Here is yet another fortress for my 10mm Fantast, although it can be just as much a Dark age ruin too. There is a lot of damage/Decay and the new tenants have put up a wooden stockade to help with defence. They even have a house within the walls as the tower is probably too dangerous to sleep inside.
Here are all 3 pieces of terrain for the undead army. The wizards tower, Mausoleum fortress and graveyard. Next armies to do are my Goblins and Dwarves.
Finally I have finished the undead fortress. I wanted a defensive fort or castle for my army. I didn't want to just build a fortress so I came up with the idea of a tower which was once an actual defence, but maybe a battle was fought there long ago and the remains of the tower became a graveyard, so a chapel was added to the tower on one side and a mausoleum on another side. The small bridge if mostly for effect with coffins bobbing up and down in the putrid pond.
On the far side is a smaller chapel in marble and a priest's dormitory. Around the base are a few gravestones to help the building fit in with the graveyard I built earlier.
So the fortress has a function to act as a centrepiece for the undead themed terrain. The fortress can be used by the freshly undead as a defensive bastion in their war on the living.
When I started the Fantasy project I decided to make 3 bits of terrain specifically for each army. For my first but of tinkering I started with my undead army. So I had to come up with an undead theme. To start with I decided on a Necromancers tower. The idea I had in mind was of the tower in Ian Livingston's book Titan, a book which in my early youth killed my head with ideas. The picture of a wizards tower in the book in profile with interior visible, and that's the inspiration for this one, minus the interior.
The Tower has a number of features, it has a nice watchtower on top for the Necromancer to look out for whatever it is Necromancers look out for. On the base I have a blue pool of water washing into it for a fresh drinking supply, and at the rear it has a green brown pond with a tentacle sticking out for all the bad stuff to be dropped into.
There is a yellow stone living room, and a white marble enchanters room where the necromancer does all that stuff they like to do with dead bodies. On the top roof there is an observatory, probably for looking at whatever stars need to be looked at. Please also note the green slime dripping from the drainpipe.
Overall I was most happy with this model, Although at first I painted it grey and it didn't look all that good so I repainted it yellow/sand and I thought that was just perfect. I like the way the candles are burning too. It took me 2 days to build, not including a day for painting. Now onto my Graveyard.
