All's well,that ends well!

I have a "sat-nav" thingy in my car that I have never used(I've had the car for three years!) because I can't be bothered to read the instructions! Last week I ordered from Warrior Miniatures,2 card-printed Roman Milecastles-they duly arrived and I was presented with,you've guessed it,Instructions!!!!!,so of course I ignored the Instructions and just got on with making the models.....

Instruction sheet(fine print!) and tools,milecastles for the use of,-what could possibly go wrong if I just ignored the Instructions??

Top photo is one of four sheets,printed with all the walls,gates and buildings for the job,bottom photo is a plan for you to stick onto a thicker card or hardboard-this is "idiot-proof"-oh yeah? well they hadn't reckoned on "who needs instructions Jonnie-boy!!"

I managed to get totally mixed up with North Walls,South Walls,NE/NW/SE/SW walls,and ended up with having to "bodge" two milecastles into one large "fort"-however,the end result looks ok,as long as a close inspection isn't called for....................

Two shots of the ,almost finished "Fort"-The instructions tell you to paint the walls etc before making the model,otherwise the card will buckle-but I didn't read the bloody instructions did I? so I elected to colour only the gates,buildings roofs and wall tops,using felt tip pens................

The finished article-quite pleasing to the eye(well,half a half shut one!)

Finally,some of my 15mm Romans to show the scale.The morale to this tale must be, if there are instructions,they are there for a reason-so use them!!