Monday, November 10, 2025

CRUSADES XII CENTURY - MUSLIM TOWN

 While I was thinking to reproduce the 3rd Battle of Ramla, I went on with the project and started to build up (with paper, as always) a fortified Fatimid Town: it coulm be Ramla or some bigger town on the coast.

What I am trying to show is how to use normal leftovers from home and transmorm them into something playable.

I have already prèparred wall, gates, siege-towers, catapults, but this will be showed later. Today I want to present the Central Tower of the suppoesed town (in Arabic, with my poor knoledge of that language) should be al-qal al'azraq, due ot its top colour.

I started from the plastic box of mozzarella di bufala and primo sale: both Italian cheeses.





I started to cover the lower box with walls (picture 3)



Then because they were perfecly matching, I put one on the other, glued them and covered with walls




Then I started to prepare the ground around, adding windows and gates.




 I wanted to make also a sort of garden and so I wanted to prepare some palms. This is how I build up palms with paper, then added to the al-qal al'azraq, adding sand around and some bushes






Final result: