Sunday, January 31, 2016

Watch Me Build A Castle, or 'how to fail at LEGO'

It's fantasy, plastic me!


I have never built a castle.  I've built tower houses and fortified bridges and even micro castles, but never an actual, real, minifig scale castle.  Which is kind of odd, because if there's any theme I would be known for, it would be castle.  For a castle builder it is, unsurprisingly, what everyone aspires to build.  Along with building a SHIP it is perhaps the biggest boiler plate project an AFOL can achieve.  A culmination of carefully honed techniques and the sheer size of ones collection.

But before I even laid a single brick there were decisions that needed to be made.  Planning for a creation this large is so important.  Like many other people I love to design on the fly, building and rebuilding, working the brick until a pleasing form emerges.  But with something this big you need to have a idea of a few factors before you begin.

I hope the following notes and future entries will give some insight into what's required to build a project of this size.  And for those who have already built a similar project I guarantee there will be plenty of laughs at my own expense.