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When the King got more money (bigger yellow castle)
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Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:23:21 GMT
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Hi everyone
This is actually my first posting as up to now I've mostly been lurking.
Very much inspired by the yellow castle contest on Classic-Castle I decided to
built my own version of the classic yellow castle. For the contest I was however
both too late and somewhat too big I think.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=121455
The castle is built in modules / sections so that it can be easily modified /
expanded / reconfigured. The pictures I’ve put up actually show two slightly
different configurations. In addition each tower is built in a way so that they
can be separated (relatively) easily into large sup-parts that will fit into
storage quite easily.
About a year ago I built a red castle of almost the same size (also on
brickshelf if one goes “up” from the yellow castle) but I later had to take it
completely apart as I don’t have room for structures of that size standing
around. Conversely the yellow castle has also been put into storage but it can
be set up again within a couple of hours even though it doesn’t take up much
more storage than the bricks would have anyway. Adding trees, flowers and
minifigs might take a couple of hours more but that counts more as playing with
the castle.
The drawback to a modular building style is that the towers actually have no
doors. If they had that would limit the flexibility in how they can be put
together. Once a configuration has been chosen this could of course be repaired
with a slight rebuild.
The castle doesn’t have any interior. I’m very impressed with the fantastic
interiors that other people have done for their castle but personally I don’t
have the patience for it. My interest is to build huge castles in the
traditional colors (so I still have left to built a blue, a black and a white
(and in fact a new red) castle).
Best regards, Infyrana
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) Welcome to Lugnet. I hope you choose to post more. Very nice work. I like that you didn't let a scarcity of grey hold you back. Your yellow castle looks excellent. All those great shaped towers and walls at angles. There are some ideas in (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | Re: When the King got more money (bigger yellow castle)
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| (...) that though, I how I'm impressed with how you modeled all the different towers; square, octagonal, triangular and round. This would be a great resource for someone wondering just how to make a non-rectangular tower. Thanks for sharing this, I (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: When the King got more money (bigger yellow castle)
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| (...) Hi Henning, I keep coming back to look at this castle as it is a great source of ideas. I love the short curved connecting walls as well as all the angles you used in the towers. I have been duplicating some of these ideas already as they have (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle)
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