Wanted: floorplans or layouts for small inner-city castle

[Bikerdude]

have been doing a search on google for a some of the above but not gettign very far, anyone point me to some ledgeable images I can use etc. Its ant have a massive courtyard either, something small like the one in T3, but mich higher walls and structures.

 

The general idea is something like the following -

 

[Obsttorte]

Fuerstlich-Drehna, Brandenburg, Germany

 

http://www.schloesse...lich-drehna.php (On this site there are several castles with floorplans. You can change to english in the upper left corner.)

[chakkman]

Dunno if it fits, but here's a map of Colditz castle, which was built around 1200 and served as a POW camp in the 2nd world war. It was also location of a Commandos 2 mission, that's where i know it from.

 

Ok, might be a bit too big to qualify as "small".

Edited February 11, 2014 by chk772

[Bikerdude]

Fuerstlich-Drehna, Brandenburg, Germany

very nice, but still too big.

 

Dunno if it fits, but here's a map of Colditz castle,

Yeah, lovely floor plan, but far too big.

 

There was a very cool T2 mission I player that was bigger on the inside and had a few small courtyards but fore the life of me I cant remember what it was called.

[SteveL]

How about Skipton castle? only 8 rooms per floor + courtyard, and I guess there's no harm building one floor.. Looks fun to build;

 

 

 

 

If you're going for a small footprint, you could try looking for Keep floor plans. The wikipedia article has a dozen or so, plans + photo, ranging in size from one room to about 8.

Edited February 11, 2014 by SteveL

[Bikerdude]

Ah now this is more like it, it looks almost claustrophobic from the image above. But when i started looking for images etc, I came across Rochester castle, which while basic looking is small enough to suite..

 

 

[SteveL]

Couldn't resist this one. The keep at Trim Castle in Ireland.

 

Proof positive that even 12th Century architects knew about good visportalling.

 

 

 

 

[source: the wiki article linked above]

[Al_B]

How about Borthwick castle? It's has a pretty compact style but still quite interesting:

 

 

Additional floorplans of it and other similar castles available here: http://socks-studio.com/2012/04/06/walls-as-rooms-british-castles-and-louis-khan/

[Bikerdude]

Couldn't resist this one. The keep at Trim Castle in Ireland.

Hmm will need to find more floor plans, but small enough to do the job.

How about Borthwick castle? It's has a pretty compact style but still quite interesting

This could be form once side of the castle wall for sure.

[Melan]

Rochester Castle, now that looks good.

[SteveL]

Agreed, that's an interesting interior.

[Bikerdude]

Ok found some more info and some very handy, hand drawn blue prints -