Wind Mill

gh0st0f0nyx · Post by **gh0st0f0nyx** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:11 am

Hello!
I just wanted to show this. I made this along time ago so...yeah. I wasn't really caring about colors and I'd make a new one if I found the piece I used.
Anyway, it actually spins. You guys know the nba set where the figure slam dunks with this rotating brick? well I used the rotating brick piece so that the windmill actually spins. If I could go through my lego collecton to find it, I'd make a better one. Oh well...
Here's the gallery
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=227093

kelderic · Post by **kelderic** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:40 am

Not bad. The blades seem a bit to long, but aside from that, it's very good.

Kelderic

Spongey · Post by **Spongey** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:38 pm

It's pretty good. However, I agree with Kelderic that the blade seems a bit big.

gh0st0f0nyx · Post by **gh0st0f0nyx** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:42 pm

Yea. I don't even know where these pieces went. But if I could rebuild it, I'd fix that and the color

Prince Imdol · Post by **Prince Imdol** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:58 pm

Color, blades and take a look at some medieval mills on google images. You can get a good inspiration there.

Thomas

gh0st0f0nyx · Post by **gh0st0f0nyx** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:12 pm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com ... ndmill.jpg
This one looks interesting...
Any clue on how to make a round structure?

Post by **JoshWedin** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:29 pm

gh0st0f0nyx wrote:Any clue on how to make a round structure?

Here you go. It's by Jacob C., a member here.

Josh

gh0st0f0nyx · Post by **gh0st0f0nyx** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:35 pm

Wow! That looks cool! He should make like a castle using those as towers!!
Anyway, thanks. It looks pretty cool. The only problem is that I don't have big quantities of those pieces. I only have red 2x2s and some random colored bricks. I do have those pieces required in that picture you showed me but it would be all different kinds of colors...and it wouldn't be very tall...
Any way you can do something like this with just using bricks?
Thanks anyway. Although, that does look cool! looks very detailed and realistic.
Oh and also, should I have put this in castle mocs since it's castle related?

Post by **JoshWedin** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:31 pm

gh0st0f0nyx wrote:Wow! That looks cool! He should make like a castle using those as towers!!

Oh, he has. That tower is the keep in this castle and he used the same technique in this castle. John Langrish also used that technique in his Stoneguard Hold

Any way you can do something like this with just using bricks?

Here is one by Cbolego, that I've always liked. Also you can do it with bricks and hinges. This one, by our very own DARKspawn, comes to mind.

Oh and also, should I have put this in castle mocs since it's castle related?

It probably would have been viewed there more. Would you like it moved?

Josh

gh0st0f0nyx · Post by **gh0st0f0nyx** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:33 pm

sure.
and those look great

Prince Imdol · Post by **Prince Imdol** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:23 pm

Wow, quite nice castles.

DARKspawn · Post by **DARKspawn** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:51 pm

gh0st0f0nyx wrote:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com ... ndmill.jpg
This one looks interesting...
Any clue on how to make a round structure?

Wow, I was actually going to make a copy of that same pic as my medieval life entry for CCC4 but had to abandon it before I really started due to lack of brown & time.

I have since decided to build a simple Viking windmill based on this kind of design. It seems to be a very popular medieval windmill design that I have never seen done in LEGO

airborne trooper 2 · Post by **airborne trooper 2** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:02 am

Wow it looks good. it would make a good castle I think.

Post by **Bruce N H** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:13 pm

DARKspawn wrote: I have since decided to build a simple Viking windmill based on this kind of design. It seems to be a very popular medieval windmill design that I have never seen done in LEGO

Hey,

Tony has a very nice post windmill:

Bruce

DARKspawn · Post by **DARKspawn** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:50 am

Thanks, Bruce

I thought it might have been a case of not digging deep enough