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Re: Norman Keep
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:57:04 GMT
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Kai,
> I like the moat as a natural "defenceline" the most ! :)
I'm not sure if you understood, the "motte" (as opposed to "moat") was the
steep, often man made made, hill that early castles were often built on top of.
I know that sometimes when a wooden motte and bailey castle (wooden fort with a
big wooden tower on top of a hill/motte) was replaced by a stone castle, there
were problems with the stone keep being so heavy that it sunk into the motte,
and this is what I was refering to. It probably depended a lot on how big and
heavy the keep was, how big the motte was and - if the motte was man made, if
the earth had had time to settle properly first, which would have taken many
years. I hope thatmakes sense.
On the topic of moats, I would love to build a castle with one, but I don't know
if it really is doable, are there any pics of lego castles with moats?
> Expand the castle : what about a nice siege scene with lots of evil knight in
> front of the castle :)
Eventually it would be great to do a siege display. Right now I'm trying to
figure how to do the curtain wall, which buildings I want to fit in, and that
sort of thing. It all has to fit on my dresser in my room, which means it needs
to fit onto a 2 by 4 baseplate size area.
Magnus
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| (...) I realy knew what you ment, the early wooden "castles" where build on motte's - until they were to big/heavy... as you described before. I just wrote my favorite kind of making the surrounding of a castle - a moat. :) (...) yes - there are (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Shoot. I wrote a big long post after going through and finding pictures on Brickshelf, but my browser crashed and the post was lost. Grr. Anyway, I can think of 3 ways to build moats: 1. Castle on green baseplates, blue plates on top of the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I like the moat as a natural "defenceline" the most ! :) (...) Expand the castle : what about a nice siege scene with lots of evil knight in front of the castle :) Kai (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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