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Effective castle towers can have simple shapes

2017-04-14 Khaiell
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When you are building your tabletop castle you may get carried away with all the alcoves, plasterwork, gargoyles and other medieval gubbinz. Real castles were often way much simpler than that.

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Medieval towers of the Czersk Castle
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See the pictures as separate pages: Medieval towers of the Czersk Castle * Medieval towers of the Czersk Castle * Medieval towers of the Czersk Castle * Medieval towers of the Czersk Castle * Malbork Castle (outermost gate courtyard) * …more

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