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Re: Finally...
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Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:22:39 GMT
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Jason Spears wrote:
> Very nice work. I love that tree. I like how you have it spilt into
> two large trunks near the top. The under construction building is
> very nice. I've always liked the town versions, but yours, which
> matches your other buildings, is a different animal. The stables have
> an excellent look to them, very much a church or main hall feel. The
> servants quarters are HUGE. The Hague is very well done, extremely
> thick.
OK, some annotations here:
The history of the buildings can be sorted in three stages:
First, there was an evil wizard, who had his castle and tower built in
(and beyond) the rear (north) part of the inn. The wizard created
horrible monsters that roamed the woods and drove away the people who
once lived in the forest, and made it so dark and dreaded. Then some
heroes came by, killed the sorcerer and destroyed parts of the castle.
Then, many years later, the first inn was built atop the ruins of the
castle. The new settlers boarded up the open side of the main hall and
turned it into stables, and built the old main house - which are now the
servants quarters on top of the ruins of another castle building. They
did not tear down and rebuild from scratch, but they used what was there
and patched up what the needed to make the whole thing habitable.
So this "Old Inn" consisted of the buildings that are now servants
quarters, stables, the old gate and some of the walls. The blacksmiths'
was a later addition to the Old Inn. The watch tower, for example, is
set atop the remains of one of the pillars of the old sorcerers tower.
Then the traffic grew and grew, and the inn had to expand, so they built
the new main buildings at the front and the forage store. Around this
time, they also dug the fish ponds, primarily as a water reservoir in
case of a fire. The tree that once grew in front of the inn is now in
the center of the court. One detail to point to ist that the design of
the tudor framework - the old buildings have a more plain design, the
newer ones in the front have a more playful, elaborate design (rounded
corner beams, and if I had to rebuild it, I would even make them
"painted", i.e. with blue and red and yellow plates 1x1 round mixed in).
> With all the
> <http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/album224/2005_08_17_imgp0053
> buildings gone>, its much easier to see how much landscaping you did,
> wow.
That was a massive undertaking, I can tell. The landscape is one brick
high at the front (south) and 5+ bricks high at the rear (north), and it
is build with duplo bricks and two large boxes of my pre-dark-ages lego
underneath. The box with the twelve ground plates is quite heavy...
> I'd have liked to see a few more detail pictures, say of the Hague or
> the old oak.
I will take some more detail pictures at the end, and will definitively
include the Hague. Basically, the Hague is made from leaves 2417 and the
smaller version of it (don't have the number handy) and "light saber
bars" AKA "HP magic wands" in light brown (or dark orange, or whatever
that colour was). I'll put some details on how I built the hedges online.
The tree is much easier: It had been on (solo) exhibition before, and
there is a "making of", too.
The Tree: http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/album193
Making Of: http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/album59
> I'm curious why you went with two studs thick on a lot of the first
> floor walls.
Well, originally I wanted to build the buildings with a full interior,
so, naturally, the exterior walls were thicker. OK, to be 100% correct I
should have done the outside walls three thick, the walls to the court
and the main wall (that one with the chimney) two thick, and the other
walls one thick. But, alas, I gave up on doing interior in this MOC, and
will start with a new design twist in the next MOC ;-)
> What is the large red thing is
> <http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/album224/2005_08_17_imgp0058
> this picture>?
It is an oven, of course. Actually, most chimneys in the display are
built to work, i.e. you could blow smoke in the fireplace, and it would
come out at the top. This oven in the blacksmiths house is quite special
in respect to it's functionality: The hot air and smoke from the forge
can either run directly up and out, or can be "switched" to run through
this oven first, and heat it (moderately), too. The oven itself has no
fireplace. A perfect oven to bake german pumpernickel bread...
> A gardencenter is an interesting location to display
> your creation, how did this come about?
Well, Dinger's (the _big!_[1] garden center) organizes a childrens
festival each summer. For about a year now, "Legopapi", one of our
german AFOLs, is employed there, and suggested this Lego exhibition to
draw additional customers (and press attention!). Lego has set up shop
there, there are price drawings, play areas and such.
> Well done, thanks for sharing.
Well, thanks for your reply and comments!
Yours, Christian Treczoks
[1] Well, when I arrived, Legopapi showed me the place where to set up
the MOC (the models are not in a single location, but spread all over
the shop). I went to the car, fetched a cartload of boxes, and lost my
way searching for my table... I have to have a map of this place - it is
BIG!
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