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(...) Yeah ... this whole city is built "realistically" - as in, if minifigs could walk, they could get to every part of the city. All towers are accessible, etc. Also, the walls are done at a height and width that I considered realistic for (...) (21 years ago, 24-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I like the detail on the lighthouse, especially the seagulls. I've been thinking of doing a light-tower along similar lines, though likely it won't be as big when I get around to it. Nice church too. And the pennant detail on that 'big house' (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That'd be really cool. Maybe a bunch of spears set into 1x1 round bricks stuck to the bottom of the moat. (...) Yeah, I generally avoid the raised baseplates because it's hard to get them to fit with the rest of the landscape. Oh, one thing on (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I hear ya, I hate when that happens to me. (...) These are the two solutions I'm most intersted in, but obviously they are the hardest to get right. I've also been thinking of a dry moat, filled with stakes perhaps, but this would possibly be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I guess something like that would work with your keep, but I dunno if I'll be able to make a moat on mine, on the outside of a curtain wall. BTW I never got around to complimenting on your keep, I love the way it opens up and the way you've (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi Bruce, I really glad you liked it, thank you very much for your very quick replay. As for the bell, it does swing, infact it does everything beside ring:-) I wanted to attach a thread to my minifigs so they can swing it:-) You can borrow it (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Shoot. I wrote a big long post after going through and finding pictures on Brickshelf, but my browser crashed and the post was lost. Grr. Anyway, I can think of 3 ways to build moats: 1. Castle on green baseplates, blue plates on top of the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Yaron, Very nice church. I like the details in the windows especially. Also the goblet, the books (hymn books or bibles?), the statue, the shields are all nice details. The clapper on the bell is a good idea - I'll have to borrow that sometime. Does (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hi everybody, As promised I'm proudly presenting the 2nd MOC I've been working on recently. A small 'Medieval Peasant's Church' which would probably would look much better if it was white but as castle fan all I have is gray:-) It's been inspired by (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) Urrrr... Good idea. (Ishuddathottuvdat...) :P~~~ (URL) to use a Dinosaur "tail tip" piece in place of the light sabre blade. Thanks, Franklin (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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(...) Acutally, I've heard that some of today's special forces do the same thing. The reason being that if there is a failure in their night vision equipment, they will still have one eye that can adjust to the dark quickly. It's second hand (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) I realy knew what you ment, the early wooden "castles" where build on motte's - until they were to big/heavy... as you described before. I just wrote my favorite kind of making the surrounding of a castle - a moat. :) (...) yes - there are (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I feel that even though I never met many of the people on Lugnet, I still know them pretty well. If I was to meet them, we would already have a lot of history between us and could pick right up. (...) Thanks! (...) You are right - it's a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks :) -- Pawel (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I heard that pirates (or in this case - Gilbert the Bad) wore eye patches so that if they ever had to fight in the dark, one eye would already be adjusted. So some wore patches even with two healthy eyes :) -- Pawel (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Here's a shot for y'all: (URL) The definitive size reference pic for the Kingdom of Ikros Actually I needed to clean up my LEGO room and so I was told that if I wanted to display my stuff it had to be out of the way, so there they sit along side my (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) the neck accessory... -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, FTX)
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Hi all, My 7 yr old nephew sent me this message, with a further explanation from my sister-in-law. Uncle Alan, Why does Gilbert the Bad have his eye patched out? Jonathan (a patch on his eye) We found Gilbert the Bad in a Lego book from the library, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hey Nathan, Nice MOC. I really like some of the details like the columns at an angle in the front, the spiral staircase on the right, the boar's head, and the way the walls and floors come out to access the interior. Bruce (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Pawel is BACK! Yay! Great to have you again, altho we never really met before. Blut'Ader is something I heard alot about when I was young at Lugnet but could never find more than a black gate. And all I wanna say is WOWZIE! What strikes me is (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Well, we started playing, but there were too many distractions--we didn't have enough MichLUG members to watch the rest of the display and interact with the crowd. We got about 1/3 of the way through my scenario and had to call it (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming)
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Hey Peter, I see that your keep was in use at MichLUG's latest outing. How did it go? Did someone take pictures to document the gaming? Bruce (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hey Jason, I look forward to seeing the final version. What else is in store for this? I would guess some sort of dock or bridge? Also, are you going to add more interior? Regardless, this is a beautiful castle, with an interesting shape. Is it (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) As Scott mentioned, I did build that. I haven't taken full detailed pictures yet, but I will eventually. Actually the version that made it to the comic-con isn't the final version. I ran out of bricks and time. So I will be making a number of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Bruce & All, (...) Jason Spears built this castle, it is very nice. There are a few pictures up from this weekend, we are working on the show report as I type. Peter Guenther: (URL) Spears: (URL) am sure Jason will have more on this later. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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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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