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Frank Filz wrote:
> Ok, as promised, I've got more pictures. I'm not sure whether I'll continue this project or abandon it. Read the older posts if you
> want to find out more background. The pictures are at:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=962
It's looking good! The use of tan really serves the model well, and it just screams defensibility as a castle site. Hopefully we'll
see the battlements rise just like in the old days!
Just a question: Are you going to mottle up that light grey cliff-face so it's not so uniform, using a few dkgrey bricks, a handful of
green bricks, and a few plant bits? It might get the BURP feeling out of the rocks, and make it even more evocative of a cliff face.
(Or, eschew the green to keep it nice, dark, and foreboding. Add dark grey falcons for bonus creepiness.)
As far as the sea cave, which is truly HUGE (you been watching too much "Goonies," or something?) isn't there some kind of flying
buttress method possible in LEGO? Perhaps a LOT of half-arch pieces? I saw the large black pillar (support?) and wonder if you could
widen the base a few studs and taper it in and out into a joined stalactite/stalagmite--that would be extremely cav-ey, and might still
give you the needed support.
Just a few thoughts.
best
LFB
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> Frank Filz wrote:
>
> > Ok, as promised, I've got more pictures. I'm not sure whether I'll continue this project or abandon it. Read the older posts if you
> > want to find out more background. The pictures are at:
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=962
>
> It's looking good! The use of tan really serves the model well, and it just screams defensibility as a castle site. Hopefully we'll
> see the battlements rise just like in the old days!
Yea, I'm very pleased with the river and bridge. In fact, even if I
abandon the huge sea cave idea, I'll still keep the bridge. I would have
liked to make the bridge narrower, but for the 6038 cart to be able to
cross it, the roadway needed to be at least 7 studs wide, more
comfortably 8 studs wide, so the entire bridge is 10 studs wide. I'd
love to have those arch pieces in a color other than white since the
white railing doesn't quite go with the Wolfpack, but I like the bridge.
> Just a question: Are you going to mottle up that light grey cliff-face so it's not so uniform, using a few dkgrey bricks, a handful of
> green bricks, and a few plant bits? It might get the BURP feeling out of the rocks, and make it even more evocative of a cliff face.
> (Or, eschew the green to keep it nice, dark, and foreboding. Add dark grey falcons for bonus creepiness.)
Oh definitely I'll be decorating up the cliff more. I wish the falcon
was available in white (sea gull), but yup, there will be a lot of dark
grey falcons roosting on the cliffs (it would be nifty if there was a
bird with outstretched wings also). The cave of course will have a
colony of bats...
> As far as the sea cave, which is truly HUGE (you been watching too much "Goonies," or something?) isn't there some kind of flying
> buttress method possible in LEGO? Perhaps a LOT of half-arch pieces? I saw the large black pillar (support?) and wonder if you could
> widen the base a few studs and taper it in and out into a joined stalactite/stalagmite--that would be extremely cav-ey, and might still
> give you the needed support.
I don't watch TV (I was going to say I've never seen Goonies, but
somehow I suspect I have). Yes, that sea cave is HUGE. It needs to be
that large for the ships to be able to fit into it. Yea, I could work on
the pillar to make it a natural column. I was also thinking of it as a
man made feature use to provide a bit of bracing for the cave. The
column is positioned to support one corner of a Scala 22x44 doll house
floor. The Scala floor actually would cover most of the sea cave (the
back of it would be supported by the back wall of the sea cave).
If I continue with this creation, I might have to invest in more tubs. I
packed away all the bricks last night, and realized I'm down to probably
just a hundred or so red 2x4 bricks (of course I've still got plenty of
other colors). Of course I could use BURPs for support columns (they can
be made into a fairly economical strong support, the left hand cliff
module is quite sturdy).
One of my biggest concerns is running out of bricks. It's amazing to
realize that for all of the size of my collection, this creation will
actually strain my brick collection. Building something like this gives
on an INCREDIBLE appreciation for Conan's collection (and soon Mike
Poindexter's - hey Mike, if you're reading this, when are we going to
see some pictures of your train modules, or have I somehow missed
them?). Fortunately the color scheme of Wolfpack castles is black walls
because I won't be surprised if I don't have much grey left after this.
I also want to do a bit of re-work of the road. Right now it's difficult
to have anything set up on most of the road (although a strategically
placed temporaty brick did allow me to put the cart on the road - I
really should have snapped a picture).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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Ok, I decided to take a break from massive earth moving, and work up some characters, here they have all posed for the artist (who
is sitting on a flying carpet off the cliff face...):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=9493
From left to right, top row:
Karl Gundersson, commander of the , Vulf's brother
Vulf Gundersson, leader of the pack, the eldest.
Chandruth Firemaster, one of the best fire magicians in the North. One of Chandruth's accomplishments are the firecasters the Pack's
ship's are armed with. Note the use of a spider cape reversed (the spider is pretty well hidden). Note that Chandruth's seamstress
has monogrammed the inside of his cape...
Dirk Vulfson, Vulf's 13 year old son, Dirk is a crackshot with bow, and carry's a Black Radly (which is not in the picture - extra
credit for catching the reference).
From left to right, bottom row:
Helga, Vulf's wife. She's also a mean archer.
Kyla Vulfsdottir, Kristoff and Helga's 19 year old daughter, she is captain of The Red Vulf, one of the two ships Vulf's pack
commands.
Jorek Gundersson, the youngest brother, captain of The Black Vulf, the other ship under Vulf's forces. Jorek was seriously injured,
and lost many of his crew, when The Black Vulf was attacked by a sea dragon. Jorek singlehandledly dispatched the dragon.
Princess Dorianna. I'm not sure which faction she belongs to, but as I was putting minifigs together, I remembered I wanted to try
out the Belville crown on indian hair (it has a pin on the bottom).
I should have used a grey backrgound for better viewing.
Frank
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Missing is Vulf's eldest son, Lars. No doubt he has left Castles and joined
Pirates.
Bruce
(there's a joke hiding in there somewhere)
In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> Ok, I decided to take a break from massive earth moving, and work up some • characters, here they have all posed for the artist (who
> is sitting on a flying carpet off the cliff face...):
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=9493
>
> From left to right, top row:
>
> Karl Gundersson, commander of the , Vulf's brother
>
> Vulf Gundersson, leader of the pack, the eldest.
>
> Chandruth Firemaster, one of the best fire magicians in the North. One of • Chandruth's accomplishments are the firecasters the Pack's
> ship's are armed with. Note the use of a spider cape reversed (the spider is • pretty well hidden). Note that Chandruth's seamstress
> has monogrammed the inside of his cape...
>
> Dirk Vulfson, Vulf's 13 year old son, Dirk is a crackshot with bow, and • carry's a Black Radly (which is not in the picture - extra
> credit for catching the reference).
>
> From left to right, bottom row:
>
> Helga, Vulf's wife. She's also a mean archer.
>
> Kyla Vulfsdottir, Kristoff and Helga's 19 year old daughter, she is captain of • The Red Vulf, one of the two ships Vulf's pack
> commands.
>
> Jorek Gundersson, the youngest brother, captain of The Black Vulf, the other • ship under Vulf's forces. Jorek was seriously injured,
> and lost many of his crew, when The Black Vulf was attacked by a sea dragon. • Jorek singlehandledly dispatched the dragon.
>
> Princess Dorianna. I'm not sure which faction she belongs to, but as I was • putting minifigs together, I remembered I wanted to try
> out the Belville crown on indian hair (it has a pin on the bottom).
>
> I should have used a grey backrgound for better viewing.
>
> Frank
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> (there's a joke hiding in there somewhere)
Reeeeeeeally? <grin>
Please clarify, I haven't been following .pirates *that* carefully; Frank-ly,
(1) I haven't been following much of lugnet carefully at all... I barely even
noticed I won CLSOTW... (2) ... just barely keeping up on .castle.
Which reminds me... nice job on the MOC, Frank! I like it. I suspect you won't
be having lack-of-brick problems, like moi, eh? <grin>
-Shiri (at least, I think so, I need so much sleep it's scary)
(1) Uh-oh... does this mean I get sent over to .pun? (3)
(2) OK, that was a lie ;-) ... but I *did* get email congratulations (two)
before I saw it for myself...
(3) "Say what?!"
Not that there's anything wrong with hanging out with Lind-say... what...
nothing at all... but... uh-oh, I blew it, didn't I?... <grin>
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Shiri Dori wrote:
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> > (there's a joke hiding in there somewhere)
>
> Reeeeeeeally? <grin>
>
> Please clarify, I haven't been following .pirates *that* carefully; Frank-ly,
> (1) I haven't been following much of lugnet carefully at all... I barely even
> noticed I won CLSOTW... (2) ... just barely keeping up on .castle.
>
> Which reminds me... nice job on the MOC, Frank! I like it. I suspect you won't
> be having lack-of-brick problems, like moi, eh? <grin>
Oh, I don't know, I think it is quite possible that I will run out of
bricks on this creation. I'm already almost out of red 2x4 bricks, and I
have a lot more support superstructure to go (which will likely eat up
all the blue and yellow bricks).
--
Frank Filz
-----------------------------
Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> > (there's a joke hiding in there somewhere)
>
> Reeeeeeeally? <grin>
>
> Please clarify, I haven't been following .pirates *that* carefully; Frank-ly,
> (1) I haven't been following much of lugnet carefully at all... I barely even
> noticed I won CLSOTW... (2) ... just barely keeping up on .castle.
The Sea Wolf, by Jack London. The central character being a ship captain
named Wolf Larson.
If Vulf has a son named Lar, he'd be Lars Vulfson. I TOLD you the joke was
hiding (and perhaps should have stayed hidden). :-)
Bruce
>
> Which reminds me... nice job on the MOC, Frank! I like it. I suspect you won't
> be having lack-of-brick problems, like moi, eh? <grin>
>
> -Shiri (at least, I think so, I need so much sleep it's scary)
>
> (1) Uh-oh... does this mean I get sent over to .pun? (3)
>
> (2) OK, that was a lie ;-) ... but I *did* get email congratulations (two)
> before I saw it for myself...
>
> (3) "Say what?!"
> Not that there's anything wrong with hanging out with Lind-say... what...
> nothing at all... but... uh-oh, I blew it, didn't I?... <grin>
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> Karl Gundersson, commander of the , Vulf's brother
> Vulf Gundersson, leader of the pack, the eldest.
> Chandruth Firemaster, one of the best fire magicians in the North. One of • Chandruth's accomplishments are the firecasters the Pack's
> Dirk Vulfson, Vulf's 13 year old son, Dirk is a crackshot with bow, and
> From left to right, bottom row:
> Helga, Vulf's wife. She's also a mean archer.
> Kyla Vulfsdottir, Kristoff and Helga's 19 year old daughter, she is captain of
> Jorek Gundersson, the youngest brother, captain of The Black Vulf, the other
Hehehehehe, All I can think of is:
"Derrrr vas Karl Gunderson and Vulf Gunderson and Dirk Gunderson and Helga
Gunderson and Jorek Gunderson and Kyla Gunderson, and Gunder Gunderson? Yes, he
vas der tuuuuu."
:) :) If you do't get the joke, go to:
http://phc.bach.mpr.org/performances/19991218/index.shtml
and listen to time index 08:12
--Karim
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Frank Filz wrote in message ...
> Ok, I decided to take a break from massive earth moving, and work up some characters, here they have all posed for the artist (who
> is sitting on a flying carpet off the cliff face...):
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=9493
>
> From left to right, top row:
>
> Karl Gundersson, commander of the , Vulf's brother
>
> Vulf Gundersson, leader of the pack, the eldest.
>
> Chandruth Firemaster, one of the best fire magicians in the North. One of Chandruth's accomplishments are the firecasters the • Pack's
> ship's are armed with. Note the use of a spider cape reversed (the spider is pretty well hidden). Note that Chandruth's seamstress
> has monogrammed the inside of his cape...
>
> Dirk Vulfson, Vulf's 13 year old son, Dirk is a crackshot with bow, and carry's a Black Radly (which is not in the picture - extra
> credit for catching the reference).
>
> From left to right, bottom row:
>
> Helga, Vulf's wife. She's also a mean archer.
Helga's full name is Helga Kendriksdottir.
> Kyla Vulfsdottir, Kristoff and Helga's 19 year old daughter, she is
^^^^^^^^
Oops - that should be Vulf
> captain of The Red Vulf, one of the two ships Vulf's pack
> commands.
>
> Jorek Gundersson, the youngest brother, captain of The Black Vulf, the other ship under Vulf's forces. Jorek was seriously injured,
> and lost many of his crew, when The Black Vulf was attacked by a sea dragon. Jorek singlehandledly dispatched the dragon.
>
> Princess Dorianna. I'm not sure which faction she belongs to, but as I was putting minifigs together, I remembered I wanted to try
> out the Belville crown on indian hair (it has a pin on the bottom).
>
> I should have used a grey backrgound for better viewing.
>
> Frank
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> Please go ahead and add me to Castle World. I'm not sure if Vulf is my sigfig • or not yet, but please add a link to clan Vulf.
>
> Frank
Sure thing, Frank! Just lemme know when you decide on a sigfig.
-Chris
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