Smithsonian Castle
Medium
Dimensions:
- Length: 57 mm (2.2 inches)
- Width: 149 mm (5.9 inches)
- Height: 51 mm (2 inches)
Scale: approximately 1:716
Large
Dimensions:
- Length: 223 mm (8.8 inches)
- Width: 85 mm (3.4 inches)
- Height: 77 mm (3 inches)
Scale: approximately 1:480
Description
The Smithsonian Castle has 4 entrances, the main entrance opens from a square, vaulted passageway. The rear entrance that opens to the park is opposite. On the left, there is also a large vaulted entrance and on the right, a door at the base of the tower.
Viewed from the main entrance, on the right is the flag tower, the tallest tower. This is a clock tower built on a square base. The clock is located under the octagonal, columned tower roof. The tower has no bastion, it ends in a flat roof where the flagpole is (not modeled). There are double windows in the tower roof, almost the height of the tower roof Modeled it as a large window, for printing reasons). There are continuous double windows below the clock.
To the left of the main entrance is the north tower. Square with a slightly arched roof.
Behind the entrance towers is the Great Hall. The building is two-story, with a tent roof, a tower at every corner. At the roof, the wall ends in a bastion. On the right, a large window, similar to above the entrance, on the left three windows at the top. The roof’s peculiarity is the break at the two corners. And the diagonal passages from the entrance to the rear bastion. On the roof, a larger building from the entrance side and smaller buildings near the wall. The four towers in order are the Campanile tower, built on a square base, ends in a square, slightly arched roof, opposite it the southeast tower, built on a square base and transitioning into an octagon, ends in an octagonal roof, a large windowed tower. From the entrance side, on the right, the Northwest tower which seems like a bell tower, built on a square base, a square, pointed tower, like a church tower, through the arched windows on the top of the tower you can see through. Opposite it at the back is the octagon tower, ends in a relatively flat, closed roof, surrounded by windows.
At the park entrance is the large bastion, the south tower, and the directly adjacent, much taller and thinner octagonal bastion. At the front of the bastion is a 3-windowed lookout that bulges out from the building, on its right side is a statue at half height as well.
Viewed from the front, on the right is the west wing, and the Commons building. A square building with a semi-circular bulge.
Attached to this is the west tower which is a square tower with the usual square-arched roof. A small entrance is located on its side. Large windows are found on the side, the two buildings are connected by the Schermer hall whose roof consists of two parts.
Viewed from the front, on the left side, in the east wing is the administration and library. The central building is connected to a building section with a flatter roof on top of which is a smaller building. The building on the left has a complex roof, the wall also ends in a bastion parapet here. The roof is surrounded by 6 small decorative bastions. Besides, in the middle, it peaks in a small, square, lookout-like dome and there are 5 chimneys along the main ridge.