28mm castles... appreciate your opinions

[eilif]

Happy to help. I'll be very interested to see where this leads. 

The Simba castle got me thinking and I came across this fellow who bought 30(?) of them and is using them as the basis for "his own thing".  Kind of mind boggling really.




Album full of pics here:
http://s1230.photobucket.com/user/bishmeister/library/Castle?sort=3&page=2

[Cubs]

Imagine getting to the top of the tower and forgetting your keys, then having to go back down and get them.

[grant]

Imagine getting to the top of the tower and forgetting your keys, then having to go back down and get them.

That's just silly; the castle would have to be at least three times as big.

[Momotaro]

To quote the aliens from Toy Story: "Ooooooooooooooooo" 

[eilif]

That's just silly; the castle would have to be at least three times as big.

What is this, a Castle for ANTS!

I just watched that on Friday Night (probably for the 22nd time). Still a great picture.

[Johan]

This was built from scratch

[grant]

Fab custom fab work.

[eilif]

Yeah, that is beautiful.  I love the curved sides.

[Johan]

it's made after an existing Belgian castle near Brussels called: castle of Beersel. After the 15th century roofs were added.

[Momotaro]

  excellent work!

[WitchfinderGeneral]

If you need something fast, easy and inexpensive go for a 'castle playset' from the toy store. Faster and easier than building from scratch, cheaper than GW or most other castle models. But not as good looking as the other options.

• Ziterdes Castle Wolvenstein and Dwarf fortress - look lovely, how hard-wearing is the foam?  Has anyone tried to convert foam buildings - easy or hard?

I worked with the NOCH foam models (wich is the same as Ziterdes) and it's a pleasure to work with. The foam is very light, easy to store and to transport, hard enough to take a beating and you can cut it with a knife or a fine saw. Superior to resin or mdf buildings. Very easy to do minor conversions.
I never liked them in the shop or in the catalog but I had the chance to take a closer look (at the Thomarillion trade stand at a convention) and I was reeeeally impressed!
The only problem for me is that the detail level of these buildings is so good my home made buildings look poor compared to them.

[Momotaro]

Thanks for that Witchfinder... the Ziterdes models do look lovely, and it's good to hear that the material is tough bot workable.

Decisions, decisions...