Metcalfe castle kit.

[popeye]

A new kit from Metcalfe model buildings is a beautiful castle kit which comes in several sections to make

the full castle, you can view it on their website.

It really looks very impressive.

 

[DiveController]

Me likee but I'm still co-building Hogwarts with my junior partner!

Do it resemble anything Irish, Kilkenny or the West?

[Broithe]

1 hour ago, DiveController said:

Me likee but I'm still co-building Hogwarts with my junior partner!

Do it resemble anything Irish, Kilkenny or the West?

It's vaguely in the style of what Dunamase would have been like before the alterations..

[NIR]

Doesn't look Irish, I'm not sure it looks anything really, and more 19th century than medieval, just look at all those windows.

Ireland was more a Tower House sort of place, think the structure at the rear standing alone without the curtain wall or gatehouse, but even that looks wrong.

(castles are one of my interests from years ago)

Edited October 24, 2020 by NIR

[popeye]

It comes in sections so you can make it up whatever way you like.

I don't know what the actual size is and i don't know if they do it in N scale.

[NIR]

16 hours ago, popeye said:

It comes in sections so you can make it up whatever way you like.

Standing alone, the structure at the rear would make an excellent Victorian folly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

Edited October 25, 2020 by NIR

[jhb171achill]

21 hours ago, DiveController said:

Me likee but I'm still co-building Hogwarts with my junior partner!

Do it resemble anything Irish, Kilkenny or the West?

Not really - it's more Tudor (English) than Norman / Irish, architecturally. I had though of some sort of old tumbledown "11th century ruin" in a corner on an extension of mine - but the pic of Dunamase above (a lovely place) -  shows that not a window is even necessary!

[DiveController]

I looked through photos of whatever Hiberno-Norman keeps and castles I could think of and didn't find anything resembling this.

I think that as NIR says its more in keeping with a folly which were much more prevalent in GB and again I couldn't find a anything on the Irish folly scene that looked all that similar.

[jhb171achill]

Irish "follies" tended to be a lot smaller, and often just small structures in the grounds of the "Big Houses".

[popeye]

I suppose Carrickfergus castle which is Norman might fit the bill or even Dunluce castle.

 

 

[DiveController]

That's not bad @popeyePopeye. I thought about it briefly but haven't been there for almost 15 years. Well worth a visit actually as it's in good shape (whenever it's open again I suppose)

[Colin R]

Now if they had done a model version of say Blarney Castle, well that would have been better, I do need a small Irish Tower model for the backscene of the freelanced 00n3 layout

Colin R

[murrayec]

57 minutes ago, Colin R said:

Now if they had done a model version of say Blarney Castle, well that would have been better, I do need a small Irish Tower model for the backscene of the freelanced 00n3 layout

Colin R

Money box in the shape of the castle, amazing detail including plants and surrounds. Available exclusively from Blarney Castle.  h 10cms, w 7cms, d 7cms.

https://store.blarneycastle.ie/products/blarney-castle-money-box

[NIR]

15 hours ago, Colin R said:

I do need a small Irish Tower model for the backscene of the freelanced 00n3 layout

Some of those plastic ruins for fish in aquariums are not a million miles away...

...maybe some pruning and a bit of filler scraped across the stonework...

...semi-relief in the background these would work.

Edited November 16, 2020 by NIR

[minister_for_hardship]

The rear section is not unlike Wynn's Folly aka Glenbeigh towers near Glenbeigh. 

A cut down modified gatehouse would resemble so many dotted around the countryside as the entrance to former "demenses".

Mock Tudor/Tudor Revival was a popular style with the Ascendancy.

Edited November 16, 2020 by minister_for_hardship

[roxy_guy10]

Just finished building the 'Castle Hall' kit from this series, really nice kit, great depth and detail, especially in the windows and doors. Metcalfe stuff is usually decent anyways and very sturdy.

I wonder is there anyway I could convince them to do Father Ted's House or Fawlty Towers in kit form.

[Georgeconna]

Mm thats an idea for some enterprising individual, 

Laser cut house with Sound effects of Mrs Doyle and Fr Jack coming out of the gaf every so often The bishop then on a Faller road system chasing Ted. 

Noch do some sound modules Ever a saucy one in barn!

 

[Broithe]

A bit over 00 scale, but maybe suitable for a G scale arrangement?

https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/father-ted-fan-designs-incredible-replica-parochial-dolls-house/

[roxy_guy10]

Nice, would love an OO parochial house. Somebody needs to do one . . . . .

[Broithe]

30 minutes ago, roxy_guy10 said:

Nice, would love an OO parochial house. Somebody needs to do one . . . . .

I'm sure that someone did put a "Scalescenes"-type image up on here years ago, from which a reasonable replica could be made, but I've been unable to find it again...

[roxy_guy10]

I did one myself before, which might be one you are think of,  but it wasn't great . . .