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Great Belville-scale stone bridge by stapelaar
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:17 pm
by Bruce N H
Hey all
Stapelaar (?) is doing some really cool things at the
Belville scale. I was particularly interested in this
stone bridge:
They show step-by-step how they made it. First they built the
basic framework with bricks/plates:
Then covered that with
tiles:
They built up the road surface with
1x1 tiles on plates:
Notice that these plates all run across the width of the road with none running the length, which allowed them to
curve the road surface over the framework:
and
hold it into place:
I wonder if the curving surface would work better with a baseplate?
Other details that would be of interest in castle building are the spear fence and the
arches over the windows offset by half a stud:
and all the great multicolor mottling, as seen in
this stairway:
There's some really nice landscaping as well; particularly check out the
little sandbars in the river.
Bruce
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:58 pm
by Ristridin
This is super! A livetime building project! I wish I had that amount of lego. That man should be a lego masterbuilder!
I am so amazed that i can only shout things!
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:25 pm
by Lord Nev
Now THAT is cool! I wonder what he could do by making a castle!
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:05 pm
by Tanotrooper
I think he is dutch or belgian. Genious work! like the bridge.
TT
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:08 am
by g2
Very well done!!!
1) The spear fence is a very clever idea. I might incorporate it into my lego designs.
2) the bridge is awsome....and all those 1x1 tiles - wow. I wonder if I can build a smaller scale version.
3) I absolutely loved the actual building that is a great design, with some minor modification (and a bit of reverse-engineering) I could build a minifig castle version.....hmmm...do I have enough bricks I wonder
:
Overall --GREAT WORK-- and very inspirational.
Thanks
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:14 am
by JoshWedin
That is really amazing. The amount of detail is overwhelming...I keep seeing more stuff, the longer I look. What is going on in this
pic, off to the right, up on the cliff? Is that girl being shoved over the cliff by her sheep? Kind of disturbing...
Anyway, excellent work, truly amazing!
Josh
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:08 pm
by aaronsneary
He IS a Master builder, determined by this photo:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1635784
That's GBL, the contact cement that Euro MMBs use to glue LEGO these days. That would explain the Miniland Scale, and the amount of parts.
It's still an excellent example of castle techniques, and the level of detail you can create at that scale.
Aaron
(former California MMB)
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:26 pm
by porschecm2
Wow! I love all the extra details that can be packed into something when building at this scale. The spear fence is really neat. I have to say though, that I think there's just a few too many colours in the mottling. I've seen most of those colours used well in mottling before, but I think there's just too much of a clash here. Still though, this castle is amazing.
Cm2
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:42 pm
by wunztwice
Hmmm, I could have sworn I saw this here before. Maybe just elsewhere. Anyways I absolutley love it. The motling and landscaping is super well done and the whole MOC is very impressive. The design was visibly well thought-out and greatly benifits!
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:58 pm
by E of Alshire
wunztwice wrote:Hmmm, I could have sworn I saw this here before.
This is an older thread.
Yeah, I agree that the mottling is too busy. Other than that, the scale works well, though I don't really ever like this scale.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:09 am
by stuifzand
There are people who have that glue and are not masterbuilders...
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:19 pm
by Norro
Well worth a detailed look (which took time from me). Thanks for posting this Bruce!
God Bless,
Nathan
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:40 pm
by Jake, of the Palace Guard
That is extrememly good, I had no idea that you could curve plates like that. That mottling, and those extremely cool fences, look so stylish!!!
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:51 pm
by aaronsneary
stuifzand wrote:
There are people who have that glue and are not masterbuilders...
You
really think there are non-LEGO employees with GBL
labelled with a LEGO sticker? Not to mention the standard MMB technique of using steel rod to secure parts, also seen in that photo.
Yes, it's in someone's home, but I believe the European MMBs sometimes work from home.
Aaron Sneary
Former Master Model Builder, LLCA
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:03 pm
by stuifzand
aaronsneary wrote:stuifzand wrote:
There are people who have that glue and are not masterbuilders...
You
really think there are non-LEGO employees with GBL
labelled with a LEGO sticker? Not to mention the standard MMB technique of using steel rod to secure parts, also seen in that photo.
Yes, it's in someone's home, but I believe the European MMBs sometimes work from home.
Aaron Sneary
Former Master Model Builder, LLCA
I do not only
think that, I even
know that.
I know the guy, he lives 7km from me. Trust me, he's
not a LEGO employee...
Many people have stuff like that...