Rufus's 375 Yellow Castle Restoration Project

[Daiman]

I was of similar age when I received this for xmas.

I still have most of the figs in a very reasonable condition

and the castle bricks are mixed in with my partners school lego.

Hmmm...maybe I'll dig them out.

Great job.

[smellsgood]

This is a really cool project, I enjoyed reading back and following the progress (since I missed it the first time).

[Ferrik]

I just saw this thread because it was bumped and I must say the restoration of 375 castle must have taken a lot of time and effort. And the stickers just look so much better.

[Hyler Talliwell]

I believe that this set is at my Grandma's house, along with a slightly squished box and some torn instructions. Maybe next time I'm there I should rescue it and so this same process. If that is the case, I may be interested in some of your decals. Thanks for the inspiration!

[Lacara]

Nice thread, I went through the same process a few years back.

I picked up most of the bricks in a large lot of lego so i had all the hard to find bricks, and i purchased brand new bricks where i could. the castle turned out really nice. I also had a problem with the original stickers so i scanned in the old ones and redrew them in Illustrator.

Once i had finshed the 375 set, I started on making the castles from the 6000 ideas book. below are the photos i have of the smaller castle

About a year after that set i finished the big castle, i have not taken any photos of it yet, if i get around to it i will post them up here.

I had always wanted the 375 set and i must have studied the 6000 book for years as a young child. It is really rewarding to have something that you wanted so much as a kid.

[Duce]

Really interesting little project, looking forward to following it. Still got my yellow castle in box waitnig to be rebuilt, but i'm almost of the mind to order newer bricks and build it in a grey version (Maybe spice it up a little by introducing the black smith and stables built in to it).

[WesternOutlaw]

Oh yes, the great and grand Yellow Castle. Your set looks amazing Rufus and with the box, how cool is that?

I actually played clean-up with this set a number of years ago myself (at least 6 or 7 in fact, maybe even longer).

The result was this:

Made new stickers for the original figs - think I got the decal prints from Classic Castle:

Even made a classic-style display to show off the figures:

It's great to see your Yellow Castle - long live Classic Castles!

[Teken84]

On 10/28/2011 at 10:12 PM, Rufus said:

Chapter Four: Making New Decals

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The banners were made from arcs of colour, displaced relative to one another, with grey blocks in between. To get the flared ends of the banners, I had to resort to brushing by hand.

The Result

I know it has been a long time. But do you maybe still have the decal files above in bigger format? I'm also rebuilding the castle en I want to order some custom printed elements.

 

[dgherko]

I used the stickers

 

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6525506

 

part purchased on bricklink

[legoman666]

I offer a replacement sticker sheet printed on premium vinyl: http://www.ebay.com/itm/303026876319 pre die cut too.

[wallerius]

Lovely thread! Nice work...

[1974]

Stickers are for sale here as well. Both the old and new version btw

https://www.brickstickershop.com/website/index.php?Show=Search&KeyWord=375#filter:81e92b521bb8f9213043210f5cb8eaa9

Cheers,

Ole

[natesroom]

I've personally remade all these shields and many others in Vector Files that I created (or reused some elements i could find and refined) in adobe illustrator. If any wants a PDF to make their own i can share the PDF.

Lego-Icons by Natesroom, on Flickr

Edited February 13, 2021 by natesroom