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Posted: **Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:43 pm**

A couple of weeks ago i realised that there are very few roman MOCs, so i decided to make this little temple:

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(This isn't really castle, but it's quite close to castle, so i guess this would fit in the castle MOC forum.)

Posted: **Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:13 pm**

Wow! I love this, so many details! I really like the nifty uses of pieces, such as the handcuffs above the entrance. The brick-built legs really work in this MOC, and the chariot is just awesome. In fact, awesome just about sums up this MOC! Great work!

-CheeseBrick

Posted: **Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:46 pm**

Awesome creation! The temple is ingeniously designed, and the landscaping is excellent. A nice way to make a tree, too!

Posted: **Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:31 pm**

nicely done, great details, a very cool build over-all

Though, I have to say this looks much more like a roman mausoleum than a temple.
Mausoleums took a pretty wide range of architectual forms where as temples followed a pretty standard design; they generally looked like greek temples, except that free standing columns were located on the porch only (with engaged columns around the rest of the building). Later, in the christian era the basilican plan was adopted.

Still thats really just a complaint about the name, the moc itself is excellent

Posted: **Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:42 pm**

Gotta' love roman MOCs!

You packed a lot of awesome detail into this one. Particularly all the stuff at the top of the building, and the sculptures.
I also really enjoyed the flowers you made with the lever pieces. That is the first time I have seen that done.

Also, as mentioned, I like how you did the guards.

All around, an excellent build!

~Amanda

Posted: **Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:34 pm**

I do enjoy Roman architecture and wish that there could be more Romanesque buildings here on CC. Is CC appropriate for Romans though?
Could we get a reply with clarification from architect or bruce n h?

Posted: **Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:58 pm**

mrkovach wrote:I do enjoy Roman architecture and wish that there could be more Romanesque buildings here on CC. Is CC appropriate for Romans though?
Could we get a reply with clarification from architect or bruce n h?

In the future, please contact a moderator or admin via pm when you have a question about where a moc should be posted in the forums. Check out the CC Terms of Service: http://www.classic-castle.com/tos.html where it states that only mods and admins make these decisions. Thanks.

As a general rule, we allow mocs in the "Castle MOCs" forum from the Fall of Rome to the Burning of London in 1666. So most mocs with Lego firearms and cannon should be posted in the "General Lego" forum.

This building type is a small temple. Many of these smaller Roman buildings were used in Medieval times and survive today. So we will allow discussion to remain in this forum. If you have any other questions, please direct them to me by private message.

On topic:

The temple has many nice details including the handcuffs, statuary, and cornice. I do wonder if the spire is a Roman detail or something that would have been added to a converted Church in middle ages.
Ben

Posted: **Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:18 pm**

This is great! I really like how you added so much detail to it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:36 am**

The way you built the trees is just awsome, and like others have said, the way you used the handcuffs is a neat idea too.

,SNP

Posted: **Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:44 pm**

This is an awsome moc, and being half Italian I have a soft spot for the romans and their accomplishments. The temple is beautiful and I love the sort of a Roman law feel that the handcuffs give off. The surroundings are just plain awsome but I am probably about the only one here who honestly just isn't feeling the gaurds. Might I suggest the shadowknight helm on the red viking chieftain torso. Also one last legionary nitpick is that the romans (except on the northern frontier) usually went sleeveless. I don't mean to spend so much of my post on the gaurds its just a force of habit but honestly its a magnificent MOC and I just may have to steal the boots/short legs thing in the future,

Jameson.

Posted: **Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:29 pm**

DNL wrote:A couple of weeks ago i realised that there are very few roman MOCs, so i decided to make this little temple:

And you remedied that lack of Roman MOCs wonderfully. Spending hours and hours a day deciphering Cicero and Vergilius I really have to say finding Ancient Rome coming alive in my favourite medium is fantastically refreshing.

Praeterea censeo plures Romanas Constructiones Meas Ipsius struendas esse

Posted: **Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:40 pm**

Thanks for the comments everybody

This is an awsome moc, and being half Italian I have a soft spot for the romans and their accomplishments. The temple is beautiful and I love the sort of a Roman law feel that the handcuffs give off. The surroundings are just plain awsome but I am probably about the only one here who honestly just isn't feeling the gaurds. Might I suggest the shadowknight helm on the red viking chieftain torso. Also one last legionary nitpick is that the romans (except on the northern frontier) usually went sleeveless. I don't mean to spend so much of my post on the gaurds its just a force of habit but honestly its a magnificent MOC and I just may have to steal the boots/short legs thing in the future,

Jameson.

I don't really know much about roman soldiers

I did consider using shadow knight helmets, but i thought these looked more like legionare helmets.

Posted: **Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:20 pm**

DNL wrote: I don't really know much about roman soldiers
I did consider using shadow knight helmets, but i thought these looked more like legionare helmets.

Well The legionares were the soldiers of Rome Please see this link: Link.

CastleLord.

Oh and this is a Great moc!

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