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The
medieval castles we see in the internet and in the movies are so
mysterious and fascinating that our imagination sometimes takes us to a time of knights and kings in some kingdom so long gone. There are
many amazing stories about
them. They often had a very rustic structure and an imposing size. It makes
one think about how hard it was to build them and how many eyes saw all
that
happened inside and around these fortresses. The many hands that did the hard work
when they were built to endure some centuries and all the blood that was
shed to keep them for, sometimes, a not so long period of time,
certainly, make one remember how the value of a human life can be
relative to the time and place a person was in the human history. Important
kings went to wars. Still, of some of them what we can see first
are the ruins
of their castles. It makes one remember that nothing lasts forever. The old castles played an important role in the
history and still today they do by raising millions of dollars by the tourism
every year, just to say a few words about them.
Welcome
to a journey to the time of the Medieval Castles through the building of
a miniature castle.
First
part
Making
Prototype and the molds
The castle been built in this project is not a replica of any one ever
made, but it comes from the imagination of the one who writes about it.
Some research was made and it must have as many characteristics of me
medieval casts as
possible. The project has no pretensions to being accurate and much
scientific, instead it is here to amuse and to remember what castles
were.
The first thing I thought about the castle was the
wall. The large bricks of stone are the basic units of the construction.
Obviously I could not make the bricks one by one, because it would take
too much time. So my basic unit should be one piece of wall. In the first
steps I took two small wood boards in which I drew some horizontal lines
representing the height of the bricks. Then vertical lines were drawn to
represent the width of the bricks.
The vertical lines were cut about 1.5mm deep to
represent the mortar space.
In one of these wood boards the first and the last
columns have half a brick, but in the other one all the columns have
the whole bricks. They were cut in the horizontal lines and the slices
were used to compound a zigzag aspect.
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