Terrainfest 2025… Gerry I take your ring fort and raise you a Motte and Bailey

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About the Project

Ok so I did a thing and purchased a 3D printer from Bambulab during the black Friday sale. As I play a lot of Barons war I wanted a castle... Obviously...then I found a Motte and Bailey ... So that is my plan. And yes it's in 28mm scale.

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Jan 7 2026

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Ok so I have got everything printed, apart from some of the palisades.

I have now run into a challenge, I have to take the pieces outside to prime them… Unfortunately the weather has been absolutely awful so I am waiting for some reasonable weather to appear so I can prime Motte and Bailey properly.

Finally got some half decent weather to get the Motte primed I started with zandri dust... That ran out so I had some sand coloured cans... 3 and a half cans later and I think I have it primed.

The Motte

Nov 30 2025

Tutoring 8

Skill 11

Idea 11

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The start of the Motte

The Motte and Bailey is a mammoth undertaking it has over 50 items to print. I started by printing off the Motte and the surrounding pallisade.

So the Mound or as the files say Mountain... 10 sections and a head scratcher as to how to add them together 🤔

So some uhu and a decision to build this in sections. When these have glued, and fingers crossed avoided being trashed by the cat. I will then fill the gaps before joining the sections together .

Well after some shuffling and moving about managed to get the mound together. It's big 🫣

So now adding the pallisade ring around the top of the mound. Next up some filling and prepping for base coating

What it looks like with the wooden tower on top

I decided to go all fancy, so I found an STL file for a stone tower and after some manipulation and rescaling I now have a stone tower option... Next up a tower in the process of being built 🫣