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A Trash Bash Tower

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A few days into January I had a fall that destroyed my glasses and injured my shoulder, both of which combined to cut down the amount of time I was able to spend on the computer. The upside of this, as I still needed something to do, was that I started a random construction project and completed it in about three weeks. (glasses have been replaced and shoulder is nicely on the mend, too)

Over the Christmas holidays I had painted up an entire village of really cool Toadstool Brownies from Fenris Games (they’ll get their own post soon) so I decided to trash bash a multi-story tower for them to cause trouble from, a sort of weird fantasy cross between a fortified tower house and a tenement apartment building.

I started with a medium size paper coffee cup from a widely available but deeply mediocre coffee chain, glued that to a scrap of 1/8th PVC sheet a bit bigger than my hand, then started adding details with scrap cardstock, wood coffee stir sticks, bits of styrofoam, paper, and Milliput.

Very early in construction.
Very early construction, with Toadstool Brownie on 20mm wide base for scale.
Details going on.
Shutters in place.
Textured with thin plaster and priming started.
Paint started, roofs and chimney details done.
The skinny chimney on the left is Milliput around a toothpick core, for strength. Nicely gamer-proof, I hope!
More paint. I used all sorts of random washes and drybrushing to add texture and character.
More paint. Lasercut window and plastic skull above it.
Paint on the shutters.
The big chimney.
Finished tower, view of the main roof.
Finished tower, skull window side/back.
Finished tower to the right of the door and ramp.
Finished tower, door, ramp, and garden.
The “back garden”.
The front garden, and yes those are skulls…
The Toadstool Brownie Tower, construction and finished photos!

This hasn’t actually graced a table yet, but I’m sure it will soon, and I want to write up stats for the Toadstool Brownies as either playable characters or random on-table nuisances for the games we play!

I haven’t done a pure stratchbuild like this in a while, but really want to do more, and weird fantasy builds are SO much fun!