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Re: Building a giant castle
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:51:09 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bill Jackson writes:
> I have just taken down my collection of about 30 castle sets, most of them
> being Royal Knights, and I'm about to go to work building a giant castle like
> Dan Jezek's Skull Kraag Keep or Pawel Nawareciwcz's Strombrachter. But I
> think that my measly collection of 30 sets (probably around 5000 pieces) isn't
> enough to build one of these wonders. About how many pieces should you have
> before undertaking the task of building a huge fortress? I have heard that
> the best advice for building a castle is to have tons of the basic block
> buckets. Is this true?
Well, I've built some pretty big castles(1), and I just have a couple of the
major castle sets (plus dozens of the smaller ones). Can you build something
like Strombrachter? Probably not, but a modest sized castle shouldn't be
difficult. As for having basic buckets, dunno. I don't see much use for red,
blue, and yellow pieces, except for filler. The best advice I can give is to
just experiment. You'll find out what works for you with the pieces you have.
Jeff
1 - By my standards. Nothing nearly as large as Strombrachter, though.
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| (...) I'd have to agree... it all depends on what you want... if you look at something like Strombrachter, you'll notice that 80-90% of the walls are all castle wall sections. That helps a lot, since you don't need to build them out of actual (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| I have just taken down my collection of about 30 castle sets, most of them being Royal Knights, and I'm about to go to work building a giant castle like Dan Jezek's Skull Kraag Keep or Pawel Nawareciwcz's Strombrachter. But I think that my measly (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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