Tagged: Bronze Age

There wasn’t much more to do now to finish the courtyard house complex. The buildings still needed roofs. I made a roof timber and a mud-roof piece for each of the three main buildings....

Next up, I needed an actual courtyard house. I wanted to have a building with upstairs living quarters. This is where the main household would have lived and slept. With not much space left...

On with the build of the courtyard house! I glued the kitchen’s other wall in place and then concentrated on the courtyard area. I added some texture, using baking soda again for the slabs...

I planned to build a Bronze Age courtyard complex that could be used as a townhouse inside city walls or as a walled farmhouse out in the rolling countryside. The idea would be to...

The new-look stonework painted up well. The new wall design was textured and painted as before. I brushed neat white glue on each stone and dusted over with baking soda. You can get some...

I took a slight side step and designed a house for Troy. All the models of my planned Bronze Age range would most probably share some basic design elements. In my  mind, three distinct...

I designed a South Tower module with attached gateway. This was a redesign of my first attempt at the South Tower. I increased its height, changed the stonework design and took the stonework all...

My feelings about a redesign were correct. I returned to the drawing board and produced a new stonework design. It should be remembered that Troy was an endless building project. During the Bronze Age,...

I had a shot at adding some colour to my trial model. First, I gave it some texture. I used my current favourite – baking soda. This has the advantage of not just being...

I’ve been collecting 28mm Trojan War figures for more than two decades – more than twice the length of the Trojan War! However, in that time I’ve never attempted to get any walls of...