Greetings everyone.
I finally found time to do my step by step of Phase Three.

Step One: Laid floor tiles down.
Step Two: Set L-shape buildings on corners.
Step Three: Placed buildings with the arch doorways behind and against the L-shaped corner pieces to connect the four corners.
Step Four: On the short end walls I finished balcony and short wall between the outside center walls and the moat.
Step Five: Floors were place on the L-shaped building and a long floor section added that would reach from corner to corner. All four sides.
Step Six: I had to walk away. I couldn’t see how to have the figures climb to the top of the walls.
Step Seven: Decided to split the stairs down each side of the long wall entrance archways. Then I add a block structure to reach across each top stair.
Step Eight: Where is all my space for the center section plans to come. Phase Four not looking good.
Step Nine: I decided couldn’t create stairs for the two short walls. I came up with the half arch/overpass. This also would make it more challenging to reach the center section. Whatever that was going to be.
Step Ten: Before I loose any more space in the middle section I decided to commit to placing a square base building in the center between the arches.
Step Eleven: Place floors on open tops of unfinished sections
Step Twelve: I again ran out of room to place tower on the corners. I built 1” columns for corner wall so I could extend the towers out of the walls. I was happy with the results.
Step Thirteen: Now to add stairs and half walls along the top of the main walls which will lead to the center section. Whatever that was going to be.
Step Fourteen: I had to walk away. I couldn’t see how I could build anything of size and taller with the space left.
Step Fifteen: Decided to go with a throne feel for the top center section small unusable step up. Then what I think save my whole project is I used the horned structure at supper scale for the main focal point. I could live with this. The Horns mounted on to mat board a piece of foam core sandwiched between and the foam section painted with black ink.
Step Sixteen: Added more horned structure different sizes to support the center throne piece.
Step Seventeen: Fill in gaps where sections didn’t quite meet correctly. I glue what I call Fudge Sticks over my mistakes. I won’t admit I told you that. Worse of all while doing that, one of the pieces I was gluing down slip through the open crack/space into the wall structure. This is when the wife came in handy. From upstairs she heard me raising my voice downstairs and maybe a little bit of yelling at myself. She reluctantly came down stairs to see what happened. She was a great in helping me turn it upside and sideways till the piece fell out. I thought I would have to trash the whole thing. I hate to have something loose inside my builds. Are you nuts If you think I would throw three months of work out to the trash, but it would really, really bother me.
That about the basics. I probable missed something, but this was my main steps.

P.S The wife demanded I stop using permanent marker for the edging of my building because ONE it smells up the house and TWO she pulled information off the web that even though it say it’s not toxic other people (Scientist/doctors) considerate it dangerous to your health. She won. I bought artsy markers (no stink and safe) from an art store.
This rule has been added to my NO EATING Glue rule. She has a low tolerance when I explained how sometimes you have to swipe the excess glue up with your finger and a paper towel isn’t within reach. She couldn’t find anything on the web for health reasons, but I change from Elmers (which was tolerable to the pallet) to an off brand that cost a dollar and taste like what I would assume taste like road kill. Nasty. I broke that habit fast. Now she only allows the cheap brand in the house. I would be dead by now if I didn’t have my wife watching over me. At least that’s her story.

Anyway on to the next project

Any chance of getting your gallery of this build/kitbash re-linked, Curt? I must have totally missed this stuff way back when and the links no longer work. I would love to see what you had done.


And yay for thread necro-ing! :-D

You're going way back.



My gallery link for all my old builds.



Curt