Name: Westgate Drawbridge
Brand: A Song of Ice & Fire
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.00 (1 reviews)

Description

The guard saw the rider approaching the Westgate from atop the battlement. They bore the Kingdom’s colours and rode in confidently, expecting the drawbridge to lower over the moat. The guard, however, had an awful feeling in their gut about this rider, something about their scruffy beard and eager grin.

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See below how the HEX Castle Westgate Drawbridge tessellates with the Castle Walls.

Top down graphic diagram of the Battlement hut in SystemHEX

Notes for Westgate and Drawbridge 3d Print file:

Right-click on the image below and “Save As” to download the reference sheet for this pack.
Product measurements can be found in the image gallery.
First Published version 1.0

Westgate and Drawbridge Reference

Additional information

Recommended Printer	FDM or resin printer
Infill	10% for FDM printing, 100% for resin printing
Layer Height	.2 for Normal Quality .1 for High Quality (.2 Layer height is recommended)
Scale	32mm Heroic & OpenLOCK
Supports	requires supports for resin printing, FDM Prints without support, FDM-Pre support included

Use this tool to find the percentage needed to scale your model up or down when printing.
The highlighted row shows the model's current scale and other rows show what percentage to print at to reach that scale.
To set a custom scale, use the calculator in the bottom row.

Name	Millimeters mm	Ratio	Scale %
10mm Wargames & N Scale	10	1:159	31.3%
15mm Wargames	15	1:116	46.9%
HO Scale	20	1:87	62.5%
OO Scale	22	1:76	68.8%
28mm Wargames	28	1:62	87.5%
32mm Heroic & OpenLOCK	32	1:54	100.0%
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mm is the height based on the measurement from the bottom of the feet to the eye height of the average human
Height is not the same as Base Size (A 28mm miniature will often have a 25mm round base)

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1 question for Westgate Drawbridge

Bluestone – November 27, 2025

WOW! 🙂 another great addition! just a quick question what do you use as chain and what is the needed size? thanks!
- Joanne Boorer (verified owner) – November 28, 2025
  
  Thanks for your great feedback. We used a 1.5mm jewelers chain.
Bluestone – November 28, 2025

about the scale : you wrote that at 100% it is for 32mm figs, but it works well at 100% for 28mm ones too remember that we have also 3mm base.
joshua.rouleau (verified owner) – December 4, 2025

Will this eventually be integrated with the Wild River, in the same way the Culvert was?
- Joanne Boorer (verified owner) – December 4, 2025
  
  The Westgate Drawbridge is designed to go over a river. Where the culvert has a river running through it.
Rated 4 out of 5

joshua.rouleau (verified owner) – December 11, 2025

I understand that, it was more that the drawbridge sits flat on the ground, so anything representing a river also needs to be exactly flat as well. I’ve managed to mock up in my slicer something that works by cutting and raising the drawbridge connectors to above the ‘river’ level of the Wild river. Then using the High Gate Bridge Landing with quite a bit of the bottom cut away, and finally removing the top layer of the middle section of the banks to accommodate the drawbridge / landing.

Thinking beyond just that gate section would lead to issues trying to navigate the river around towers and any non 45/90 turns.

Which leads to a final suggestion, I’d happily pay an extra $20 for a SystemHex based river, especially if it came with two different widths (stream and river) as well as junctions (perhaps including splits for the various arches in the bridges available.