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**Ruglud**

Put this on my Salute '16 thread, but thought it worthwhile posting here as well..

Salute 2016 - Plastic Tower Kit Previewed Assembled and Painted
Renedra previewed these pictures of the assembled plastic tower kit that will be released at Salute! The kit as shown below was assembled and painted by the talented Dave Marshall @ TM Terrain. The individual tower kit will be retailling for £36.00.

http://wargameterrain.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/renedra-salute-2016-plastic-tower-kit.html

**Bossk_Hogg**

That's a good looking kit, much more affordable than the insane Dwarven Forge kickstarter. Plus it looks like it will fit with in with the Pegasus buildings. The ruins look like buttstank, but the tower should do quite well!

**Ruglud**

Final update on Tower / Castle project - Its FINALLY FINISHED - (well for the time being - until we start on breached walls, ladders, interior buildings and furniture items to compliment the basic Tower / Castle - thanks to the guys who have been sending emails etc.., we are always open to suggestions like these). The final frame for the Wall section (Crenellations and small doors) began moulding yesterday - a couple of weeks ahead of our expected schedule, hopefully boxes for the 5 frame Wall section will arrive before Salute and we will have these for release as well as the Tower.

We are busy getting the diorama finished that we will have on show at Salute - this is of the Large Castle, its just to show what can be made, but of course we will be selling the parts as separate packs.

Confirming the prices of the packs -
3 Tier Tower boxed £36
4 Tier Gatehouse (Boxed Tower and Mid Section bag) £42
Wall Section box (5 frames) £11.

We are also going to do for a limited period a couple of special 'Renedra Castle Deals' on our webstore and at Salute

The Standard Castle (consists of 5 x 3 Tier Towers, 1 x 4 Tier Gate House and 8 Boxes of Wall Sections) cost if bought separately £310 but as a 'Standard Castle Deal - £250'

we are also adding the Large Castle Deal which has 7 x 3 Tier Towers, 1 x 4 Tier Gate House and 8 Boxes of Wall Sections cost if bought separately £382 but as a 'Large Castle Deal - £290'.

Final sizes for these Castle Deals are - Large Castle 86cm frontage and 80cm side - the Standard is 86cm frontage and 65.5cm sides, I did point out to the guys that when I asked for an approximate size they told me about a metre square - typical men always exaggerating the size of things.

Here is a couple pictures of the Wall Sections - with a couple of figures showing scale. We have made this to compliment 28mm scale figures.

Spoiler:

http://wargameterrain.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/renedra-plastic-castle-kit-finished.html

**Fugazi**

Update from Renedra:

Well how about this for a real siege - with the Towers and Walls painted for our diorama to take to Salute on 16 April - we thought that it would be appropriate to put these to the test and where better than at Michael Perrys house using his 'little gaming table' - this is the set up using the Towers and Walls in our large Castle configuration (sorry people the figures are not included). These pictures are to show the size of the Castle if bought complete - but of course each Tower can be purchased separately or in pairs (we are offering multi deals), this also applies to the Wall sections and the Gatehouse - please see our webstore for details. The figures used around the Castle are all from the Perry Miniatures War of the Roses range - these are 28mm scale and this shows how they can be used in a battle around the castle if you so wish, but mainly to show the figures as a scale comparison to the actual castle. The top base on the Tower can be removed to put figures in the top section firing through the windows. The 7 three tier Towers, 1 four tier Gatehouse and 8 packs of Wall sections come unpainted and unassembled but there are instructions for assembly on the back of each box. Total cost for the Large Castle is £290, the Standard Castle is £250 and we have been asked by one of our customers if we can do a Small Castle deal, so to oblige this is it 4 x 3 tier Towers and 6 Wall Sections (footprint size is 65cm frontage and 51cm sides) deal price is £155. We are also doing multi-buy deals for the Tower, Gatehouse and Walls please check them out on our webstore, all the components are now available for pre-order (dispatch will begin on Monday 18th April). It would be great to meet up with those who are at Salute please pop over have a look at the new products and say hello - we are not let out often so it would be great to see you, We are on stand TE13

**Alpharius**

In those castle setups, is everyone living in a tower?

**lasgunpacker**

Alpharius wrote:
In those castle setups, is everyone living in a tower?

I think it is fair to call this a "fortress" rather than a castle, since, as you say, no one is living in it.

Regardless, if you can make a tower for £36 (~$50) that seems like a decent deal, but the walls might be more interesting because of their size.

**Jehan-reznor**

Alpharius wrote:
In those castle setups, is everyone living in a tower?

In the Dungeon of course! my home "le oubliette"

**Alpharius**

Ha - fair enough!

**Kilkrazy**

Some castles had large towers that people lived in, and no keep.

Usually the gatehouse was the living quarters, as this was the most important point of security and defence.

There also were buildings up against the main walls.

This principle can be seen at castles such as Ruddhlan and Beaumaris.

**Yodhrin**

Shame it looks like it won't be much use for fantasy gaming - considering how dinky Perry models are compared to your usual heroic fantasy models, all the doors & windows would look hilariously out of scale.

**MLaw**

Kilkrazy wrote:
Some castles had large towers that people lived in, and no keep.

Usually the gatehouse was the living quarters, as this was the most important point of security and defence.

There also were buildings up against the main walls.

This principle can be seen at castles such as Ruddhlan and Beaumaris.

As it happens, there's a company that makes the wall-hugging buildings. I was thinking about those last night when I saw Alphs' comment.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Yodhrin wrote:
Shame it looks like it won't be much use for fantasy gaming - considering how dinky Perry models are compared to your usual heroic fantasy models, all the doors & windows would look hilariously out of scale.

Actually that would be pretty good, a lot of castles originally had pretty low doors even the shorter people of the time had to bend to get through as it helped in defence, and windows were also really tiny

**RivenSkull**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Yodhrin wrote:
Shame it looks like it won't be much use for fantasy gaming - considering how dinky Perry models are compared to your usual heroic fantasy models, all the doors & windows would look hilariously out of scale.

Actually that would be pretty good, a lot of castles originally had pretty low doors even the shorter people of the time had to bend to get through as it helped in defence, and windows were also really tiny

I second this fact. While I haven't been in any castles due to living here in the New World, I've been to a number of historical homes in the Arizona/New Mexico area from the Manifest Destiny era of the US. All of them had doorways that were roughly 5 ft tall, and set up in a manner to allow for better home defense during the American-Mexican war in 1846.

**Fugazi**

New 'Paved Effect' 25mm diameter bases - these are now on our webstore, there are 2 frames in the pack for £4 - each frame contains 26 bases (52 bases per pack). Also this is a picture of the masters for the first pack of add ons for the Castle - Breached Walls - we will be cracking on with this after Salute. Finally we would like to clarify that we are not the manufacturers of the Warlord Games Citadel, that's someone else's work - reason we found out that we were being credited with it was when we were asked if the round towers were the same height and were we doing a combination deal? We have contacted our mates at Warlord and they are amending their details on their website.

**MLaw**

RivenSkull wrote:
OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Yodhrin wrote:
Shame it looks like it won't be much use for fantasy gaming - considering how dinky Perry models are compared to your usual heroic fantasy models, all the doors & windows would look hilariously out of scale.

Actually that would be pretty good, a lot of castles originally had pretty low doors even the shorter people of the time had to bend to get through as it helped in defence, and windows were also really tiny

I second this fact. While I haven't been in any castles due to living here in the New World, I've been to a number of historical homes in the Arizona/New Mexico area from the Manifest Destiny era of the US. All of them had doorways that were roughly 5 ft tall, and set up in a manner to allow for better home defense during the American-Mexican war in 1846.

I'll have to ask my wife what she remembers. She's in the Navy and has seen a lot of ancient buildings. I have been to historical homes though and yeah. A lot of things were far more compact back then. Shorter yes, but also very very narrow.

Also.. those bases look good.. but I had no idea Renedra had their own webstore. I've always bought them at other online stores.

**DaveC**

Those paved bases are nice and great value at £4. I just ordered 4 sets the only slight issue I have is how thin they are but if you glue one of their plain 25mm bases to the underside they end up a more "standard" height.

**Wehrkind**

I like those paved bases, though I would really like to see 20mm rounds instead.

**MLaw**

Wehrkind wrote:
I like those paved bases, though I would really like to see 20mm rounds instead.

probably not what you want to hear but Reaper sells 20mm bases and that pattern is really not that difficult to sculpt with a small bit of putty. Unless you mean enough to do 10+ then I could see it being tedious.
Out of curiosity, what are you basing on 20mms?

**NAVARRO**

After seeing these in person I have to say that the tower is immense! THe caste is huge and the details are just amazing.

**alphaecho**

It did look quite tasty at Salute today.

**Ruglud**

Gotta agree - I was very impressed by Renedra - so much so that I'm desperate to find a reason to buy the large castle and some extras... They told me that there is an expanded range being planned depending on how sales go

**Bottle**

Wow, that tower is amazing for £36! I may have to get one. It should look fine with GW minis. Here is a scale comparison of Perrys and GW:

**Fugazi**

Ruglud wrote:
Gotta agree - I was very impressed by Renedra - so much so that I'm desperate to find a reason to buy the large castle and some extras... They told me that there is an expanded range being planned depending on how sales go

I really want to see more of their expanded range because that ruined wall looks amazing.

**Albino Squirrel**

Here's a little review/unboxing of the tower: http://blog.childrenofthekraken.com/2016/04/renedras-castle-review-tower.html

**Panic**

yeah,
I bought 1 Tower and some ruins at salute.
The tower looks amazing. and Sold itself!

The ruins look better in person that I expected; I think the painted photos shown here really let them down.
Still not sold on the £5 per sprue price, but decided to buy anyway.

I picked up 6 sprues.
1x Frame A - Big arch with base
1x Frame B - Small window arch with base
2x Frame C - Wall segments(no bases)
2x Frame D - Wall with base and small based corner piece

Reneda Sprue photos here

The original frame C and E were MIA... Sprue C is now a collection of wall parts.

Spoiler:

Frame B includes the key stone... I wonder if they heard Gallahad's cries that the stones should have fallen??!

Frame C has no bases for the walls meaning ABD will be based and C free standing... unmatching terrain... meh...
Anyway the good news is sprue C has twice as much wall.
After you've spent some plastic card, greenstuff and TIME; you end up with more wall.
my 2 sprues made 5 wall sections that match the length of sprues A,B,D...

Going to be painting these for frost grave.
Anyone got good wash/glazing tips for making stuff look frozen.
its gotta match this Game Mat I also bought at Salute.

Spoiler:

Panic...

**MLaw**

Nice haul!

Woodland scenics and a few other places sell snow flock. I've also heard of people just using baking soda. Past that, think directionally. The snow falls straight down and settles on prominent points. Give a heavy overbrushing of light blue followed by light grey then white... but only in the areas that snow would logically fall on. Then frost over the adjacent surfaces with a light drybrushing of white for a bit of that frozen effect.

Look at some photos of frozen places and try googling Space Wolves.. a lot of PLOGs for those armies have heavy snow effects. Best of luck. Also, don't forget to work in some water effects.. snow melts

**Necros**

I've done baking soda for snow before, it works pretty good. I mixed 1 part water, 1 part white glue and 1 part baking soda together, then just splotched it on my base. If you want to give it a more wet slushy look you can brush on some gloss varnish when it's all dried and hardened.

**Dawnbringer**

MLaw wrote:

The snow falls straight down and settles on prominent points.

Unless there is wind. In which case it drifts. (To the point where in one part of my lawn I can see grass while there is several feet of it in the driveway. Of course...)

**Wehrkind**

MLaw wrote:
Wehrkind wrote:
I like those paved bases, though I would really like to see 20mm rounds instead.

probably not what you want to hear but Reaper sells 20mm bases and that pattern is really not that difficult to sculpt with a small bit of putty. Unless you mean enough to do 10+ then I could see it being tedious.
Out of curiosity, what are you basing on 20mms?

Sorry, had a kid and din't get to the interwebz for a bit.

Didn't know Reaper sold those, thanks! I have been waiting for RiTides to cut me some with his lazor, but apparently people keep buying ModCubes from him...

I am planning to start mounting just about every model I like on 20mm rounds now. They fit on 20mm squares, 25mm rounds (just the size of GW base tops) inside 32mms etc. I figure it works for just about everything I want to do with normal man sized models without having to rebase the world every time.

**Panic**

Yeah,
I built my renedra tower and it is glorious.
And modular and big!

Size next to the GW watch tower.

Smaller tower by simply removing a level.

Panic...