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| 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.
I hadn't realized you'd never done a proper castle, though I tend to think of fortified manors as small castles. I've enjoyed reading through your build process so far :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I am inclined to agree with you, fortified manors are really just fancy castles
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, man! It's good to be back =)
DeleteI came, I looked at the pictures, didn't read a thing though....too damn lazy, but I got the gist of it : DDDD
ReplyDeleteDamn your honesty! You could have at least faked it ;)
DeleteWelcome back indeed. I'm linking this over at Classic-Castle. Come over and talk with people about it.
ReplyDelete-Bruce
Welcome back indeed. I'm linking this over at Classic-Castle. Come over and talk with people about it.
ReplyDelete-Bruce