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Re: Norman Keep
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:46:10 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Magnus Lauglo wrote:
> are there any pics of lego castles with moats?
Shoot. I wrote a big long post after going through and finding pictures on
Brickshelf, but my browser crashed and the post was lost. Grr.
Anyway, I can think of 3 ways to build moats:
1. Castle on green baseplates, blue plates on top of the plates. This looks
nice, but defies physics with the water higher than the surrounding land.
Here's a great MOC by Jonathan Hunter:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=406825
2. Castle on green baseplates interspersed with blue baseplates for the water.
More physically realistic (though in constant danger of a flood, with the water
level right at ground level), but you are stuck with a lot of straight lines.
Here's an example from Dusan Jeftinija:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=318252
3. Build up the land on top of a blue baseplate. This gives the best effect
(IMO), but it is much more intense because you have to build up your land at
least a brick level across the whole area, and then build your castle on top of
that. This example isn't a moat, but imagine if Anthony had built the water
portion to go all the way around the castle rather than a stream running past:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=501981
Again, there are no fully reallized moats here, but Takeshi Itou has sublime
examples of castles that incorporate water elements:
http://home.att.ne.jp/apple/hachi/ce_ga_le17a.htm
4. Not a moat, but many great examples build a castle on an island set in the
middle of blue baseplates. See this great recent example by Jason Spears:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=551512
Imagine building up land surrounding the castle leaving about 8 - 12 studs worth
of water around the island and you'd have a moat.
Bruce
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| (...) I hear ya, I hate when that happens to me. (...) These are the two solutions I'm most intersted in, but obviously they are the hardest to get right. I've also been thinking of a dry moat, filled with stakes perhaps, but this would possibly be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| Kai, (...) I'm not sure if you understood, the "motte" (as opposed to "moat") was the steep, often man made made, hill that early castles were often built on top of. I know that sometimes when a wooden motte and bailey castle (wooden fort with a big (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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