A lot of firsts here for me: 1st Castle Lego MOC, ever; 1st large-scale landscaping; 1st entry in an online contest. Special thanks to Mark of Falworth for encouragement to join in the fray!
I was going for suspense here. I wanted to capture the tension present just prior to hostile action taking place, and I wanted to do so while building the story of my character in LCC. The MOC was created to be seen from the POV of Sir Caelan Munro in this picture:
So if you bend down from the minifig POV, you can’t see the outlaws waiting for the ambush, but there are enough suspicious indicators present that it looks like a set up, hence the tension. A short synopsis is that Caelan is trying to recover cattle stolen during a cattle raid, and the chase has led to here, where he must decide whether to pursue them up the dangerous pass through the mountains or to give up.
Full backstory here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/80813941@N08/8238997422/
