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Re: NELUG Castle Display at TCS Brainstorm...
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Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:51:27 GMT
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<snip lots of good ideas

> (I'll put in my barbarian horde SOMEWHERE! :) )

I guess we can make room for a Barbarian Horde :-).  It would work well with
the new 2000 sets anyway.

> 
> > I don't have a lot to contrubute a the moment but I do have the following.
> > 
> > 1.  Small Church ( http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/castle/church/ )
> > 2.  Market ( http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/castle/market/ )
> > 3.  A few minifigs (Mostly SW peasants)
> > 4.  I have a lot of gray bricks that can be used for a castle if needed.
> > (Maybe a building day?).
> 
> What I have to contribute is unbuilt. I can probably build anything from
> castles to houses to shops in a somewhat small scale within a month pretty
> easily (as in a 32x32 baseplate or 2... maybe 3, depending on what it is)...
> Of course that presupposes our timeframe. But at present I have scads of grey
> bricks, black roofing, red roofing, and SOME blue roofing. (Also a fair lot of
> tan bricks, and a BIT of brown).

I would say that at the moment we need a little of everything although the only
castle that has been mentioned is the King Leo castle.  I suppose if we want to
have more than the one castle someone needs to build it.  Like I said I plan on
having about 4 of the 16x32 baseplates with a market setup and it sounds like
Jeff has an excelent Idea for an addition to that with his acting troop.  I
also know that Suz said she would like to do some town folk.

The question has also been raised as to whether we should have a walled in city
or an open city.  I think the walled in city makes for a nice effect although
the open city is definitely easier.  Like I said I have lots of Gray plus quite
a bit of Black and Red regular slope roofing and red low slope roofing.

> 
> As for a building day, I think I'd refine that by saying that we'd be building
> together, but building separate modules, and aligning them so they fit well
> together... I'm just making sure we veer away from intermingling collections
> too much ('figs are fine.. they worked pretty well the last time with the
> multicolored paper inside idea)

It would definitly have to be either modular of something where say I used my
gray 2x4 bricks and you supplied the windows and doors and someone else
supplied the plates so that it could be separated easily.  I guess what I was
trying to say is we could have a building day because I have lots of Gray
Bricks and we could all make them into a structure of some kind using only my
bricks.

I definitly want to avoind intermingling collections to much because it could
be a real pain to get everyone's bricks back into the right hands.

> 
> As for figs, I've got around 350 castle figs plus I'm guessing around 20
> peasants made from other genres. Of course they're all from different
> "teams"... While I've got about 80 crusaders and 64 Fright Knights, I only
> have 18 Dragon Masters, and only 6 Forestmen. So if we DO want to have a large
> war, we should probably go with a "team" that we've all got lots of figs
> for... (or that we're willing to lend to the model)

Like I said I don't have much in the way of figs so this is not up to me.  I
will probably have more figs from the 2000 sets than anything by the time we
set up.  Again my biggest contribution will be SW figs converted to peasentry.


> 
> I've got about 10 16x32 tan baseplates, along with some of the narrow ones
> from the Outback Airstrip... and a whole bunch of other tan plates to 'blend'
> them into other color baseplates. Also, I really like the brown baseplates
> that come in the '99 ninja sets... they might look really good for something
> like a field of crops, with flower bases sticking out as budding produce...
> the only problem being that I don't have lots of them.... I think they'd look
> really good in a BIG forest... along with outcroppings of grass, moss, and
> random rocks thrown in...

I have 10 (maybe 11) of the 16x32 tan baseplates along with one in brown.  I
like the idea of having a forested area though.  Maybe with a hermit hidden in
the forest or a lookout from one of the taller trees.

> 
> Anyway, now that I've wasted enough time with my ramblings... I'm eager to
> hear feedback...

I can't wait to hear some more feedback as well.  I think this could be bigger
than the Star Wars setup by the time we are done.  I really think this could be
a great group project.

Eric,

The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/



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(...) My vote would be for 2,3,and 4 combined (maybe even 5 too, but that might be tough to squeeze in): A large castle on one end... elevated, and toward the rear of the display, kind of on that "hillside" type style. I'm picturing it towards the (...) (27 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.org.us)

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