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First, the spray can cap. I use a lot of spray primer and base coatings, so I have a lot of caps. Some are plain cylinders. Some have these grips on them. Other are tapered, with or without grips. If you have a textured spray paint, the cap usually already comes textured. And a good old juice bottle lid. Again, I have some and will have more. These are from Simply juice, and have a nice geometric grip design that will work well for architectural design.
I just glued the caps together and painted them up. Though some of the caps come textured, I use sand and wood glue in the paint to give them a stone like texture. A black wash brings out the shadows. The grips make nice inset windows.
First, cut out a 1" diameter circle. Use a big hole punch if you have one. If not, a soda bottle cap is about the right size. Then cut up from the bottom to the sides of the circle to make a rounded-top door shape. Use this as a template to make door shapes that will match each other. Sometimes you want uniformity if you will have two or three towers in the same location. Now do the door decoration bit.
And that's just the start. Pretty much anything round of roughly this size will give you your own unique tower.
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