Crusader Castle and Village

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Crusader Castle and Village

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Hello Everyone, I don't post much but I've been around for a long time. This is my latest Castle Creation and the first time I've ever really tried to show off the build!

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It was my entry into the BrickSlopes event here in Utah, I went as big as I could and still be able to get all the boxes into my SUV. It sits at 60"x160" and to set it up at my house I had to take over the garage, beg my wife to park outside for the winter and steal the closet doors from the guest room to build a table big enough :roflol:

Hope you enjoy and as always comments and criticism appreciated
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:twitch: Stunning layout, so big, and detailed! Looks way more realistic than many LEGO castles do nowadays, I particularly like how you included a village outside the magnificent castle :D
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Super cool layout!
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:shock: :twitch: :o :shock: :twitch:
Me want to make one... no, TWO!!!
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Fantastic! I love it, and the scale, too. The details on the landscaping inside are great.
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This is a castle...and then it is colossal! Congrats!!!
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This looks like a lot of time and energy went into it! I really liked how you even included a lego church in there... the farmhouses were neat, too, of course. Different levels of terrain, some higher and lower areas gave it a realistic feel.

Very good work :)
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I really appreciate how much effort you put into designing each little hut! The castle is getting into Bob Carney territory! Impressive!
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Thanks everyone it was a lot of work, I have built fairly big displays before a few times and it took most of my LEGO room but this was the first time attempting anything this big and it has definitely helped me to appreciate the huge displays that much more. Definitely wont be building this size again for a while, I really enjoyed it but it it took up 90% of my earth tone bricks and about as much patience as I have.
Kev wrote:I really appreciate how much effort you put into designing each little hut! The castle is getting into Bob Carney territory! Impressive!
That's a huge compliment I have admired his work for a very long time and being lumped into the same sentence as his name puts a smile on my face.
soccerkid6 wrote::twitch: Stunning layout, so big, and detailed! Looks way more realistic than many LEGO castles do nowadays, I particularly like how you included a village outside the magnificent castle :D
Thank you, I like to stick to the realistic side of things. I loved the village i had a lot of fun building each little house. I do wish I would have gone a little bigger on the house scales but in the end I really wanted the castle to look more massive and imposing to the dirty Dragon knight attackers and feared houses as tall as the walls would have interfered with that.
Grover wrote:Fantastic! I love it, and the scale, too. The details on the landscaping inside are great.
Zurem wrote:Different levels of terrain, some higher and lower areas gave it a realistic feel. Very good work :)
The landscape was probably the most fun I had while building i was particularly happy with the rock work (not as impressive as some of the rocks out there) around the inner ward. creating the terrain at the back of the barracks and the part through the back of the village was fun and very parts intensive, still not looking forward to removing all the 1x1 and 1x2 plate from those parts.
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