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| (URL) Viewable three ways: (URL) Brickshelf> (URL) MOCpages> (URL) Flickr> It was on display at NorthWest BrickCon 2006. Please let me know what you think, good or bad! Enjoy! -John "J1A3L5" L. (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
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| Hello! (...) Good! Bye Jojo (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I vote good! Nicely done, I find the implied action very well done, that is one thing I've always liked about layouts, especially Keith Goldman's. -Jason (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| In lugnet.castle, John Langrish wrote: John, I love it, I had to look closer to see how you managed the curves and non-90 degree angles. I love the details you included too, I hope the swimming min gets away from the shark. Thanks, George (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Jojo! I didn't realize anyone would take me so literally! -John. (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| Absolutely gorgeous! I love the curved tudor piece, towers, layout, and small details. A really well executed MOC! Glad to see the art of castle making is alive and well... God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Well done. Your castle has a really great look and feel to it, and your attention to detail is fantastic. I'm not really a fan of the curved walls, but it's nothing you've done. I'm just not a fan of the 1x2 and 1x1 round brick combination, it (...) (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| Awesome work, you really have a fantastic attention to detail and to carefully placing every piece in your MOC. Making stuff look so effortless is anything but and you've done a great job here. Keep up the SNOT! (18 years ago, 26-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) My MOC was much smaller and used the combination of 1x1 rounds with 1x3 bricks to make a curved wall. John, was there a reason you chose the 1x2 bricks over the 1X3? (I would ask at the next VicLUG meeting but I thought others might like to (...) (18 years ago, 27-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| Sweeeet! The corner curved towers are what jump out at you, but the inner curved wall with the matching curved building atop is just brilliant. Lots of great details here, with the partially-submerged fin and the trail of blood in the water being my (...) (18 years ago, 27-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) This is an excellent model and was my vote for Best Castle at NWBC. The trees in front rock, too, and I am going to have to try and copy them. I handled the whole model more than I was supposed to I think, so sorry for breaking it so may (...) (18 years ago, 30-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks, Matt! It turns out the light was extremely an extremely easy fix, so all is well. Besides, now I have a new challenge for next year: Building Matt-proof! Glad you like the trees, right now I've only made them two sizes but the scale (...) (18 years ago, 30-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks! This was my first try for a battle scene of any sort, and it was a lot of fun. I was inspired by the space bloody space invasion (and castle's triumphant win!) to add some action. -John L. (18 years ago, 30-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Tony! (...) I somewhat agree, but I'm yet to find a technique that lets you do round portions of that size while keeping them "solid" looking. It's also very parts intensive - On 4 of the towers, easy layer uses 10 1x2's and 10 1x1 (...) (18 years ago, 30-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) There's several reasons I chose them, but the most important is that they give a much tighter curve than 1x3's. They also give a less "regular" appearance than 1x3 construction, where each round is aligned above or below each other. Finally, I (...) (18 years ago, 30-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) it's brill John and hoping to see it in person before it gets cannibalized for your next amazing creation =) what I'm liking most about this is the sense of motion with the water effects, it's all tight and a good example of making a broad (...) (18 years ago, 30-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) 1x2 plates and 1x1 round plates would give you a more solid look, but at greater cost and weight. (...) Perhaps something like Kevin Blocksidge's (URL) onion dome> could be adapted to make a rounded roof. But really, those are nits. It's a (...) (18 years ago, 31-Oct-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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