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| Hi all- After my first castle MOC, I have the urge to build a town. the problem is, I dont know what it should contain. Could any one direct me to a site with plenty of lego castle village pics? i need some Ideas as to what to build. I already know (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I'm sure there is pics out there...my mind is a blank with that one... (...) Well, I was looking at an encyclopaedia and was looking at a "Late Midieval Castle"...it had the keep to one side of the castle, surrounded by walls inside these (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hi Will, Frank Filz's LEGO Castle links page has lists a few villages in the Structures section: (URL) villages/cities are... Chris Maddison's Small Village: (URL) Hall's City of Brahnsturt: (URL) Furman's Festival of the Guilds: (URL) Sava's (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) <Snippage> (...) Hey, thanks for the referral Leah! My Corincia is a bit small to be considered a village I'd think, but hey, whatever works :). I just wanted to point out directly the best lego town that I know of. It may not be inclusive or (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) as roofs?I might start building a village of my own soon. (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| I know this Question may sound stupid but how do you slant the plates to use as roofs?I might start building a village of my own soon. (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| there are a few ways to do it. There is a brick made for doing it (URL) has come with a few sets, but not enough to be useful. I tend to use a 1x2 hinge brick. (URL) + (URL) like here (URL) these have the added bonust that they allow some degree of (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Thanks,another Question (I ask so many Questions because i am new to lego.)Were there like midevil buildings maybe 2,3 floors high(not castles) ?Has any body built any. Thanks again (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) lego.)Were (...) There certainly were. A lot of houses would be 1 storey with sleeping room in the roof. Lots of other types of buildings had 2 stories, tanneries, inns, bakeries. Most people would not have houses of more than 2 stories unless (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) There are many ways. Here: (URL) you look at the house near the bottom-left hand corner, you can see that the two 2-plate thick roof plates are linked at the top with some pairs of 1X2 plate hinges. Then, just before the roof ends, the lower (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Thank's for all the help James.I am going to get a start on my village with Gaurded Inn :-). (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Although it does appear that hinges were used, the sad truth is they weren't! Back when my village was created, tan pieces were still pretty rare, so I looked into using plates rather than slopes to save on Tan (since tan plates were getting (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Here's how I did it for Kobayashi's troop barracks in my Isle of Mist story: (URL) can see here that the side walls are simply black sloped peaks, without any studs. (URL) you can see that each half of the roof is tied together with a couple (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) As others have said, a tavern, a church, a market would all be good. Some garden plots, livestock (see, for instance, a herd of sheep in Dave Eaton's village cited by Anthony Sava in this thread), a barn, a stable. All of these would focus on (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) See the discussions that have taken place in lugnet.storage for ideas. . . -- TWS Garrison (who has a really bad storage system) (URL) capital letters in address for direct reply. (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Leah- Thanks for all those links, now i have some great ideas. I really love the church from C. Maddisons small village. (Chris, I hope you dont mind, I may steal that idea!!!) wb (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Where're the sheep? I didn't see them - I've been trying to build some and an example of someone else's would be nice TIA, Tanya (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) How about this: "(URL) and other barnyard animals are shown here: "(URL) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Tanya, It's this link: (URL) takes a whole long time for all of the pictures to load, so you may not have seen them because all the pictures weren't there yet.* There are good pictures of the sheep in the 14th and 20th pictures from the top. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) A nice close up of the sheep, chickens, and goose I used: (URL)*Dave, just a suggestion. You might want to break this page up into several (...) The entire site's going on an overhaul :) However, I'll probably keep them all on one page since (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) sometime. (...) That sounds like the ideal solution. (...) No apologies needed. SW creations are great, too. Looking forward to it. Bruce (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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