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(wow, I feel inadequate posting this on the heels of Dan's Bloodstone Keep, but I was gonna do this tonight anyway...) I've put up a set of temporary pics of my latest fortress, the Mercenary HQ. There are still a few details to complete, but it's (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle) !
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Hello, Does anyone know if the target piece from 6054 (Forestman's Hideout) is included in any other sets (it is the yellow 2x2 round tile with the bullseye decoration)? How about the shields with the deer pictured on them? I have about 8-10 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Blood Stone Castle completed!
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(...) Thanks for the kind words! I've always thought of excuses of why my castle models were made from red bricks and I cam up with the Blood Stone "chronicles" years ago to help explain this (the next installment on the site will go into it the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Take 25 years of birthdays and Christmas', add a dozen 1200 piece bucks, two dozen more 800 piece buckets, 3 halloween buckets, plus enough service packs from S@H equivelent to the cost of a new car and you will get an idea of the over number (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Sanguine castle? (not the cheerful, optimistic definition, but the blood- thirsty one, based on the medieval four humors). Crimson keep? Chris -- Remove the nospam machine name in my email address to send a personal reply. (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) (snip) (...) Red has always been the most common basic color, so that's why I always built my castles with red ones. I'm actually going to start working on my next one soon, and it will be gray to keep the purists happy. Dan (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) May I suggest displaying the model and charge a fee for admission? (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: I am back with pics!
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(...) thanks so much :) I am glad my attempt at castle design went over well! After building a lot of smaller stuff, I just wanted to see how big I could go. I did the castle as a sort of practice in large scale building for the space ship I am (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) my (...) soon, (...) You could claim it was some Red Granite or some other stone that is mined locally and unique to the area. (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks, I knew someone else must've tried this... it seemed so logical! The droid wings make such a great looking rustic wooden roof. And at 4 in each set, you don't have to buy a lot of the droids to make a really good sized roof. cheers! (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow. And half-timbered too! It's so much eye candy tonight that it makes me able to wish again that I could be minifig-size. Anybody else wishing for that? May your kin never tire of your Lego. (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) [snip] (...) No, thank YOU, Dan! I've been looking forward to seeing your castle for some months now. [Stumbles away into the shadows, repeating "my collection is too small, my collection is too small...] -- John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yes, yes, and the throne room shot can carry the caption, "In the court of the Crimson Keep!" (Somebody out there will get this one -- FUT lugnet.off-topic.pun) -- John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. Department of Structural Biology Stanford University (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Actually the stone was salvaged from the lost city of Nazarine, stained eternally from river of blood left that washed over it after the butchery of its citizenry at the hands of the Northmen... doh! I'm giving the story away! Dan (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It's in King's Archer, #1624. I just bought one just for that piece. -Marc (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I failed to say in my earlier response how awesome this is (hit SEND accidentally first; how I miss nn). And I didn't quite get the sense of scale until I went back and looked at it more closely... Incredible! Kind of puts my work in progress (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) "purists"!? there are purists in .castle!? ;-) THE original, most "purist" castle is bright yellow! red, being, as you said, the most common lego color for bulk and diversity makes it the ideally pure building color. the elaborate (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Timber-Framed Buildings of England by R. J. Brown ISBN: 0709060920 $30.00 It's on Amazon, but I borrowed it from the bookstore where I work. Yes, it has a lot of great pictures. They are B/W, but since the buildings are mostly black and white (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Speaking of purism, I have another question along those lines (and one that you can probably answer better than anyone else, Craig). So how much of a faux pas is it to modify plates, etc. for your structures? I can see it for minifig character (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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First things first, words cannot describe the supercalafragalespie...aladocious quality of this amazing LEGO castle. This is what LEGO should be all about, letting people create large models by making cheap bulk orders available. But the other thing (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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