Tower

More to come later - I still need to add a picture of the finished building.

The initial stage involved a cardboard tube and some strips of thin cardboard. Clothespegs are very handy for holding the cardboardstrips while they dry. I used the cardboard tube to mark the placement of the tower and then divided the circle by 4 lines. About 1,5 inches from the tube I wanted to place the first support rods - plastic sprue. The base is triple layers of corrugated cardboard glued criss-cross. So far it seems very stable.
The front of the more-or-less finished tower. As you can see, I've decorated the tower with lots of rivets. I cut them from a very small diameter solid plastic rod and used white glue (Elmer's) to make them stick. Each step of the ladder is cut from balsawood as is the outer support. I glued the steps to the cardboard tube and just held it until it dried. Which might explain the wobbly look...

This is the back of the tower. Notice the ladder - more sprue, glued onto the cardboard tube. This was an emergency solution to an architectonical problem. I had forgotten to make it possible to access the 1.st level of the tower...

The fence is actually thin fabric meant for making kitchen curtains. As you can easily see in this picture, the building is sort of... not absolutely straight. But never mind - it works!

This last picture (so far) shows the building after I've spraypainted it black. Since then I've drybrushed the fence, stairs, rivets and beams (fabric, balsa, plastic rod slices and sprue) with Gunbolt Metal and I've painted the floors deep blue. I am drybrushing the floors with a lighter shade of blue. The blue colors makes the piece match my Necromunda terrain and also adds some life and color to an elsehow somewhat greyish and dark building.

As you might be able to make out, I've added a railing to the stairs and along the top of the fence. This is a thin slice of cardboard.