So every Dark Elf general with some self respect should own one of these. A Dark Elf Watchtower. I had seen the 2-3 variants that has been in different issues of White Dwarf and the Dark Elf army book, and had been wanting for a long time to build a tower for my army.
So Grand Tournament Los Angeles 2004 was coming up and a great reason to build a combined carrying tray and display board. I also wanted to be able to use the actual tower as a terrain piece for battles now that I made the effort of making a tower.
So as you can see on the picture above it sitting on its own base. This also made it easier to travel with, I can take the tower off the board and stick it in a bag.
So this is how it came out in the end. I tried lots of color schemes but as always I end up painting everything in gray scale.
Everything is card board and styrofoam. No plastic parts at all. The door is a Mordheim Dwarf castle door I bought at a Games Day a while back.
I made a little detachable Reaper Bolt Thrower with crew glued on to a base. Sometimes I manage to deploy one up there...
The door is a Mordheim Dwarf castle door I bought at a Games Day a while back. So ok, not everything is paper and foam.
This is what it looks like when apart. The bottom of the base is a square piece of wood i got at an art store, its almost an inch thick so the whole display with an army on it weights quite a bit.
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