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| | | Seeing Brad post up about the rerelease of Fort Legorado, this is going to allow me to have a go at something I've wanted to do for quite some time (bit never had the brown) and do a Motte and Bailiey style Has anyone already had a bash at one of (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | (...) I was thinking along the same lines as you, when I first saw the Fort Legoredo set. Unfortunately, I only got one such set when it was available, and chose instead to use the brown elements to start building a castle village. I never finished (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —David Gardner
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| | | | | | i always wanted to build a palisade or motte and bailly david gardner (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —Richard Morton
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| | | | | Yes, I remember studying Motte and Baileys at school, many, many years ago. It should be an interesting project for you. I will be interested in how you do the circular fortified walls usings brown log pieces. Richard. "James Stacey" (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | | (...) Does a Motte and Bailey have to be round? It's been a while since I read all those history texts of that era, but I thought such a thing is any wooden fort built on a hill, where the hill is most often man-made from earth moved from the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —Rob Drechsel
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| | | | | | | (...) They were typically round, but the "keep" on the center of the hill is often square. The perimeter wall is often round. If anybody can prove me wrong, say so! (...) Rob robo2705@hotmail.com (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Motte-and-Bailey Castles (Was: Fort Legorado) —Enrique Durand
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| | | | | | (...) Here are some links to images of hstoric motte-and-bailey castles: (URL) looking at these it seems that the walls weren't necessarily round, but sometimes were straight with rounded corners. Though there are doubtless countless more examples (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —Zhengrong Zang
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| | | | | You can find it now at (URL) luck! Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —Magnus Lauglo
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| | | | (...) Not yet, but I've toyed with the idea of making a castle with a grey keep and gatehouse and a wooden stockade wall. Now that I have two fort legoredos (and I'll probably buy some more now, horay!;) ), I figure I have enough brown palisade wall (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —James Stacey
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| | | | | Stone keeps with wooden palisades were quite common. You had to protect your castle in the 10 years or so it'd take to build it :) wow 2 legorados and more to come, that could build a hefty stockade. -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Fort Legorado —John P. Henderson
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| | | | (...) Sorry no pics, but I have used the white palisade walls as well as the red angle walls to make various small stalls for a village market place. (By stall, I mean a three side box with simple roof, where the open side faces the market and (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.castle)
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