dugmence Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 (edited) Here's a creation that I've been building a full two months, a few hours per day, for the 3rd exhibition of LUG Skockani (November 2011). This time includes everything from planning on a paper (based on the vision that has existed since March 2011.) up to the last detail the diorama. Diorama is made modular, so I could put it together in 2-3 hours, and disassemble it in about an hour... If somebody is interested, you can see pictures of construction on this link ... the name of each image is day-month-year-number of image , so it is possible to see progress by days... As a big fan of Lord of the Rings, an inspiration came to me from this movie ... I watched it 2-3 times in the 3 months before beginning of construction, plus I read the Hobbit and the Silmarillion ... The most concrete inspiration was the battle of Helm's Deep, i haven't tried to copy buildings, but pursued my vision ... There were many comments on the exhibition, and the vast majority of people recognize what it is, or at least from where came the inspiration ... and I am very glad about that ... Here are a few pictures, the rest are available in this gallery (not the same gallery, a gallery of construction) Dimensions are 4 by 6,5 baseplates...after lugbulk arrives I'll expand it to 6 by 8,5 baseplates... Comments are welcome Edited April 16, 2012 by dugmence Quote
Impersoldier Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Wow that´s such big and really really awesome!!! I love it Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Huge amount of lego for an absolutely superb creation! Quote
dugmence Posted April 16, 2012 Author Posted April 16, 2012 Wow that´s such big and really really awesome!!! I love it Huge amount of lego for an absolutely superb creation! thanks I've used around 10,000 bricks for entire creation... Quote
Calanon Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 It looks good! I can definitely see the Helm's Deep inspiration, it looks like you've been inspired by the siege of Minas Tirith too! I like the small details such as the stepping stones. Quote
Venunder Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 (edited) I like this MOC. A lot of good work has been done with the medieval market village sets. Are the castle peices from the older Castle sets or the new Joust sets? Good building technique for the ramp up to the main gate. I like the apple tree and have thought of something similar for my diorama. I also particularly like the burning oil pouring down onto the attackers. Edited April 16, 2012 by Venunder Quote
Vindicare Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 Very impressive! I love the outer wall housing the city within. The castle itself is a nice design and well built. All the goings on in the city are well done and not too much or too little. Quote
dugmence Posted April 17, 2012 Author Posted April 17, 2012 I like this MOC. A lot of good work has been done with the medieval market village sets. Are the castle peices from the older Castle sets or the new Joust sets? Good building technique for the ramp up to the main gate. I like the apple tree and have thought of something similar for my diorama. I also particularly like the burning oil pouring down onto the attackers. Except medieval market village set and kingdoms farm and blacksmith everything was custom built... On the pictures only one MMV set is modified, but now both are...unfortunately I don't have time and space to put it all together again, so I can take new pictures... there is a cherry tree too, but have only a few of those, so it's not easy to notice... burning oil was a problem on exhibition...a lot of people crossed the improvised fences to grab it...older people, not kids... Quote
JackJonespaw Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 Looks great! Full of detail and minifigures. Nice job. I really like the castle walls. They're not too scrambled, but nicely organized. Quote
The Blue Brick Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 This is great. I love the stream with the mini figure hopping across on the rocks. The curved stairs are also nice. Quote
Angeli Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 nice ;) Welcome to the active castle users ;) Join one of the guilds Quote
moop Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) It looks good! I can definitely see the Helm's Deep inspiration, it looks like you've been inspired by the siege of Minas Tirith too! I like the small details such as the stepping stones. This is one of the things that stuck out for me as well. It's amazing how a little detail like that breaths life into a MOC. The whole thing is outstanding. Edited April 18, 2012 by moop Quote
dugmence Posted April 18, 2012 Author Posted April 18, 2012 thanks for nice comments... there is a lot of details across this MOC, but I've chosen only a few for the first post...that's why I've posted links to brickshelf folders... Quote
dugmence Posted May 13, 2012 Author Posted May 13, 2012 Here is a video clip made on exhibition... After expansion, I'll add new photos to this topic... Quote
Hive Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 Fantastic work. This is what I hope to do myself once I get the bricks and the space for it; an outer LOTR-ish wall with an attacking and a defending force and a small village within. Possibly with a harbor on the other side as well, if room for it. Quote
Legoman of War Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 I like it. I started to build a smaller scale MOC but my non existant time has it relegated to work in progress for six months. Greaat inspiration for me to start. LMW Quote
dugmence Posted March 28, 2013 Author Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) As I've promised, here are some photos after expansion...on first two photos, plates are marking spots where additional houses were planed... larger picture larger picture And now a few pictures from 6th LUG Skockani exhibition, where one MMV pair and barn from MVR were placed on places where plates were on pictures above. larger picture larger picture larger picture elf's ambush larger picture Here you can see some pictures from exhibition, and here some during construction On exhibition it was part of larger diorama, which I've made with EB member Sammael. Here are some houses I've made for this diorama I hope you like this version better, I certainly do. Edited March 28, 2013 by dugmence Quote
Evil Porkchop Posted March 28, 2013 Posted March 28, 2013 Great job, the use of official Lego sets with your MOCs is seemless. Fantastic project and it looks like you took a little inspiration from LOTR:RotK. Quote
dugmence Posted March 28, 2013 Author Posted March 28, 2013 Great job, the use of official Lego sets with your MOCs is seemless. Fantastic project and it looks like you took a little inspiration from LOTR:RotK. thanks... If you take a look at the first post at this topic, I've stated that inspiration came from LOTR movies, not from LEGO sets... And I've forgot to mention, around 20,000 LEGO pieces were used, and dimension is 6x9,5 baseplates... Quote
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