Horseback Archery Tournament

[soccerkid6]

My 6th entry for the Colossal Castle Contest, this time in the Archery Tournament category. I enjoyed getting to use our sand green plates for the landscape.

The annual horseback archery tournament in Avalonia is always a popular competition. Since Avalonian archery is generally more focused on long bow use, its usually a close contest between the four guilds.Spectator stands are placed around the range, while wooden stakes mark how close archers are allowed to get to targets.

More pictures, here.

Thanks for looking, comments and suggestions welcome

[de Gothia]

Stunning build as always SK! Really like the landscape with it's natural colours!

The spectator stands makes a great contrast to the landscape with it's bright colours! The left stands lower section with the slanted planks is a great feature which I will borrow for sure!

[en_zoo]

really nice idea and execution! love the stands 

[Kai NRG]

Excellent build SK, the landscape colors are fantastic and contrast really well with the bright canopy colors!  Speaking of colors, the Kaliphlin red and dark blue look great!   The horse's pose is spot on!

[TheLordOfBricks]

Awesome build Isaac! The sand green in contrast to the reddish brown looks great! I actually think I like the red/blue tent over the green/white tent, just because it has less studs showing... But it is all great! Keep it up!

Edited December 26, 2016 by TheLordOfBricks

[TitusV]

Great build SK! I absolutely love the "cloth" parts of the tribunes, they are really awesome!  The amount of sand-green in this build is unbelievable, and it contrasts well with the red-blue. Awesome job man!

[Mpyromaxos]

Nice creation! I like the sand green ground and the riding horseman archer!
Maybe you could built for target a suck in the ground that it lookks like human or on a tree! 

[blackdeathgr]

A study on a good use of sand green plates used at landscaping... A really good MOC as always!

[Slegengr]

Great tournament, SK!

Excellent use of the sand green plates! The terrain and grandstands are just fantastic!  Nice archery butts as well with a great idea for the horseback tournament!  The banners and hangings on the stands are neatly built and interesting, especially in the contestant's colors.

[Legofin2012]

I always enjoy your landscape, even just flat ground like this still looks very nice. The two different stands are both wonderfully done, with bright colours! I like the idea too, I feel like coming up with an original idea is a big part of contest like CCC, and this one is nicely done, and well executed  

[Garmadon]

Awesome build, SK, excellent landscaping and great work with those stands, especially with those canopies!   Excellent minifig posing as well, and I do like the arch pieces under the stairs! 

 

[soccerkid6]

On 12/26/2016 at 3:10 AM, de Gothia said:

Stunning build as always SK! Really like the landscape with it's natural colours!

The spectator stands makes a great contrast to the landscape with it's bright colours! The left stands lower section with the slanted planks is a great feature which I will borrow for sure!

Thanks dG! I wanted to do slanted planks for one of the stands, so I just messed around with the spacing of brick modified with stud until they attached nicely

On 12/26/2016 at 4:53 AM, en_zoo said:

really nice idea and execution! love the stands 

Thanks en_zoo!

On 12/26/2016 at 7:33 AM, Kai NRG said:

Excellent build SK, the landscape colors are fantastic and contrast really well with the bright canopy colors!  Speaking of colors, the Kaliphlin red and dark blue look great!   The horse's pose is spot on!

Thank you, and yeah, I didn't really think of red/dark blue being Kali colors at first, but it worked nicely

On 12/26/2016 at 9:16 AM, TheLordOfBricks said:

Awesome build Isaac! The sand green in contrast to the reddish brown looks great! I actually think I like the red/blue tent over the green/white tent, just because it has less studs showing... But it is all great! Keep it up!

Thanks, the white/green tent does has a lot of studs showing since I didn't want to make the wedge plates real bulky.

On 12/26/2016 at 0:11 PM, TitusV said:

Great build SK! I absolutely love the "cloth" parts of the tribunes, they are really awesome!  The amount of sand-green in this build is unbelievable, and it contrasts well with the red-blue. Awesome job man!

Thanks Titus!

On 12/26/2016 at 6:37 PM, Mpyromaxos said:

Nice creation! I like the sand green ground and the riding horseman archer!
Maybe you could built for target a suck in the ground that it lookks like human or on a tree! 

Thank you, and some more interesting target designs would add to the scene

On 12/27/2016 at 6:06 PM, blackdeathgr said:

A study on a good use of sand green plates used at landscaping... A really good MOC as always!

Thanks!

On 12/28/2016 at 9:46 AM, Slegengr said:

Great tournament, SK!

Excellent use of the sand green plates! The terrain and grandstands are just fantastic!  Nice archery butts as well with a great idea for the horseback tournament!  The banners and hangings on the stands are neatly built and interesting, especially in the contestant's colors.

Thanks Sleg!

On 12/29/2016 at 7:15 AM, Legofin2012 said:

I always enjoy your landscape, even just flat ground like this still looks very nice. The two different stands are both wonderfully done, with bright colours! I like the idea too, I feel like coming up with an original idea is a big part of contest like CCC, and this one is nicely done, and well executed  

Thank you, it was rather ironic that I finished another archery tournament just before the CCC began

On 12/29/2016 at 2:17 PM, Garmadon said:

Awesome build, SK, excellent landscaping and great work with those stands, especially with those canopies!   Excellent minifig posing as well, and I do like the arch pieces under the stairs! 

 

Thanks Garmadon! And I'm glad you noticed the arch stairs, I thought that worked out well

[Kai NRG]

8 hours ago, soccerkid6 said:

Thank you, and yeah, I didn't really think of red/dark blue being Kali colors at first, but it worked nicely

What?  You mean it wasn't supposed to be a Kaliphlinian archer about to totally whip that tree-hugging opponent? 

[soccerkid6]

1 hour ago, Kai NRG said:

What?  You mean it wasn't supposed to be a Kaliphlinian archer about to totally whip that tree-hugging opponent? 

After I chose the colors, yes. But the colors decided his loyalties, if that makes sense

[Kai NRG]

17 hours ago, soccerkid6 said:

After I chose the colors, yes. But the colors decided his loyalties, if that makes sense

Oh,  . Some patriot.  Red and dark blue look good on me today, so I think I'll shoot for Kaliphlin. 

[LittleJohn]

Excellent archery tournament, Isaac. Both spectator stands are superb, (though, as with Kai, I like the red and dark blue one better, of course ) and the targets and ground texturing are great too

[MaasEffekt]

I love this!