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Sir Vincent wrote:It's cool...but eventually some of those pieces will yellow are you prepared for that?

Well, yellow snow certainly occurs under the right conditions...

Nathan, that's got a nice feel to it, simple (but never simplistic) and interesting, like so much of your work!

Carl

And please, to all people, lets keep doing that. Awww, where's the fun in that? What's a little trash talk between hockey fans? :) I plan on doing most of the canucks team, some team photo's, the stanly cup, and farther down the line, Highlights from real games This brings to mind several thoughts:...

Truly steal-worthy. Great looking MOC!

Carl

Guinness and Bass...

Er, uh, Black and Tan that is, if you're under 21!

I think black & white looks a little too pristine for the medieval period. Brown and white looks pretty good--more timber-like.

Carl

I had a similar problem recently. Here are a few things to check: -Check your LDraw base path in MLCad. It's possible that you have multiple installs on your computer--you may have installed a parts update in a different location than your original installation (Go to Settings->General->Change... an...

Nice arrow loops! Good thinking!

I always like seeing the classic minifigs with non-smiley faces, too.

Carl

JoJo wrote:Is there any girl out there reading this who would like to become the mother of my children?

Hey admins, maybe the Russian bride thing is really being posted by an AFOL who wants us to have children to fill out the survey and y'all should stop deleting them?



Carl

Interesting side note, from The Sutton Companion to Castles: "There is little evidence of brick-making following the Roman withdrawal and the earliest known English bricks appeared in the eastern counties in the mid-twelfth century. It is surprising that the English for so long failed to recogn...

I'm no expert either, but I'm basing this opinion on a few different facts: stone was expensive to quarry, difficult to work with, preparation of mortar was skilled labor, and many castles were looted for their stone after their military use had ended. The stone walls that decorate the British Isles...

Jon,

Welcome!

jon_p wrote:I was mainly a space fan until the last 6 months or so.

We won't hold that against you. Even Darth Vader turned to good in the end: "I've got to save you!" "You already have."

Carl

Hm, now that I've done a bit of reading I've come to doubt whether the average castle would have had a skilled weapon and armor maker. Certain geographical areas (the German Rhineland, southern Germany, the Lombardy region of northern Italy, Paris) developed reputations as arms manufacture centers. ...

Leo, I looked up postern and sally-port in the Sutton Companion to Castles, and it makes the distinction that a postern is a pedestrian gateway and a sally-port is a postern designed for making sorties. Sutton says that a sally-port was typically used to attack besiegers who were on the berm between...

I suspect that most builders mean shop in the connotation of workshop, rather than a retail establishment. They had to have a place to work, regardless of time period. Stone was probably not used in any non-military or non-ecclesiastical building during the medieval period (thus most stone-based MOC...

My coworkers all think it's pretty cool that I build Lego stuff.

Of course, we write computer code, so take it with a grain of salt.

Carl

Nice work! Hey, I might have thought of something that you can use for a mitre. I don't have any of the tooth pieces or an LDraw modelling of them, so I'll just have to describe: Take a 1 x 1 brick with 4 studs on the sides, put 1 x 1 round plates on two opposing sides, 1 x 1 plates with tooth ( htt...