Heroic Dreams - All Things Medieval

Today I received an email from a person who owns this gorgeous Medieval Chest. It belongs to his father and it is a 13th Century piece that was donated to a museum by William Randolph Hearst. The gentleman who sent me the email is hoping to recognize the castle on  the front and give this information as a gift to his father - which is quite a wonderful gift!

I have looked over several of the photos and the best I can come up with is that it looks a lot like Castle Coch which was built in the 13th or 14th century. But this chest may predate that castle!

Can you Recognize the castle? I could very well be wrong about the castle and maybe you can recognize it. If you think you know the castle carved on the front of this chest either post a comment or send me an email - Let’s make this birthday wish come true! More View more photos on my medieval castle website

 Look at more pictures of this beautiful 13th century medieval chest. Can you solve the mystery?

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If you like Medieval things you probably read epic fantasy novels. And if you are like me you probably have a serious love/hate relationship with the epic fantasy genre as a whole. Mostly because the genre is loaded with enormous multi-tome doorstopper epics which are fun but can be a real labor to get through. Especially if you are waiting for the next book in a series and are not even sure if it will resolve anything.

Dungeons & Dorks is creating a series of comics for my websites that take a look at epic fantasy and medieval things. Their first comic pokes some good fun at the whole doorstopper syndrome in epic fantasy. Here it is.  

If you like gaming be sure to check out their website: dndorks.com  

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For the past couple of weeks I have had a run on sales of medieval castle projects and maybe this is because people have been finding the stuff I am writing about these projects. But I think it might be more that we are coming into the end of winter and people, being inside so long because of cold weather and snow have been looking for interesting projects to while away the rest of the season.

Either way these are just some nice projects regardless of the season. The first Medieval Castle here is one that I received as a gift and I really enjoyed it. If you look at it on Amazon.com you can see the review I wrote about it.

It is really amazing how wonderful a project like this looks when it is completed. For me there is something very appealing about miniature worlds.

Make This Model Medieval Castle (Usborne Cut-Out Models) I was given this project as a gift and thoroughly enjoyed it. You need to have some paper working skill to make it come out really good. I used a little too much glue when attaching the parts to the base so the base came out just a little wrinkled. When you do a project like this always be sparing with the glue. The subtle colors of this model are really nice.

Castles To Cut out and Put together

Cut and Assemble a Medieval Castle : A Full-Color Model of Caernarvon Castle in Wales. I like the idea that this is a replica of a real castle.

Make This Medieval Village Interesting idea to make a whole village. You could probably do some miniature wargaming with this.

Easy to make Castle  This one really has a great Stronghold Keep look about it. This says “easy to make” but it looks really nice.

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