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Re: My first Castle MOC has been started!
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Sun, 30 Jul 2000 03:53:53 GMT
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Well begun Frank.  Off to conquer even more worlds (or should I say
themes?).   I can't figure out what  you moved  or packed away to make room
for this layout?

Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:FyH0Mr.921@lugnet.com...

Mookie wrote in message <39830CF2.100D548A@worldnet.att.net>...
Man Frank, I thought my room was bad! how do you find anything in
there???

When everything is stowed, it's pretty easy to find stuff. While building, • I'm always misplacing a bag. Each drawer, tub, >crate, or
other large container holds similar parts. For example, the  tan crate • behind the chair holds 1x6 and longer 1xY bricks. >The blue
crate beside it holds large rectangular plates (except for the very large • ones which are in the small brown crate between >the blue
and tan crates). The little yellow crate primarily holds bricks which have • studs or tubes on the side. The drawer unit >behind the
chair holds all the slopes (except the roof peaks and corner slopes etc. • which are in a compartmented container under the >table the
castle is on. The left hand drawer unit holds mostly smaller plates and • tiles, but the 2xY plates overflowed a drawer, so >they are
in a tub which fits between the two drawer units, and the drawer now holds • curved bricks.

Under the building table, are most of my Plano like compartmented boxes. • There are more tubs and compartmented boxes >under the
computer desk (leg room is csrefully arranged).

I forget . . .  is it under the computer desk where the Fabulous Fabuland
yellow trunk is archived?  You know it's not really the right scale for
castle and pirates .
I wouldn't want anything to marr the perfection of your creations present or
future.  ;-)  Maybe it would be best for you to remove this possibly
contaminating element from the premises...  Say about an hour and a half
away in a Western direction?


I've got stuff in bags all over my room right now, and I can't seem to
remember which bag has what it in if it's a misc. bag... I know I need
to sit down and do some serious sorting again very soon! I've got too
many misc. bags and buckets :(


My problem is that sorting has been my life for the past year and a half. • I need to schedule more time for building. >Fortunately,
I'm starting to get ahead of the purchases on the sorting game (but I • still have more sets to sort than Wal-Mart has on their
shelves on a slow day). But hey, there's only ONE floor to ceiling stack • of sets. Of course 4 other stacks reach the ceiling, >but
they don't start on the floor. That basically covers all my unsorted sets • in the largest size category (the 18"x24"x6" or
thereabouts set boxes). I probably also have 100-200 smaller sets (though • the unsorted medium size sets have been >dwindling fast -
they're probably ones I can sort the most efficiently).

Ah . . . to have such delightful problems!

On your first MOC! looking good, any ideas on just how tall it's going
to be yet?
I love the underground stream idea,

Yes, me too.

I've had that in my head
for a while just haven't had the chance to build anything with it. Ever
since I did my mountain and I put that hidden alcove in it, I've wanted
to build something like that into a castle structure :) Sounds like
you'd have that chance with the under ground entrance from the stream!
(Now I'm giving away my ideas) :(

The sea cave is going to be about 4 BURPs tall (about 25 bricks). The • castle basement will be just above that, so the >castle gate
will be more than 30 bricks off the ground. It will be tall enough for • small ships like 6057 or 6277 to enter (in fact, I'm >going to
make two 6277 style ships for the Wolfpack, I need to talk to Sheree
Rosenkrantz about making some Wolfpack sails for >me).

Will do gladly...  (not contingent on the trunk ;-) .   I am currently
approaching a deadline on a sewing related project.  I anticipate completion
of it within a week give or take a day
or two.  I could make short order of it after then.


I've got the road complete all the way up to the entrance to the sea cave • (at 22 bricks high). The road is pretty steep, being >made
of x3 low slopes). I've finished off the small room off  to the right of • the sea cave entrance. Because of what I will be >building
on top of it, I had to make a pull out section of wall to allow access to • it.

One thing I haven't totally decided is how I am going to support the • castle over the sea cave. Except for the fact that I want >to
have an elevator shaft in the middle, I thought about using the 44x44 base • from a Scala house. I might still figure out a way >to use
the 22x44 piece. I may also just make a 2 or 3 brick thick sandwich of • 12x24 superbricks.

I just built a temporary mock up of the cliff face to the left of the sea • cave entrance. Because of space limitations, I'm >going to
have to work hard to disguise the regularity of the BURPs.

Keep us posted on the progress!!


I'll probably have more pictures tonight

Goodie!  I like to see the evolution of a project.  Much more interesting
than just the end product.  Commentary is appreciated also.

sheree

(oh how I love my digital camera!).



Frank






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sheree rosenkrantz wrote in message ... (...) Oh, I've been conquering the Castle theme for some time (though I'm not even pretending to try and become castle complete - actually, Pirates is the only significant theme I'm trying for completeness (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)

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Mookie wrote in message <39830CF2.100D548A@w...tt.net>... (...) When everything is stowed, it's pretty easy to find stuff. While building, I'm always misplacing a bag. Each drawer, tub, crate, or other large container holds similar parts. For (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)

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