This is a small basic castle that is built around a keep with three levels. Everything was designed to print out in 1:72 scale on a 22x22cm printing plate. I finished the last bits (the round towers) about two years ago and then I was all set to go print it all out.
Except that I never did.
I did have the time (and the space.....and the filament) to print out two smashing dioramas in 1:144 scale i.e. scaled down to 50% of originally intended size. One of these is shown in the pictures here. But my 1:72 scale castle remains a Work-in-Progress even today :)
Plus, I used everything here to create some virtual dioramas to compete with my real ones. That was a lot of fun and I really recommend trying it. If you have a windows PC with at least 8MB of RAM you can explore a first person walk-through of this castle at https://play.unity.com/mg/other/webgl-builds-214863
Note that you do need to book some substantial production capacity on your printer if you want to print a castle like the one in my diorama, even in 1:144 scale. Depending on what you want, many tower and wall segments need to be printed out over and over again !
The other thing that I thought of when designing this castle was a model railroad display. In that case just scale down to from 1:72 to 1:87 and see what you get !
Some of the details I would do differently today, e.g. the walls were supposed to be made of brick but the brick size was much too large - something I only realized when using it in a virtual diorama. But I am pretty happy with it overall.
| CastleGate_Basic.stl | 3.2MB | |
| CastleMansion_level1.stl | 8.2MB | |
| CastleMansion_level2.stl | 7.7MB | |
| CastleMansion_level3.stl | 12.4MB | |
| CastleMansion_Level3_versionB.stl | 44.8MB | |
| CastleMansion_Roof.stl | 16.0MB | |
| CastleMansion_Roof_Floor.stl | 29.0KB | |
| CastleTower_Basic_Corner.stl | 2.5MB | |
| CastleTower_Basic_Tile_Roof.stl | 3.4MB | |
| CastleTower_Extension.stl | 3.0MB | |
| CastleTower_Top_Small_Crenellations.stl | 5.7MB | |
| CastleWall_No_Roof_No_Steps_Small_Crenellations.stl | 4.4MB | |
| CastleWall_No_Roof_With_Steps_Small_Crenellations.stl | 4.9MB | |
| CastleWall_Tile_Roof_No_Steps_Small_Crenellations.stl | 6.3MB | |
| CastleWall_Tile_Roof_With_Steps_Small_Crenellations.stl | 6.8MB | |
| Castle_Spiralstaircase_Top.stl | 1.8MB | |
| Drawbridge.stl | 9.6MB | |
| Gate_in_Wall_No_Roof.stl | 4.0MB | |
| Gate_in_Wall_Tile_Roof.stl | 5.5MB | |
| Right_Tower_Round_Towers.stl | 2.8MB | |
| Tower_Round_Corner_Base_Level.stl | 4.0MB | |
| Tower_Round_StraightLine_Base_Level.stl | 4.0MB | |
| Tower_Round_Top_Level.stl | 2.8MB |
