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Re: Norman Keep
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:47:43 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Magnus Lauglo wrote:
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> These are the two solutions I'm most intersted in, but obviously they are the
> hardest to get right. I've also been thinking of a dry moat, filled with stakes
> perhaps, but this would possibly be even more parts intensive.
That'd be really cool. Maybe a bunch of spears set into 1x1 round bricks stuck
to the bottom of the moat.
> I've thought about using the raised baseplates somehow, if you put two of them
> next to one another, you do get a 6 brick deep depression where they meet, which
> could work as a moat, but it isn't that easy gettng the rest of the terrain to
> look right.
Yeah, I generally avoid the raised baseplates because it's hard to get them to
fit with the rest of the landscape.
Oh, one thing on the third and fourth examples above, you pretty much have to
build the ground first and then the castle on top of it. At least I haven't had
any luck sticking large prebuilt buildings down onto built up ground. This
gives you the advantage of having more interesting architecture if your
structure is built on a slope. The disadvantage is that your ground has to be
pretty sturdy if you're going to build on top of it. Otherwise you press down
too hard and you knock a hole in your ground and the pieces fall down inside.
For example, when I built this:
http://www.ozbricks.net/bricktales/lotr/lotrplaces/lotrplaces09/lotrplaces09-07.html
that upper right part is pretty flimsy and I had to be very careful when
building on top of that. On the other hand, when I buit this:
http://www.ozbricks.net/bricktales/lotr/lotrplaces/lotrplaces09/lotrplaces09-04.html
the ground is pretty solid underneath (basically there are lines of rectangular
burps under the layer of plates), so I could put a fair amount of pressure on it
when building the hall.
Bruce
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