Preparing for the Siege pt5

I've been making little boxes. Little boxes made of ticky-tack...

Well I've been making tiny houses to fill the void that is Rhodes. I think I'd made about 45 (I don't really know). It looked like an impressive amount sitting on the bench. I've used a mix of my own basic designs, and some of the Roman Sea print buildings. I wasn't sure if they'd look right but the do. So I decided to set up the city again and see what I had.

As it was... Not nearly enough:

So I started making more - mainly little ones from the Little Wars TV Ancient City pdf - but I did make a few medium/larger ones too. I now have about 60 buildings. These filled out the town a bit more,  but I'll need still more.

I was lucky enought to be the benefactor of a sad occurence. My wargaming friend Jim Lawrence passed away a few weeks back and last week at our club a whole bunch of his wargaming kit was put out for members to take what they wanted. I was lucky enough to gain some 6mm latex fields and roads. And they fit perfectly. Vale Jim, and thank you.

I also layed out some hills for the acropolis and the theater. These are main objectives for the game (the theater being the historical high point of the attacker's incursions). I think I need to find a better building to represent the theater. I also need to make the outskirts of Demetrius' camp.

So far it's looking good and I'll keep on making those little boxes.

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As shown in my previous post, I've been painting troops so I decided to take the opportunity to put them out and man the walls just to see how they looked. I didn't think I had many troops as yet but I was dismayed to see that I had next to bugger-all. A pitiful few. I really need to step up the painting.

But they looked good on the terrain.

 The siege tower looks like a giant wooden Dalek.