14 : Building Troy – The East Tower
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...
by Supreme Littleness Designs · Published June 1, 2021 · Last modified June 27, 2021
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...
by Supreme Littleness Designs · Published May 30, 2021 · Last modified June 1, 2021
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...
Some Bronze Age settlements are associated with iconic stone sculptures. Crete’s Knossos has its ‘Horns of Consecration’ – stylised bull’s horns – and Mycenae has its lions over the citadel’s gateway – just bodies...
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...
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