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Re: A village challenge and questions ...
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Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:46:58 GMT
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Rick Kurtzuba wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.castle, Pawel Nazarewicz writes:
> > Most of us here have explored many castle basic structures:
> >
> > 1) Castles
> > 2) Taverns
> > 3) Churches
> > 4) etc...
> >
> > For my next little project, I'm going to be working on a village - a
> > very small village which might have three houses and a square. So my
> > question comes - what SHOULD a small village contain? A town square?
> > And what should be there?
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> Anyway, I think your town, even if it is a dump, should include the
> things a real town would need to survive -- baker, butcher, blacksmith,
> perhaps an inn or hostel, and maybe a mill of some sort. You might not
> need buildings which are *just* homes because most people would probably
> run a business out of the downstairs part of their house and then live
> upstairs.
A poor medieval farming village will have very limited buisinesses. People
don't have money so they will do all their own work. It will need a mill
(though that being down by the stream, might not be in the village proper)
and probably would have a blacksmith. The buildings will be little 1 or 2
room buildings, the family animals (an oxen if they have a little wealth, a
few chickens, and perhaps a pig), would live with the people. There might be
a loft where people sleep. A small roadhouse (inn) might be nice to give the
heroes a way to connect with the outside world.
> > Should I use the wooden elements, or focus on tan? Ideally, I will
> > try to stay away from gray and black - and most other colors ... This
> > should be a dirty little place where poor people live. This is
> > exactly the type of place that my two young heroes will try to get
> > away from - because life in this kind of place is hell. It's hell
> > because this place has no future.
I'd use wood sparingly (Europe was quickly de-forrested, especially the UK).
Tan would represent wattle and daub fairly well.
> > 1) I will focus on having tan and brown all over - with maybe black
> > and a little bit of gray - very little. Dark gray is preferable.
> > 2) I will use tan baseplates - and maybe one of the road plates from
> > Bandit's Hideout. Maybe two.
I would only use the bandits road plates if the village has the roadhouse,
otherwise, it likely doesn't see enough traffic to warrant much of a road.
The houses will be pretty closely packed (if you don't use the road plates,
I'd make the "main" street not much wider than 10 studs).
> Brown baseplates (from Ninja sets) would also look nice. Gives the
> impression of muddy streets. I used a tan baseplate for my barn, and it
> looks great. Hey, a barn is something your town might need, too!
Yes, the brown plates would work well. There probably wouldn't be a barn (no
one in this village has enough money to have many animals, or more than the
absolute minimum amount of house).
Just my thoughts
Frank
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| On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Frank Filz (<Fo38JK.C3H@lugnet.com>) wrote at 21:46:58 (...) Are these plates the 'standard' LEGO brown? Do they come from the second release of Ninja sets? We haven't had them in the UK yet; they sound quite useful. (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Verry few had barns or stable houses at this time. Though most has typical farm animals since most in small villages were tenent farmers. They would keep the animals on the first floor and live on the second. The animals were kept in the house for (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) First I have a question for you. Are the buildings in your village going to be not-quite-complete buildings like the Blacksmith Shop, Armor Shop, Guarded Inn, etc? (All facades, basically.) Or are you going to build complete, realistic, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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