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

Quote from: Ithoriel on 14 February 2015, 01:40:31 PM
... it's all linear after all

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

This is really good.

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!

Even better now it's painted. Excellent stuff, it all fits together very nicely and gives the impression of a city. Plus I should imagine that using a standard sized base for the floor plan, it wouldn't be too difficult to make it bigger.

Nice one Ithorial!

 

The rest is begging for an Assyrian siege, but I'm not sure about the buttresses on the Dr Who structure in blue outside the walls. Or have my middle-eastern archaeological studies not taken me far enough?

Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 February 2015, 06:08:56 AM
The rest is begging for an Assyrian siege, but I'm not sure about the buttresses on the Dr Who structure in blue outside the walls. Or have my middle-eastern archaeological studies not taken me far enough?

Vaguely based on the picture below, though intended to be a rather lesser temple than the Ziggurat of Ur! But yes the buttresses are probably a little over-scale :-) But then it's a sci-fi building .... so clearly Von Daniken was right  

Excellent job you've done there, 'I'.
Cheers - Phil.

Very, very impressive 

Excellent work, the Arabs i'm doing would look great in that fortress,


kev

Su-bloody-perb!

Very nicely done