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In lugnet.castle, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
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> I'm sorry to have missed the gathering. Your pictures look fantastic!
That is quite all right I am trying to attend to most meetings I can and build
as much as I can because in another 6 to 7 months my LEGO time is going to
diminish greatly (another cleverly disguised hint).
I will have more pictures up tonight although I have not even looked at them
yet so I don't know how good they are.
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> Don't forget, Crispin said we can drape cloth over glass cubes to achieve
> levels of various heights. I might have some ratty burlap around here -- looks
> a bit like earth.
We were discussing this some on Saturday and we just did not know how to use
the Cubes in conjunction with the Town mostly because as you see it it works
really well on a level surface and our though was the cubes would create an
uneven surface. Now with your post and some more thinking I thought we could
possibly use one layer of cubes under at least the town and maybe the whole
thing. I then have a 4x8 sheet of lewon -sp? aka quarter inch plywood that we
could cut into sections and put on top of the cubes in order to get a level
surface.
Our other concern was that we don't want to go to high because we want to make
sure kids can see it. I guess I would just like to hear some ideas as to how
to raise the floor in the window and make it work with our setup.
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> I would like to put up some pictures of what I've built here. I think I'm
> nearing the end of my contribution. I got some great books from the library
> with drawings of farmers, criminals and houses, etc. from the Middle Ages.
> I'll try to make extra photocopies. I plan to start a 3-ring binder, Castle
> visual-ref notebook.
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> I've built mostly "day in the life" stuff. Some lonely, worn out serfs with
> farming tools, crude plow, and carts (no horses) transporting goods. A hovel
> built into in a hill with farm (it's furnished for those who open it). Hay
> pile. Animals: sheep, ram, brown mystery-animal, ducks.
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> Also, a 32x32 lush (very green) hill, sorta magical looking, where a druidess
> is mixing a potion (or maybe it's just her dinner). Trees, flowers etc there.
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> Atop another hill, I built a craggy, rocky stone Keep. almost done. it has
> dungeon, fancy tower, lookouts, and many BURPs hidden around inside. This
> model is on a 48x48(?) gray baseplate. matches color/style of new castle.
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> For figures, I have many peasant-types -- made from old as well as new
> elements. Including 3 or 4 propperly dressed maidens and some tough, well
> armed women (heh!) and a few old and/or sickly folk.
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> Meanwhile, village townhouse occupants have market/shopkeep neighbors. (only 3
> buildings- directly up against each other) A kindly woman who works at her
> spinning wheel, sells yarns. And a weapons shop with nasty store front and
> smithy in back. (all furnished and openable.)
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> there's a thief locked in stocks. a shared water well with hand pump.
> Highwaymen (ready to rob). And a crowd gathering in the village street. Looks
> like they're headed up to the Barron's keep. disgruntled for sure -- they're
> carrying torches, waving pitchforks, brooms, pots, rakes and the like.
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> I'll post when pics are ready. maybe tonight.
I am looking forward to it.
One thing we were thinking was that we wanted to use at least a few of the
current sets so that they would have something to point to and say "you can buy
that". Our thought was that most of the sets (especially the castle) were out
of scale with everything we had done. So we thought we would use the Bull's
Attack stuff in the setup. Some of your stuff sounds like it might be more
stuff for outside the city walls like the "32x32 hill with druidess making her
dinner". I just don't know if we should wait and see what Suzanne has before
we finalize the layout and theme. Maybe we don't want a hugh battle if we can
fill up the space with creations instead of a bunch of soldiers like we did on
Saturday.
Anyway I am rambling a bit I think I will wait till I see Suzanne's stuff
before I make any more suggestions.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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| (...) Wow, Really?! Congrats. :-) (Eric's LEGO time goes down, but his PRIMO time goes up) ;-) (...) yes, maybe something like you suggest would work. If you have no table saw, or other way to cut plywood, I have used 1" thick corragated cardboard. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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