[WH]: venturing into 3d - A warmaster castle is being born

[Lex]

By kit version you mean to have 4 tower walls and a tower top instead of two parts (tower base + tower top)??

Yes, that way it saves (expensive) printing material, and shipping cost (size and weight)

[Stormwind]

By facings he means to say that the walls are not solid resin, but an outer wall, an inner wall and a roof section, to save money on resin and packaging.

[David Wasilewski]

Personally, I'd pay more for a solid "all in one piece" wall/tower etc section.
Not sure I'd buy a "do it yourself build a castle kit"

But that's just my preference. Heck, you could even do both versions?

Dave

[leaxe]

by default we were thinking solid version.

Will explore the other possibility too.

Until then, I promised some sizes:

I will receive pictures which show dimensions soon.

Until then:
- The base of the tower is 46x46mm (the inner size of the tower top is the same size)
- outside dimensions of the tower top: 51x51mm (9mm high rampart)
- The top of the tower reaches 80mm
- wall is 172mm long
- depth 49 mm
- height 40mm + 9mm rampart
- half towers 60mm + 9 mm rampart = 69mm
- 3 bases fit on the wall, 2 on the tower and half in the half tower (one if two are joined)

[David Wasilewski]

Can you not make it so that a full unit of warmaster (i.e. 3 stands) fits in the tower, as well as on the wall section?

Dave

[leaxe]

On the wall 3 bases fit. THe towers would have looked way too big and out of dimension if 3 bases would be on top.

[Bel]

Standard collision, eh? The sole decision I see is to make a tower with a top of 60x40.
Ie the whole set of towers has to include some of 40x40mm, some of 40x60 and 1-2 of 60x60 (or more - the donjon or a sort).

[Geep]

2 bases on a tower would be fine in my opinion. I'd be happy to assume that some troops are inside the tower itself (so wouldn't penalise any shooting from that unit), and 2 stands is normal for the many artillery units you'd commonly find mounted on towers.

[Lex]

I agree with Geep....   (check the Art of Siege in Warmaster magazine)  a unit is supposed to hold the inside and top of the tower.

[fracas]

Definitely 3 bases long walls
Maybe three bases deep for towers?

[leaxe]

for now 2 bases will be on the top of the tower.

And here is the first version of the gate

[Stormwind]

Looks really good to me!

[Lex]

And here is the first version of the gate

Nice, but from the picture I would say that is app 3cm wide. From a gaming POV it will make more sense to have the opening actually at 4cm, a stand-wide.

Also, strictly as a suggestion, consider making the "hole" in the wall actually an insert (say a 5x5xdepth dimension) and allow for various "gate" types to be slotted in .......

[leaxe]

We will explore the gate ideas. THanks for the tips!!

In the meantime, we did a quick test on with the printer company.

They will not be availble for a while so we had to do something small and fast for a test run.

And behold: The village well WIP

Some changes are needed but what we wanted to see we could see.

[scaley41]

That's awesome! The detail is perfect.