Castle Floorplans
- caesar2164
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Castle Floorplans
Do any of you know where I can get floorplans of real castles?
How do you guys build your castles without floorplans?
Thanks!
How do you guys build your castles without floorplans?
Thanks!
Now where did I put that Brick separator?
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Re: Castle Floorplans
Ave Caesar!
LEGO Castles by Robert Carney
Bye
Jojo
Bob Carney has some floor plans on his site (to the respective castles):caesar2164 wrote:Do any of you know where I can get floorplans of real castles?
LEGO Castles by Robert Carney
Now, I just build :-)How do you guys build your castles without floorplans?
Bye
Jojo
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Ave yourself Jojo
Thanks for the URL...
Thanks for the URL...
Now where did I put that Brick separator?
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Re: Castle Floorplans
I am glad that I am not the only one who needs and requires floor plans to work out a castle design. I feel without the castle floor plans, I will build something that is structurally wrong, and prone to an easy siege attack.caesar2164 wrote: Do any of you know where I can get floorplans of real castles?
These other castle builders have GREAT skill in the way of castle construction. Some of these builders should have been born in medieval times and worked as architects.caesar2164 wrote: How do you guys build your castles without floorplans?
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Carney even has tips on where to find the floor plans. Having searched for some of these, I can say its not easy. You have to search and search and search.
a better bet is to go to your local library or bookstore (if you prefer to keep them instead of returning them) and get books on castles. Quite often there are floor plans in the books.
Plus they will give you good ideas of what to add to your castles!
a better bet is to go to your local library or bookstore (if you prefer to keep them instead of returning them) and get books on castles. Quite often there are floor plans in the books.
Plus they will give you good ideas of what to add to your castles!
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The Compendium of Weapons, Armour and Castles has a number of floorplans, and very cool ones at that. It also has roleplaying stats for everything, which is why I got it. Made by Palladium Books, if you're interested. It's out of print, though, so it's expensive...
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Do what LEGOFreak said to do, thats what I do. Some good inspiring books are DK Eyewiteness books. They have excellent pictures in them !
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Re: Castle Floorplans
It's a proccess. I built something. Then change it. Then move on to another part, and then go back and change. My castle has been under construction for the last 6 years.caesar2164 wrote:How do you guys build your castles without floorplans?
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Re: Castle Floorplans
I start building without any plan and just see how it will turn out!caesar2164 wrote:Do any of you know where I can get floorplans of real castles?
How do you guys build your castles without floorplans?
Thanks!
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you know, I completely missed the "how do you build question"
here's what I do -
1 get an idea what sort of castle I want to build. Concentric, fantasy, just a keep, that sort of thing.
2 build a landscape - I like to put my castles on 'scaping for realism, and because its a lot of fun to incorporate features into the castle (just like real life!) a river for a moat, a sheer cliff for one side, again.. that sort of thing.
3 lay out a foundation. I change this until it looks right
4 build build build
5 tear down bits and rebuild rebuild rebuild
6 add figures for "life"
7 take pics and show the community
8 explain why I did what I did.. optional
here's what I do -
1 get an idea what sort of castle I want to build. Concentric, fantasy, just a keep, that sort of thing.
2 build a landscape - I like to put my castles on 'scaping for realism, and because its a lot of fun to incorporate features into the castle (just like real life!) a river for a moat, a sheer cliff for one side, again.. that sort of thing.
3 lay out a foundation. I change this until it looks right
4 build build build
5 tear down bits and rebuild rebuild rebuild
6 add figures for "life"
7 take pics and show the community
8 explain why I did what I did.. optional