Who knew Pendraken made 10mm Biblical era cities?

[Ithoriel]

I'm guessing the answer is not even Leon and Dave!

Lo-res pic of the process of building the towers  and a montage of various stages of building the city below (I hope!)

Bases are 60mm square Pendraken bases (BS6060) which I also use for the bases of my units.

Towers and walls are mainly 40mm x 20mm (BS 4020) bases with non-standard 18mm square bases as base and upper floor. Thanks to Leon for the 18mm squares!

18mm allows me to wrap the 40 x 20s around so that they overlap at one corner giving a 22mm square tower.

Other 40 x 20mm bases were then cut to form walls and the gateway.

A pair of pinking shears and some light card provided the "hounds tooth" crenellations. I cut 10mm strips of card with a hobby guillotine and cut them in half with the shears - looked about right to me.

Still some painting of the walls to do - I'm thinking maybe blue crenellations and a light dry-brush of white on the walls themselves.

Buildings are by Leven and Hovels and will be glued in place. I currently have two different centres with alternate "palaces" on them. Plan is eventually to make a few more sections so I can ring the changes.

There's a couple of Border Forts from Hovels and a Temple that started life as an Old Crow sci-fi warehouse iirc as scenery too plus a stack of plastic palm trees to form woods and an oasis. The temple sits on a stack of 60mm bases to form a very small ziggurat indeed

I'll post a pic or two of the finished item when I get there.

[FierceKitty]

It'll be just my luck if they now release a chariot-age range just after I complete my early ancient armies!

[paulr]

 

Impressive and a very flexible design

[Leman]

Great idea.

[jchaos79]

Superb!

also nice to see stuff from bronze age!

[getagrip]

Ahh, seige games

Great job

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Clever!

[Techno]

Very much so.
Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Great idea. Look forward to seeing these painted .

[FierceKitty]

And garrisoned.

[Dickie255]

Good looking miniatures and some imaginative use of those Pendraken bases. keep up the good work and I'll look forward to more photo's 

[Roy]

Excellent! 

I want one   

[getagrip]

Excellent! 

I want one   

He has a point Ithoriel; you could bag 'em and sell 'em as kits

[Fenton]

Very well done.

I especially like the well. Is it just an eyelet?

I think you deserve a gold BP badge for the project

[Hertsblue]

Ingenious and highly effective, Ithoriel.

[Ithoriel]

Thanks for all of the nice comments.

Initially I'd assumed I would just be able to buy something like this, went rummaging on the web and found plenty of 15mm - 28mm scale stuff but nothing in 6mm so decided to work out how to do it myself. I'd already done some conversions to get my Sumerian "fleet" so there's going to be quite a bit of stuff pretending to be Sumerian

Well spotted Fenton, the well is part of a cardboard document folder. Originally it held a bit of string in place to hold the folder shut. The folder disintegrated and the widget wound up on my painting table for a while. I dropped it onto one of the bases while moving bits around to glue on the battlements and decided it would make a good well.

At present the plan is to use it as scenery, so no garrisons as such, though enemies getting too close can expect to come under fire!

Frustratingly we know the Sumerians took cities, their kings loved to list the cities they'd taken, but we have even less idea of how it was done than we do about their battles. I imagine it was a matter of starvation, escalade or treachery and am trying to decide how, if at all, I model that in an interesting fashion ... it's all linear after all

[Hertsblue]

... it's all linear after all

[Subedai]

Crimping shears...brilliant idea. The rest of it...brilliant idea.

[Bodvoc]

This is really good.

[Ithoriel]

Some more shots of the now completed town plus a couple of shots of the temple, which will sit outside the town protected by it's own sanctity (they hope!), an alternative palace and a Hovels walled farmhouse as a Border Fort.

Most of the buildings are by Leven with a couple of houses and the fort by Hovels and the temple was actually sold as a sci-fi storage unit by Old Crow.

Must get back to painting the armies and navies!