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In lugnet.build, Daniel Siskind writes:
> After more than two years on the project, all of the architectural details of
> my huge "Blood Stone Castle" project have been completed. While the interior
> decorators are still hard at work (and will be for several more months), I
> have posted 40 preliminary pictures in the Gallery on my site. I have not yet
> found the time to complete the captions, but I invite everyone to have a look
> at the progress so far.
>
> Please note my site is moving (soon to be BRICKMANIA.COM), but please visit
> using the following temporary URL:
>
> http://64.224.224.231/gallery.html
>
> Thanks and good night!
>
> Dan
I've been quiet these past few weeks (Gall durn busy work! We lost an
employee!) but I just have to say I am thouroughly impressed. This is truly a
masterful work. I can't begin to guess how many dragon master sets you have to
be able to do all those arches and all those banners! So will we ever get any
detailed pictures of the interior? (the towers, shops, etc?)
And on that note as an aside-- Has anyone ever done an interior with secret
passages? I've always kind of envisioned a really cool castle with secret
corridors inbetween rooms, secret revolving doors, etc... Maybe someday I'll
try and build one...
Anyway, congrats on finishing Bloodstone! It is sure to become one of my
constant inspirations!
DaveE
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.build, Daniel Siskind writes: • (snip)
>
> I've been quiet these past few weeks (Gall durn busy work! We lost an
> employee!) but I just have to say I am thouroughly impressed. This is truly a
> masterful work. I can't begin to guess how many dragon master sets you have to
> be able to do all those arches and all those banners! So will we ever get any
> detailed pictures of the interior? (the towers, shops, etc?)
I loaded up on Dragon Masters sets about 4-5 years ago when my favorite toy
store closed up shop and sort of ended up with 2 or 3 of each major set and
dozens of the smaller ones. My core of my castle army has about 5-600
Dragonmasters of the 1000 or so minifigs! By the way, I just recently bought 10
Fire Breathing Fortresses from DYA in France and even with shipping they were
quite resonable, being roughly the original retail price (search shopping or
buy-sell-trade for a linke to them).
Of course the interior details will come later, but first I need to go through
all the pictures already posted and make captions. I was in a bit of a hurry to
get them up so they would be ready when I announce my Blacksmith Shop kit
yesterday. Hopefully I'll have some time for that this weekend. The big
problem with huge models like this is it takes forever to make noticeable
progress. It took me several weeks to get all of the crenellations done and an
entire day just to put in all the black hoardings between the merlons!
> And on that note as an aside-- Has anyone ever done an interior with secret
> passages? I've always kind of envisioned a really cool castle with secret
> corridors inbetween rooms, secret revolving doors, etc... Maybe someday I'll
> try and build one...
I would love to see a big castle with secret passageways, maybe even something
scary like Count Dracula's fortress or Frankenstein's castle!
> Anyway, congrats on finishing Bloodstone! It is sure to become one of my
> constant inspirations!
>
> DaveE
Thanks!
Dan
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> And on that note as an aside-- Has anyone ever done an interior with secret
> passages? I've always kind of envisioned a really cool castle with secret
> corridors inbetween rooms, secret revolving doors, etc... Maybe someday I'll
> try and build one...
The only one I can recall is Matthew Verdier's cool tower, named Wizard
Mathias' Tower.
See here:
http://www.geocities.com/~mjvlego/
Click on models, then under Castle choose Wizard Mathias' Tower.
I saw this during my first lego-web days, when I was just discovering there
were other people out there (about two years ago). It was engraved quite
deeply in my memory and is one of my favorite castle MOCs - err, OPOCs (Other
People's Own Creations :-).
Anyway, it has a secret door... I won't spoil the surprise, you'll see it
there!
-Shiri
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