Medieval honey bee hive rack Low-poly 3D model

Low-poly historical reconstruction of a shelf for bee skeps for traditional bee keeping. A skep is a domed basket to house honey bees. European beekeepers switched from hollowed out logs to straw skeps around 800 AD. It’s made from all natural material like straw or hay bundles that are wrapped around a hollow dome. These bundles are stitched together with blackberry cane, which was split in half first. A slit of about 15 cm enables bees to enter and exit the structure. The rack has a shingle roof to protect the hives against the weather.

The file includes:

• Wooden rack or shelf to keep bee skeps dry and protected
• 8 skeps with a size of approx. 59 x 59 x 62 cm, with in- and outside
• SCENE NOT INCLUDED

Polys/Verts

• Rack including 8 skeps (45,524/49,490)

Further Information

Models are:

• Fully mapped and textured with one single Trim-PBR material (4k) for all wooden parts and tiling textures for the bee skeps (512x512 px).
• In real world scale (centimeters).
• All attached together and named.
• Pivots are placed correctly
• Unreal Engine UASSET is imported with Nanite enabled