PeroTheLegoman Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 (edited) Hello everyone, about a year ago I finally got my hands on my favourite childhoods castle, the King's Mountain Fortress (set no. 6081). If I remember correctly it was the 1990 Lego catalouge, and I remember drooling over it and trying to rebuild my sister's Rock Island Refuge 6273 into it. That ugly raised plate actually made the castle look that much more fun in my childs eyes than other castles that were available at the time. So as I was saying about a year ago I begoten the set 6081, the King's Mountain Fortress but in the same time I got my hands on a great deal for the Black Falcons castle the 6074 set. After all those childhood's hours and days daydreaming of it and finally building it, I was actually a bit dissapointed with it. The Black Falcon's castle was far prettier to me now. So decided to uncostruct both and try to make my vision of the classic King's mountain fortress. All the parts used are those two sets and the big ugly raised plate (added the iron railing gates and some minor pieces later), plus I partially used for inspiration one poster I admired when I was a kid.. a huge scene of "what you can do with castle lego", so this is what it turned into. Nothing special, just a classic rework of a classic lego castle. (btw, I really hate the raised plate, but it's good for something when you don't have enough legos to build the "mountain" yourself) That's it folks :) Edited June 25, 2015 by PeroTheLegoman Quote
Dubbadgrim Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Well done, this looks a lot sturdier and I like the black roofs Quote
Vorkosigan Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 Nice fortress and surrounding scenery. You did a good job of integrating old and new parts and figures without it clashing. Quote
Balbo Posted June 25, 2015 Posted June 25, 2015 (edited) Nice work It's always great to see the old raised base plates in a MOC Edited June 25, 2015 by Balbo Quote
PeroTheLegoman Posted June 26, 2015 Author Posted June 26, 2015 Actually there is nothing on the inside except gangways. Was and still am planing on making one side openable and making a throne room, but won't be doing that soon Quote
Isundir Posted June 26, 2015 Posted June 26, 2015 (edited) I agree I never did like those baseplates, as a kid I did have the King Leo's Castle from Knights Kingdom and what annoyed me most as with all raised baseplates were the smooth studless sides, your build and mix of old and new looks great though Edited June 26, 2015 by Isundir Quote
PeroTheLegoman Posted October 8, 2015 Author Posted October 8, 2015 (edited) Just a quick update to the castle. I 've enhanced the battlements and also got "rid" of the fugly baseplate :) Edited October 8, 2015 by PeroTheLegoman Quote
Exetrius Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Oh, great improvements in my opinion! Now it has the looks of a real stronghold Quote
Tezclatipoca Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Great build ! I think it was a good idea to rebuild the base making a good rocky shape. Good job Quote
VintageLegoEra Posted October 10, 2015 Posted October 10, 2015 NIce MOC, But i see it lacks some important elements. The Castle is super in design but needs some Shields on front of the castle to identify it as Lion Castle. Also the original build has no any Sheild on front which i see it is strange, while if you see other castles: 6080, 6085, 6086,...etc all have it cheers Quote
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