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Re: Castle Wall Piece Weight
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lugnet.castle
Date: 
Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:34:15 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Pedro Silva writes:
<snip>
> > As for building- the usual.  You know, castles, villages, carrages,hideouts,
> > river crossings, fortified ledges, insane barons.  :-)
> 
> I like the latter! :-P
> Do you have any idea so far if you will be focusing more on the "civilian"
> or "military" aspects of medieval life? It would be really cool to see a
> common peasants' hamlet, for a change - all those knights really need
> someone to feed them, right?

Well... again, my lack of castle stuff will probablly force me the peasent
way, right now I'm making a semi-robin hood idea exept using less violence
and a bit more politiking and hiding out.  I'm building a rather small
hideout-in a cave right now.
> > My main problem is that I'm twelve,
> 
> (If you think *that* is a problem, wait til you're older... ;-)

How so?  Well, I suppose it depends on your age- younger older, older younger!

> > and don't have a digital camera I could
> > use.  So, I'm waiting for my birthday (early August) and crossing my fingers
> > for a digital camera.  The problem is, in town and space, you can get by
> > rendering, but in castle it dosn't have the same effect as taking a picture.
> 
> Actually, I never tried rendering castle stuff (I'm more a town/train fan
> myself). But I think I understand what you mean... when you have a camera,
> it is a lot easier to take snapshots and use them in a tale, for instance.
> Renderings would look too "clean" to be true...
> 
> I'm looking forward to see what you come up with - send me an e-mail when
> you finish the construction!

With what? Its not probable I'll have any pictures. (but maybe a render?  :-) )
> 
> 
> Pedro (who only has a small castle)

John Kruer (who has no castles)



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  Re: Castle Wall Piece Weight
 
(...) It sounds like a good idea to start. Go for it! Tips: use a lot of arches, to give ceilings the "hole" look. And maybe an innocent construction above to divert attentions, who knows?... (...) I'm not *that* older... but I remember the time I (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: Castle Wall Piece Weight
 
(...) Quite so. In fact, it is one of the few pre-assembled parts from LEGO that I see as "advantage only". Even when shipping! (...) I like the latter! :-P Do you have any idea so far if you will be focusing more on the "civilian" or "military" (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-02, to lugnet.castle)

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