Help with Medieval Figures

I think Italeri makes a few 1/72 medieval army packages. I know Revell does.

Figure anything European from the 12thc. onwards. With some effort and construction work, you could do a location similar (meaning a european influenced architectural style)to Krak de Chevaliers in Syria (this was the Hospitaller {Knights of St. John} stronghold). Supposedly this was the influence for the Lord Edward during the 9th crusade who later became Edward I and a very prolific castle builder of his time. Since Edward built castles in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Gascony you could include any number of armies. The style is a popular one and was later reproduced in the Victorian era as part of the neo-gothic style so popular then.

While there are nitpicking differences regarding architectural nuances that this castle is guilty of, I think it makes for a fun setting for some of those 1/72 figures and it is what it is....a castle.

Well, given that there is no central "keep" this models as more of a guard fort or strong point.

Which is good, as it decreases the amount of ground work needed for moats, galcises, redoubts, ramparts and the like.

A simple berm would likely suffice, with a wooden palisade upon that.  That would allow modeling some impedimentia before the berm, upon which siege machines might be foundering (or succeeding).

The berm ought to be about as tall as the base for the fort.  The slope should be no more than 40 degrees, so it ought to be about twice as wide as deep.  It can be very appropriate to have water running in it (unless one is modeling a Crusader fort, naturally).

A person could model a forlorn hope set against a breach in the palisade; said hope might be either succeeding or failing (sealing up the breach with their dead, to use a well-coined phrase) to good effect.

One could set the fort to one side, at a middle height in a dio, with a force of mounted knights set to sally over the hill and into the raiding host attempting to invest the palisade, too.

I know you are looking for medieval figures, but I think this would be awesome for anything between the middle ages all the way to WWII and even modern days!

   I know especially during WWII, these castles were used as military garrisons (I think even moreso in Germany). I can actually see an awesom display with a few staff cars, vehicles and figures from the third reich. But, that's just my observation!

I've rattled on too much though. Best of luck to ya!

Airfix have recently re-released theri Sheriff of Nottingham figure set, which includes several Mediaeval foot soldeers. Not the world's finest, but cheap, and, in europe at least, easy to find. You  could paint on any extra detail you needed. Might be worth a look.

Cheers,

Chris.

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