Black Castles

noahjoel · Post by **noahjoel** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:21 pm

Can somebody link me to some great black castle MOC's? I have a ton of black LEGO but no inspiration from which to go from. thanks for your time

Post by **Bruce N H** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:49 pm

Hey,

Black looks really cool, but it can be difficult to photograph effectively. One thing that came to mind immediately was Othanc. Follow this for a variety of different Orthanc MOCs.

Dave O'Hare made a huge black tower:

Nelson made a great castle seige for our recent contest:

Of course, that's in the style of the official Black Knights faction, with sets such as Black Monarch's Castle and Black Knight's Castle.

More recently you have sets like Vladek's Dark Fortress:

Here's Jon Furman's Lord Wormwood's Fortress:

Bruce

The_Vanquished · Post by **The_Vanquished** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:31 pm

I'm actually building a Black castle myself, not to the magnitude of Dave O'Hare's Black Tower, or Jon's Wormwood Castle(God I love that name), but it will be black.

E of Alshire · Post by **E of Alshire** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:11 pm

If your building in black, try to use a highlight colour. In Vladek's fortress, the highlight is Bley and Dark Red, and in both of the Black Knight's castles, the highlight colour is light grey. This extra colour will make black (which is notoriously difficult to photograph) show up better.

smcginnis · Post by **smcginnis** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:20 pm

Here are some pics I found on flickr of a very nice black castle:

http://flickr.com/photos/brickjournal/586105079/

http://flickr.com/photos/brickjournal/5 ... 426915949/

As you can see, it doesn't have a highlight color, but with all the detailing put into the walls, it doesn't really need one, either.

It also looks similar to Steve DeCraemer's wonderful castle:

viewtopic.php?t=5378

So he might've built it.

~smcginnis

supernova · Post by **supernova** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:45 pm

One black castle I like is the Vladek's castle MOC posted here some time ago:

viewtopic.php?t=8483

Hope this helps

E of Alshire · Post by **E of Alshire** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:48 pm

smcginnis wrote:It also looks similar to Steve DeCraemer's wonderful castle:

It is Steve DeCramer's wonderful castle, plus crappy lighting.

wunztwice · Post by **wunztwice** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:17 am

Here's my Wolfpack Tower redux MOC:

Pick=link

And the C-C thread.

Looks like alot of the others I knew of are already posted.

Aliencat · Post by **Aliencat** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:51 am

I really like that Wolfpack Tower redux, wunztwice

Anubisconq · Post by **Anubisconq** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:38 am

I made a kind of small tower for the Castle Contest a couple months ago. It mostly has black bricks. Clicky

smcginnis · Post by **smcginnis** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:40 am

E of Alshire wrote:
smcginnis wrote:It also looks similar to Steve DeCraemer's wonderful castle:
It is Steve DeCramer's wonderful castle, plus crappy lighting.

His is dark grey. In the first link I posted, you can clearly see black, dark grey, and light grey... unless you think that last is white. And since when do nets come in dark grey?

Or do you mean this is a second castle of his, that is black, but still has bad lighting anyway?

~smcginnis

Post by **architect** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:54 pm

smcginnis wrote:
E of Alshire wrote:
smcginnis wrote:It also looks similar to Steve DeCraemer's wonderful castle:
It is Steve DeCramer's wonderful castle, plus crappy lighting.
His is dark grey. In the first link I posted, you can clearly see black, dark grey, and light grey... unless you think that last is white. And since when do nets come in dark grey?

Or do you mean this is a second castle of his, that is black, but still has bad lighting anyway?

~smcginnis

Steve's mountain was light grey, dark grey, and finally black.

Ben

smcginnis · Post by **smcginnis** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:56 pm

architect wrote:Steve's mountain was light grey, dark grey, and finally black.

Ben

I know. I just meant that this wasn't the same castle mentioned in this thread:
viewtopic.php?t=5378

Thanks anyway for clearing it up.

~smcginnis

noahjoel · Post by **noahjoel** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:22 pm

Thanks every one for your time. They are all very cool.

Jansen · Post by **Jansen** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:36 pm

Heres mine