Castle in 10mm for Sieges

[crancko]

I am looking to build a castle to try WM Siege from warmuster#2.

Anyone has pictures of a build castle with this company? It looks awesome.

http://www.supremelittleness.co.uk/sld-10mm/castles10mm.htm

thank you

[cjbennett22]

those do look really nice, you could probably paint them up to look really nice as well judging by how they show the bridge.  I do wish they had some painted castle sections though.

for functionality I just wanted to suggest skipping the ruined wall section....I just remove the wall section when it is destroyed and replace with something that shows "difficult" terrain in its place. a piece of a roofing shingle I painted.

Their facebook page has a few errant images that show off some of their castle pieces, I think it would be cool despite the monotone coloring of it, if you never painted it that is.

Then there is the cost, you'll want 4 towers and maybe 40 wall sections and then finally a gateway tower and some sally gates from them.  :/

[crancko]

that is why I was interested in see a full castle picture.

There is another option which is this one:

http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/epages/950003459.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/950003459/Categories/10mm_Model_Castle_Kits

[Stormwind]

You should just email them and ask.  These small companies or one-man operations are usually happy to interact with customers. =)

[crancko]

that was the first thing but the answer was  that he has not full picture of a castle. He pointed me to the website.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello

You could have a look at card castles where the painting is replaced by gluing:-
http://www.brumbaer.de/Wm/Build/index.html

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[crancko]

thanks!

[cjbennett22]

That is honestly where I started.  I didn't want you to just go there as you seemed interested in the castle bits.

I found his wall sections to not be do-able for me as they all need a topper and the included topper is a house so I built my own from a rigid foam insulation board and put it on little wooden base and used enough of the paper towers and stuff to make a castle.  the paper towers are also a wide enough base that they alone as a nice card stock can hold all of the troops you can fit into them but the narrower wall sections topple over very easily and make a game very difficult.  Youll need to fill them with something and a rigid foam comes into mind.


Then, after you build a castle you will still need a boat load of everything else from the siege equipement list. 
not to mention probably twice as much infantry in your army 
Once I realized I would not be able to find all of this stuff on ebay I would need to make it myself and just went with everything as custom.  I plan on replacing my wall sections with a resin casting by myself later on but my castle works really well right now if you ask me.  And it was all free minus the ink to print the handful of towers and houses.  His gateway tower is really cool though, I love that thing, the gate is a separate piece that can slide easily in and out of the tower when you smash it down with a battering ram.

This has all taken me 2 years to build with a normal family life and with patience I have gathered up a lot of earthworks and siegeworks from ebay.

[cjbennett22]

But don't let my Sinicism fool you, a siege game is amazingly fun.  Such a huge difference with tactics and how you fight and everything and its a huge amount of fun once you can figure it out, get everything, figure it out again, get the few other things, figure it out to the point where you can play a whole game.....figure out all the fine points of the rules and THEN, you can play a game without any hindrances, it is a ton of awesome.  I am currently learning the fine points of the rules while finishing up the last few things.

I have read so many blogs of people preparing for siege games and they play them without getting ready and have a terrible time trying to figure out rules on the spot and the game just isn't played.

last fun thing about a siege game is that you can leave the castle there and play the game twice and you and your opponent can switch sides for the second game 

[crancko]

Well I already scartched built mine but I want to move to a more professional looking castle 😜

Look this is my castle:

https://flic.kr/p/CzZHXu

https://flic.kr/p/BN2T8s

And more pics here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/44426284@N00/394b4a

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello crancko

Your scratch built castle really looks fine to me .

There are other paper model castles available, look here:-

http://papermau.blogspot.com.au/search?q=medieval+castle

This one's about 1/87 but it should scale down easily



Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Lex]

There is also a tutorial around to make a castle from pink/blue foam. Look at the French Warmaster sites....  IIRC it is Francois who made or posted this

[Ole]

Then there is the cost, you'll want 4 towers and maybe 40 wall sections and then finally a gateway tower and some sally gates from them.  :/

40 wall Sections is 2200 points and 1,6m. That is no starter Castle, is it?

Cheers

Ole

[cjbennett22]

that's not a starter castle, but even if he was "starting" out that's what he will want after he gets the hang of siege combat in warmaster or ancients