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Hi all,

Happy Chinese New Year! 2020 is the year of the rat. Use this thread to post a Chinese-themed castle MOC (either one you built or a great one you found online), or else a castle MOC featuring rats.

I'll start the ball rolling. Last year SpaceBrick celebrated Chinese New Year by posting the [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacebrick/453 ... ateposted/]Shrine of the Golden Dragon[/url].
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacebrick/453 ... ateposted/][img]http://www.classic-castle.com/moc/articles/ ... ebrick.jpg[/img][/url]

Let's add a couple of others. Check out another [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/150997376@N08/ ... 2508153643]Chinese dragon[/url] by Ming Jin. This MOC is 1.55 meters long!
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/150997376@N08/ ... 2508153643][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/4263/346565933 ... 240c_w.jpg[/img][/url]

There are lots of great Great Wall MOCs, including some by CCC members, and of course an official set. A few years back Simon Liu built [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/si-mocs/6063766758/]this one[/url].
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/si-mocs/6063766758/][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/6186/606376675 ... 1865_w.jpg[/img][/url].

On rats, of course the rat element has been around for a long time and shows up in lots of castle MOCs. A somewhat common rat-centric motif is the Pied Piper of Hamlin, who has made it into a couple of past CCC entries. I'll pick one that I don't think was ever posted in this forum, Ciamosław Ciamek's [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/pigletciamek/16425309933/]Wrong Flute![/url] made me laugh.
[url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/pigletciamek/16425309933/][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/7591/164253099 ... d843_w.jpg[/img][/url]

Anyway, as I said, please share other Chinese or rat-themed castle MOCs.

Bruce

Some great builds here, thanks for posting Bruce! I had almost forgotten about that Great Wall build by Simon.

Here are a couple more Chinese builds:

Hongcun by Toltomeja
[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/4435/365028296 ... 8c04_w.jpg[/img]
[url]https://flickr.com/photos/toltomeja/36502829 ... ateposted/[/url]

The Monster Nian by Jonas Kramm
[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/4835/398857056 ... 7d44_w.jpg[/img]
[url]https://flickr.com/photos/legols/39885705663/in/dateposted/[/url]

And another build featuring rats:

The Incident in the Library by Filip Soukup
[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/8217/833808245 ... a1b1_w.jpg[/img]
[url]https://flickr.com/photos/filipsoukup/832938 ... ateposted/[/url]

Thanks for adding these, LJ; those are all really cool and I hadn't seen the first two before. I especially love the curving walkway, the color variation, and the SNOT on the back-right building in the first one. That second one is just straight-up gorgeous. Funny entry from an old CCC I think on the third - I love the details like the printing press, the portrait, and the crucifix.

Bruce