Any links to MOCs of spooky gothic style cemetaries?

[Rhapsodyred99]

My search foo is fractured or something. I can find some cemetary mocs but they are not quite what I am after. I am interested in a creepy old gothic style cemetary with Tombs, headstones, mausoleums etc. not all straight and new looking but crooked broken and worn down, Just a totaly spooky vibe.

I post this here because it seems that it should go hand in hand with castle building.

I suppose I could put it in Action with the new Monster fighters (and I am seriously planning on combining the Haunted house with this graveyard to make a spooky landscape).

I just do not have the creativity to do it myself. I tried several times just to get an idea, but while I can follow instructions or an LDD file, I have not mastered advanced building techniques and it looks fairly one dimensional.

So if none exist, could I challenge someone to design an LDD of a spooky Gothic grave yard?

Thanks!

[IAmWillGibson]

I've seen some good stuff on here, if you dig around. Some of them are simple, sure, and on the other end some seem really overbuilt. It depends what you prefer.

I made one back when you could build it in LDD and order the set from them [for the cost of your left arm]. I like it, but it was designed early in my post-Dark Age and also with a more "real LEGO set!" vibe, so it's pretty simple. But it's a good start on top of which you can embellish to your heart's content.

I've been toying with ways of getting crooked, busted-down tombstones, but it's hard to pull off convincingly at a small scale without a built-up base that you can sink stuff into.

[Kayne]

This isn't a cemetary, but Derfel Cadarn built a wonderful castle similar to that style if I am reading you right>

Sanctuary of the Damned

Check it out and let me know what you think

[Rhapsodyred99]

I have pretty much resigned myself to having a "Graveyard on a hill" as in plying with my extra pieces that's the only way I was able to really come up with crooked things. My problem is that while there are absolutely Amazing and detailed landscapes made from LEGO, and I think they are great, they do not mesh well with official sets, or the minifigures IMHO. I have seen some great very detailed fantasy and castle sets that look great, but that type of detail is a bit much for my skill level.

I am more into the detail of the official Adult collector sets like the modular buildings or the imperial flagship, and the new haunted house. I think they have just enough detail to differentiate them from the "kiddie" sets, but not so much detail as to lose the lego aspect.

is your build on the net somewhere I'd like to check it out?

And that castle is very well done I love Mocs like that because I could never have that much creativity, and they are just amazing to see. His Mill is also unbelievable. But putting the haunted house on one of those landscapes would look like a kids fingerpainting on a Rembrandt!

My Idea would be for a Moc landscape that would not look overly detailed or realistic as opposed to the HH. A medium between the childs here is a flat plate with gray bricks for stones, and the super builder's almost digitized landscape detailed to the T to look almost lifelike.

While I can manage the first, I cannot even fathom the second, and trying for the median is beyond my ability as well...

Edited September 18, 2012 by Rhapsodyred99

[IAmWillGibson]

is your build on the net somewhere I'd like to check it out?

The thread I posted it in is here.

The thing is still built pretty much as shown here, but I've expanded it by another 16 studs to include the Zombies set and a few more headstones, but it's still pretty bare-bones [ba-dum ching!]. But as I said, this is the most basic, and you can only get fancier from here. Were I to scrap and rebuild this, I'd definitely concentrate on jazzing up the landscaping.