Harlech Castle 3D print model

This is a 200th scale model of Harlech castle with removable floors. This model is mostly accurate, although it only includes one curtain wall. It is based off of to scale floor plans, artistic representations, 3D scans of the ruins, and pictures of the ruins. Each floor is individually removable, allowing the inside floor plan to be seen, making these files a great tool for teaching. Each piece is also individually removable from each other, allowing these files to be printed on smaller printers.

History

For a bit of history about Harlech Castle, it is a curtain wall castle located on the west coast of Wales. Harlech castle’s construction was ordered by Edward Longshanks in 1283 as a response to a second Welsh uprising. Previously, Edward had begun a massive construction project, known as the ring of iron, involving multiple smaller castles to help control Wales. After this second uprising, he decided that even bigger castles were needed. This new type of Castle was the medieval equivalent of the Death Star. Harlech castle is about as protected as a castle can be, due to strong curtain walls and the sheer cliffs dropping to water on two sides. This castle was involved not only in the subduing of whales, but it also played a part in the wars of the roses and other Civil Wars. Eventually it fell back into the hands of the very people it was meant to control.

Print Instructions

• Material: PLA
• Supports: No (although no support is required, there are a few places where support might be helpful)
• Orientation: Print everything with its bottom on the build plate
• Time: All of these files will take around 100 hours to 150 hours to print

Parts

Note: Some file has multiple pieces inside of it. Files that have multiple floors in them are arranged sequentially from left to right. For example, the bottom floor of a building will be the furthest to the left in the file.

• Gate House
  • Floor 1
  • Floor 2
  • Floor 3
  • Floor 4
  • Portcullises (3X)
• Front Left Tower
  • Floor 1
  • Floor 2
  • Floor 3
  • Floor 4
• Front Right Tower
  • Floor 1
  • Floor 2
  • Floor 3
  • Floor 4
• Back Left Tower
  • Floor 1
  • Floor 2
  • Floor 3
  • Floor 4
• Back Right Tower
  • Floor 1
  • Floor 2
  • Floor 3
  • Floor 4
• Front Walls
  • Left Wall
  • Right Wall
• Left Wall
• Left Small Building
  • Floor 1
  • Floor 2
  • Floor 3
• Right Wall
• Right Small Building
  • Floor 1 Part 1
  • Floor 1 Part 2
  • Floor 2
• Back Wall
  • Right Floor 1
  • Right Floor 2
  • Right Floor 3
  • Left Floor 1
  • Left Floor 2
  • Left Floor 3
• Curtain Wall
  • Gate
  • Front Left
  • Front Right
  • Back Left
  • Back Right
  • Left Tower
  • Right Tower
  • Connecting Wall

Assembly

• Assemble the four corner towers and place them in their respective corners
• Assemble the gate house
• Assemble the back wall (you may want to use glue to connect the two halves of the floors together)
• Connect the back wall to the two back corner towers
• Connect the left and right small buildings to the left and right walls
• Connect the left and right walls to their respective corner towers
• Connect the front walls between the gate house and their respective corner towers
• Assemble the curtain wall
• Connect the curtain wall to the left wall of the castle

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