kevin8 Posted October 6, 2024 Posted October 6, 2024 (edited) Hello to everyone! Today I would like to introduce my new modular:it is precisely a medieval driveway door placed on a baseplate with the road. On the ground floor there is the passage for cars that is narrower than the roadway and for this reason it has an alternating one-way system with the traffic light and signs indicating the prescribed speed and the bottleneck. The medieval gates have remained in place, probably restored and still functioning. Above the arch of the door there is a sculpture of a lion's head and the spotlights that illuminate the facade. On the right side there is the bell tower, used to sound the alarm in case of danger. Through the tower there is the pedestrian passage, also in this case the door with its locking system has remained. Inside, a pair of birds has nested and along the corridor there are several medieval coats of arms. Once outside above the door we can find a niche with a votive statuette. On this side there is also a cantilevered room with a wall that I imagined built in terracotta rather than stone like the rest of the building. Here I applied a sort of decoration with oblique tiles clearly inspired by the roof of Rivendell. On this side, above the portal I placed the coat of arms of a lion in a two-tone square and the usual spotlights to illuminate the facade. On the other side of the road there is a gate that gives access to the stairs that lead to the stands and the upper floor for possible tourist visits. Above is a room where the men-at-arms took shelter when necessary, there is a large fireplace that they used for cooking and warming up and the stairs to access the upper floor that have the typical central wear of very old stone stairs. Beyond the fireplace is a long room with a walled up door. Taking the stairs you access the top floor of the door. The battlements suggest that once the building ended with the terrace, but later the battlements were closed and the roof was built by adding another fireplace. On this floor you access the rope to operate the bell. Several construction techniques particularly excited me during the creation of the building. The first concerns the closing system of the doors. One thing I have often noticed is that during the Middle Ages, to allow a quick closing of very heavy doors, they misaligned the hinges. In this way the door remained tilted when it was open while when it needed to be closed, it was enough to move it and it closed almost by the force of gravity alone. The second one is about the round structure of the tower. I needed a rather small tower, maximum 7 studs wide and I had no choice but to try to do something new (I think). So by alternating and rotating modified bricks with the stud on the side, I somehow managed to obtain a structure that is not too uniform and variegated while still keeping it quite solid. The third one is about the roof built with two slopes using a relatively new piece, “Bar 1L with Angled Hollow Stud”. With this detail in mind I thought about the truss structure and built the boarding and the rest of the roof on top. The last one is the bell that I tried to make as in reality with the wooden counterweight to which it is fixed. Unfortunately I couldn't take any pictures because my camera is under repair. As soon as I get a chance, I'll upload them to the Flickr gallery. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin8/albums/72177720320925725/with/54046552451 Edited October 11, 2024 by kevin8 Quote
The Island Chronicles Posted October 6, 2024 Posted October 6, 2024 Looks like something that would be good for a modern-day royal family! Quote
FGMatt Posted October 7, 2024 Posted October 7, 2024 Fantastic! A great model all around, but as is often the case with such models it's the details that really elevate it. Quote
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