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Greetings everyone!
The upcoming inaugural BrickWorld will have a
collaborative Castle display using the great building standards that the AFOL
community has created throughout the years, plus one new building standard.
Many Castle builders are already familiar with the popular Classic Castle City
(CCC) modular wall building
standard. We will be using CCC walls, so bring your gates, your towers, your
straight walls and any other CCC wall module you’d like to make.
What
fortress is complete without plenty of farmland to feed all those medieval
minifigs? (and we castle-heads sure do have a knack for building our MF
armies!) We will use the CCC
Farm Standard to bring
together fields of crops. If you have any crops made on regular baseplates,
chances are that they already fit with the straightforward Farm Standard.
While the farming peasants must endure life outside the fortress wall, merchants
and shopkeepers will enjoy the safety and atmosphere inside the wall amidst
the Medieval
Marketplace. Salesmen in the Medieval Marketplace can sell anything from
apples to swords to their daughters to rocks for stoning people.
Is building
landscape more your style? Check out the
Base8 landscaping standard for
ways to break up the horizontal monotony of regular baseplates. The sky’s the
limit with Base8, as long as you bring the edge of your creation back down to
baseplate level at the edges.
The final building standard we’ll be using for
Castle is the new
Tall Wall
Standard. The new Tall Walls are meant to be used with the current CCC
Walls. Here are the basic principles of the new Tall Walls:
• They’re built
along the center of 32X32 baseplates
• Walls are 8 studs thick
• Walls are 14
bricks tall under the walkway plate
Here you can see the difference between a
Tall Wall and a CCC Wall
Of course, there’s also the need for freestyle MOC’s that don’t follow a
standard. Some of the best Castle MOC’s are the ones that fill in the gaps
between the walls and other modular creations.
Recap list of links to
standard instructions
Classic Castle City Wall Standard
CCC Farm Standard
Medieval
Marketplace
Base8 Landscaping
Tall Wall
Standard
Please stay tuned to the LUGNET
Castle newsgroup and the Classic-Castle forums
for upcoming info on contests.
I’m very excited to be a part of the
BrickWorld team and to be the Castle Coordinator for the event. The recent
galleries on flickr and Brickshelf of Brickfest in Portland show how great a
Castle layout can be when enough AFOL’s get together. I hope that everyone who
would like to attend Brickworld is able to come regardless of what theme they’re
into.
David “Fuzzy” Gregory
BrickWorld Castle Coordinator
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