To make this building you will need:

Cork floor tiles (unvarnished):	I prefer cork for Mordheim-buildings as it is easy to work with and you can break off parts of walls to give if a more demolished look.
Balsa wood	For all wooden parts like the bridges, timber bars, stairs and the like Balsa Wood is the perfect material
Card (cereal-box thickness)	For roofs and other stuff
Glue
Paints	Black color spray for undercoating, Codex Grey, Scorched Brown, Bestial Brown, Snakebit Leather, Brown Ink, Beaten Copper, Chaos Black, Skull White
Bitz	Mordheim Building Sprue, Mordheim Roof Sprue, Skeletton Sprue
Pringles Tube	For the Tower
Plastic Icecup (in conic shape)	For the Tower-roof

Construction

1. Cut our retangles of the cork-floor tiles for the walls. I usually make the walls at least 2" high. The length of the walls depends on the size of wall you want. Also cut out a floor for the walls to stick to (which should obviously have the same length/width as the walls). For this building I used a whole cork floor tile as ground floor.

2. Cut Windows, Doors into your Walls. If you use doors and windows from the Mordheim building sprue, the holes you cut should have the same size as the bitz you use.

3. Once you have enough walls, make the sides of the building and glue them to the floor tile.

4. As soon as the glue has dried, you can make the building sections "collapse", by breaking of pieces of Cork. But never forget that there might be other floors above this section...

5. Continue to make floors and Walls (and giving them the collapsed shape) until the whole building is finished.

6. Once you are satisfied with the size of the building, you can start to add details: Glue Doors and windows into the cut out holes, make frames, bridges, stairs and other wooden parts of balsa wood (for the frames I use 5 mm strips of balsa wood).

7. For the Tower use a Pringles tube and put a conic shaped icecup made of plastic on the top to create a roof. Cut out spaces for the Windows the doors and the bays and then glue the building parts from to mordheim-sprues into the correct position.

8. Next step is the roof: Take a piece of cardboard to create the roof. Cut the rest of the cardboard box into small tiles. After attaching the cardboard-roof to the building glue the tiles overlapping to the cardboard roof. For the Towers roof also glue the cardboard-tiles around the plastic-cup.

9. Now start to paint the building: Paint the all the wall sections with a sand-paint-mixture to give the walls some structure. Then undercoat it black. When the paint is dried, drybrush the walls with Codex Grey. Paint the Wooden parts with Bestial Brown, then a second time with thinned Scorched Brown (or Brown ink if you can afford it...) and drybrush them with Snakebite Leather.

 

10. The final step is to decorate the building with some skeletons, barrels, wheels, ladders etc. to add more atmosphere. Finished!

 

Total working time: around 5 hours.

Here are some pictures of the finished building: