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Here's a nice castle creation I found on Brickshelf: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=69249.
I think it's pretty neat.

Mr. D

So, how do you define "big"?

I like this castle too. The walls are big, but not complicated. Now if the creator could just leard to post smaller pictures!!

Alan

Ok, so I changed "Small" to "New". I think it could be more detailed, but it's still well done. It would also be nice if some interior pics were posted. And yes, those photos should definitely be downsized.
Mr. D

Wow, nice job

LR

Don't get me wrong, its a nice casltle but there is room for improvement. One thing is those CWP. I hate those (except for shops). If you insist on using CWPs then you have to fill in the cracks with gray/lightgray bricks. The black bricks look out of place.

Nice MOC, 7/10

DM

Uh...what are CWP? By the way, I'm not the one that made this castle; your post seemed to intimate that I made it. Not that I'm upset about it.

Mr. D

Yes, I am aware of that. I guess I should have proofread the post. When I said "if you insist" I was reffering to everyone who uses CWP.

And By CWP I mean Castle Wall Piece. I'm not sure if it is an accepted accronym of AFOL but heck it saves time!

DM

Saaay...that is a pretty nice castle. Not detailed enough? Maybe, but sometime you have to sacrifice detail for size. I guess it just depends on what you're going for in an MOC. I find that sometimes when you build something really huge the details can get a bit lost in it. They are in there, lots of them probably too, but when you go big on a creation you have to go big on details so they can be seen. Often times, a camera will not register the things that you'd see if you were looking at it IRL.

By the way DM, I tried to save time by typing CWP instead of castle wall pieces and you're right, it saved me about three one hundreths of a second.

Nice looking castle! But still soooo invadable.

That castle looks great! I like the overall layout of it. And whoever that person is, he/she has a lot of plate armour pieces! If only I had just a few of those...

I am not a castle builder myself, (only have about 5 grey bricks.) but I am planning on spending around $35 on light grey 2x4s. Is that enough to build say, a tower or keep?

old_republic wrote: By the way DM, I tried to save time by typing CWP instead of castle wall pieces and you're right, it saved me about three one hundreths of a second.

My, aren't you funny one...

SirCumference,

You don't need a ton of bricks to build a keep or tower. These were my first Castle creations after my dark ages:
http://www.ozbricks.com/bricktales/cast ... laces.html
and while the white one is admittedly very lame, I was quite happy with the shape of the red tower. I was just counting and it looks like that is 16 bricks tall, and you can make a square tower like that with about 10 2x4 bricks per level. LEGO S@H sells packs of 50 2x4 bricks for $6.99, so if this were all 2x4's it would have cost around $21.00 (add in some 2x2's and some inverse slopes and you've got the whole thing) (this was basically all of my red at that time).

Bruce