While not as grand, or as spacious as Chateau de Queribus, it occupies a key position in my Kingdom of Biggledonia. Tower is 3D printed and purchased on Temu. I had the figures printed to 22 mm, so I guess they’re around 1/87 scale (HO).
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Agreed it’s not on the scale of the @Frank_Wetekam sort of work but it’s still a nice little piece!
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Very nicely crafted.
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but it looks more like an outlying inhabited watchtower than a castle. A castle would typically have a bit more infrastructure: an outer bailey with service buildings, stables, ditches, and a surrounding curtain wall. In its current form, the castle would be an easy target.
Take a look at some examples on the internet. That’s one of the reasons why I design my own castles. Most of the ones you can buy are little more than fairy-tale castles.
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Yeah…I know. It’s called being facetious, although many 9, and 10th cent. European castles started off as a tower, or keep, and were developed over the generations. It reminds me of Charlton Heston’s “castle” in “The Warlord”. Loosely speaking, any fortified building could be called a “chateau”… the oldest standing structure in Montreal is an early 18th cent. stone residence with attached tower…Chateau de Ramezay. It was the Governor’s residence, but there was little danger of native attacks by that date.
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That’s correct. In their earliest form, they were motte-and-bailey castles. The motte was an artificial earth mound surrounded by a ditch or moat and a palisade. The keep was originally often built of wood rather than stone. Over time, these wooden structures were replaced by stone towers and expanded into the larger castles we associate with the Middle Ages today.
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