| Cerdic | 14 May 2008 12:03 a.m. PST |
Does anyone know of any web sites that show a scaled plan of a castle? I've found plenty that have pictures, drawings, descriptions etc, but none with enough measurements to build a scale model. I think this information is out there, I am just crap at searching for it! Thanks for your help… |
| Grizwald | 14 May 2008 1:15 a.m. PST |
What sort of castle are you looking for: British hill fort (e.g. Maiden Castle)
Motte and bailey
Stone walled castle
Artillery fort ?? |
| Mark Plant | 14 May 2008 1:16 a.m. PST |
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| Grizwald | 14 May 2008 1:22 a.m. PST |
"And period?" Er … that's what I was getting at. |
| Mark Plant | 14 May 2008 3:49 a.m. PST |
Well, you *wrote* a list of styles. A "stone walled castle" built in 1100 will be mighty different from one built in 1400. And they will be different again from one built in 1100 but altered several times up to 1400. Location makes a huge difference too, since it determines whether the "stone walled castle" is on the flat or a hill-top. Then there's the difference between small baronial castles and large royal ones. |
| Patrick R | 14 May 2008 4:28 a.m. PST |
Palladium games produced a booklet(s) with castle plans some years ago. You probably can find it on Ebay. |
| The War Event | 14 May 2008 7:31 a.m. PST |
Check out "The Medieval Fortress", ISBN 0-306-81358-0, by J.E. Kaufmann & H.W. Kaufmann. Full of diagrams and pictures of castles all over Europe. - Greg |
| Delta Vee | 14 May 2008 10:35 a.m. PST |
or do a visit to the english heratige, and national trust websites and see if they will sell the guide books to sites from them, usualy the on site gift shops have guide books that have a map/ plan of the site and photos for interior detail. my one warning is that aside from the smallist castles in 28mm youll take up a hughe chunk of table, and evan in smaller scales theyll be big. |
| Jovian1 | 14 May 2008 12:42 p.m. PST |
There are several sites with down-loads for card stock castles which will give you a basic layout – but not a floor plan with room by room layout that I know of – some are even posted on here as links! |
| jweaver | 14 May 2008 5:36 p.m. PST |
Lots of drawings of stone castles in guidebooks are on the web include the scale. For medieval castles, one of my favorites is Harlech castle in wales: shawnbrown.com/maps/castle3.html In 28 mm scale I think this castle would end up being about 30 inches by 30 inches, so as SteelPenguin said it would eat up quite a bit of table space. On a 4 foot by 6-8 foot playing surface it would fit, though. This one was built on a hill and designed to be resupplied by sea with a fortified stair that went down the seaward cliff-face. |
| Russell120120 | 14 May 2008 6:42 p.m. PST |
The old Harn role playing game had room by room scale plans of Medieval English style castles in many of its module type settings. Circa 1100 as I recall. Their production values were top notch. |
| Cerdic | 15 May 2008 12:09 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the replies everyone. To answer a few questions… Period – I'm leaning toward early/mid medieval, maybe not quite as ambitious as Caernarvon. I have visited quite a few castles over the years. The English Heritage guidebooks usually have groundplans, but they are not drawn to scale. When I was a kid I remember the old style 'blue' guidebooks which had detailed plans with elevations etc all to scale. The modern ones are a bit 'dumbed down' in comparison! jweaver – thanks for that link, exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for! |
| Guthroth | 15 May 2008 6:25 a.m. PST |
What about google earth ? Choose your favourite castle, zoom in and print. Scale according to taste … Pete |
