[MOC] Winterfell Castle from Game of Thrones

[LegoDog0126]

Hello Everyone, this is my first post here, so apologies if I made any mistakes!

I was going to post this model on Lego Ideas, but (not surprisingly) Game of  Thrones is not suitable content for them, so I decided to post it here and see what you guys think.

This is a (not so small) scale model of the castle of Winterfell from George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, and more specifically, a model of the castle as it appeared in HBO's award winning tv series Game of Thrones. In the series, Winterfell acts, (most of the time) as the home of house Stark, one of the main noble families in the fictional land of Westeros. 

Winterfell is seen often throughout the series, and stood out to me among all the other places in Westeros, not just because of its prominent role, but because of its unique design and architecture. Many of the castles we see in movies and on tv look amazing, with their numerous gold turrets, towers, large windows, and vast balconies, but all these features make the castles relatively unrealistic in an actual medieval setting. It is because Winterfell lacks these common features on fictional castles that it stood out to me so much. In the real medieval era, most castles were not very opulent, and had pretty plain, utilitarian exteriors. If you think about this, it makes quite a bit of sense, as putting all your wealth on the outside of your castle meant it could be damaged or stolen if you are attacked. 

I know, I know, most fantasy tv shows and movies aren't going for historical accuracy, including Game of Thrones, (I love seeing dragons flying around as much as the next guy) but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate when the creators do make things look as though they actually might in the given time period. 

I based this model off of the scale desktop model of Winterfell you can buy online (just search google for: Winterfell sculpture, and you'll see a few pages with it), and it includes all the main features of the castle, including the Winterfell Godswood, with the Weirwood tree and broken tower. I am quite pleased with the way the Weirwood tree turned out, its a new design that I haven't used before, maybe some of you have, but I hadn't, and so was quite pleased when I came up with it. 

Despite my best efforts, this is a large model, measuring approximately 2 feet by 1 foot, and comprised of 3046 pieces. If any of you want to build the model, a link at the bottom of this description will bring you to a folder with the full size images of the model, a bricklink parts list, a .io model file for the Stud.io lego design program (my personal favorite), and a .ldr model file for use with Ldraw. I do not have a .lxf file for use in Lego Digital Designer, as this model uses some newer bricks not in that program, so I apologize for not being able to offer that to those of you who use LDD. If you do build the model, please send me some pictures of it! As with my Hogwarts model, I don't have enough pieces to actually build it, so it would be awesome to see a real model if any of you are more fortunate with your LEGO collections than I am :). Also, feel free to share this with anyone you want and post images of it, as long as you remember to give credit to me as the model's creator, and provide a link back to this post. I will most likely be posting this model on Rebrickable as well, but I need to create instructions for it before I can do that, and that's the boring part of model making, so I'm procrastinating it :), A link to my Rebrickable page where you will eventually be able to find it will be posted beneath this description as well. 

And finally, here is the link to that folder with all the files mentioned above:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pb0hN4USgPyKzkSvDyXeKFhb4Nkczwxq?usp=sharing

and to my Rebrickable MOCs page:

https://rebrickable.com/users/EthanBrossard/mocs/

and here are the images!

winterfell lego with logo3 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #0 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #1 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #2 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #3 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #4 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #5 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #6 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #7 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #8 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #9 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #10 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #11 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #12 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #13 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #14 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #15 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #16 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego #17 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

winterfell lego - winter small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

 

Thank you in advance for any feedback/advice!

Ethan

Edited July 12, 2018 by LegoDog0126

[TheLegoDr]

I was hoping for a snowy version. Winter has come.

I miss this show already. I am very much a Northerner, so Winterfell is where it's at.

I have considered building a small scale version, but never got around to it. I've seen some great versions of GoT. This definitely looks good. Keep up the good work.

[sovietxrobot]

wow this is great. I might have to try building this one soon.

[Bricked1980]

Fantastic and instantly recognisable as Winterfell. Some of your close up shots remind me very much of how Winterfell (and all the other locations) look on the animated titled sequence on GoT.

[LegoDog0126]

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'm glad you like it! Here is an animation I made of the model using Blender,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3rZatWg2Q

and here is another rendering of the model I made (also using blender). I'm trying to get it as photo realistic as possible, though I'm not quite there yet. 

0006 small by Ethan Brossard, on Flickr

[ranghaal]

Very nice! I love it!

[soccerkid6]

Top notch micro building You accomplished the various angled walls and round building shapes really well!
The micro forest is beautiful as well

[Barthezz Brick]

Amazing GoT micro build. Lovely scene with great/small details and building techniques ?

[J and J LEGO Creations]

Does anyone get the theme music in their heads just by looking at this? 

Great work!

[Bricksnaps]

ohhh. I would love to see in brick. very nice