Egelric’s castle Sceadwung-clif: Upper Floors

Published January 17, 2009 06:21 AM

We’ve already seen the exterior and ground floor of Egelric’s castle, so today we’re going to finish it off. Looking at it nearly 2 years later, my castle-​building techniques have improved (or at least changed) so much it seems like a candidate for a rebuild, but even if I do, it will preserve roughly the same floorplan. Maybe we can even compare before & after shots someday.

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Tour of Malcolm and Iylaine's House

Published December 16, 2008 05:31 PM

Devin has asked a couple of times about Malcolm and Iylaine’s house, so the easiest way to answer seems to be a quick tour.

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Tour of Osh's Barn

Published January 31, 2008 09:06 PM

I’m too tired to work on a chapter tonight, so now’s a great time to give you a “before” tour of Osh’s new house — before Flann gets her decorating hands on it, and Osh starts painting.

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Plans for castle builders

Published March 24, 2007 10:01 AM

While looking for Irish castle plans (Murchad is going to be needing a castle, if you must know) I stumbled across an excellent resource for Sims castle builders. This site showcases castles built using Legos, and the builder also includes plans for each of the 114(!) castles he has built. He has not only the plans of the actual castles, with all their curves and awkward angles, but also the plans he drew for his Lego castles. These are doubly interesting to us since he is forced to build on a grid of squares just as we are.

He even built Warkworth Castle, which was the inspiration for Egelric’s castle! I wish I had found his site when I was working on it.

As I mentioned in that post, the meager plans I used for Egelric’s castle are included on this site, which consists of scans from an old book about the growth of the English country house. But this gentleman has really done his research, including leaving his computer and going to an actual physical library. Thereby saving me the trip!

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