Simba Toy Castle

[Annie]

Debenhams have it on sale in the UK, but post worldwide!

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_171050908599_-1

[AzSteven]

Under $50 shipped to the US and expected delivery in 10 days.  Impressive.  Most impressive.

[Eric the Shed]

I used the Round towers to build my Keep - Gateway is a GW fortress - the rest scratchbuilt

full build and pictures here...

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-keep-tales-of-shedwood-part-1.html

finished picture



and here it is part of my medieval town set up



The castle is also listed as a Superplay brand (link below)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superplay-Falcon-Castle-I-70x48cm/dp/B00194R2WU

[Ninefingers]

That looks brilliant, hope they've still got some by payday 

[white knight]

If you're out of luck finding that one, there's a similarly sized one by another company, the "Toy Major Deluxe Jumbo Castle Playset".

I have that one as well. I have a slight preference for the Simba one as I feel the stone texture is a bit nicer on it and the Toy Major castle has connector holes for the walls in the towers that would need to be filled (the Simba castleset uses the arrowlsits/windows as connectorholes which is smarter):

[bandit86]

I am working on one, it's really a nice kit and not to expensive (hard plastic seems to take paint well)

[hawe]

I painted the main keep, with some small additions (scratchbuilt wooden gates, statues, torches, scratchbuilt flagpoles) and I feel it's very good for the price.

Hello.

Very nice keep indeed.

One question: By painting it, did you prepare the plastics with a primer or did you only use drybrushing and (perhaps) inking for the gaps?

TIA Hawe

[white knight]

I primed it as usual with a standard spray can, then painted some thinned black in the crevices, then subsequent drybrushes of greys. Of course you could prime it black and directly move on to the grey drybrushes.

Really no different from say a GW plastic kit.

[white knight]

After seeing this, I've started looking through Taobao

You in China then? 

[Eric the Shed]

links...

[Urquhart]

They're actually on the text but Lead Adventure seems to have a css which means the link colour is exactly the same.

The solution is change the color of the words of the link with the option the forum gives (yellow, for example)

[Annie]

Mission accomplished, childhood complete!

[Pijlie]

 

Good for you, Annie!

[nullBolt]

Mission accomplished, childhood complete!

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God damn, it's huge.

[Andym]

Its not huge....its just Annie is in 28mm scale!

Thats a great price for a full castle. There wouldn't be too much work involved. Just hide the low windows and you're sorted! Nice find and thanks for the link Annie!