A towering performance

Shortly before watching Liverpool demolish Spurs to become Champions of England for the twentieth time, I finished my own towering accomplishment.

It's made using Firedragon's textured high density foam sheet with details added from card and gateposts from square-section bamboo skewer. The base and curtain wall are from different grades of PVC board, the latter engraved with a ballpoint pen and a craft knife.

In addition to a generic scenic role it doubles as a dice tower.

Most commercially produced dice towers have a simple series of internal baffles and a completely open front face making their function obvious. I wanted something that would pass for a part of the scenery in a wide range of games so, by trial and error I constructed a series of internal chutes that feed the dice out of the front door. So far I haven't had any dice get stuck inside but the roof is removable just in case.

As you can see, this thing is very plain. I may in future add some shuttered windows to the sides or perhaps a removable pitched roof to fit over the hole in the style of a peel tower. In the meantime I don't think this would look too far out of place in Burgundy in 1475, in Livonia in 1812, or in some parts of Glorantha in 1621ST.

I may also add some brass tubing to allow a choice of flag or banner to fly from the ramparts. Of course I'll have to make sure any such banners adhere to the Boss Wednesday Agreement.