A place for an observatory

I'm going for a rather quick job today. I could say it was a work of opportunity. As an introduction, I'll tell you that I built this observatory vault some time ago, thinking of placing it somewhere on my Qala Debdou board.

This is way simpler than it looks

It's just a bottle cap. I replaced the straw with a scratchbuilt telescope:

Sorry I didn't build the interior

The thing is that I never found the right place for this. I tried it on a different number of buildings and towers and it never felt right. Well, then I stored it, hoping that I'll eventually find the right place for it.

Opportunities present themselves if you are looking for them (Dammit, that sounded like a coaching book or something!)

But anyway. More life advice: you don't have to go mad everytime the kids break something.

Trust me, sometimes it's an opportunity

You see, this plastic tub experienced some... issues. But you also know that we are totally pro recycling at home! Oh, well, I know. For most of you that expression means I take this stuff to the proper container. Right. We also do that, right. But recycling also means this...

Oh, you can't say you didn't see this coming!

 You can see I took the easiest approach, just glued a few random bits here and there, but I really didn't think I needed to overdo it, so I kept it relatively clear. After that I just white primed it and added the basic colours, in the usual way of my other buildings:

Terrible simple, yet functional

 It feels almost embarrassing, but I have to say that this is almost everything. From this point on I just have to get it as dirty and weathered as I can:

You call this dirty?

OK, better, but not there yet...

 Once I got it really battered, just had to add the dome:

A modest observatory

Maintenance crew is not doing quite an outstanding job here

They all come top of the hill to spot the stars

 It was a fun thing to do, pretty quick work, but I think that the building didn't really ask for much more. I think it fits well with my other buildings of the like, and in fact I do have quite some now! I should put up a board some day only with these.

In the meantime, I'm working on more projects, so I hope I'll be able to bring more stuff soon!