[MOC] Dark Forest Castle of the Lions

[Jreacher]

I took my last castle build and made some major changes. I added a drawbridge and put a moat around the castle. I changed the keep, and added a nice looking library/ tower. Added a market village inside the walls as well. And made the dark forest outside the castle with a watch tower.

The first picture was an entry for summer joust. The rest of the castle follows, I probably should have put minifigures in the pics, but i always like to take pics without the minis so you can see more detail and not be distracted.

Contest Pic

Faction Action

Skirmish outside Dark Forest Castle

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The castle and forest

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Front

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Birds eye

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The Inside

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Had to use prefab walls on the gatehouse cause i was running low on bricks…. :(

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The watchtower and forest

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Link to Flickr Album

https://flic.kr/s/aHskAucTTn

Hope you enjoyed!

[soccerkid6]

Great perspective with the first picture, and the whole castle looks good and solid Excellent use of that printed baseplate for the path

[BrickCurve]

Looking good! Some more vines on the castle walls and thicker landscaping would be the only main things that could be added hear to improve it.

[Niku]

I really like your castle, has nice dimensions and a classic look very well depicted.

[Jreacher]

Thank You.

Yes i agree that more vines and thicker landscape would have been nice. I wanted to do more natural hills and trees, with larger vines. But ran outta green stuff haha.

[Captain Green Hair]

That's a nice looking castle, I love the irregular shape!

You've used mostly easy brick stacking techniques and this just shows what can be done in that way.

[TheLegoDr]

Nice shaping overall. Nothing too extravagant, but you don't always need to. Overall this has some good structure to it. It would probably do well at a LUG show so people can see all the little details. Adding in some figures might make the scene a bit better though, so keep that in mind.

[x105Black]

I love this build. The size is really nice, I really enjoy large scale castles. Also, the plants in the landscape are really well put together. I really like the added tough of the flowery vines up the side walls.

Good job!