Shadowmere Siege

[TitusV]

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With a great arch, the stone was launched into the air. Alric had to crane his neck to follow the projectile. With a great plof, the sound of stone on stone and the screaming of human voices, the stone settled itself in the wall of Shadowmere. And altough it had done quite some damage, this was not nearly enough. "Reload", he said to his Captain. Shadowmere must and would fall!

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Deep inside the dark keep, the sound of falling stone, breaking walls and bones reached the patrouille. These decided not to wait, but immediatly go reinforce the affected wall section. Shadowmere would hold out!

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I'll keep the story short now, but expect more to come! This build was based on Blufiji, thanks to him, and the interior obvously on Soccerkid6's builds. The trebuchet-design is from Nuju Metru and TheCook. Thanks to them too! I really enjoyed this build, and CC is very appreciated!

Additional images

Afterwards, I decided to have the sappers building a bridge to reach the castle. This was added to the built, and images may be a bit blurry. Sorry therefor!

Edited February 28, 2016 by TitusV

[Mike S]

The build is nice but why is Alric attacking Shadowmere?

[TitusV]

The build is nice but why is Alric attacking Shadowmere?

Hencefort:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=122274#entry2483292

[Lord Vladivus]

Awesome! I love it! Great stonework. The trebuchet and interior are fantastic too!

[Blufiji]

That wall is wonderfully built. Lots of texture and good techniques. Being of the east, I gotta support Shadowmere, but you deliver a nice siege sir!

[bricklover]

Love it! Great stonework!

[The Steward]

Very nice!!

[Umbra-Manis]

Great stonework on the wall!

[soccerkid6]

Cool composition with the two 'islands' irregularly connected Excellent crumbling wall look, and the trebuchet looks great.

Good use of the new bear shield in the wall, and the black and red floor pattern adds some nice contrast with the stone walls

[Dr.Cogg]

Great builds, but isn't Shadowmere, Black and Red

[BrickCurve]

Great stonework, the irregular base is great also.

[TitusV]

Thank you all!

@Dr Cogg: yes, IT should be, but my collection of blacks was not enough, so I did it in bley and made the patterns on the floor red and black

[The_Cook]

The trebuchet-design is from TheCook.

Cerdit for the Trebuchet design should go to Nuju Metru as part of his Dragonlands designs; I merely reverse engineered his designs into LDD.

Edited February 28, 2016 by The_Cook

[Jacob Nion]

I like how compact you realised the scenery. That wall and half timbered part is really well done.

[LittleJohn]

Excellent build, Titus! The wall texturing is superb and I like the floor pattern as well

Very nice trebuchet too

[Gideon]

That wall looks really good! I also like the siege engine quite a lot

Regarding the photography I think the pictures are a bit too dark, and I don't agree with your composition in some of them. I would recommend either doing closeups where they are heavily cropped or try to include the entire build (or the entire part of the build in this case with two linked builds) and not cut it off at the edges or corners.

[Full Plate]

Nice work Titus! As many have said that greebled wall looks great :) Keep it up!