"Castle Keep Round Tower roof/floor question" Topic

What would the roof/ceiling/floor of a round tower type keep of the sort in the photo below be made of? Wood or stone? The area in question is circled in bright green and is sculpted as stone. The same part of the small side tower is sculpted as wood.

I ask because I dug out this tower I've had stashed away for 20+ years and want to repaint it and stone just doesn't seem right.

Also, who produced this scenery piece? It seems to be made out of a hard foam and is very detailed but light in weight.

Thank you.

Always loved that movie. As for the floor more than likely wood but not sure.
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After quick look might be stone after all

Should be wood, based on real-world history. Stone floors would need a stone arch, underneath, to support them. Cheers!

The ones I walked on in Europe were made of wood…reinforced to modern engineering standards, of course. Check out this forum discussion on flooring:

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Ray

I think if it was a Hollywood set they made it what they wanted, but too was thinking if a real castle probably wood as supporting a stone floor that size would take some doing.

All of the real castles I've visited had wood floors for towers and turrets, I'm sure for the reasons stated above.

I think the manufacturer is Hudson And Allen
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That castle has a light weight laminate with a stone look :)

saltflats1929 is absolutely right, it is a Hudson & Allen 25mm Medieval Keep, as seen below…

…currently available here for $52 USD:

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Alamric, should be pretty easy to add a wooden floor to top of the keep. I admit I considered doing the same years ago when I painted my own two, but didn't convert either. If you go forwards with the customization, please post some pics for the rest of us to see after you're done!

I believe wood was most commonly used.

There are many, many ruined castles in Britain and one of the common features is wall-towers with much of the masonry still intact but no floors. When you stand on the ground inside the tower and look up you can see, as well as the sky, masonry projections that originally supported the wooden beams for the floors.

The roof may have had a wooden frame supporting a stone tiled floor with rainwater gutters around the edge that may have been part of the wall structure.

Bear in mind that many alterations were made to castles over their lives and it isn't always clear what the original looked like or what materials were used.

Later repairs could quite possibly have just been in wood for economy's sake. Many medieval buildings had stone roofs that were later replaced by lighter & cheaper tile or lead.

I'd agree that wood is the most obvious option but not the only plausible one.

Thank you everyone for your help.

I will post pictures of it when I get it repainted.

Nice to know that Hudson And Allen models are still available as the details on this piece are gorgeous. I just hope not to mess it up.

If you are deadset on a wooden floor, get some thin balsa sheet and lightly score some lines on it to make boards, then stain, paint, etc.. I'd cut out a cardboard pattern that fits the floor first so you can get an exact fit for the balsa.

You can get what Zephyr1 is suggesting in sheets already scored as boards.

Thin flagstone would be a lot more "fire-proof" if attacked by flaming arrows and other weapons, but I agree, wood is probably more likely.

Always wanted one of their castles, but could never afford the real estate loan to fund it.

Threshe01, that is a bit of hyperbole :)… A few hundred dollars and change will get you an enormous and beautiful H&A Castle. I am far from wealthy and I bought one of them from H&A at a game Con at a very reasonable price. You would never regret the purchase if you bought one. They are remarkably high quality products at very reasonable prices.