Tourelle Ronde

The name is French for round turret, and that is exactly the subject: the cylindrical stone tower that anchors the corner of a medieval curtain wall, ringed with arrow slits and corbelled stonework and stepped up from a battered base. It is one of the defining silhouettes of European fortification, and it reads as a castle from across a room. Built as a multi-part kit, it lends itself to modular castle projects — set it at a wall junction, stand it alone as a watchtower on a diorama base, or repeat it at each corner so a keep has something for its walls to run into. Wargamers, model railway builders and diorama makers all need towers like this, and it stands up as a display piece for anyone more interested in the architecture than the sieges.