Anker: GK-NF 16 Wasserwerk

In between tabletop games with Ankerstein terrain (e.g. here) I've picked an original design from the GK-NF 16 box which doesn't make sense on a gaming table (because it would not stand alone, does not fit the 18th century and has the wrong scale for 30mm flats, anyway), the Municipal Waterworks.

As an industrial, functional building it is a nice change from the (neo-)classical churches and villas which dominate the original Richter designs - in a similar spirit as some later Anker builders' designs like the apartment building, the government offices or the grain storage.

This building uses up nearly all of the larger wall stones, nicely segmented into white and red building pieces. It does not try to use up all of the smaller stones in useless ornamentation, or the steeper roof tiles just for the sake of using them, and I appreciate this self-limitation. The most striking feature is the high water tower.

Let's start with the foundation. The interesting design aspect here is the 1/8th difference between the lowest stone layer and the rest of the building.

Here are the two entry portals, the highest layer of the right wing before building the roof, and the white ground floor of the left wing.

The main building's roof has a very unusual bottom layer with five 1/4th cube high partial layers mixed up. 

Here is the first stone layer on top of the large wooden beams that connect the building walls, with parts of 1/4th, 1/2 and one cube height.

And this is the first smooth surface at 5/4th cube heights above the wooden beams. Most, but not all of the small stones used here are 1/4th height stones 72, 70, 64, and 69.

And here is the complete building in all its glory (and all its gory background bookshelves, sorry...).

For some reason I ran out of red stones 19 long before completing the tower, and cheated by using pairs of stone 210.

I really like the effect of having two very different, but very nice and generous entry portals leading into the two wings of the building.

Rear view, including the neat little garden fence on the side

Side view of the main building with the "garden" - now that I look at it I should at least have put some model lawn and a few trees in there...