Judges Guild Tegel Manor in 3D

[Vile Traveller]

Cross-posting this here from the OD&D Discussion forums, as I figure it will be of interest:

To refresh my SketchUp skills so that I can keep up with my students I'm building a couple of Tegel Manor models in SketchUp, one exterior and one interior. Just the manor, by the way, not the dungeons below. It's kind of funny, being mostly one floor, so I might have to take a leaf out of the Japanese castle book and plonk the whole thing on revetment to give it a bit of a commanding position and allow a few windows in the outside walls.

Thing is, what architectural style would you assign to it? Tudor? Elizabethan? Jacobean? Or go continental with Romanesque? Gothic? Renaissance?

Kind of thinking Romanesque at the moment.

[tetramorph]

Cool!

I would go British for a haunted house:

I vote Jaccobean.

[Deleted]

An English look would evoke a sort of Hammer Studios feel ...

[Admin Pete]

When I hear the name Tegel Manor I get a Gothic vibe from that.

[Vile Traveller]

Sorry, Gents, I'm afraid I've gone Romanesque to go with the medieval vibe - while I like all that Gothic and later stuff I want to make sure it remains grounded in the sort-of-Middle-Ages of OD&D in spite of being a haunted house trope which usually appears later in Real World history.



Of course I'm shifting quite a few walls about by a foot or so - paper-thin walls make not a Romanesque building, one of whose defining features is thick, massive walls, after all. Once I've got all the wall thicknesses in I can start tweaking the layout some more to make blocks and define the roof lines. Obviously the Master Foyer, Great Hall, Mead Hall, Ballroom, East Wing, and Southwest Wing will have their own roof structures, but there will probably have to be gables and weird geometry between, too. And I'm already discovering misalignments between floors.

[Vile Traveller]

Some quick inspirational images from Wikipedia:

The towers:


The Court:


The East Wing:


The Throne Room:


The Great Hall:


The Front Door:

[tetramorph]

Rad!

So cool.

Can't wait to see how this turns out.

[Vile Traveller]

I'm not doing those carvings around the door, by the way.