Floor Arrow Slits

This was a requested tutorial and covers not only the basic tower design but also how to make the floor arrow slits and battlements.

Floor arrow slits.

Sometimes the arrow slits are looking out of embrasures. Corner bays with window to each floor narrow and in round arched panels at 1st and 2nd floor round arched at 2nd. But it doesn t stop there. Arrow slits come in a remarkable variety.

It is alternatively referred to as an arrow loop loop hole or archere and sometimes a balistraria. The interior walls behind an arrow loop are often cut away at an oblique angle so that the archer has a wide field of view and field of fire. The main structure of the tower is made up of hinge plates and hinge bricks. Take it one step further and install a hidden lighting system with lanterns.

The gap in the middle of the arrow slits allows you to repair blocks beneath them as well as the arrow slit as well of course. And adding some slopes below the hinges makes buttresses. Hairpin bends arrow slits and openings in walls and ceilings covered all angles making it almost impossible for an attacker to storm the bastion through the main doorway right next to the left tower was the immense gates with murder holes and arrow slits in the walls. Having arrow slits as a floor don t just look functional they are functional.

E and w service pavilions. Arrow slits were useful for protecting the castle as they were easy to. While arrow slits are a great idea i see two issues with them. They have a very limited view and at least for shotguns you hit your own arrow slits while shooting through too.

U plan opening to e and w respectively with square corner towers breaking eaves at outer angles and lower elevations to service courts. Oct 10 2016 2 29pm in my opionion arrow slits are more eye candy. A common and recognizable form is the cross accommodating the use of both the longbow and the crossbow. Various blinded windows and arrow slits.

Two layers of six hinge plates make a connected circle. The slits are simply called arrow slits or occasionally balistraria. The previous tower was stripped back the existing walls levelled off around 14 feet 4 3 m from the ground and the ground floor arrow slits filled in. 1 unable to loot though them and 2 they don t have the fov the pillars 50 have.

Two more storeys were then built on top of the older walls better executed with a higher proportion of granite stone and thinner typically around 6 foot 1 8 m thick.