Return to the Cursed City of Ulfenkarn

The Tower

The walls nearly finished I moved on to the looking at options for the gate house. Renedra who make the walls also do a tower or as they also call it a gate house.

The tower like the walls is a plastic set on sprue that you clip out. The basic shape is a box in the set you get 3 groups of 4 walls which make up the bottom of the tower, mid section and the top. Construction is a simple as gluing the interlocking walls together and top and bottom elements have a floor.

The gateway has some options in the build which we can see below

The Gateway

The tower bottom section can be build with a standard closed wooden door you just glue on the surface or a portcullis. The instructions tell you just pop out the section and add the portcullis. Not sure pop out is quite the way I would put it. You have two guide lines either side of the support section. You have to break the walls at that part then glue the supports to the portcullis. I would suggest running a knife down the guide lines because they are not very deep you may end up breaking the support when you try to break out the middle section.

The rest of the build is easy to put together for the top you also get a set a crenellation  and elements such as torches and other elements to finish of the look.

For the price it is a really nice kit. You dont get any interior the middle section has no floor you dont have steps leading up between the sections. Which for me is fine and it would be the good basis as a starting point to add your own.

You can also buy additional mid section which will increase the height of the tower which I brought a couple off but as yet have not used.

What surprized me a little is size of the building. It is in scale of the walls but is rtaher large, big enough you could use this as a keep for the castle. Which had me thinking I might use this for another part of the city and look at other choices for the city gate. This is almost too good for a city gate.