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Just curious: Where did you get this idea of the Black Forest from? It's more just a name taken to convey an idea and general locale. Maybe I have eaten one too many Black Forest hams. :D The Black Forest is in southwest Germany bordering Switzerland. Famous for lumber, cuckoo clocks and wooden toy...

The one that would probably please most dedicated Castle fans would be The Other SoCal Bruce's (Oh wait, have I actually signed my name to a message yet?) suggestion that I will dub (with an eye towards Steve Jackson): Generic Universal Medieval European Town System. Or GUMETs. :wink: But since that...

(assuming you are talking to me) Feel free, but keep in mind its not perfect. That is, I have not actually cut it out and tested. A quick print, cut and paste later by me.... The saddle cut-out area is very good. Using that as the key to laying down the printout: Front top: Covers nicely to the fro...

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=62561 The thumbnail versions below. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/corsair/Castle/ShieldDesigns/thumb/sirrobinweb.jpg_thumb.jpg Sir Robin's shield exists somewhere, but I think this is a much cleaner version of it. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery...

And the spears look really like oars. If you look carefuly in history, Roman oars were made like this in their boats. So it's historical accurate. In middle age they could had made oars like this. Do you have a source for this? I haven't seen any depiction of Roman oars looking anything except like...

Generally speaking, if what you are primarily going to do is web graphics or printing at maybe 5x7, then a 2 megapixel camera is probably fine. The more megapixels the camera has, essentially the larger you can print - 3 megapixels is good out to about 8x11.5, 4 more like 11x14 or a little larger, a...

In the day of modular design, this was a nice little set. You could play right away with it, or plug it into a larger design (kinda of like taking two 6074s and making something the size of a 6080). A proper number of minifigs in the days before skimping. The two drawbacks I would note is that once ...

Just an excellent army builder that you don't have to really make any changes to. Oh, perhaps it would be nice to have a horse barding, but you don't have to add armor, or replace 20 useless crowns - how many kings do you need, for heaven's sake? I pick these up whenever I can find them for a decent...

The Voyager is a good little ship, please don't mistake me. The spears as oars just leap out at me. The spears are a specific item the soldiers would use in their primary design, so suspension of disbelief is impaired. Many parts are pressed into service as something else much more successfully. Or ...

Hehe, oars had not been invented yet in 1987. Usually if a logical piece was not used in a set, it had not been made at that time. I actually like the spears in the set, and if your guys arent rowing, they are armed to the teeth Pirates didn't make their appearance for a couple of years, but the po...

The best part is the high minifig count. The worst part are the spears instead of oars. Admittedly, I have so many of the pirates accessories packs that I could equip a flotilla of Viking Voyagers, but still it is a weakness in the model itself. And why the funky bendy tubes? Overall it is a good li...

Yeah, I know, a martini is not made with tonic, but it's a recognizable modern "drink", so it's the symbol of the Two-Tonic Knights. I'm going to modify it a bit, but I'm doing the Irish side of the family at the moment (Daugherty, Joyce, and Leonard). I suppose I shouldn't mention they li...

I take it my Evil Twin design does not meet the high standards of the CCC.

Most of my armies tend to approach 100 and then stop. Generally, I need somewhere around 60-100 figs to make an army for gaming (depending on troop types and how many starting points to alot). However, with the use of generic unlivered figures (classic scale, various Fright Knights, new Leo Scale or...

That was my poll - I didn't want the actual sets interfering with the poll, it was strictly about the minifigs themselves. My personal favorites are the Black Falcons, Wolf Pack, and Forestmen. My least favorites are usually predictable: anything with yellow/red/blue (or black) as their color scheme...