My kid came from school the other day and said "Dad guess what?.... i've been given the best history project ever".
He's got to build a model of a medieval castle..............
He was thinking along the lines of a wall a gatehouse with portcullis and 4 turrets.
I'm thinking outer wall and inner wall with Crenelations, machicolations, arrow loops, batters and battlements, bailey/ basilica, glacis, a gatehouse with 2 port cullis and murder holes, drawbridge to barbican, moat of course, a keep and as many turrets as i can fix in giving arcs of fire along all the walls.
Something along the lines of Beaumaris castle in Anglesey.
A+ i think.
They certainly don't build them like they used to.