Completing a half-finished building

Some time ago, I built a model border fortress based on a kit I bought from an English Heritage shop. When I finished it, it looked like this:

Initially, I painted it medium grey ...

... but I felt that the walls needed some sort of texture. I therefore put it to one side until I could think of a way to achieve that end result.

After my recent splurge of painting and basing model buildings, I decided to apply the techniques I have been using to this model border fortress. To give the walls some texture, I applied a coat of PVA glue to the walls and dipped them in fine cork granules. Once that had dried, I painted the walls with Tank Grey (Humbrol No.67).

I then dry brushed the walls with White (Revell No.05) and the planks with Earth Brown (Humbrol No.29). I then flocked the base with fine cork granules.

The end result looked like this:

I am rather pleased with the way this border fortress now looks, and it doesn't look out of place with the other buildings I have painted recently.

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During a search of my box of spare bits and pieces, I found the unused components of the wooden castle model I used to build this border fortress … and there looks as if there enough left to build a small castle/fortress!