So I haven’t actually started the castle section yet, but I’ve been learning blender for a while now, so I thought I would make a castle and then follow the course tutorial and make another castle, I’ve still got a lot to learn, I’ve pretty much stopped modelling for a while until recently ( been focusing on sculpting), I used textures from textures.com for most of the materials, I’ve still not learned anything about uv mapping, so I just tried to make the textures work the best I could using the texture coordinate and mapping node, I set the texture coordinate to object and then just played round with the settings. I’m dual wielding courses at the moment, doing the course and a sculpting one, hopefully it wont be a problem but will see how it goes.
Good castle, more detailed than Grant’s.
Textures look fine too.
I actually only modelled the front of the castle, there is no sides or back, but I knew going into it how I was going to position the camera, this is one of the reference images I used, I didn’t want to make an exact copy, but I liked the camera angle.
Ah, Bodiam. Apparently more of a display show off house than an effective castle. Thin walls, windows and a shallow moat.
Be fun to make all of it though.
Yeah I looked up the name of the castle, but didn’t actually do much research about it, I just figured if it was ever attacked or had to be defended it would be pretty difficult to mount an attack due to it only being accessible via the bridge. I didn’t realise it was effectively just a show castle.
It is very pretty, as intended when built, pond/moat for the reflections, and still a great subject to model.
Nice looking castle.Looks great .Love the background hill, grass in the front, bridge and river. Amazing work with the textures by the way. Overall awesome job. 
As NP5 said, It will be fun to make the full castle. Looks like a great subject to spend a little time modeling.
Besides who knows, maybe you can reuse your finished castle in the future for something instead of making it again from scratch.
Thanks for your comment, I’m not actually a big fan of the castle texture, I wanted a more old look, run down look, I downloaded this one from textures.com I thought it looked nice, but I didn’t like it once I actually put it on the model, there was a second texture I was interested in, but I had already used my daily credits on textures.com, I looked around for something else but I didn’t like any of them, I found out later you can actually mix 2 textures together so I probably could of used the moss texture from the mountain as well to get some green moss on the model, that might of made it look a bit more run down.
This is so cool . You did an amazing job. And i love the view you took.