Peel Tower Reconstruction on Semple Loch, Scotland
Painting Time?
God this might be taking longer than building an actual Peel Tower but managed to get a bit of spare time and think I’m at the painting stage for this wee tower.
I glued on the rest of the foam pieces to create the stonework and was starting to lose the will to live when it got to the battlements and the rest of the roof. I remembered watching videos on air-drying clay by the Terrain Tutor and Real Terrain Hobbies (love those guys) and thought I’d try it for the battlement and crenellations. I think it sort of worked but I’m new to the whole sculpting thing so not sure how it will tie in with the rest of the stone work but hoping the painting will cover all my sins.
I finished off the roof and turret roof mainly with thick card but also used coffee stirrers and miliput, the latter to fill gaps and give them a bit of bulk.
I went back into the interior and thought the cellar with the gun loops should have exposed stonework on the walls but I’ll definitely cheat a bit and use texture paint to look like plaster for the upper floors. I also cheated a bit and used a texture roller on air-drying clay for the cellar as I don’t think my sanity would have taken gluing more foam blocks down.
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