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(...) That Rock Raiders base does have a lot of potential, I like the secret door. When you post more pics, add text to them too, so I don't have to keep going back and forth trying to match up the text and pictures. George (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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As the title states, I am building a castle and have a few questions involving it. The first question involves supplies. I have used almost every black or gray plate I have, but have only completed the first floor. Lego does not sell any packs that (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) "Bathrooms!! My kingdom for some bathrooms!", exclaimed the rather uncomfortable Lord of the manor. A great hall would be nice, and if done properly could free up some of your bricks. A guard house could sit next to the gate. If you wish to (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Ok, I just have to ask-- what have other people done for these? While checking out real castles in France, there was just periodically a DEEP hole with the top in a bench somewhere (these were along the castle walls). So you'd need to have a (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Kevin, Check the sources in this previous post: (URL) know the cross sections book is great for info on castle interiors, and yes, it does have pictures of bathrooms!! Mark Lugnet member 485 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well...I just pretended that the seat was down. More modern (flush) toilets, made up from a 2x3 inverse slope 33%, with a 2x2 tile and a 1x2 brick topped with a 1x2 tile, the lever on one side, and the TP mounted on a 1x1 headlight brick (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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Wow Anthony! Awesome, AWESOME storyline! I just finished reading the whole story from the "Prologue" all the way to "In the Shadow of Death" and I loved every bit of it. I really got a feel for all the characters and what their mannerisms and speech (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) God help 'em if it's square. The Tech 2x4 plate is a real good solid LARGE hole, and to plug up the other two holes in the seat (so as not to confuse the minifigure) use a pair of 1x2 tiles as butt-bumpers. In many old castles, they didn't (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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(...) Thank you, I happen to have that book. It is very helpful. I forgot to mention that I already had a great hall. I like the bathroom idea... I will have to fool around with some technic plates. Speakinng of plates, is there any cheep way other (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I don't think there is a cheap way of getting plates. :/ The best option I've found recently for cheap grey plates is the Sith Infiltrator. You should still be able to find them with a little detective work, and its got(1): 3 3036 Gray Plate 6 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've used a 3x2 plate with rounded corner, a 2x2 rounnd tile, a 2x2 plate, a 1x2 brick & a 1x2 tile to build one: (URL) to Toilet 3. Josh (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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I have finished my first castle/palace. Its pretty small by all of your standards, and I ended up sapping a few different types of pieces, too! I know it looks very Disney-ish, but gosh darn, I like it. I hope you enjoy it as well. Check it out at: (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) very homey. Is there any interior to it? If not, are you planning on doing it? Making a story for it? Keep in comin' -- Pawel (URL) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Huh-- your site seems to kill netscape... (or at least it starts a rogue netscape process that hangs any clicked links in netscape & causes other wierd problems). And that page (toilet 3) seems to be broken... (actually a bunch of the links) (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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They were called guard robes and were just a hole in a plank over a pit. Clothes used to be hung in them as well as the smell kept away moths. There are stories of people climbing up the guardrobe and waiting for the right behind to assasinate, so (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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(...) Kills Netscape on Linux also. (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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(...) Is that a variant term or a mistype? I've only seen the single word garderobe. Not tyring to be anal, just linguistically curious. John #388 (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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(...) I've never actually implemented this in a structure, but I tried it last night and it looks like it might work: Take a Plate 3 x 2 with Hole (URL) know the Forestmen's River Fortress had a couple) and put the non-round end in a wall with two (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) IE gets there OK, but I also noticed a bunch of broken links. Not that it matters, I'm not allowed to use any of those ideas anyway... "All ideas may be printed, but not reproduced in any way." Might want to rephrase that a little... ;) James (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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(...) I think the page fomating is hard for nescape to understand. I also noticed the pages down, i'll try to figure that out now. Josh (why look in the dictionary to find out how to spell a word, when you have to know how to spell it to find it in (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
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