The castle project

I wanted the castle to look like it had been made from stones, but I didn't want to make it look totally different to the way my Dad had made it, so I bought some foam to work on some of the walls but decided to leave the tower walls as they were.

I needed to repair the wood in a lot of places, using wood filler (quite a lot of wood filler) but wanted it to look as realistic as possible and so decided not to worry about sanding it down completely smooth. I wanted to leave a bit of texture to the walls.

I then drew, with a biro, the stones into the foam which I had glued to the walls. 

I thought I'd do something with the arrow slits as well, and used foam to give them the effect of standing out from the tower walls a bit.

I did sand the wood filler a bit, but not too much.

And then I painted the whole thing with a grey acrylic pain from the local HobbyCraft store.

A black wash., filling all those cracks and bringing out the texture on the tower walls, worked really well.

I then added white to the base grey paint and dry brushed the stones and tower walls.

and painted the drawbridge a darker richer brown, and gave it a dark brown wash to highlight the planks.

I did some work on the inside too, wood filler in the tower tops to give the feeling of stone floors, and it was done.

I think Dad would have been pleased with it.

It was a pleasure to do it, and took me back to those simpler times.