If you haven’t come across it before, the Modular Castle set from our Small Scale Scenery range is a set of components that allows you to put together all sorts of medieval castles by combining a variety of walls, turrets, gates and keeps.
The component that shows the most variation is the keep – there are big ones, small ones, square, rectangular, circular and all manner of geometric shapes. Today we’re adding three more, taking the total of different types to eight.
The first is a cylindrical keep, which we’ve based on the one at Pembroke Castle in Wales. It’s a fairly straightforward design but has an interesting roof with a double layer of crenellations.
The second design is a Shell Keep. These replaced wooden motte and bailey castles, with a stone wall replacing the wooden fence on the top of the motte. They provide more protection than the wooden palisade, but without the massive weight of a full keep. There are many good examples still left in the UK, including Arundel, Restormel, Tonbridge, Totnes and more.
Finally, the most unusual design (and unique) is the keep at York Castle, also known as Clifford’s Tower. It is a quatrefoil design; similar to the shape of a four-leave clover, it’s basically made up of four overlapping circles.
All of the keeps can be bought individually, or as part of a set along with walls, turrets and a gate.
SSS-8121f – Shell Keep – £2.25
SSS-8121g – Clifford’s Tower – £2.25
SSS-8121h – Pembroke Keep – £2.00
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