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Kevin, First off, great chapter. The stone circle was, in fact, my favorite part. I heartily encourage you to build more ancient structures, as they're a favorite of mine (I think I build more ruins than I ever do whole buildings). I can't wait to (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Danny, The pictures are a bit hard to see, but it looks pretty cool from what I can tell. I really like the interior of the hall. It would make a really good banquet hall with a long table down the center. Keep up the good work. --William (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Kingdom of Gatimrja - Chapter II
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Thanks for the comments. Fear not, the Prince will return. I've gotten a lot of positive reactions to him, so I have no plans to cut him out of the story. Unfortunately, there are two more chapters before he comes back into the picture. Although, I (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Wow. Seriously wow. If its old news or not...wow. Incredible. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I'm using BURPs for the main rock/cliff structure, but for the water itself I wanted to do something besides plain blue bricks. I've experimented with a lot of different clear bricks (and clear light blue), but I'm not (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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I was surfing the new addition last night and saw these too. As everyone else has said, they are amazing, would recommend to anyone that hasn't to look at his website (URL) matter if you can't read japanese or even if your browser doen't support it, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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excellent! beautiful! wonderful! it did feel a bit long, tho. but once again i am left in awe! (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) i find the pictures hard to understand. could you give us one at a 45 degree angle, slightly raised? i believe that is your typical MOC viewpoint, giving us a good over-all look at it. the photoshoped pic looks pretty good! (...) aside from (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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great story! excellent use of simple backgrounds! criticism: the whole thing about the prince. it pops up at the end of chap. 1 and ends shortly into chap. 2. hopefully this means its not a dead subplot, because i don't see where its going. also you (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Cool chapter. The best was with the spider. That was a great idea not to mention a cool spider. I also finally read chapter one. All and all bothe were great. (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Itou's Castle (Re: Castle work by Takeshi Itou)
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(...) I guess for someone as talented as Itou, he can always recreate his work later so it is not a big deal to take it apart. If I were ever to, somehow, make something that wonderful, I would just leave it in place. Aaron Dalan (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello again, Dalan. (...) Sure, I can have sympathy with you. It may be unbelievable for most of us. But he doesn't feel so much about this "tragedy" as we do. X-0 Incidentally, a half of works in his gallery were "rebuilt to take photographs" with (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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The next chapter in my castle story is up. You can see it at: (URL) accessible directly from the Updates section on the main page, or from the Stories page. As always, comments and criticism are appreciated. Let me know what you think. --William (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce)
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(...) But, but that means...he had to...take those beautiful creations apart:( (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Kev, I just looked through your new chapter and I really like the Stonehenge-like circle. My other favorite model is the round cottage with the yellow roof. I'm constantly amazed by the professional way your photos are spliced together with (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(URL) yes anther one. It is called a the dog people secret fort. I borrowed the gate idea from the royal knights castle. It is not the same exact one but pretty close. Its like some sorta tunnel/cave. Kevin Hall inspired me to build it when he did (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Just playing with an old Craigo custom and a gold princess crown...
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The torso is a Craigo custom, the rest is pretty obvious. A kind soul recently sent me the gold Belville princess crown so I couldn't resist testing it with my one and only drilled padme wig. (URL) Belville tiara doesn't work as well because it has (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Eric, This is in reply to your question about waterfalls. I have built a small one (no pictures of it as yet) that I made on a few BURPs. I had two baseplates from the Forestmen's Crosssing and needed something to start the river. So I made a (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello! (...) OK, that's a good reason. Well, not a "good" reason, but after all a reason :-) Bye Jojo P.S. I wonder why nobody in this pirates group said a single word about this cute pirate related MOC? (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Itou's Castle (Re: Castle work by Takeshi Itou)
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Kotaro/EARL-0, thanks VERY much for revealing to all of us this wonderful website. Its design is as impressive as the Lego master works. Well, not true: this Lego masterpieces are so impressive beautiful! I look at them and I'm in a state of (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Do Itasimasite(You're welcome), Larry-san! His models are stunning...Ya, you're right. I seem landscapes builded by Itou are like battle-stages of some bird-view tactical-simulation-games. Now he intends to keep adding some shots of detail(!) (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi, Dalan. (...) The former, to my great regret. As you know, It is the way of the world for castles to rise and fall. ;-) (...) His work is temporary but his art is eternal, I guess. Regards Kotaro/EARL-0 (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Wow!! Ironically, at work tonight I was thinking to myself that I would post when I got home, asking if anyone knew about waterfalls that had been created in MOCs -- Takeshi really has some great ones! His creations are incredible, they've really (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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I'm not into the story thing, but I went through it anyway to see all the pictures when you originally posted. I think the henge looks great, it uses a lot of the same ideas that I'm using to make my castle (work in progress) look old. One idea that (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Itou's Castle (Re: Castle work by Takeshi Itou)
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(...) Do you know, or can you ask Itou, if he deconstructed each model after photographing it, or can they all exist at one time? These are not toys, they are works of art. Aaron Dalan (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Itou's creations are really awesome. Good job Itou! (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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hello! (...) doesn't matter that I can't understand any single word (my browser actually shows just weird signs...) because those pictures speak for themselves. Great! I especially love all those stairways and different levels and also the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Silver Fall (Re: Castle work by Takeshi Itou)
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(...) I agree...the landscaping is absolutely gorgeous, and isn't an eyesore... talk about a master-piece!!! WOW!! I think a neat aspect of it, has to be the battery operated "boat" ... which comes out of the "falls" on the track... It must be (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient)
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¡!¡Un-be-lie-va-ble¡!¡ jus’ spectacular… ~Silver Falls is exquisite. Takeshi Itou's the Grand Master of integrated landscaping. His buildings merge into the rock formation with such fluidity. (URL) ÎÎÎ...ÎÎÎ Takeshi Itou's BrickShelf gallery: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.general)
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(...) Indeed you have, as usual :-) ... Arigato Gozaimasu, Kotaro-sensei. (...) only, the navigation is easy to do and the pictures are breathtaking. (...) Be of good cheer, they may yet be produced. ++Lar (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Itou's Castle (Re: Castle work by Takeshi Itou)
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Hello!(and say hello again to some LUGNET-mates,) Do you remember me ? May I help you ..... as usual ? B-) Castle Element (Today is Open-Day !!) (URL) ;-p Itou told me following.... He can talk English little, so he's afraid that he could not reply (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle) !
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I have been very busy with school...I have 2 summer school courses that are very writing intensive. Never-the-less, I managed to write the next chapter of the story. Here is the chapter: (URL) is also the Index here: (URL) will try to add a couple (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.castle)
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(...) This is one of the reasons I wish BrickShelf had a "contact the author" function.... something that doesn't reveal the email of the folder owner but DOES get them a message... for all we know he knows nothing of LUGNET(tm)... Every time I see (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Jeez, those are incredible. So much detail in such a contained space, and all framed within beautiful countryside. Takeshi has used is a certain characterisic architecture, which lends itself very well to that size of castle. Takeshi, if you're out (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: ANDRASTAVIA/IKROS NEXT CHAPTER FINALLY HERE
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(...) Wow! Congratulations to you both on completing this difficult and lengthy project! I know how hard it can be to coordinate everything when you are working on collaborations, what with the story being congruous to both people's main storylines, (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Wow. The snow field castle is incredible...the layering of the white plates for the snow effect is unbelievably realistic. All of'em are amazing.... Cheers, -G (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The following message is from my own views, and do not represent the official information by the Brickfest Organizers. As far as I know, Christine Hitchcock and the other organizers have posted that there is no at-door registration, at this (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Highly doubt it's old news, but it's truly a beautiful piece of art. If anyone knows Takeshi's email, I would love to include his work in the BrickZone Gallery... www.brickzine.com/to...allery.htm Thanks and Takeshi, I hope you read this! Mel (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Jojo, yes, it will looks better if I use smaller bricks But I don't have enough. The poor pirates will have real difficulties to bring their booties up the ladder but, as I wrote to Bruce, the tower was not built for them but for ... nobody knows. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce, yes the ladder is the only access. In my world (Avalonnia) nobody remember who built this tower far away of the commercial roads and why. Denis (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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