Technic pieces in castle building

[Lauris]

Hello Castle builders,

I am primary Technic builder, but I love all you guys do here in castle forums.

Hence, I thought what if I could build, let's say, watchtower, from Technic pieces?

So this thought has been following me long, but I haven't found time, to give it a decent time.

On the other hand I haven't seen it done before, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I see that with my pace, it'll take ages, till I get to smthn decent, also, this technique is a lot slower than just stacking bricks, so I made few pics of this WIP project, so maybe someone can have it for inspiration and give it a proper try. I have bunch of ideas, how to make windows, how to connect pieces to regular baseplates etc. I hope I'll manage a proper Technic-Castle tower someday.

Here is picture from WIP watchtower (I'll probably need to make base in smaller scale, as I'm noob castle builder):

And second so you see, that you can make decent curves with Technic pieces.

And here's a thought I got like half an hour ago - how to make a different base connection to build the wall around, as well as using axles for inner strength of the structure.

Comments welcome.

BR,

Lauris

[Ql97]

Very nice work Lauris. It would be interesting to see what a whole castle made with this technique (pun intended) would look like.

[JackJonespaw]

Interesting thought, and one that I can see as working well. If there was some way (as I'm sure there is) to add dark bley inner walls behind the watchtower walls, it would make a nice foundation for the bricks. Also, would there be any way to make those walls even curvier? I'm not huge on Technic know-how, but it seems plausible enough.

[Faefrost]

Interesting thought, and one that I can see as working well. If there was some way (as I'm sure there is) to add dark bley inner walls behind the watchtower walls, it would make a nice foundation for the bricks. Also, would there be any way to make those walls even curvier? I'm not huge on Technic know-how, but it seems plausible enough.

In theory the way he did it those walls should be fully hinged so you could flex the curve any way you wanted, just about.

[Sir Edwyn]

Actually there has been a whole castles made with this technique, by Tiberium Blue:

[Balbo]

Great job Lauris .

I really love the technique you used for the castle wall - it looks very interesting

[Lauris]

Thanks Sir Edwyn, tiberium_blue photostream is very impressive and inspiring.

Thanks for inspiring words everyone, I'll upload new photos of my experiments :)

[Bytor]

It looks really sleek, you should definitely give it a shot!

[Captain Braunsfeld]

Using technic bricks really looks good.

What scares me though is the sheer number of bricks I would need, that would not be reusable in a different context.

[Lordofdragonss]

I really want to build a basic castle using Technic panels for walls. Maybe someday!

[Kalais]

It is very good idea Lauris. I can imagine whole watchtower build like that, it would be awesome.

As for whole big castle, I think the best results would be by mixing ordinary standard bricks with yours technic idea.

The whole castle, like Tiberium Blue's, ummm, it is nice,but something missing there imho. But thats just my opinion ;)

[Dubbadgrim]

I actually have a WIP in progress with some technic pieces, I'll post it here when completed.