Tagged: Troy

I completed (for now) this Citadel sector by making some pavement areas and a retaining wall for the raised walkway. The pavement adds more of an urban feel to the space between the two...

I painted the latest citadel house. I took the opportunity, once more – unlike with the more drab Lower City houses – to paint this up-market house with a bit of colour. Although, at...

Next up, another citadel house. This model is a timber-framed mud-brick building without a substructure. It has its doorway on the short side. I’ve tried again to produce some finer door and shutter styles...

It’s time to get my first citadel house on the tabletop. I have a walkway, now I’m designing a house to fill my building plot. It all has to fit on one 200mm-square tile....

What would a model of Homer’s Troy be without Priam’s palace? I have reserved a square building plot at the summit of my polystyrene mound for a palace. It’s literally as much space as...

I have all the models I need now to see how my citadel wall of Troy is going to look. Here they are in the state they’re in at the moment, creating a 90-degree...

Further along the wall from the East Gate stood the East Tower. The East Tower was actually an addition that was built over the existing curtain wall specifically, it is more than likely, to...

I have enough models now to start arranging them on the tabletop and begin to see how my city of Troy will take shape. It was never my plan to model the whole city....

Designing the East Gate of Troy, with all its angles and sloped walls, was certainly a challenge – and a fun one. The East Gate of Troy’s citadel has the outward appearance of a...