This camp took quite a bit longer to do than I'd expected. It is also (horrors!) my only completely legal DBA camp. For some reason, the latest version of the rules specifies you MUST have an empty space big enough for an element in your camps...pfah! To me, that's like specifying how much border an artist should leave around his painting! Come on, we know it's a camp, and it's easy enough to indicate whether it is garrisoned by a troop element or left to the camp followers to man. Anyway, the platfrom atop the tower is the "space larger enough" for an element.
The base for this camp is plastic styrene, with a slightly smaller piece of craft foam epoxied on top. The posts for the palisade wall are Craft Stix from Hobby Lobby, and pieces of a dowel are used to support the four corners of the gatehouse. The way I do it is to use an X-acto knife to cut out the foam where the post or pole will go. I put a dab of epoxy in the hole and squeeze the craft stick or dowel into the space. The epoxy adheres to both the plastic styrene base and the edges of the craft foam, which compress to hold the post snugly upright.
A 40mm wide
slab of bass wood was affixed to the dowel supports for the platform. Putting
each of the palisade posts in was a time-consuming, but easy enough, process.
The gate itself was done differently. I laid flat a tightly packed row of
craft stix and then epoxied two crossbars atop them, to hold them together.
I had to leave an opening in the front of the gate tower, but I wanted a
palisade above it. I accomplished this by lining up a row of craft stix
spaced apart like I wanted. I epoxied one crossbar across the lower third
of the row. The crossbar would then rest flush with the platform, while
roughly one third of the post projected beneath the platform and the rest
projected above to be the frontal protection of the gate tower.
I painted up (as generically as possible) a couple archers from Old Glory's Cretan/Balearic pack and put them on a base depicted to match the tower. However, these are not attached, and the base can be lifted off the platform and another -- any 40mm wide element -- plopped down to represent a troop element garrison.
I was very happy with how this one looks...the two storey tower is impressive, I think. I like the swappable camp follower archers, and the design is very generic. Could be used for just about any era, I think.
(Not sure which era he will use it for, but Tim Ryan bought it for $25 at our February Gods of War campaign meeting).