In this part of the tutorial Frederick makes the front gatehouse of the castle.

Return to the Paper Neuschwanstein Castle plans here -

• Introduction to this project
• Part 1- The Gate Towers
• Part 2 The Gatehouse - You are here
• Part 3 The Servants Quarters and servants tower
• Part 3a Let's take a look at the assembly so far!
• Part 4 - The Kings Quarters, The Knights Quarters and the Knights Tower
• Part 5 - The Guest Quarters and the Guards Tower
• Part 6- towers and quarters
• Part 7 - Firing and finishing up with the clay

Day 2

Anyway, here goes the 2 nd day. Here is the mess trying to translate Will's american measurements to metric and getting the templates cut ready to go!

Here are the templates for parts 2 and 4, the gatehouse and the courtyard wall.

Note the roof is in one strip at this point, I changed our mind and did it as individual bits which was much more successfull.

As you can see it was quite an operation, working of the laptop with Will's plans and cardboard bits flying everywhere!

The remains after cutting out the gate house and the white bits are the templates for the courtyard wall #4.

Here are all the bits laid out drying to leather hard. This was last night.

Gatehouse going together without the roof, had to make sure that the walls were parallel to ensure that the roof fitted....

This is blocking out the walls as they dry further so that they remain straight.

The courtyard wall in progress.

Raising the roof! All this was happening while the gatehouse was drying further.

Here the roof sections are being put in place, quite a fiddly job due to the angles.

Completed gate house!

Here is a front on shot of the gatehouse completed. I will probably be adding some crenulations as per the real castle tomorrow!

So day 2 complete *phew*!! I am actually enjoying this.

Frederick.

Continue on to the making of the Servants Quarters

Paper Nano Neuschwanstein Castle

• Located in Bavaria Germany this Romanesque Revival palace was built for Ludwig II; it's the inspiration for Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle
• Paper Nano is small-scale, highly-detailed, elegant paper crafting where you can build flawless masterpieces with exacting detail amazing accuracy
• High-tolerance laser cutting technology creates the parts needed to build exact replicas of world famous landmarks and architectural history
• Fold, crease, curl and bend the paper components to make strikingly attractive reproductions that you will be proud to display
• Final projects are a mere 3.5 by 3.5 inches; each kit comes with detailed instructions and a display shadow box, for ages 12+