The Wizards Tower - Part 3 The Finished Product

The finished Wizards Tower in more natural light. The doors really bring a finished look to the project.

What would a Wizards Tower be without a Wizard.

 The Red Knight and his henchmen come to recruit the Wizard for their next adventure.

After a few rounds of negotiating the Wizard heads off to increase his fame and fortune.

The Wizard is one of those iconic minis from my childhood (early teen-hood.) He was from Grenadier Models and released at some point in the very early '80s.  I am not sure why it made such an impression on me but when I think of D&D I think of the blue box rules and this guy.  I carted him around for over 25 years before he even got primed, I think in part because I was afraid of screwing it up.  Its not going to be up for an Wamp awards but I think he turned out OK.  I am pretty sure the knight minis are from the late '80s, and yeah, I just got around to painting them last year as well. I have kind of a backlog of metal.  Maybe my kid with finish them someday.

For an alternative look at the Wizards Tower, take a look at this Mordheim Mad Scientist Tower.

The Wizards Tower - Part 2

Once the construction phase was over three layers of grey paint were applied over a black undercoat. 

 The light grey looks much lighter because of the flash but I was itching to move on with the project and didn't want to wait for the monsoon to end and the sun to come back out for better light.

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The Wizards Tower - Part 1

Many years ago I stumbled across Hirst Arts website. Not an odd occurrence in hindsight since they create such a fabulous product that any mini gamer is bound to run into the output of their molds sooner or later.  I picked up three of the fieldstone molds and can honestly say I have used each dozens if not ahundred times over the years and the molds are as solid as they day they arrived.
One of the most basic projects on the Hirst Arts website is the Wizards Tower. It's was not designed for the field stone blocks but it looked like I could work around any pieces I didn't have, such as arrow slits.



Actually the using the fieldstone molds made this an even easier project since they come with 2 and 3 inch long pieces, not just the 1 inch bricks the Wizards Tower mold has.  I used arches to a create a window in place the arrow slits.









Hirst suggest using legos to make a form for keeping the walls straight and the corners square.  It does make construction so much easier. I am kicking myself for all the projects I did without using it.









One last shot of the construction phase before I move on to painting.







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