Hobby | Stop, Martello Time

One thing that's really easy about naval wargaming is that the terrain can be really easy; just throw down a blue cloth and you're done. That doesn't mean that there's no terrain either though. A lot of naval actions happened fairly close to shore, or involved land elements as well. That includes these little guys known as Martello Towers, which is a misspelling of the Italian martella, or hammer. 

This a resin model from Warlord Games that comes in their terrain box. It comes with 3 molded weapons emplacements as well: two cannons and one mortar. One of the mortars was broken off, so I replaced it with a bit of brass rod. I chuckled to myself as before priming it looked like it had a gold tooth in its smile.

The painting was super simple and nothing really to write home about. Instead of the typical grey I went with a beige color with bits of stone masonry peeking through the outer layer. Not entirely sure that I'm going to stick with the grey stone base though. It depends on whatever terrain I make in the future and how it'll fit in with that. 

Here's the tower when compared with a 3rd rate ship-of-the-line. Beefy but not over-large. 

-The Space Dinosaur