Project report: this project began as an iconographical investigation of the decorative apparatus of the facades of James V’s palace in Stirling Castle. I had a contract for publishing the resulting essay as part of a book titled ‘Games and Game Playing in Art and Literature in the16th and 17th centuries’ with the Medieval Institute Publications (MIP). Some aspects of this research were presented at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Boston in March 2016 – receiving excellent feedback and raising much interest – hence the inclusion in this upcoming publication. This project was meant to help reach a better understanding of the iconography of one of the most famous Scottish castles, framing it within the culture and context of its times. A comparison between it and the decorative apparati of Italian, French, and German case studies needed a good amount of images and pictures to provide visual evidence. I asked for support to help towards publication costs of five images from the SCRAN images repository - and will provide detail on how the funds were spent, and the results of the research.