City Of Drakkguard - Tower Bridge

"The city of Drakkguard is situated on a high plateau, surrounded by rocky gorges, and is only accessible via five majestic bridges. Each of the bridges has several massive gate towers, each manned by a regiment of crossbowmen. So far, no enemy has ever advanced as far as the city walls of Drakkguard."

The first draft of this bridge is some years old now. I originally sculpted it for myself for a small diorama with this bridge spanning a deep gorge leading to the city gate of Drakkguard. Now several years later i revisited this sculpt and remade it from ground to improve all the little flaws the original had. I used the original design and proportions and resculpted everything. The way the model is cut was changed in such a way that the joints are as minimal as possible (mostly hidden) and all detail comes out great with fdm.

I also rescaled the bridge, so it is wide enough for a 40x20mm warmaster base and added more optional details. There are also options for ruined parts, some different ends and parts to use it together with the modular hills.

The bridge is fully modular and can be build in several configurations, ranging from small to big variants. There are a total of 3 different heights available:

1. low: this is for the smallest configuration without any of the base elements. The bridge has to use the ramp end elements.

2. medium: this is the medium configuration, the bases are used under the arc elements, it is compatible with the modular hills and can be used with both the ramped (with base) ends and the mid cliffs for the modular hills. You get all parts to integrate the bridge into the seperately available set of the modular hills or to use the cliffs to have an easier integration into scratch build hills out of foam.

3. high: this is the biggest configureation, the bridge is build using both the base elements and the extensions. For the end elements of the bridge you can use the elements of the high cliffs for the modular hills. You get all parts to integrate the bridge into the seperately available set of the modular hills or to use the cliffs to have an easier integration into scratch build hills out of foam.

The arcs are designed in a way that allows to interlock them without glue and change the layout of the bridge between games. The overlapping design also helps to hide gaps and joints where parts go together.

The set is designed to print great on FDM printers. With very few exceptions (some ruined parts and the statues) all parts are designed in a way to print perfectly fine without supports. For some elements i recommend using manual paint on supports for the connector holes.

There are some really small decorative elements for the bridge like statues, firepots, shields and railings. You can achive the best results with resin here, but they also do print great in FDM on a BambuLabs A1 with a 0.2mm nozzle.