Tower Stairs and Interior Walls

So last week I showed you the beginning of my put the stairs into the tower process.  Which was painting the stairs their base coat.

This weekend I gave them a few more coats of grey, using the same colors I had for the stone floor of the tower.  I used a wash of darker grey to give them some shadows and then dry brushed a bit of it in strategic spots.  And of course I forgot to take a picture of them drying.

I glued them to the center post, which I decided to leave wood because I like the warmth and I think it makes the tower more interesting visually.

I started with the lower stairs because I could move the post around as I choose and did a quick fit to make sure I hadn't goofed something up in between building, painting and gluing.  Knowing me that's entirely possible.

But they worked!  Yay!

So I let them dry inside the tower since it would keep them where they needed to be.  Then I started on the window and door trim.  I used egg carton stone and got all the windows and the two doors done and painted.

I mixed up some of the all purpose texture to use as grout and since I had mixed a bit too much decided to plaster the tower walls, at least in part.  I didn't do all of them because again, I think it makes the tower look interesting inside.

There are a few bubbles in the brick paper due to the moisture but they've flattened some overnight as all the texture dried.  And then I could glue in the window and door surrounds.

Which again, I forgot to take a picture of at the time.

But since I was using the wood post as my center support column the stairs needed some wood supports to tie everything together.  I used some of my 1/4 x 1/16 bass wood from Hobby Lobby and some 3/16 x 3/16 wood from Miniatures.com as supports, stained Dark Walnut.

Obviously my glue is still drying.

I made a landing for the stairs out of balsa, carved to look like wide boards and stained with some Ebony to darken the 'space' between the planks and Dark Walnut on the bulk of the wood.

Then I figured out where I needed to put the upper stairs and did the same thing all over again for them.

There will be some touch up painting on the stairs once the glue dries but so far everything seems to be working.  I've used rubber bands to hold the tower closed while everything dries so it'll keep its shape and the stairs will adhere to the places they're supposed to instead of moving around.

And so I took pictures from the doorways to show you the view of anyone walking into the tower.

Again, glue still drying but so far I like how it looks.

What do all of you think?  How was your weekend?