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Re: Building a giant castle
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:56:58 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?
I think it all depends. First what color is the castle going to be? If the
answer is Gray or DkGray then the answer is the basic block buckets are not
going to help. If the Castle is going to be Red, Black, or White then I would
say the buckets are the way to go.
Of course if you live in the US you can order the Gray brick service pack to
increase your gray brick count.
I admittedly don't know a lot about the older Castle sets but 30 sets sounds
like a lot to me. I think you could probably do it with that but it all
depends on how detailed you are going to be and if you are going to model the
interior as well. The interior can take up lots of parts but they are usually
smaller and more speciallized.
I guess the other question is are you going to use lots of Castle wall pieces
or do you want to go with basic bricks. I would think if you are going to use
the wall pieces and you have 30 sets you are well on you way where if you want
to do this with basic bricks you probably need to start buying bricks either in
the buckets or from S@H.
I just finished a big project myself and although it takes a lot longer and in
my case I had several periods where nothing got done because I was waiting for
orders to arrive from S@H it is extremely gratifying when you finish your
project.
I think our best hope for big projects like these is LEGO Direct. Its just
hard waiting until they start doing business.
Best of luck and keep us updated.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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