Keep / Small castle 28mm scale

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This one took me some time with my limited schedule, and wasn't going to post until I was positive all files were good, printed, and painted. All holes in this design used as hinges or retainers are sized for 16 gauge tie wire. So, what I needed was a small keep with a few tricks for a final showdown with a particular recurring villain. So, this keep's got two buildings that are three stories high, including the rooftops. I fashioned a suspended bridge that I printed in flexible TPU where every two boards equals one square, and have included a solid stone bridge just in case you don't have flexible material available. The first building contains three floors. The keep entrance has arrow slit windows, a second floor with access to the bridge, and a ladder leading up to the trap door on the roof. The second building also contains three floors. The dungeon level has limited and barred windows, manacles on the walls, the second floor features a balcony, and the rooftop offers stair access to the second floor and the balcony. The floors on the second floor of this building are divided into two parts with holes that match up with corresponding holes in the walls, used as hinges. There are also holes on one side of each part near the middle, matching up with holes in the wall section under the short stairs to hold the floors in place (you can create a "U" shaped pin to insert here, which you can pull out to spring the trap). When this pin is removed, the floors drop down like a trap door, sending anyone not on the balcony plummeting into the dungeon below. What lies within the dungeon for these adventurers is up to your imagination, but the only way out from there is straight up. Feel free to furnish the interior and decorate the exterior with whatever you like, and use this keep as either a place of good or evil. As always, I'd be really grateful if you could share pictures of prints you make. Seeing how people use my models makes it easier for me to design future keeps that fit the community's tastes.