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| Sheerly awesome! I built 3 similar peasant houses/shops which closely resemble the one Chris created. I have a yellow/black tudor, red/black tudor, and blue/black tudor. Who needs those specialty tudor pieces when you can create the same effect on (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Chris, Shiri
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| (...) I have also built a bunch of buildings in this style, although with a roof made of roof bricks. You are right about the black 1x1's and plates. I managed to get a near-monopoly on those pieces in the last Auczilla (at great cost!), and snag a (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Chris, Shiri
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| Here's an even better picture from Brickfest of all my buildings grouped together: (Thanks to Jason Rowoldt) (URL) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| Marc, Great pictures! Wheredya get all that LEGO? I promised Chris that I'd get a few pictures of my creations to him to put up on CW. I also forgot to mention that 1x4x1 black arches are important to get for my models as well. Try this: Wherever (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) As much as I'd love to take credit for all that cool stuff, only the timberframe houses, the black magic shop, and the elephant are mine. The rest was brought by other people for the Castle display at Brickfest 2000. The big castles in the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| Hey Kyle - Have you seen Eric Kingsley's castle site? He has some really nice stuff. His houses were what inspired me to build mine. Here's a link: (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| Wow! I wish I could have made it..Sounds like you guys had a blast! Where is everyone from? (...) brought segments; the big grey inn with the red roof is Shiri's. You are definitely correct....the flowers are for a more new-looking and cosmopolitan (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) Lego, ah Lego. It's true that when we build we choose how things will look and we can make any concessions that we want. In Lego, there is no real need for historical accuracy, but for those who seek it (or something close) I have some (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| Wow, Eric does some excellent work too! Note on the two tudor buildings on the top of his main picture....those are how I have my roofs. You can get more of a slant that way. Most of the houses I have designed have 3 levels, but that is most likely (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) Hey thanks, I still find it strange when my name shows up in a thread I havn't even participated in... Better be careful or my head will swell, which wouldn't be good because I already have a 24 inch cranium so there isn't much room for (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Misc
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| Thanks for the insight, Greg There are definitely different levels of "housing" throughout medieval villages. As far as my creations go, I'm sticking with the tradesman and merchants buildings thus far, since they are the ones who make the village (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) some (...) Yeah, Castle is a great book, as is Cathedral. I tried using the square flag pieces (like the cannon shutters on pirate ships) for that, but they didn't much look like skins, so I just left mine empty. Another really good source of (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) Another really good source of (...) Thanks Marc, I'll look into it. Sounds good. What I really want is a book on Japanese houses so I can build a little village for my Ninja. (...) I did the exact same thing. I build a little ale...er, cider (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| Okay Eric, I have some comments on the following link. (...) such a wall. The thing that struck me the most is your seige weapons. Specifically the Trojan Rabbit (Arthurian Rabbit?...Monty Rabbit?...) I was concerned because your castle defenses did (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) town, (...) My tavern has stairs made out of bricks, but the other buildings all use the brown ladder pieces. (...) is (...) Is (...) No, they don't look nearly as nice as the Guarded Inn. A tower-house was basically a tower 4 or 5 stories (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| <snip all the stuff about houses> (...) Franklin has a few models of barnyard animals, including sheep: (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House...Marc
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| (...) Wilson, Your advice has proven most usefull. I will borrow from Franklin (if he will allow me) and shall have meadows full of critters! I need to invest in some pink peices for the piggies! Thanks, GREG~ (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Peasant House... barnyard critters
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| (...) Or would that be "infamous"?... :-P~~~ Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! (...) Go for it! (Please slip in a link back to my original document, though, if you wouldn't mind, just in case someone else wants to make some of the other critters.) Franklin (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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