Pallisading - WIP (part 2)

I've been busy from the middle of this week working on the pallisade sections. I did two curved sections - a split 45 turn... here is one of them in place...

 Then did a setup of all the sections - fits nicely into the corner of the gaming table ....

next went on to do the gates - open ....

 and of course closed ....

 a simple scheme for the gates, they have blocks attacked with a little weight to hold them up..

 Another layout this time across the table....

The pallisades could just about be used for a roman camp, so this morning I built two fighting platforms (small towers), here is a shot of one from the rear, it is made so its base has a step up and fits over the rear of the pallisade section...

 Trying out the 'romanised' look

 Now onto filling gaps and painting etc .....

Pallisading - WIP (part 1)

A break from the 'story-line'; I've started a modelling project to build a pallisade to represent the enclosure of a village, or if suitably placed on a hill section part of a hill-fort.  The aim is to have it in the corner or at the back of the table.

I bought a Timpo log fort off Ebay a while back and have spent some time trying to find the best way to use the pieces. After a bit of fiddling at the weekend I came up with a scheme.

The original wall section,  a bit too high for a figure and for the scale of my table...

 So cut down and and reworked to a lower height, the remainder to be trimmed to be used for the back of the 'step-up' for figures...

 The first two trial straight sections ...

 The original fort gateway has been reworked,  quite a bit to do on it to finish (some gates etc..)

The Timpo plastic fort wall sections bend so I can easily (?) make some curved sections - next thing to try ....