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Here are a few pics of the castle I'm working on. First is a rough layout that I did up in Excel using square cells that represent a 4x4 Lego area: (URL) purple rectangle in the center will be the king's quarters, or area where all the royalty (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Geez ... the humbler has arrived;) Michael Ulring is the master of large castles and it looks like he has come to answer the call. I guess most of us can see what it takes now (i.e. - stacks and stacks of 1x5x7 walls.) I will put everything into (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) 1x5x7 (...) Where do you live? You never know, there might be Lego fans living right next door to each other and never even know it. City life. It's crazy. (Sorry, I couldn't help myself - I just finished directing a One Act called "Sure (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | A taste of things to come (Castle Website)
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Ok ... Let me know what you think so far: (URL) will talk about this a lot more later on ... right now I need tons of input from everyone (via e-mail or lugnet). I tried to set this up so it would be highly changable, but before it's officially out, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Aaaah!!!! Amazing, I love it! (How did you do that so quickly?) OK, I'm definitely gonna work on this tomorrow - I can't now but I will take (digital) photos of my characters and I will soon start to build my castle. Somehow this makes the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) my craigo-lego babes are hanging out! be careful! the "cops" are on patrol, and may get the wrong idea from that name! the last thing you want is for the place to get busted by leo's goons! seriously good work here, eric! i love getting so (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Pawel, I think you overstate things a bit. I am proud of my creation, and hopefully it turns out as well as it looks in my mind. But there are a bunch of people in this group who could probably put me to shame if given access to the quantity (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I like it. I read the posting of this with interest, watching where this goes should be fun! I may or may not participate depending upon unrelated real life factors, as well as the lack of a web site and/or scanner (aka source material). (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I hear you on that. I'm from Tennessee, and would love to get a castleLUG (joke;) meeting sometime during the summer. Geez - that would rock. I figured that I would buy big plastic containers and put my creations (the mobile ones - like the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Michael Ulring wrote in message ... (...) one (...) Well, if LEGO Direct comes through, we'll be ordering bulk grey bricks... Of course with something the size of your modules, there is a weight advantage to the castle wall sections. Of course (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow that is a HUGE castle you have so far. The final product will probably weigh a ton! I envy the fact that you have wall pieces built in twos lying everywhere, under, beside, and above the table, ready to be put into use. Same goes for all (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) now I need tons of input (...) this up so it would be (...) want to hear everyone's (...) top that pretty much says (...) this is a GREAT idea, pawel! count me and "mephisto" in on the scheme! judging from the response, this is gonna be a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I really think Pawel's reaction sums it up, or my version of it is, WOW. /gapes/ That's big and what you have completed looks good. /ungapes/ (finally). Um, more? we want more, really we do! (...) Modularity is good in this case, very good! (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Eric, Glad you decided to do some more Castle type stuff! This Inn puts everyone's favorite Guarded Inn to shame; there is no comparison. I just can't wait to see what you do next! -- Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming of... (URL) weird (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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The map is perfect but quite pixellated -- did you scan a little lego map or something? I might be able to fix it up. -- Paul Davidson craig hamilton <craigo-lego@webtv.net> wrote in message news:FoM8Bu.D3s@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) your (...) or (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Very impressive Michael. I love the immense size of it so far. I like the slight terrain change in the interior, makes it that more realistic. You sure do have alot of castle wall pieces. I'm now finally working on a new castle, my first one one was (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The only thing I have to work with for now is the Warcraft II editor (mini-map). That becomes pixelated ... I will include close ups tomorrow, as well as goofing around with Photoshop to see if it's any better. -- pn (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Is there room for warwick castle and shadwick castle anywhere? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) map). (...) goofing (...) I'm in -- just need to to get some pictures of some stuff together. Perhaps we could do a Flash or otherwise vector based map of the castle world so that the map is infinitely scalable. Once a final working map is (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Who made the largest lego castle ever made
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Who made the largest lego castle ever made? I would say my warwick castle comes colse (It has never been built but still...) -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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