Castle!
More gatehouse
Here you can see the passage through the gatehouse. I put an internal door inside to add a bit of realism, though it doesn’t open. The portcullis is made out of cocktail sticks – it is glued in place and doesn’t lower, so is just for effect.
I used a sharp retractable pencil to score the shape of stone blocks onto the blue foam. I used the edge of the pencil to soften up the edges of each block to make them irregular and rounded, and I pressed my finger into the foam in random patterns to give it and dented and less flat look. I added cracks and damage to the walls with a bit of pencil jabbing. One thing that seems to work quite well is to choose a few random bricks and squash them down a millimetre or two with something flat and square, so they look slightly recessed. This helps reduce the flatness of it all.
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