Samurai Castle

[MadMö]

Great work.
I especially liked the "how to".
Thanks for sharing.

[sukhe_bator]

Nice treatment of the roofs and the timber walkways!
I had a go at one in 15mm - basing it more on the earlier Sengoku-Jidai mansions than the post 1600 castles familiar today (There's a lot more earthworks and timber, and a lot of open bamboo fencing a la 'Ran'). My internal buildings will be simpler with wooden shingles weighted with stones and horizontal lathes, a feature of peasant houses, rather than fancier tiles, but the key is to get the proportions right. All houses were based around number combinations of the tatami matting.
Apparently some of the best preserved examples/recons are in Korea. I can thoroughly recommend Stephen Turnbull's recent offerings on Japanese castles, early and late.
This is quite early in the build. I had the additional problem of making the supports for the timber walkways wide enough to allow the multiple-based figures underneath. Not a problem with individual basing.

A view of the fencing and wooden hoardings, with beginnings of the Tenshu mound (actually quite a small structure is planned)

The main gateway will have extensive 'ironwork' on the doors and 'plaster' fireproofing

[The_Watcher]

Totally blown away by the castle, great work! Seeing stuff like yours totally gets me in the mood to make something like that for my own. Must find more styrofoam (meaning, nick it from local construction site )

[Kinokawa]

Great stuff
I dream of following in your footsteps, one day ...

While dreaming, I found some old pictures of japanese castles on a japanese newspaper-webpage:

http://mainichi.jp/select/wadai/graph/japaneasecastle/

Not the best quality but still might be interesting for future projects.

[sukhe_bator]

Great site for reference. The earth and timber versions that preceded these magnificent castles, like the motte and bailey castles in Europe, do not survive so well, unfortunately.

[Doomsdave]

This page has some good photos of traditional style Korean homes.   
http://ata.hannam.ac.kr/korea/k-house1.htm


I have pics from my time there but they are sadly not digital format.

[HerbyF]

Clanty - if you DO writ a tutorial, please, let us know!

                                      If you do a tutorial I would hope you would post it here too. Or at least a link to it.

[Super_Gibbon]

I can't keep up with who is doing what on this thread but its all gorgeous and you are all awesome.

Where can you get those 1/35 scale samurai? I checked ebay and it was a bit barren.