Dear Mr Cryns and Sberry, thank you for your very constructive advices ! i will definetely try foam in the coming weeks !
You both right about semi-circular tower, even if The Romans were so pragmatic that they reused the older constructions without always transforming them.
thank you for the pictures, a good source of inspiration !
Concerning late roman fortress in Gaul, without researches and i don't remember any. Maybe because Gaul was densely populated and the urban network was sufficient to house the units under the hospitalitas regime (one third of the housing and property of civilians such as wine and oil were reserved for the military during the winter housing ).
Many units carry the name of a city or a civitas where they were located (for instance Cortoriacences in modern Courtrai/Kortrijk; Geminianences in Geminiacum/modern liberchies ...).
But we do still have beautifull remains of late roman walls.
Le Mans off course
or Dax in south of France
Before reading your very intersting answer, i've done an another part of my fortifications.
The brief was the same : easy to made in a very short time without any special tools or raw material.
And i wanted to make a tower wich can be used with my walls or alone, as burgus like those :
In a few hours I used an old cardboard found in the street in which I cut a shape, and i carved again my stones sith cutter and pencil.
New, I realized with remains of cardboard "ripped" a roof of tiles.
With matches and bits of balsa, I realized a balcony that seems typical of the time according to the reconstructions, as well as the doors (on which I have not yet made the hinges).
There are still a lot of details to make, but we're not far away. Mr Cryns, it is to light years of your achievements, but hereit is the result :
sorry for the pictures quality, i will take others more detailed and with a better light soon !
PS : what, 15 euros for a fort ! your absolutely right on its toy side, but it is a good base to work on
PPS : you're right too on my bricks color, i will fix it, and my tiles are too flashy...