Tulou and Fortress (Part 6) - Physical Layout

 If you're reading this as I'm posting it, it's been a while since the last post on this project...if you're reading it months or years after the event, I guess that doesn't really matter.


I've modified the board idea. So now instead of a single 50cm X 50cm board, the Tulou terrain piece will be split up onto a pair of 30cm X 60cm boards. That way I can display the board as a pair of cross sections which won't go too deep into a shelf, and will allow two half Tulous (I'm not sure if that's the proper plural form) to go at either side of an urban combat zone, perhaps reflecting a training exercise between military legions when Mrs Vulpinoid and I finally get our armies and face off against each other.


Shifting back to my old system of 30cm squares (roughly a foot) also gives the opportunity to expand the Tulou a bit, because everything was feeling a bit cramped under the old system. The 30cm square grid is also easier to store.



These images aren't quite the clearest to see, but I used a compass to measure out the blueprint of half the Tulou, since the whole thing is going to be twice of these halves (joined or separate), it just needs to be duplicated on each board.


The shapes are cut out and used as templates to trace to the board. 

Finally progress is happening again.


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