Today, I want
to focus on the exterior of the castle. From the selected castles I used as
references, much of the exterior has been converted to accommodate
changing taste over the past five or six centuries. Gone are the embrasures,
crenelated walls and arrow slits. These I shall sketch and cut out from the
individual sections.
With the castle keep and tower at its highest point and the gatehouse at the lower end of the perimeter. I
will need to lower the gatehouse by 5 – 10 mm and add that much to the
structures at the rear.
That step
completed, the embrasures now need to be added to the exterior surface. This
is easily done by trimming a few millimeters from the wall and ending about 5
mm from the lower roof edge. Indentations can be made with a sharp tool or pencil point.
At this moment no structures are fixed to allow freedom of composition.
At this moment no structures are fixed to allow freedom of composition.
Note, the castle base has been trimmed back. This is fine, as I will add rock
formations around the base with the cuttings saved from step one. These will be added as a final step before undercoating.
But next, the
interior.
Cheers,
Really enjoy your building how-to posts, and this castle series might turn out to be your best yet. Thanks for doing this!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Aaron
Nice project, very interesting!
ReplyDeleteThank you both for your comments.
ReplyDeleteThis project has taken an organic direction toward completion. The original plan would have been completed by the week, but I began discovering useful ideas that I just had to add.
In a manner of speaking you are "looking over my shoulder" as I work.
Cheers,
Robert