popeye Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 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. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Me likee but I'm still co-building Hogwarts with my junior partner! Do it resemble anything Irish, Kilkenny or the West? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 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.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIR Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 (edited) 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIR Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Irish "follies" tended to be a lot smaller, and often just small structures in the grounds of the "Big Houses". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 I suppose Carrickfergus castle which is Norman might fit the bill or even Dunluce castle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 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) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin R Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murrayec Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIR Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 (edited) 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 (edited) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxy_guy10 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeconna Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 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/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxy_guy10 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Nice, would love an OO parochial house. Somebody needs to do one . . . . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxy_guy10 Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I did one myself before, which might be one you are think of, but it wasn't great . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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