The triangular fieldstone tower has been coming together over the weekend. Not an exact fit but I believe some careful painting will hide the worst issues. Plus the Hirst Arts fieldstone pieces are very forgiving. I think I’m definitely going to have to go with a cut balsa wood floor as it’s the easiest option by far.

Hmmm, my pre-pro Treo650 seems to have some issues with image capture…not sure what’s caused those green lines.

Planned out the pieces I need for a fieldstone bridge wide enough to take a Warhammer Fantasy base. This is part of a vague plan I have for building some river sections to use with the two part resin I picked up a while ago.

Casting more 60 degree fieldstone pieces. A couple more nights and I’ll have enough pieces to build the base section. Also casting some more tower builder pieces for the top. Of course I have no idea how I’m going to build a floor or parapets on the top of the triangular tower. I could go to all the effort of cutting some Hirst Arts flagstones down, or I could be lazy and make a balsa wood floor…that would certainly be quicker, although it wouldn’t match the square Fortress towers. Tricky!

Here’s an interesting little doo-dacky that wooden ship modellers apparently use to bend balsa wood. I know in the past I’ve considered bending balsa (lord knows what for…I forget…a model ship maybe?), what a pity I didn’t have one of these in the garage!

Actually looking at it that sort of jig wouldn’t be a stretch to make yourself either…heck that web site basically gives you building instructions.

Cast a couple of sets of 60 degree fieldstone pieces last night. Here’s a shot of a dry fit wall after two rounds of casting. Note that the second layer of bricks is inverted. Apologies for the crappy quality of these photos btw, I snapped them with my work Treo650 as I was running out the door this morning.

You can also see the black primed masters lurking in the bottom right of that photo. Here’s the final mold too btw. Those white ‘dots’ are where plaster has set into the holes left by the rough cut re-used RTV technique I had to use to fill the mold.

I finished the 60 degree fieldstone pieces and went out to the garage to mold them last night. To my chagrin I discovered there was less RTV left than I thought when planning the mold. No matter! I sliced and diced some left over set RTV and filled the bulk of the mold with little blue cubes before pouring in the fresh RTV.

FYI fresh RTV will bond very well to set RTV providing it’s clean, so it’s always worth keeping waste RTV around. I seal mine in a little freezer baggie to keep the dust off.

Fortunately the mix just managed to fill the rather large mold and it seems to have set well overnight. I peeled the mold off this morning and will try getting some castings done tonight. As I’ve used all my RTV up again I will have to resort to inverting each second layer of pieces after all.

For some reason I got to thinking about Wormy the other day. This was an old comic from the early 80’s that used to appear in Dragon magazine. Courtesy of Google I discovered there’s evidentely some odd history around the author…and there’s also an unofficial online archive that I stumbled across. Takes me back to my mis-spent youth that does.

I’ve also just updated this blog to WordPress 1.5 and I really should take advantage of it’s new features and build myself a custom template. The only annoying thing is the ‘on this day’ plugin I used to run seems to have stopped working…

Ah no, a bit of PHP hacking and it’s off again.

Latest set of tools from PitYak studio arrived. This lot will do nicely I think. Now on with the modelling! (Grave Guard is for scale).