One of the pieces I spent a good deal of 2013 working on -- perhaps I even began in 2012, Ag! -- was a large tower. I wanted to wed the octagonal and the round tower mold, but then I also wanted to use the new conical roof mold, but it turns out I wanted battlements, too, so I wasn't crazy about having the conical roof cover the whole 8 inches. My solution to that was to add a 4 inch cantilevered tower to the top of the 8". Here are a few shots I took documenting the progress.





First challenge was getting the octagonal and round tower bricks to make nice. The floor was the first challenge. You can see where the two floors come together.

Here I used a technique I'm now using in a lot of my builds, which is to pour the floor, using the edge pieces as the form.

There are a few other features I struggled with -- more to say on that later -- but the next thing I took pictures of was getting the 4" tower to hang-out an arbitrary distance outside the circumference of the 8" tower, giving it a "smushed" on or off-kilter look. Here's the logic -- if you're going to have a tower with such an awkward look, it must be really important and well-constructed. Naturally. The two black blocks that join the two surfaces are chipped-stone textured sculpy:

You haven't seen the big picture yet, so here's what happens when the 8+4 gets a third coat of spray paint and all those distractingly different color bricks start to all do the same thing:


(Ah grass. It's been almost 6 weeks since we've seen grass here in Minnesota.)
I'm getting this in to shape as the Tower of Justice to add to Constantinople.
While it won't be connected to the city wall this time, having that versatility is part of the eventual plan.
