Hun Posted October 19, 2006 Posted October 19, 2006 A new version of my heavily modified and expanded 7019 Viking fortress can now be seen in my Brickshelf gallery! (link in signature below) Please feel free to comment or criticise. Suggestions for improvement especially welcome. Quote
c.bennedsen Posted October 19, 2006 Posted October 19, 2006 GREAT *y* So much better than the original! :-D Quote
Hun Posted October 19, 2006 Author Posted October 19, 2006 Thanks, guys! I'm still not sure I'll stand comparison to the REAL builders out there, though... ;-) Quote
Darth_Ewok Posted October 19, 2006 Posted October 19, 2006 Great job! I love the original set and you manage keep the same feel while exanding it! Nice job! Quote
Hun Posted October 19, 2006 Author Posted October 19, 2006 Great job! I love the original set and you manage keep the same feel while exanding it! Thanks. This was part of the plan: keep as many "original" decorative accessories (torches, shields, horns, etc.), basic structures (walls, gate) and the colour scheme (vertical planes = reddish brown, slopes = dark bley, horizontal planes = black) intact as possible, while at the same time filling it with life and a few realistic touches (e.g. stairs :-) ). Quote
Athos Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 Great (if a bit incomplete) landscaping. Where do those angled/wedge green plates come from? Steve Quote
Eurobricks Emperor Bonaparte Posted October 20, 2006 Eurobricks Emperor Posted October 20, 2006 Looks really good. Great detail! I don't own any viking set, but I have been thinking on buying the fortress or the boat. Seeing your nice fortress has convinced that I should buy one. Quote
Hun Posted October 21, 2006 Author Posted October 21, 2006 Great (if a bit incomplete) landscaping. Where do those angled/wedge green plates come from?Steve Thanks! I haven't said this earlier, but this is a work in progress. That's about all the bricks I have. But I'm planning to add another 5 or 6 32x32's worth of landscape so that my modified longship can land on the beach and perhaps also a small village. The green 4x4 plates w/o corner come from... another Viking Fortress set, and then about 30 more of them straight off Bricklink. Also wanted some in blue, but that doesn't exist, so I went with 3x3 w/o corner instead. Looks really good. Great detail!I don't own any viking set, but I have been thinking on buying the fortress or the boat. Seeing your nice fortress has convinced that I should buy one. Thank you! I think the Viking sets are worth buying, but need extensive modding. The original fortress set consists of about 1000 pieces. I removed the 3 catapults (lots of tiny Technic pieces) and the 2 dragons (even more tiny Technic pieces), but then added more than 3000 bricks and plates to make this. Also all the figs from all 7 available Viking sets, as the original with just 6 figs is seriously undermanned. Quote
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