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It’s fall now in Ikros. The leaves are turning and the fields are being reaped.
Queen Alyia has just overseen final construction of the new castle at Lake
Halcyon. During her father Ulmerad’s rule over Ikros, the original Halcyon
Castle was destroyed in a great battle between the Ikrosian forces and those of
the Necromancer Ethelred. The nearby village of Halcyon Lake and the surrounded
farmland have remained unguarded ever since. But now, through her public works
projects, Halcyon Castle has been rebuilt, bigger and better than ever.
The castle sits in Lake Halcyon on a large man made rock hill, built over the
original Halcyon Castle foundation. The Castle once again serves its purpose as
the Royal Family’s summer home, and though it does not share all the comforts of
Illana Castle in Ikros’ Capital, it is still a grand fortress with all the
necessities.
Teaser picture:
Post mod Main Gallery can be found
HERE.
Post mod Castle Detail Gallery can be found
HERE.
Post mod
Courtyard Gallery can be found
HERE.
Post mod Village
Detail Gallery can be found
HERE.
Halycon Castle features:
1. Gatehouse: with Portcullis and four archer loops in the causeway and those
little holes that you pour oil through above it.
2. A total of 22 archer loops
throughout the castle itself.
3. A Royal bedchamber with fireplace and privey.
4. A guest room with fireplace.
5. A great hall with large fireplace.
6. Jail cell on third floor in the tower in the keep.
7. An Oubliette opening on the second floor of the keep (It’s a shaft with a
trap door you throw people down and forget about them, the word is modified
french for ‘to forget’)
8. A wine cellar with trellice and barrel stack, the
cellar is two bricks lower than the other parts of the first floor.
9. A rear
entrance to the keep from the outside, guarded by another port cullis, leading
to a boat dock.
10. a Forestair
11. Every location on the castle is accessible
by stairs or ladder.
12. The castle is fully modular. The curtain walls are
only attached to the towers by the flared tower bases and the baseplates they
sit on. The towers and keep have been built upon baseplates, which all sit upon
a tile/brick support structure inside the hill. The hill comes apart in it’s 4
48x48 large grey baseplate components, none of which are permanently connected
together.
Halcyon Castle’s Courtyard features:
1. Stable
2. Barracks with
3. Kitchen
4. Smokehouse
5. Rose Arbor
6. Well
Halcyon Village features:
1. Gustav’s Post Mill
2. Blacksmith
3. Wheelwright
4. Baker
5. Milkmaid and Jersey Cow (with barn accessory)
6. Beekeeper and Beehives
7. Wheat harvest with scythes
8. Vineyard
9. Well
10. Modular terrain
This is bar none my best Castle MOC I’ve ever created (I count Formeathan 2.0 as
a Fantasy MOC). I am extremely proud of the final product. Pictures do not do
it justice.
I have had a lot of help with this creation. Whether it be through inspiration
or direct comments, I thank everyone invovled, but especially my fiancee’
Christina, who not only put up with me through this whole thing, but also built
parts of it as well (including furnishing all the furnished buildings)!
Enjoy, and LMKWYT!
--Anthony (and Christina)
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava wrote:
> <snip>
> This is bar none my best Castle MOC I've ever created (I count Formeathan 2.0
> as a Fantasy MOC). I am extremely proud of the final product. Pictures do
> not do it justice.
> <snip>
> Enjoy, and LMKWYT!
>
> --Anthony (and Christina)
That is an amazing MOC. The castle is amazing, the village is amazing,
it's all amazing. Well done. I really enjoyed looking at all the pictures.
I really like how you did the terrain too. Lots of wonderful MOC's in the
village, and lots of wonderful details in the castle too. Put together,
it's breath-taking.
Thanks for sharing the pix.
Play well.
Tim Strutt
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In lugnet.castle, Tim Strutt wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava wrote:
> > <snip>
> > This is bar none my best Castle MOC I've ever created (I count Formeathan 2.0
> > as a Fantasy MOC). I am extremely proud of the final product. Pictures do
> > not do it justice.
> > <snip>
> > Enjoy, and LMKWYT!
> >
> > --Anthony (and Christina)
>
> That is an amazing MOC. The castle is amazing, the village is amazing,
> it's all amazing. Well done. I really enjoyed looking at all the pictures.
> I really like how you did the terrain too. Lots of wonderful MOC's in the
> village, and lots of wonderful details in the castle too. Put together,
> it's breath-taking.
> Thanks for sharing the pix.
> Play well.
>
> Tim Strutt
Thanks much! I'm glad to hear you like it. I really poured my heart into this
MOC. Unlike previous times when I've cut back on detail to save on bricks, I
went as far as my collection would take me. Too bad it's taken me this long to
decide to do so.
Thanks for the reply!
--Anthony
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava wrote:
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It’s fall now in Ikros. The leaves are turning and the fields are being
reaped. Queen Alyia has just overseen final construction of the new castle at
Lake Halcyon. During her father Ulmerad’s rule over Ikros, the original
Halcyon Castle was destroyed in a great battle between the Ikrosian forces
and those of the Necromancer Ethelred. The nearby village of Halcyon Lake
and the surrounded farmland have remained unguarded ever since. But now,
through her public works projects, Halcyon Castle has been rebuilt, bigger
and better than ever.
The castle sits in Lake Halcyon on a large man made rock hill, built over the
original Halcyon Castle foundation. The Castle once again serves its purpose
as the Royal Family’s summer home, and though it does not share all the
comforts of Illana Castle in Ikros’ Capital, it is still a grand fortress
with all the necessities.
Teaser picture:
Post mod Main Gallery can be found
HERE.
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Anthony,
Wonderful as usual, it pains me that I can’t see this in person and spend a few
hours really appreciating the details.
An Aggie, huh? I was just in Houston, and a friend was talking about the Aggie
Mafia and how it helps.
Thanks,
George
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In lugnet.castle, George Haberberger wrote:
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava wrote:
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It’s fall now in Ikros. The leaves are turning and the fields are being
reaped. Queen Alyia has just overseen final construction of the new castle
at Lake Halcyon. During her father Ulmerad’s rule over Ikros, the original
Halcyon Castle was destroyed in a great battle between the Ikrosian forces
and those of the Necromancer Ethelred. The nearby village of Halcyon Lake
and the surrounded farmland have remained unguarded ever since. But now,
through her public works projects, Halcyon Castle has been rebuilt, bigger
and better than ever.
The castle sits in Lake Halcyon on a large man made rock hill, built over
the original Halcyon Castle foundation. The Castle once again serves its
purpose as the Royal Family’s summer home, and though it does not share all
the comforts of Illana Castle in Ikros’ Capital, it is still a grand
fortress with all the necessities.
Teaser picture:
Post mod Main Gallery can be found
HERE.
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Anthony,
Wonderful as usual, it pains me that I can’t see this in person and spend a
few hours really appreciating the details.
An Aggie, huh? I was just in Houston, and a friend was talking about the
Aggie Mafia and how it helps.
Thanks,
George
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Thanks much! Yeah, I know what you mean, a lot of people who have seen it in
person now have commented on how they have to sit and stare at it to catch all
that’s going on. I suppose that’s the double edged sword in making details.
Yup, Texas A&M Graduate, two years out and still unemployed (no paying job,
anyway). If you can make it out to San Antonio, Halcyon will be there at the
TexLUG meeting next weekend.
Thanks for the reply!
--Anthony
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Snippage
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Post mod Main Gallery can be found
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Wow. Fantastic detail. I love that the buildings are set at different angles
and I love the “chicks” :0).
The stable in particular caught my attention. Very nice. All in all a great
build!!
Mike
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In lugnet.castle, Mike Kollross wrote:
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Snippage
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Post mod Main Gallery can be found
HERE.
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Wow. Fantastic detail. I love that the buildings are set at different
angles and I love the “chicks” :0).
The stable in particular caught my attention. Very nice. All in all a great
build!!
Mike
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Thanks much! I’m glad you liked it. I have to thank Manfred for the offest
angled buildings. He was the one who suggested it to me in my village of
Dahyart. The chicks were actually kind of a joke, but they turned out pretty
good so they stayed. :) And I have to thank my fiancee’ Christina for the
Stable, she helped me with that one a lot.
And thanks for the reply!
--Anthony
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava wrote:
Really nice work Anthony! Such an elegant idea, I’m surprised no one has done
it before. Really nice execution.
Attn LEGO: look what you can do with regular old bricks. Kids would love it
(and parents would buy it).
Take care,
Gary
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In lugnet.castle, Gary Thomas wrote:
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava wrote:
Really nice work Anthony! Such an elegant idea, I’m surprised no one has
done it before. Really nice execution.
Attn LEGO: look what you can do with regular old bricks. Kids would love it
(and parents would buy it).
Take care,
Gary
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Thanks much! To what are you referring, the autumnal trees? I was pretty
surprised that no one had done them before when I posted my foliage article. I
was fully expecting someone to reply and say “Yeah, that’s been done, here’s a
link”. Of course, not everyone loves my trees. Ben E. thinks I shoulda used
all plates to give the trees more definition. Well, forget you, Ben! :)
I’m flattered you think that what I’ve done (to what it was you were referring)
deserves LEGO’s attention, I may not agree, but I’m flattered none the less.
And thanks for the reply!
--Anthony
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Well done Anthony and Christina.
This design is truly overwhelming. There are too many details to mention them
all, so I’ll just say that those autumn trees are wonderful, and the rest of the
design is in keeping with them.
I especially like your upstairs oubliette chute. I must install one; I can’t
think of how many times I’ve needed to oublier something and had to go
downstairs to do so.
Peace and awesomeness,
Professor Whateverly
PS. I think it doesn’t hurt to remind
people once in a while, as so much flies by in a week, it’s easy to miss stuff.
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In lugnet.castle, Ley Ward wrote:
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Well done Anthony and Christina.
This design is truly overwhelming. There are too many details to mention them
all, so I’ll just say that those autumn trees are wonderful, and the rest of
the design is in keeping with them.
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Thanks much! I really like my trees, too. They really add a lot of color to
the display.
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I especially like your upstairs oubliette chute. I must install one; I can’t
think of how many times I’ve needed to oublier something and had to go
downstairs to do so.
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Christina likes to tease me about my oubliette, and I know it really should be
on the bottom floor, or even below it in a dungeon. But with me building on
baseplates, and my want for an oubliette, I had to sacrifice historical accuracy
for building convenience. But it really is a moot point. Queen Alyia is too
nice to ever throw someone down in there anyway :)
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Peace and awesomeness,
Professor Whateverly
PS. I think it doesn’t hurt to remind
people once in a while, as so much flies by in a week, it’s easy to miss
stuff.
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Hehe... I suppose your right.
And thanks for the reply!
--Anthony
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