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The first question is a really good one for this build. This castle is located in my home town and my sister works in there as a registrar. After I´ve finished my revenge shy ask me to moc the castle. It starts with a simple question: what is the most important part and is it possible to manage it within in minifig scale. And guess it or not, this are the blinds with two different sizes. After I have found a solution I start planing and building the tower without any plans and only with a bunch of pictures. The first building step ends 8 years ago after I finished the masonry and the first of three roof parts of the tall tower. I restart in 2022 and visit the castle to get all measurments I need to recreate the castle in an size down scale. After round about 2 of 3 from the whole build is done I get drawings from the mayor of the village. Theese where nice to have but not really necessary at this moment. Good to see was, that all work done so far fits the drawings. I never use any digital program to create my mocs. All is done with bricks and I start with doing some essential tests and a complete layout to see that all scales will fit. With this large selection of parts and colours we have at this moment all requirements are possible but it has to be difficult to make it interesting for me.

Hey there, it´s a veery long time since my last visit here at EB. The last 9 years () were full of children, construct a house and after all, design a new Lego room with shelfs wooden boxes and a long period of time to sort all my unsorted pieces a long time ago. And here we are! I returned building in september 2022 and finished my newest build last week. Now I have done some pictures to show and compare it with the original located in my home village. The start for this castle was in 2015 but only for few month. After this the tower including the first step of the roof was waiting seven years for continuing. So overall the building time was 1,5 years. The measurments are: LxBxH 1,6 x 1,4 x 1,25 m and the amount of parts are round about 70.000 Like always (my old threads speak the same language ) I have made a lot of pictures. Sorry for that, but there is a lot to show and discover. The following pictures are good to compare And here are some additional pictures for details and overwiew. This three pictures show how the roofs are made. The last two ones are made with a normal light chain inside. thanks for viewing Phil

Hello friends, it is a long time since my last upload. I´m now working for the german LCP and this is very strange situation because of building the whole day at work. My private time for our hobby is nearly zero but that´s not really a problem. Many of our projects are special work for our customer therefore I can´t publish this here. One of them is done and now stored in a box so I can publish it here. The cathedral of Magdeburg Facts of the cathedral: pieces: about 30.000 (rough estimate) building time: 14 days scale: 1:60 height: 1,65m / 104m (the real north tower) length: 2m width: 0,8m The original was only given by pictures from the internet. Now (after the build) I could visit it live and take some pictures, see below. The cathedral is for sale, pm me. And here are the pictures pictures from the build front portal damaged Mini cathedral for additional decoration, the famous magdeburg hemispheres and the original greetings Phil

The counterweight was only needed for the construction time. I first start with one side till the end to see if all ends well. At this point started the copy for the other side and on the end both side force cancel each other.

German for sure. It is a german publishing house

The first two languages are german and english. After this another licenses are possible but in this moment not sure. This is the fourth book from this series. Other licensed are given to france, russia, south corean and some other. Let's see how the book sale starts.

And later is -> today Hi guys, after a half year with many many new lego creations (work for the LCP program) I have now time to present the promised pictures. I have also start a new project whit the Revenge inside ... a little bit For more information check out my new pirate moc 'harbour scene'. To present the ship on convention and for the photoshoot we have to put a crew on it and here it is: some overview pictures at the paris convention and the new pictures with harbor and photo equipment around Phil

[pid][/pid] 256C Hi there, after a busy half year with many new creations done as an employee of a LCP I start build some own mocs. In addition, I have joined a group of autors to publish a construction book about knights realm. The publishing date will be in september and for more information I will start a new topic if it is done. And for this we need some background material to present some bigger and some little special mocs. One of this little mocs is a medieval crane. He should be placed in a harbor scene with some houses, figures and a ship. The ship was easily done - my Revenge. For the rest I build some buildings and a heavy time required cobblestones street in one week. The result was better than expected, so I decided to present it here as well. The final picture will be highres and professional photoshoped. My pictures are done after that and photoshoped too. But more quick & dirty enjoy The next two pictures show the photoshoot scene. The final shot for the book will only show a little bit of this but we need the whole build to find the perfect shot. Phil

about 15000 over all 13000 trans light blue 1500 trans clear 500 white

Hi everyone, we have had a big convention one year ago in cologne. And for this we decide to rebuild the old city of cologne after one member of our club build the cologne cathedrale. The complete rebuild is done in 1:50 and has a size of 10x9 meters over all. This is one picture of a paper model of cologne and all sharp parts are done for now. One part of it is the row house street "Am Bollwerk" This was my part and I try to rebuild it exactly. The second building from left is done in light yellow and was very difficult to collect. I try to make pictures from the same angle to compare original and rebuild. Now we show our big layout on different places like the cologne city hall, a shopping mall and so on. have a nice evening Phil

Thank you very much. I have done another picture edited by photoshop. It shows the backside because it is my alltime favourite view. Only the coat of arms is still missing on this picture The original is an oil painting with a ship on the waves. Now my revenge rides on this waves This is a small version. In my brickshelf is another bigger one.

Yep the same I found, but the drawings show another version. So I take the dragon from yours and put it in the later coat of arms. Maybe it is historical wrong, but I like it and every other wooden ship builder took the same. Here is a wooden version of an austrien modelship builder build with the same drawings. I use his photos to retrace his rigging. (Sorry for bigger picture but it is only linked)

No the other way around. The avatar is used because of this coat of arms. It is the coat of arms of Elisabeth 1. in a light changed version by myself. Very similar to the version on the drawing I used for my replica.

The planks are easily bent only by the pliability of the plates. Only tiles and plates 1 x 4. You can take 1x2 too for a smaller bent but it will not look like a plank. Phil

Hey guys, thank you all for your positive feedback. This is really kind of you. I have done another bunch of pictures with details and how-to-do. The first picture shows the nameplate I have done especially for the convention in paris and left at home at the beginning of the journey. I will show it at the next convention instead have fun This is the foresail and took about 10 hours of construction time. Same for the mainmast. The other are a little bit less on time. Phil