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Hello everyone!
I am both happy and excited to once again be the Castle Coordinator for
Brickworld.
If you plan on attending Brickworld and will be bringing Castle themed MOC’s for
display in the collaborative layout, please remember to click the “Classic
Castle City” box when you register on the Brickworld website. Of course, Castle
themed MOC’s are not required to be put into the collaborative display. If
you’d like your creation to have its own space, be sure to sign up for a MOC
table(s) when you register.
This year we’d like to focus on landscaping.
Castles and other imposing medieval architecture are the meat and potatoes of a
good Castle layout, but too often it’s all connected with almost-bare rows of
green baseplates. This summer we have the chance to show the AFOL community
(and thousands of public viewers for that matter) that a good Castle layout can
become a great Castle layout when it has some nice terrain to connect
everything together.
Last year we had a nice section of crops for the
agricultural part of the layout. We’d like to expand upon the idea of medieval
rural life with some scenic countryside in which our minifigs and their critters
can frolic and play. So break out the trees, Forestmen and shrubberies——it’s
time to change the Castle layout from a collection of MOC’s to it’s own little
world.
Encouraging things to remember when creating landscaping:
• Higher
isn’t necessarily better. You can have “rolling plains”.
• An area doesn’t
have to be covered with foliage to look nice. Bodies of water, muddy swamps and
recently cleared forestland would all look great.
• No one is expected to do it
all. If all you can commit to is a frog pond on a 16X16 baseplate, that’s
cool.
• Constructing your building on top of elevated terrain often makes it
look just that much better than if the same creation were made right on top of a
baseplate.
Of course, any castles, medieval towns, CCC walls and the like are
still more than welcome. We’ll still need all those grand structures to preside
over the lovely landscape! I already know of
some
nice
castles that will be
coming to Brickworld this summer.
If you have any questions, please don’t
hesitate to email me.
David Gregory
BrickWorld Castle Coordinator
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