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Kai, (...) I'm not sure if you understood, the "motte" (as opposed to "moat") was the steep, often man made made, hill that early castles were often built on top of. I know that sometimes when a wooden motte and bailey castle (wooden fort with a big (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi all, I was just looking through pictures by Scott Sanburn of your display this past weekend and was wondering about this castle: (URL) built this, and are there more detailed pictures on the web? There are a lot of great creations in that folder. (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.castle)
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"Pawel Nazarewicz" <reganok@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Hn45zq.1zoF@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (...) Brickshelf: (...) from (...) so you have been busy then :) looks fantastic - and bigger than ever. Lots of fantastic details in there (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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My sister took some early pictures of the unfinished Blut'Ader: (URL) The castle includes a main keep, barracks, town houses inside the walls, a village with farms on the outside of the city walls, and a lighthouse overlooking everything. Complete (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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(...) I like the moat as a natural "defenceline" the most ! :) (...) Expand the castle : what about a nice siege scene with lots of evil knight in front of the castle :) Kai (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) :-) Hi Terry, how are you? (...) I planned on that baseplate for a long time to built some kind of structure for the bull's. I just felt that it would fit. (...) I glad you liked it. Thanks Terry for your comment and thanks again for the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ben, I thought LEGO will release one eventually but I guess it just won't happen. (...) Thanks, I glad you liked it. (...) I think LEGO intended us to think as bull's as a wild tribe from woodlands (a new version of the Dragon Masters) and (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Hi Johannes, Cute and original as always. It's nice and weird to see all those old Fabuland parts again, never had that Fabuland stage in my youth. Anyway wanted to ask you, that 'Technic Wedge Belt Wheel' ((URL)) you used there, I never saw (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Hey Nathan! Cool MOC! Good to see you join our ranks. SUPERB! Never seen anything like it. Nice use of the Dragon Fortress baseplate. Details rox. Setting rox. Cool use of those 3x3 dishes for the targets! Simple and nice smokehouse! I hope to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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At some point (finances permitting), I'm going to get some of the inexpensive Spiderman sets (for spare parts). I was thinking, though, what to do with any surplus Green Goblin torsos and legs?... Then I remembered I still have some spare Tail-Tips (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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Another .spacer has joined the ranks of .castle. (URL) Hunting Lodge> PLMKWYT! Power, comrades! We will overcome! (URL) the grand admiral's gonna get me for this! :) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Jon. To make those pictures I took about 20 individual pictures of soldiers. Then I cut and pasted them into one huge (20 MB) Photoshop file, where I adjusted hue and saturation and put each of them in a seperate layers. Then I would (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks. (...) I really think that Rowling's description of Dobby either consciously or unconsciously drew on the obsequious side of Gollum's character. So I felt comfortable using this fig as Gollum. Bruce (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yes, they do still do door-to-door knife sharpening (well, it's not strictly door-to-door, it's more housecall). I saw it on an episode of Good Eats a while ago. This guy pulls up to your house with a van full of sharpening gear and goes (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Nice work. I like the wood floors in the towers. Also, an attrative use of that baseplate. I look forward to the finished product. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Dean, You have a nice creation there. I like a number of the details you included, the rubber band for a measuring tape, the shirts along the wall, the dragon plume for a quill, all very good. As you work on your next one, some ideas that (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Broom maker is the right name so far as I know - it's the other two I'd question. Weaver, or perhaps just basket merchant if he didn't make them himself. Door to door knife sharpening survived to at least when I was a kid (do they still do (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I am very suprised at how small these buildings turned out. They seem plenty big next to the minifigs, but I compare them to my town creations and they seem puny. Still I will probably continue in the same scale... it makes my bricks go (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hello! Again I've built some small things to bring life into the medieval town. This time it's a basket maker, a knife grinder and a broom maker (what's the right name?): (URL) me, I'm a link!>> (URL) me, I'm a link!>> Bye Jojo (2 URLs) Some more (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Doing a corner building was a treat. The bricks really make a nice roof, now if we could only get those pieces straight from LEGO instead of Bricklink, we do lots more of those. (...) Those houses were indeed part of a little village this past (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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