Tulou and Fortress (Part 1) - Building Something Interesting
It always begins with an idea.
The idea was to make some terrain in preparation for the final arrival of the Cathayan miniatures in Warhammer.
I posted a link to the video...but here it is again...
I've been waiting 30 years for this...well actually I've been waiting for the Nippon miniatures because I wanted to have samurai and ninja running around the table fighting off against Skaven and Chaos cultists and anything else that might be found in the Warhammer Old World... I figure the Nippon might be further down the track, and might be a barely touched spin off like the Brettonian armies, the Kislevites, or the Tilean trade guilds. At least we're getting the Cathayans, and that's a great start. My wife wants a full army (because we've got a queen coming who can magically transform into a dragon, and military hot air balloons), I want a full army... so we'll need some terrain to display our models on and to work as signature pieces to add to a table for conducting war around.
I was going to make a couple of small temples, and a decent sized castle, but as I've sat down to write this article, I've discovered the idea of the Tulou.
A Tulou is a self contained fortress village containing up to 800 people, typically family members from a single clan. It often seems to be a round structure, with a courtyard in the centre, and some kind of communal space or temple in the middle. I think it would work really well as a home base for some kind of pseudo-military/religious order, the type of which is so commonly found in many parts of the Warhammer games, and I think it could be fun to build as a project for a couple of weeks.
It might even work as a fortified family area with some walls connecting it to a more traditional fortress, or connecting to the "Great Wall" facsimile which has already been suggested as a part of the setting (and which we knew was coming anyway, because the Warhammer settings are thinly veiled satirical copies of real world geography anyway.
There seem to be a range of different sizes for these types of structures, and I'm going to have to do a lot more research into them. Hopefully finding some cutaway images and cross sections, maybe some floor plans...
...oooh, there's one.
Nice.
This looks like it's going to be fun.
I'll archive the steps as I go.
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