IT'S TIME to build my CASTLES!

It's time to begin the epic journey to build my castles!

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[pieterfaes]

*15 years later*
-Tom Scott: "You wouldn't expect a medieval European castle in Australia, but..."

[LarryGarfieldCrell]

Most medieval nerds want to collect one of each type of sword. Shad wants to collect each type of castle.

Sounds about right.

[MrBigCookieCrumble]

Shad: "The castle plan has been changed to be more feasible and realistic"
Also Shad: "Anyways im planning to build more than three"

[josephpeck]

The mobile tower set piece should be called the "Tower of Sand", since it has no permanent foundation.

[sensur]

The massive upside is that given the lack of medieval castles in Australia, the demand for "fairy tale" weddings and events would be massive given Australias cultural heritage.

[Archenw]

I don't watch you as much as I used to, however every now and then I come back and binge a few videos it's really wholesome checking back in on the channel like an old friend

[johnhenkel]

You could put "scaffolding" on one side of the building to imitate that either the castle is not completed, is being upgraded, or is being repair for some reason, and use that as a way to accommodate and slightly camouflage the handicap access

[koticneutralftw]

Call the 2nd design (Corfe style) Rook Castle, because it looks like the chess piece. Then decorate the inside with heraldry featuring rooks (the birds).

[Goforfink]

The fact that your entire family supports you in this endevour is just so beautiful and so wholesome. Love it!

[FartReverb_mp]

My mans living everyones childhood dream. Absolutely incredible

[andorfedra]

Shad, You'll never regret building the Castles from "Concrete block/brick" It'll cost more, yes, but it'll be one of those castles that holds up to closer scrutiny and stands on its own far better than you could imagine. It'll be worthwhile to do when you get to that point.

[Ranstone]

Shad, if you ever need a clever handicapped access rout for a more complicated castle, you should consider a siege tower. :P

[justthinkingoutloud]

“Our plan has changed to be more feasible.”
I imagine you’ve scaled down in some ways.
“We’re now planning on building more than three castles!”
Geez Shad, you never settle for less, do you? I envy your ambition and commitment!

[derpyno-scope]

Imagine having shad as a dad and him telling you that you’re moving into a castle. Now that would be amazing

[LordJazzly]

That house design looks like a medieval abbey... with a three-car garage. That's _brilliant_ and I love every part of it.

[ellywhite]

Okay, just started but directly after the "I wanna make the castles authentic" part I need to ask if you've contacted archeologists? There are many that are specialized on medieval buildings.
I was part of an University team that reconstructed castles, ruins and houses in 3D and made them available on the spot where they stood via AR.
There are still many misconceptions about how castles and keeps really looked like, for example the "stone-look". We think keeps looked like that that because fantasy movies are shot in ruins and what's left of those are just stony walls. Like with Egyptian ruins, in their time those buildings were very colorful.

Anyway, from your other videos I trust you did your research and am very much looking forward to the project! :)

[mackericious]

A good thing about starting with a watchtower is that when you later get to build bigger castles, the watchtower could quite easily be converted to a motte-and-bailey castle by adding a wall and a gatehouse

[oolooo]

Mega Chad Shad has a loving wife and children and is making himself a Castle .He has officially won the game of Life .

[duphasdan]

The seventh one reminds me of a castle that is on a large candle my family got in West Germany back in the 80s. I often referred to that castle as Candlestein, and I figure that such a name is a good one for the seventh one on the list.

[rolandropnack]

Your enthusiasm is adorable! Here's some name suggestions:
1. The forified manor: Witten Hus (modern lower saxon tongue for "White House")
2. The tower: Blankenstein (essentially the same: litterally "bright rock", but more in the sense of "White Keep", if IDR there is a castle in now Hungary of this name)
3. The roofed tower: Altavista "High Viev", there are many watchtower and watchout places with names like that, this one has an alpine vibe to me, there are similar styled places all over the southern alps, so an italian inspired name)
4. The big castle: Chateau Romanaise (For similar reasons, interestingly, this one looks more like the romantic chateau renovations of the 19th century, which tried to emulate the original "romanic" looks by incorporating as much elements as possible and in the end mostly going wildly overboard, distorting our image of knights' castles forever. This adaptation, which is quite decent in comparison, though, strongly resembles the chateaus of the french Loire region, hence the french name.)
5. The smaller reminiscence to Honorgard:
Ehrenberg (german translation of "Honorgard" - now THiS strongly looks like something that might actually be found somewhere nowadays in the Rhine valley, in Bohemia or elsewhere in the lands of the medieval Holy Roman Empire. "Ehrenberg" - or "Ehrenfels", "Ehrenburg", "Ehrenstein", if your aussie tongues finds those variants more pleasing" - is a name that is not so uncommon indeed.)
6. The feasting hall: Shadfrid Hall (The normannic aesthetics of this one is crying out for a norman name, and I guess you should have yourself honoured for your dream, somewhere ..