Castle Grimstone Haunted Castle & Graveyard Kit

A haunted castle and graveyard Halloween diorama: a modular kit of about 84 printed parts on two 240 x 240 mm base tiles. The left tile is Castle Grimstone, an abandoned castle with a keep, a great round tower, a ruined tower, a corner turret, a gatehouse with a working portcullis, a drawbridge, curtain walls, a well and a witch's cauldron. The right tile is a graveyard with a ruined chapel, a crypt, 10 tombstones, dead trees with bats, a ghost, a skeleton hand, a coffin, a big jack-o'-lantern, small pumpkins, lantern posts and an iron fence. Six LED tea lights make the windows, the towers, the crypt and the pumpkin glow.

Features

• Footprint 480 x 240 mm on 2 base tiles that lock together underneath with 3 bow-tie keys

• Every part fits a 250 x 250 x 250 mm printer. The biggest parts are the two 240 x 240 mm tiles

• Tallest point: the great tower's flag, about 290 mm above the table

• No glue, screws or magnets. Every part plugs onto a peg or pin, drops over a locating lip, or press-fits into its opening

• The portcullis really slides up and down in its grooves

• Each part is single-colour, so you choose the colour of every piece

• About 1 kg of filament in total at 15% infill

• The one in the photos is printed in green with a black tower, ruined tower and base tiles

Lights (not included)

• 6 standard 38 mm LED tea lights, each in a shallow pocket in a tile: keep, great tower, ruined tower, chapel, crypt and jack-o'-lantern

• Lift the building or pumpkin off its lip to switch a light on or off

• Optional glow liners for the keep and the chapel, printed in translucent or natural filament, make the windows glow evenly

Separate windows and doors

• 10 tall gothic window frames, 6 small diamond-lattice window frames, 6 tall chapel window frames and 1 rose window

• Keep door, chapel door and crypt gate

• Print them in a different colour from the walls

Print Settings

• 0.2 mm layers, 2-3 walls, 10-15% infill

• Every part is already laid out and oriented in the 3MF: 16 plates, one colour per plate

• Buildings print upright without supports. Roofs print standing on one end

• Window frames and doors print flat, decorative side down

• Dead trees: use tree supports if your printer struggles with small overhangs

• Tiles print flat. The bow-tie slots are underneath

Suggested Colours

• Stone grey: keep, towers, gatehouse, walls, well, chapel, tombstones, rubble

• Light stone: crypt and its roof

• Dark slate or purple: all roofs except the well's

• Black: window frames, portcullis, fence, trees, lantern posts, crypt gate, cauldron

• Wood brown: doors, drawbridge, well roof, coffin

• Orange: pumpkins. Green: pumpkin stem. Glow green: cauldron brew

• White or glow-in-the-dark: ghost. Bone: skeleton hand

• Dark grey-green: the two tiles

Assembly

1. Flip both tiles upside down and push them together. Press the 3 bow-tie keys into the slots across the joint, then turn the tiles back over.

2. Put the 6 tea lights in their pockets.

3. Press every window frame and door into its opening from the outside. The ring on the back is a snug press-fit.

4. Lower each building over its lip: keep, chapel, crypt, the three towers and the gatehouse. The optional glow liners go inside the keep and the chapel first.

5. Roofs: the keep roof sits on the ledge inside the parapet. The great tower and turret roofs fit over the tower rim with the groove underneath. The chapel roof sits between the gables. The crypt roof sits on the walls and on the pins on top of the columns. The well roof goes onto the two posts.

6. Curtain walls, well, trees and lantern posts: onto their square pegs.

7. Tombstones, fence, coffin, ghost, skeleton hand and cauldron: onto their round pins. The cauldron brew drops into the cauldron.

8. Portcullis: drop it into the gate grooves from the open top of the gatehouse. The drawbridge lies over the moat in front of the gate.

9. Jack-o'-lantern: over the round lip around its tea light, then plug in the stem. The small pumpkins sit by the chapel door and in the courtyard.

Fit

• Pegs are 6 mm square and 3 mm round, with 0.2 mm clearance per side

• If a press-fit is too tight, sand lightly. If it is too loose, a turn of tape fixes it