperate. Instead, private toilets were built in upper-class homes called latrines, built over cesspools. Private latrines probably also smelt awful and so many wealthy Romans may have just used chamber pots, emptied by slaves.

I have upgraded the roof to add the fridge liner ribbed sheets for the tiles and have added a pavement using the Sarrisa stencils and a Polyfiller and PVA mix, to give it that 3D feel.

The first picture is before the upgrade.

The next picture we are starting to glue and lay the fridge liner tiles to the roof.

The third picture is more tiles added.

The fourth picture is the completed tiled roof.

The fifth picture has the ridge tiles being added.

The sixth picture shows what is used for the ridge tiles, the tubes from cotton buds, cut in 2 cm or so lengths and glued along the top of the roof.

The next set of pictures is how I painted the roof, which is very simple.

In the first image the tiles are primed black.

The second image I did a heavy drybrush of Vallejo Game Colour Scorched Earth

The third image I drybrushed Vallejo Game Colour Filthy Brown.

The fourth image I drybrushed Vallejo Game Colour Terracotta, to get it that red clay tile feel.

The fifth image I drybrushed Vallejo Game Colour Tan to highlight it.

The sixth image I put a wash of Vallejo Game Colour Wash first black and then sepia to make the colours richer.