Dovecote tower in 28mm

I’m trying to give my 28mm scale village as broad a historical sweep as possible, and to help with this I decided to produce a dovecote. To give a hint of a medieval past for the village. I was lucky and had two cardboard tubes, one of which fitted snuggly within the other, this fact is what sparked the idea of having two versions of the dovecote, one pre artillery attention and one post. The idea being the top of the dovecote is an ideal location for a sniper, and when your bazooka team takes him out it would be great to reflect the damage to the dovecote.

To start with some images of the dovecote under construction. I used my usual PVA and sand to texture the outer sleeve of the tower and just did the two inner tubes immediately around the top under the roof line. Stone stairs up to the door were created from expanded polystyrene, again covered with PVA and sand after having the stone blocks carved out with a sharp craft knife.

Next stage was looking at adding some additional rubbish to the base to show the debris blown down from the roof. And you really can’t have a dovecote without doves! So I got some green stuff out and had a go at creating some doves from scratch. They came out ok, but realistically they are the size of small turkeys.

The second photo above shows the sabot base positioned on the main tower base with roof timbers from the blown up roof above. More pictures of the completed dovecote in both its versions to follow soon.

Stay safe out there, TTFN all the best Airhead