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| Hi, I'm not much of a castle guy, but I was messing around with some ideas and put the following together: (URL) thought of this color scheme because all tan looked really boring, and this had a nice look to it. Also take note of the balcony and (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers) !!
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| (...) I love it.... I've always wanted to do something like that... never got round to it... I love the striped awnings.... very clever... gives a nice feel too Kev..: ) www.ozbricks.com/andrastavia (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) The exterior design is fantastic, it manages to maintain a fair degree of detail in a quite small space. My personal favourites are the sun-screens over the windows (what a colour scheme!), and the clever use of "white topping"; it comes out (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I have to agree with Pedro here, you've done a lot with very little. The elements seem to have been placed with an almost zen-like precision. Nice. As to the color scheme of the window canopies, I know it well from a series of XXX-tra sleazy (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hi Gary, I love your latest MOC! At www.1000steine.de/forum I mentioned that this is my favorite model for the next customer's MOC which LEGO should produce! The color sheme, the sun roof, the arch ... as said by someone else: Really really nice (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| "Gary Thomas" <thomasg@rohan.sdsu.edu> wrote in message news:Gxz7Kt.n33@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) this (...) I (...) being (...) That really is fantastic Gary. The design is classic era Lego, with great use of brick and space. I've tried a few (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| In lugnet.adventurers, Gary Thomas writes: <SNIP> (...) I like the colour scheme, love the balcony scenes, and find the use of lion heads in your archway so good, I'll probably goining to use it myself (copying is the nicest way of complimenting (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Gary, Wow, that's great, you have some nice details there (particularly the canopies) and the color scheme is nice. Thanks, George (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) You got me curious... (feel free to e-mail me further data, if it is so "un-postable" in LUGNET :-P) (...) Would it be related to what you said above? :-D Pedro (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Would love to see a whole series of these of varying size (the way Lego does it) that could be combined together into one big town with a market, houses along the outer wall and the main hold in the center.. You could even have a small oasis (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| DROOL DROOL... Ive been wanting to build a castle like that for the use of the turban that comes with the final challenge..... (...) Also take note of the balcony and archway designs, I (...) I *really* love how you acclomplished theoverhang (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Gary, This is one of the most beautiful MOC's I have seen in a long time. Unique, yet recognizable and simply built. Along with the tan/white scheme, I really like the lt. grey/dk. grey alternating plates in the wall. Your awnings are seconded only (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers)
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| Gary, I really like this MOC, it's really clean and there are tons of little details that pop out every time I look at the pics. It totaly remindes me of the early Pirates sets like the Eldorado Fortress. (URL) really like the small detail like the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Thank you all very much for the nice comments, I really do appreciate them. I posted some [crappy] photos of the inside/rear of the model: (URL) need to get a better digital camera) The inside was more of an afterthought, nothing special. The only (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Thomas, nice design & pretty cool! Jackie (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| Elegantly simple and totally on the mark. I hope you don't mind someone borrowing your design. Although getting those 1x4 tiles will be difficult, I would like to build a whole desert port city along those lines. This would be great for pirate wars (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) avoid noting that this was a great MOC. It has great detail with few pieces, and at a scale that can nicely fit into a traditional collection. Earlier in this thread, William Braun suggested this would make a good theme. In fact Gary's model (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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