Moats?

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:32 pm

How many of you put moats or ditches around you walls?

What do you use for water in the moats?

jamitjames · Post by **jamitjames** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:51 pm

When I was a kid who did not know about the net I did not use any thing, I have not made a castle since then.

Post by **Formendacil** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:17 pm

I have to go with other, because while typically I use nothing, I also try to use blue bricks whenever I can. (Well, actually, its quite often blue plates or baseplates.)

Post by **Bruce N H** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:42 pm

I voted "other" because what I do for water (actually, rivers, I haven't ever done a real moat) is build up ground with bricks or plates on top of blue baseplates. E.g.:
http://www.ozbricks.com/bricktales/lotr ... 08-02.html

Bruce

Skudmunky · Post by **Skudmunky** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:00 pm

hey, you need a category for TRANS. blue bricks

Tycho McKorley · Post by **Tycho McKorley** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:02 pm

Someday, if I ever build my dream castle, I won't have a moat in the sense that you've described it. You see, it seems to me that an army laying seize to a castle could quite easily float invaders straight to the castle wall or at least drain the moat. Thus, I believe I'd build a large ditch out of Lego. Inside this ditch (I image this would be huge- don't let the connotation of the word "ditch" make it seem small

) would be all sorts of obstacles to invading armies and, if I were to get really elaborate, some sort of engineering feature that would make it so the dicht surrounding the castle couldn't be filled in by invaders easily.

Legomaat · Post by **Legomaat** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:48 am

For creating a moat I use slightly dark tinted mirror panes, because I like the reflections in the “water” so much. Real water would be better, but that is more a technical problem. You need to have a kind of basin or something, and that isn’t very practical for shows etc.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/legom ... geb-04.jpg

This is a model of “Kasteel Werkeren”, a typical Dutch castle, which is built, knocked down, en rebuilt several times. This is the situation as it was in 1661, after the last reconstruction.
Today, only the foundations and a old painting remains.

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:50 pm

[quote="Legomaat"]For creating a moat I use slightly dark tinted mirror panes, because I like the reflections in the “water” so much. Real water would be better, but that is more a technical problem. You need to have a kind of basin or something, and that isn’t very practical for shows etc.

Cool! I like that idea! Thanks.

Post by **Robin Hood** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:23 pm

I have never made a moat. If I were, I think it would just be blue bricks.

Magnus · Post by **Magnus** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:39 am

If I ever get into landcaping, I'd love to try my hand at a dry moat surrounding my castle. But that would take so much brick.

forester3291 · Post by **forester3291** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:48 am

Nothing.

Taki · Post by **Taki** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:50 pm

As you can see I use these trans bricks. Got a few from the LEGOstore in cologne.
If I need more water I have to use blue plates.
Check out my latest castle moc for watergames:
CLICK ME

Another cool way is the following one made by Ben:

Notice the flying blue parts. This is the waterline.

Cow1302 · Post by **Cow1302** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:55 pm

I don't really have enough bricks to build a full moat, but if I did it would be a large ditch filled with stakes.

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