Fort Paradise

[Tordenskjold]

Based very loose on the Eldorado Fortress. jsut something i made during this weekend here on my pc. its not finished , missing some mlcadfiles to mae the cannons look good and some lanterns and soldiers.

Also need a better gun platform. I buildt this just to see what i can do with a raised baseplate like the one from Eldorado.

[Mister Phes]

You're certainly off to a good start Mr Tordenskjold!

An image 800 x 600 would also make for a better start X-D

[SkaForHire]

Looks good so far, can't wait to see it finishted.

[Captain Green Hair]

Looks good Tjordenskold, you could use some more white bricks on top maybe?

Looking forward to the result *y*

[Tordenskjold]

sure my dear Captain. thats the good thing with mlcad. just click on a brick and i can change colors at once :-D will try to make different colors on the fort.

[Mister Phes]

Mister, Tordenskjold how tall were you thinking about making Fort Paradise?

[Tordenskjold]

Hi Mr Phes. i dont know. not much higher than it is now. perhaps a small command place ontop of the entrance but not much higher than it is now.

[Mister Phes]

You could built turrets in each of the four corners and upon each turret you could have a cannon on a swivel base. Then in the very centre you could have a command post with some cannons on top of that!

T'would be a very fortified fortress then.

[Tordenskjold]

Have done some more building this evening. ang finally got most of the MLCAD files i miss. So here are some more pics of Fort Paradise . The fort isnt finished yet, will try to improve as i learn how

to do that and also see what i want to change.

More pics HERE

Greetings

Thunder

[Mister Phes]

It's looking good Mister Tordenskjold!

Though it does look a bit "flat" - it needs a tower or something to give it a bit of a lift.

[Tordenskjold]

Its supposed to be flat mr Phes. Fortress in that times had to be made as low as posible to avoid hits from guns . hehe. But i see your point. i might make a sort if tower or something like that to it. but not today. Now im going to sleep.. have a nice night everyone :)

Thunder

[Mister Phes]

If you're going for historic accuracy then I understand why it needs to be flat. On the other hand if you want an impressive looking MOC then perhaps build a tower.

Since you're working in MCLAD it's quite easy to make two different versions. Just save the files as "version a" and "version b" so you can keep them both!

[Tordenskjold]

I know :-D that i s why i like MLcad so good. its so easy to make different versions :)

[Mister Phes]

And you don't have to worry about running out of pieces!

Hey wait a minute - aren't you supposed to be in bed? X-D

[Siegfried]

I buildt this just to see what i can do with a raised baseplate like the one from Eldorado.

I think you have done a very good job of it. *sweet* It is quite well disgused and the parts that show fit in well. Predictably I ask; are you going to build this? I suppose it might be hard to get that many cannon.

[Tordenskjold]

Hi there Sinner. I dont know if i am going go buildt in real life. but if i do i think that cannons arent the biggest problem *sweet* but dont know i have a plan of making at least a battery on my raised baseplate.

so who knows. Perhaps the Fort Paradise will appear in real life. Pirates beware :-D

Thunder

Ps mr Phes. i was sleeping. just wrote in my dreams :-D :-D

[Mister Phes]

You're a very clever fellow Mr Tordenskjold, what else can you do while asleep?

How come you decided to name this MOC Fort Paradise?

[Col. Whipstick]

What programme do you guys use to design stuff like that?

I downloaded some lego brick construction thing from somewhere a while ago but it was so crappy.

[Mister Phes]

You'll be wanting MLCAD (Mike's LEGO CAD) Col. Whipstick!

Here's a link to the official MLCAD website.

[Tordenskjold]

You're a very clever fellow Mr Tordenskjold, what else can you do while asleep?

How come you decided to name this MOC Fort Paradise?

Hehe mr Phes. i can do many things in my sleep. after i went to bed i remember that i had to make an answer to a mail and had to log on again. thats why i was answering so much :-D

The name Fort Paradise is from two places.

1: when i was a child i saw the western El Dorado and my father told me that it was the spanish word for Paradise. (this was back in 1990 i think) and i belived for many years that thats what the name means.,

2: when the Norsemen settled on Greenland they might give her that name to attract more poeple. and i thought that calling the fortress Paradise would attract more Imperial guards than calling it fort Smith or something like that :-D

Thunder

PS thanks for all the kind words :)

Edited October 19, 2007 by Tordenskjold

[Mister Phes]

Very clever Tordenskjold!

Is Fort Paradise finished or are you going to add more to it?

[Tordenskjold]

I dont know mr Phes. this is a virtual moc now. and more of "what can i make out of that baseplate" so i think i will try to improve it and make it better . like adding things as i learn how to build them. but i cant say for sure what i would do .

Thunder

[Mister Phes]

You were going to add a tower at one point...