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Village, etc —William Braun

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)

Re: Village, etc —Benjamin Medinets

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Leah Cardaci

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)

Re: Village, etc —Anthony Sava

(...) <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)

Re: Village, etc —Kishin Wadhwani

(...) as roofs?I might start building a village of my own soon. (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)

Re: Village, etc —John Henry Kruer

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —David Eaton

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Adrian Drake

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Kishin Wadhwani

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)

Re: Village, etc —James Stacey

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)

Re: Village, etc —Kishin Wadhwani

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —James Stacey

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Kishin Wadhwani

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)

Re: Village, etc —William Braun

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Bruce Hietbrink

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Tanya K. Burkhart

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Franklin W. Cain

(...) How about this: "(URL) and other barnyard animals are shown here: "(URL) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)

Re: Village, etc —Bruce Hietbrink

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —David Eaton

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Bruce Hietbrink

(...) 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)

Re: Village, etc —Thomas Garrison

(...) 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)