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Re: Blood Stone Castle completed!
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In lugnet.castle, Daniel Siskind writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Bill Farkas writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> > > In lugnet.castle, Rob Drechsel writes:
> > >
> > > > Too bad most of us don't have
> > > > the pieces to make castle the size of Bloodstone. Mine is on <cough> one of
> > > > the 48x48 baseplates.
> > >
> > > If it's any consalation, my "castle" is on a 48x32 BP and I can't complete it
> > > for lack of pieces.
> > >
> > > > By the way, I thought your inn was pretty good.
> > >
> > > Thanks! It's just that near such an amazing thing like the Blood Stone Castle,
> > > it shrivels away and transforms to a meek little mouse. :-)
> > >
> > > -Shiri
> >
> > That's what I'm talkin' about. Sometimes it's downright depressing. I mean,
> > it's awe inspiring and incredible how huge and intricate some of those "OPOC's"
> > are, yet at the same time it's kinda dis-heartening.
> >
> > But, the more I think about it, isn't that exactly why we're all so hooked: the
> > fact that the acquisition of "more" is so goal oriented; and that building the
> > biggest and best MOC yet is an ever moving target. In the future they'll be
> > making an ABS patch (like those nicotene patches) for those of us who file
> > bankruptcy because we couldn't get enough.
> >
> > "I'm NOT PLAYING, I'm CREATING!!"
> > Bill
>
> Actually, I think building on such a large scale is actually less satisfying
> than smaller scale projects. Huge works such as my castle take years to build
> and progress can be annoyingly slow. For example, it can be exciting to come
> up with cool innovations like half-stepping out the turrets on my watch towers,
> but then having to repeat the process identically five more times really sucks.
> Also, each one of the merlons on my castle uses more than 50 pieces and I had
> to repeat the design over 100 times around the tops of the walls and towers.
> Talk about tedious!
>
> The most satisfying castle project I built was a simple tower keep that
> measured only 32x24 studs. I'm keeping this in mind when I build the keep for
> my Black Falcolns, which will site on top four standard green baseplates -
> fully 1/5 the size of the big red beast.
>
> Dan
One nice thing about building on a small project, is that you can do the
interiors without having all of your small pieces disappear. Another is not
having to spend a week or two laying out the foundation so you can move the
model without breaking it.
Rob
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55 Messages in This Thread: ![Blood Stone Castle completed! -Daniel Siskind (31-Mar-00 to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/246.gif) ![Re: Blood Stone Castle completed! -Robert Farver (31-Mar-00 to lugnet.castle)](/news/x.gif)
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