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Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold
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These are preliminary pictures of Estuary Stronghold, a medieval fortified
village.
These pictures were taken about two weeks before the model was finished. I
knew the flash light wouldn't give us handsome pictures. Anyway, new
pictures will be here soon.
The Estuary Stronghold lies at the banks of a river where the tides of the
sea meet the current of the river, resulting in large tide differences. The
model shows the Stronghold during low tide, so half of the surroundings are
drowned while the other half is dry. During low tide, carts can ride onto
the beach alongside the castle walls to deliver goods which are hauled in by
crane.
The oldest structure is the large half-round Keep. Other stone structures
are the white garrison quarters and the small chapel. The wooden houses
include a luxureous home for the residing lord, general store, food store,
bakery, blacksmith and inn. There are seperate stables for visitors
(garrison stables are on the first floor of the garrison building) and a
crane to haul in large loads from outside the castle walls.
The main roadway curls gradually up from the lower right and goes round full
circle. Castle walls are curved. In this project special efforts were made
to avoid stereotypical LEGO castle shapes and to have curving and skewed
shapes. In retrospect I shouldn't have used the stereotypical castle walls
at all...
The Stronghold is not a court palace. It's a center of local commerce,
residence of the local lord and a fortress to defend the river estuary from
villains. The garrison includes three parties: the Town Guards (local
'police' tasks), the Garrison Soldiers (elite troops available for forceful
presence in the area) and the Wild Bunch, a small flock of hired 'temps' -
noone actually knows where they are from.
No characters are in the pictures yet.
Eric Brok
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Message has 10 Replies:
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| (...) Eric, I love it. I really like all the curved lines. I also liked your use for the Rock Raiders Canopy. A piece which until now I though was almost useless. I also really like how you blended in the "tidal infuences" into the model and story. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Wow. That was one piece of work. All those creative uses for pieces, especially the round towers and the rock raiders canopy, really gave it a realistic look. I'm gonna round the towers on my castle now. And is that a Trebuchet in two of the pics or (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) <snippage> (...) WOW Eric, nice castle, another wonderful creation, Kudos! I really like the curved wall and towers. I notice that you mention that these are preliminary photos, does that we're going to get close-ups? <drool> :^) another (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Eric, Godzilla sized kudos!! I like how you combined the different colored BURPS and all the different colored buildings - much better than all grey and black. How 'bout a close up of the circular design over the doorway of the grey building (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Wow. And may I say again: Wow. That is really impressive! In fact I have to admit I love all your structures-- the attention to detail is what really does it for me... the crane on the side, the bridge/walkway leading in, the mine shaft and (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) wiping drool from the keyboard, WOW Eric! That's a DANDY!!! I can't wait to see more pics! I love the curved tower! You're creations are always worth waiting to see! everything you've built has been very well done! (24 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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