Birdie's medieval town and castle

[Birdie]

All hail king John!

I've finally finished my big summer project 

It started with the purchase of some proper size base plates, several square metres of brown cloth for the ground and blue cloth for the sky and a special type of fabric used for flower arranging (I think). It looks like there's dried grass woven into the fabric, very realistic.

Then I ordered the medieval buildings available through DS and I found a 3666 castle on E-bay that wasn't too expensive.
The red, green and yellow houses were not that cheap in comparison   





The picture in the background is an old one of my sisters and me (the one on the right).

I had a lot of fun sorting out clickies that would match a medieval setting and of course the furniture (= my favourite part in diorama making).
At one point the entire living room floor was covered with Playmobil 

But this time the end result is a neat table in one corner with a big diorama and no clutter or stacked furniture in the rest of the apartment. Mission accomplished 

Here's my medieval town. It's got the king's castle in the right hand corner, a market on the square, a tavern, a meeting room for the guilds, a bakery, a tailor, a painter, a few houses of rich patricians, the town walls (well guarded), a farm in the front, a cave and a deserted tower in the forest.

[Birdie]

Here's a few pictures from the inside of the castle.

The kitchen





The banquet hall, where the king and queen are feasting with some foreign guests.





The treasury



The queen's quarters



The prison tower (with a prisoner reminiscing better days   )



The alchemist's chamber

[Birdie]

And this is the town itself.

There's a tavern with some lodgings for the exhausted traveller upstairs.





The market offers weapons, suits of armour and tools, meat, fish, animals, jewellery, pottery, tapestries, fruit and vegetables

[tahra]

That's really great, Birdie

Can we have more pics of the layout? Do I see a bridge? I've been experimenting with assembly some, but ran out of parts before trying a bridge...

Also... details on that fabric? It's GORGEOUS!

[Birdie]

This is the front room in the house of a rich merchant



These guys are sealing an important deal...



... while others are relaxing in the streets.

[Birdie]

And here are some more pictures I liked 













This guy is Dimitris' highwayman. He is constantly thinking up schemes to enter the town unseen. He pops up everywhere 



Singing a song while off duty

[Birdie]

That's really great, Birdie

Can we have more pics of the layout? Do I see a bridge? I've been experimenting with assembly some, but ran out of parts before trying a bridge...

Also... details on that fabric? It's GORGEOUS!

Thank you, tahra! 

I used one 3666 castle and two 3450 castles. I also ordered one gate with red and white stripes on e-bay.
Furthermore there's the new bakery, the barn and museum from Playmobil DS, one yellow, one green and one red house, there's the 3716 farm obviously and an older style white farm in there too.

The lay-out might be a bit more visible in these pictures:





The bridge you refer to is a kind of landing that connects the queen's rooms to the king's quarters





Underneath there's a hallway that connects the kitchen to the banquet hall

[Birdie]

The green stuff is something I found in Brico (just a regular hardware-store chain with a lot of DIY stuff and garden material).
It comes in packages of 3 by 1 meter, I'm pretty sure it's meant for flower arranging and it contains actual dried grass along with thread and pieces of cloth of various shades of green and brown. The grass is not so great if you are a bit allergic, like I am, but I only realised it when I got home and started using it 

Underneath it's black plastic. It's rather pricy (16 euros) but it's a lot of fabric I'll be using it often enough, so I figured it was worth it.

I'd love to make some more pictures of the material itself, but I forgot my camera at a friend's house yesterday 
When I get it back this week-end, I'll potograph it properly.

And when I was browsing through my pictures of the diorama, I found some more that I forgot to add, so here goes 

The king's head quarter



A guard in one of the towers, enjoying his lunch



The baker



The painter's house



The tailor at work



A fisherman



And a view of the back of the diorama

[tahra]

Thanks for the extra pics

The singing guard's pose is amazing!

The bridge you refer to is a kind of landing that connects the queen's rooms to the king's quarters

Handy!

Underneath there's a hallway that connects the kitchen to the banquet hall

Well thought of, I see...

Love the whole setup. I'm still without a red house. Last time I looked, it was over 75 eur. I'm not THAT desperate YET.

The green stuff is something I found in Brico (just a regular hardware-store chain with a lot of DIY stuff and garden material).
It comes in packages of 3 by 1 meter, I'm pretty sure it's meant for flower arranging and it contains actual dried grass along with thread and pieces of cloth of various shades of green and brown. The grass is not so great if you are a bit allergic, like I am, but I only realised it when I got home and started using it 

Underneath it's black plastic. It's rather pricy (16 euros) but it's a lot of fabric I'll be using it often enough, so I figured it was worth it.

It's GORGEOUS, thank you... Real grass? I wonder if the stuff will hold, as in storage... it does look amazing.

(The ruin is System WHY?)

[el jefe]

 
What a great project Birdie.  It looks Amazing!
 I love that turf you have going there, looks really great.  I also really enjoy the cramped nature of that market and all the details going on in town and in the castle.  The tavern is my favorite. 
Great job overall, really great.