 | | Four New Shops
|
|
All in the CCC Standard style for houses; all fun and exciting. (URL) The Dragon Dung Shop (URL) The Jeweler Shop (URL) The Herbalist (URL) The Forestman Percussion Band Thoughts and general musing are welcome. Opinions are not. Please phrase all (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
|
| |
| | Black Monarch's Castle Meets the CCS
|
|
Recently I re-did the Black Falcon's Castle as one version of the CCS. This week I worked on set 6085 Black Monarch's Castle. I didn't have enough bricks to finish it and right now it looks like I won't be able to finish it til around the 1st of the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | not a big fan of mlcad, but...
|
|
I saw this on Brickshelf, rendered on MLCAD. It will be totally awesome when it gets built. Thanks to Hans-Georg Becker for the design and for posting it! Nice work!! (URL) seems that the (evil) Black Falcon's are slowly gaining the edge over the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: More foliage - Roses (and corn)
|
|
(...) omg, those design are great! I will be stealing your idea's very frequently in the near future :-) I also liked your article on classic-castle.com on foliage and the ideas of others pointed out in it. Thanks for you effort (and keep them (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
|
| |
| | Re: More foliage - Roses (and corn)
|
|
(...) Amazing ! only 2 bricks and the roses are perfect :) (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
|
| |
| | Re: More foliage - Roses (and corn)
|
|
Those roses are very impressive. I will definitely be borrowing them for designs. Great job! (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
|
| |
| | More foliage - Roses (and corn)
|
|
I've just built two more bits of foliage for my Classic-Castle.com article on foliage. But since not all people who are interested in foliage are interested in castle, I figured I'd show off the MOCs themselves seperately. So here you go: A rose (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX) !
|
| |
| | Re: White Lion Castle - first pictures of the whole castle !
|
|
(...) not only on one. I've read some Books about castles, medieval buildings, living in that timeperiod and the crusades. Especially the art of siege is very interessting. First I thought about to rebuild a real castle, but then I found Bob (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: White Lion Castle - first pictures of the whole castle !
|
|
(...) Hmm... I heard that the falcons build some siege weapons like the crusades did. I think they are not restricted to their own acquisitions :) (...) Jep ! :) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: White Lion Castle - first pictures of the hole castle !
|
|
Hmm...just check out the last post ( backside of the wlc ) to the the amount of crusaders against the falcons. I gues there will be about 10 more but that's it ... no more falcons :) Maybe you should send me a bunch of falcons to lead them to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: Orc Wolf Rider - Thank you Kevin Blocksidge!!
|
|
Hi, seemed that the brickshelf folder isn't public-yet ! ;) Kai (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.inst)
|
| |
| | WLC walls finished - a picture of the backside rocks
|
|
Hi, a new picture of the "white lion castle": click on the picture at "The Castle ( the construction )" (URL) this should be a teaser for the whole picture set of the forthcomming crusader-falcon-battle :) stats so far: 1 King, 1 Queen, 47 Crusaders (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) Hmmm... I don't think that it will be "better", 'cause of the discussed reasons before. Yes - there will be more castle-"readers/writers" in fact of the new forum, but if you realy wanna read all the stuff - you have to go to more than one (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
Hello. My daily LEGO rutine is basically this; * Visit LUGNET via webbrowser * Klick on all new items on the front page to open in a new tab (using Mozilla) * Do the same to (URL) Read those items, no matter what theme they're in Then I do things a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Orc Wolf Rider - Thank you Kevin Blocksidge!!
|
|
Thank you Kevin Blocksidge, for doing something that I was too lazy to do, something I should have done but never did. Kevin has taken my Orc Wolf Rider instructions and created only three pages out of the 19 steps. Here's a link: (URL) Orcish Wolf (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.inst, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) Bruce, I am hoping that the CC Forums become an active, complementary service to .castle. I think it will in time attract a different audience than lugnet does. I would suggest posting MOC announcements to both for now, and see what sort of (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) If the cc forum has an e-mail gateway, then they could be linked pretty easily. --Todd (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) Seriously, has anyone thought about gatewaying lugnet.castle to the cc forum at all? It's probably an unrealistic prospect, with message coding issues (!) and such, but I am aware something similar was done with the (crynwrr) robotics mailing (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) I couldn't disagree more. As the community grows (and, from what I know, it is growing constantly) - having a central place to communicate will devolve into cacophony. Lugnet is such a great central place because it automatically divides (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
I totally agree with Jason on this. In the end, I -- and probably many, many people besides myself -- just don't have the time to visit all the many forums that are popping up. I pretty much gave up RTL for Lugnet. I try to occasionally read the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: A brothel is born...
|
|
(...) wife is out of town visiting the moonbase... -Teddy (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space)
|
| |
| | Posable Horse Reloaded
|
|
Okay, I've redesigned my minifig posable horse. The result is now a little more to the same scale as a minifig, and generally it looks better and more horse-like. It still has 11 pivot points. If I could figure out how to make the head move up and (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
|
| |
| | Re: Some carts
|
|
(...) A tinker gets his name because he works so much with tin, the way a plumber works with lead (Latin plumbum = lead). Tinkers usually made and repaired pots, pans, and other small metal objects which were made from nonferrous metals and required (...) (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
I see nothing wrong with having a new forum at Classic Castle, and I see nothing wrong with cross posting. Right now, the new forum has some interesting topics going. It's true that they could have all been posted here, but they weren't. This forum (...) (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) One minute to fill out.. three days before it goes active. And becoming an actual member.. can take weeks. What finally convinced me to support the idea of a new forum at c-c is the volatility of Lugnet itself (this past weekend it went down (...) (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | A brothel is born...
|
|
Introducing from what I've read, most likely the 1st brothel to Castle. The King's Dream is the latest addition to my small village to join the latest castle. (URL) Other pictures of the village and castle can be found at... (URL) is welcome. Fred (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: Yet another cart
|
|
(...) Hi Jojo, Great cart. I especially like the harness for the horse. Much more elegant and realistic than what I've come up with for my posable horse. I shall do some more brainstorming (and perhaps purchasing on BL). Alan (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Yet another cart
|
|
Hello! Currently I like to build carts, obviously. (URL) me, I'm a link!>> (URL) me, I'm a link, too!>> This time it's the ...caravan (? How are those antique homes on wheels called actually?) of a gipsy family. The poor jade has a hard time hauling (...) (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) But what does the 'multi-day process to become a Lugnet member' have to do with posting on LUGNET, since last I checked LUGNET posting just required the one minute to fill out (URL) Well, for good or bad, Lugnet is fragmenting anyway. The (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) I would post to lugnet.castle, since that's what I read. I don't have enough time to waste it trying to deal with an http-based discussion venue. (21 years ago, 20-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: Fall like leaves! ...in... the fall! A study in color
|
|
(...) I've since uploaded better pictures of the forest, as you can now see on the start of this thread. I hope I don't offend anyone for advertising this, but I've also written and posted my foliage article that features my fall foliage forest. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) Hi Bruce, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. It's a topic that's been on my mind ever since the Classic-Castle announcement was made. I like the C-C site, and believe that it fills a lot of needs and wants of castle-heads, like me. I (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) except (...) I'm going to do this piecemeal, though I'll still try to view the post on a whole. I don't think double posting is necessary, simply because if you, the individual, has said something in reply to a post, then you've said what (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: forum opinion
|
|
(...) Actually, the .starwars forum used to have quite a bit of traffic, but FBTB forum kinda killed it. I still read .starwars and never read the FBTB forum. I think that those kinds of forums are bad for the community personally. They spilt it up. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | forum opinion
|
|
Hey all, I've been wondering about the forum here versus that at classic-castle.com. Do you think it's better to post at one place, the other, or both. For the last couple of days I've been trying to post there, because I think if that forum is (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: Some carts
|
|
(...) Not to be pedantic but the correct term for this sort of merchant is simply "tinker". A tinkerer is someone who plays around with mechanical things in his workshop. Just FYI. :) Ted (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Fall like leaves! ...in... the fall! A study in color
|
|
(...) snip (...) Very good looking trees at minifig scale. I certainly wouldn't want to be a minifig standing under them when the "leaves" actually start to fall. THUD. Ouch! Alan ;) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
|
| |
| | Re: Fall like leaves! ...in... the fall! A study in color
|
|
(...) Wow, it feels pretty cool to be considered an 'inspiration' on these! I like 'em. A lot! Something similar might have to show up on the GMLTC train layout at our next show. *grin* (John rumages through the bricks looking for yellow, brown, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Fall like leaves! ...in... the fall! A study in color
|
|
(...) They're good enough to convey intent, I'd say! (...) Very spiffy. I would suggest some mottling, though, as real trees (with some exceptions like red maples) tend not to be solidly one color. Usually a lot of one with some dapples of another. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Fall like leaves! ...in... the fall! A study in color
|
|
(...) I look forward to the article. (...) Nicely done. I like the birch ones in particular. This may end up being our only way to achieve fall trees. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
|
