Iron Age: Ring of Stone 2

This being a long bank holiday weekend as well as having time to complete our big battle I've also been working on the Fogou Models iron age ring fort and buildings I recently received. As I'd used a pretty straight forward scheme of dry brushing and sponging colours onto a black base the various parts came together very quickly.

As you may be able to tell from the pictures with models in (28mm Victrix Iberians) the fort itself is pretty darned large. It measures 14" across (wall to wall) and 2 1/2" high, so it will take up a reasonable amount of space on the table.

You could use just a few sections in a corner or on a table edge to add some interest to the edge of a table.

As well as the standard wall and gate section the model came with a breached wall section to allow for the effects of siege weapons in a game.

It also came with a fantasy style gate system consisting of two towers joined by a wooden walk-way over a gate. The kit came with two different gates as well, one obviously fantasy and the other more plain.

With the plain door you could take a little artistic licence and use the fantasy towers in an historic game. It would certainly make a nice centre piece for a siege game.

As I didn't want to glue all the gate pieces together, I wanted a way to be able to swap the gates around but keep them reasonably firmly together during play. I stuck a couple of bits of metal wire to the gateposts and inserted a couple of small magnets into each gate, these give enough hold that the gates don't fall over when nudged.

It wasn't just the fort that came, I also got enough buildings and bits and bobs for a decent sized village. The stone buildings got the same treatment as the walls and the thatched roofs are just a sand yellow undercoat with Iyanden Yellow contrast paint over the top.

I got another well to go with the mud brick ones I have from that Kickstarter and a couple of grain houses and a rather nice animal pen. All in all a good haul and I cannot wait to see these in action when we start playing SAGA: Age of Hannibal in the very near future.