Hey,
I have had these built for some time, but haven't gotten around to putting them up on my website.
First off, we have my first attempt at a Tudor-Style house:
http://www.geocities.com/cwglcws/TudorStyleHouse1.html
Nothing special, but I liked how it came out.
Second of all, we have part of a project that I have been working on for awhile (Obviously not done):
http://www.geocities.com/cwglcws/LionKnightsCastle.html
Next we have a building that was going to be part of my modular castle system, that I put on the back burner after decided to make the Lion Knights Keep:
http://www.geocities.com/cwglcws/Barrac ... lding.html
Here I have an outpost that I made quite awhile ago after getting back into Lego after loosing interest for awhile:
http://www.geocities.com/cwglcws/FortifiedOutpost.html
(Don't have detailed interior pics, or descriptions on the website, but you can see more pics of it on Brickshelf here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=54496 )
These are just some things that I built for fun:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=54165
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=54166
I got the general design for the second one from the instructions for the Gate Tower from Benjamin Ellermann.
Just thought I would share some of my creations, tell me what you guys think.
A few MOCs
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Hi Charlie,
I really like your moc's. The tudor house has really large timber construction! Your castle is impressive. I can see some of my influence but you have added tons of wonderful details. I like the map table, corner table, storeroom, the kitchen and its wonderful details (although it would probably be on a lower floor, completely stone, or in a separate building), and the great hall.
May I suggest tan or yellow plates on the floor to imitate straw. We need to make dogs for castles - a necessity. The king would also have tapestries - check out Anthony's Stonebarrow Keep. Your hinge opening design is unique and cool!
The barracks and supply building is VERY Roman. I love it, they would too. I can see it now as a part of a square roman fort on Hadrian's wall. Wonderful stuff!
The fortified outpost has great crenelations. I also like the sloped roof. That one tower looks very unstable
Great Moc's! I can't wait to see more.
Ben
I really like your moc's. The tudor house has really large timber construction! Your castle is impressive. I can see some of my influence but you have added tons of wonderful details. I like the map table, corner table, storeroom, the kitchen and its wonderful details (although it would probably be on a lower floor, completely stone, or in a separate building), and the great hall.
May I suggest tan or yellow plates on the floor to imitate straw. We need to make dogs for castles - a necessity. The king would also have tapestries - check out Anthony's Stonebarrow Keep. Your hinge opening design is unique and cool!
The barracks and supply building is VERY Roman. I love it, they would too. I can see it now as a part of a square roman fort on Hadrian's wall. Wonderful stuff!
The fortified outpost has great crenelations. I also like the sloped roof. That one tower looks very unstable
Great Moc's! I can't wait to see more.
Ben
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Bricksidge
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Wow! There is too much great stuff for me to comment on everything, so here are my general comments.
The playability in these MOC's is astounding. It seems as if almost everything opens up.
The detail you put into these is outstanding. It's clear a great deal of thought has put into these creations.
Is there a reason for using mainly 1 x 2 bricks in the walls? Is it to give the walls an authentic look?
I hope you finish the Lion Knights Keep! It looks like it would be quite impressive when completed.
The playability in these MOC's is astounding. It seems as if almost everything opens up.
The detail you put into these is outstanding. It's clear a great deal of thought has put into these creations.
Is there a reason for using mainly 1 x 2 bricks in the walls? Is it to give the walls an authentic look?
I hope you finish the Lion Knights Keep! It looks like it would be quite impressive when completed.
~[url=http://www.neutronbot.com/kevin/]Kevin Blocksidge[/url]
Thanks for the compliments!
The main reason that I use 2x2 bricks is the cost. I either wanted to use 2x4s or 2x2s for to look, but at the time I was buying up bricks there weren't many people (on Bricklink) that had a very large quantity of 2x4s. And the ones that did had them listed for around 15 cents a piece or so. I could get pretty much as many 2x2s for 5 cents a piece as I wanted, so I just went with that. Obviously a 2x4 brick is twice as long as a 2x2, so it would cover more area, but I was looking to spend only 10 cents or so a piece for them.
A problem that comes with using 2x2s instead of 2x4s is the corners. When using 2x2s at the corners you have an L-shaped space where you have to either use a 1x3 brick, and a 1x1, or 2-1x2s which uses up quite a lot of my 1x bricks when I build.
I think in a smaller structure 2x2s look nice, but on a larger one like the Lion Knights Keep that I am in the process of building 2x4s would have been a lot better. Also there is the time of building, it is much slower to build with 2x2s than 2x4s.
If I were to do it over again I would have just used 2x4s from the start, but now that I have around 2,500 2x2s, it wouldn't make much sense to buy a bunch of 2x4s.
The tower on the Fortified Outpost isn't all that stable. It was more of an afterthought, as was the small courtyard. I wanted to make the tower go all the way to the ground, and then have a door on the bottom level of the main part of the structure, but I would have had to taken it half apart to do that.
On the Tudor house I bet it would have looked better if I used 1x1x5 bricks as vertical timbers, and then used 1x6 plates for the horizontal ones. This was more of a experiment house, when I make more I will probably use the 1x1x5 bricks and 1x6 plates.
I was actually thinking of putting either tan, yellow, or brown plates on the floor of the Lion Knights Keep, but wasn't sure what sort of floors they had in castles (wood, stone, straw, dirt, anything else)
I was kind of at a loss when putting together the Kitchen. I wanted the store room, and the kings quarters on the bottom floor, so there was no more space to put the Kitchen on the bottom floor, although I really wish I had. I bet I could put the kitchen where the king's quarters are, make the library into the King's quarters, and put the library where the Kitchen was. I also didn't make a chimney for the fireplace in the Kitchen, if I made one for where the kitchen is now I would have a chimney coming up out of nowhere on the top floor, I would really like it to be in the corner, or at least up against a wall.
I also wanted to have a large, central fireplace for the Hall, but I couldn't figure out where to put it. I couldn't put it at the front of the hall, since that is where the King's throne is. I was thinking of having it attached to the wall, so when you opened it the fire place would come out with the wall, but this way you wouldn't be able see the fireplace in the hall, so I just skipped it all together.
There were a lot of things with the Lion Knights Keep that I would have done differently if I was to do it over again, which is another reason why I am thinking of re-doing it, and a bit smaller this time so I have enough bricks.
I also need to start making a landscape for my structures. The buildings all alone just sitting there on plain green plates is pretty boaring. I think I'll go read the new Creating trees and foliage article.
I like to make sure that the things I build have a lot of playability to them, not because I like to act out battle scenes or anything (ok, maybe once and awhile ) but mainly so that I can access the interior for picture taking, and to display them.
Once again, thanks a lot guys!
The main reason that I use 2x2 bricks is the cost. I either wanted to use 2x4s or 2x2s for to look, but at the time I was buying up bricks there weren't many people (on Bricklink) that had a very large quantity of 2x4s. And the ones that did had them listed for around 15 cents a piece or so. I could get pretty much as many 2x2s for 5 cents a piece as I wanted, so I just went with that. Obviously a 2x4 brick is twice as long as a 2x2, so it would cover more area, but I was looking to spend only 10 cents or so a piece for them.
A problem that comes with using 2x2s instead of 2x4s is the corners. When using 2x2s at the corners you have an L-shaped space where you have to either use a 1x3 brick, and a 1x1, or 2-1x2s which uses up quite a lot of my 1x bricks when I build.
I think in a smaller structure 2x2s look nice, but on a larger one like the Lion Knights Keep that I am in the process of building 2x4s would have been a lot better. Also there is the time of building, it is much slower to build with 2x2s than 2x4s.
If I were to do it over again I would have just used 2x4s from the start, but now that I have around 2,500 2x2s, it wouldn't make much sense to buy a bunch of 2x4s.
The tower on the Fortified Outpost isn't all that stable. It was more of an afterthought, as was the small courtyard. I wanted to make the tower go all the way to the ground, and then have a door on the bottom level of the main part of the structure, but I would have had to taken it half apart to do that.
On the Tudor house I bet it would have looked better if I used 1x1x5 bricks as vertical timbers, and then used 1x6 plates for the horizontal ones. This was more of a experiment house, when I make more I will probably use the 1x1x5 bricks and 1x6 plates.
I was actually thinking of putting either tan, yellow, or brown plates on the floor of the Lion Knights Keep, but wasn't sure what sort of floors they had in castles (wood, stone, straw, dirt, anything else)
I was kind of at a loss when putting together the Kitchen. I wanted the store room, and the kings quarters on the bottom floor, so there was no more space to put the Kitchen on the bottom floor, although I really wish I had. I bet I could put the kitchen where the king's quarters are, make the library into the King's quarters, and put the library where the Kitchen was. I also didn't make a chimney for the fireplace in the Kitchen, if I made one for where the kitchen is now I would have a chimney coming up out of nowhere on the top floor, I would really like it to be in the corner, or at least up against a wall.
I also wanted to have a large, central fireplace for the Hall, but I couldn't figure out where to put it. I couldn't put it at the front of the hall, since that is where the King's throne is. I was thinking of having it attached to the wall, so when you opened it the fire place would come out with the wall, but this way you wouldn't be able see the fireplace in the hall, so I just skipped it all together.
There were a lot of things with the Lion Knights Keep that I would have done differently if I was to do it over again, which is another reason why I am thinking of re-doing it, and a bit smaller this time so I have enough bricks.
I also need to start making a landscape for my structures. The buildings all alone just sitting there on plain green plates is pretty boaring. I think I'll go read the new Creating trees and foliage article.
I like to make sure that the things I build have a lot of playability to them, not because I like to act out battle scenes or anything (ok, maybe once and awhile
) but mainly so that I can access the interior for picture taking, and to display them. Once again, thanks a lot guys!
I just finished the Lion Knights Keep. I didn't finish it how I had planned to, but I just didn't have enough bricks. Here is the page:
http://www.geocities.com/cwglcws/LionKn ... plete.html
http://www.geocities.com/cwglcws/LionKn ... plete.html
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