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Hi everybody, this is my first post here, after lurking around here for some time now. I've grown up building stuff with my (for a kid) pretty big collection. But ever since I've past the age of 12, I spent more time with girls, computer games, drinking, basicly, not Lego. Nevertheless, I've never ever wanted to sell a single brick what so ever, and lately, I'm glad I didn't. I've always been interested most in Castle, and I feel some of the prettiest creations are made in medieval style. I've been impressed by Castles, Cathedrals, small villages and what not, but for my first "real" creation, I'm gonna keep it somewhat more simple. Yet I'm gonna build something I've always wanted to build, and something that let's me experiment with building styles I've never tried before, but defenitely will be using in the future, when my financial state and building skills allows me to be more ambitious and go for big Castles; a Medieval city gate. (Sorry for the not so good quality of the photo's, my sellphone sucks) This is where the whole thing started. I tried some round building techniques and ended with a towertop. Added some minifigures for some fun. I wanted to see if I was able to make a acceptable entrance. Was pretty happy with the result. Towertop next to the gate, basicly gave me an idea what the whole thing would look like. At this point things started to get a little bit complicated. Here I've wanted to connect the tower to the gate, and have an idea how I would integrate the city wall into the tower. And this is the result. Note that the grey bricks for the door and gate will be replaced with appropriate brown ones. This is temporary. The structure on the left is all improvised work, to see how connections would end up, how many bricks are needed,... The wall on the right is the start of a planned, structured other side of the gate. At this point I've also descited I wanted to raise the height of the gate by 2 bricks, because a mounted horse couldn't pass underneath. This is were I'm at right now. I know this is less pretty then were I was earlier. But this basicly is the foundation I'm gonna continue building on. And a view of how things will look on the backside. At this point, I've used most of my childhood grey bricks (unless I wanna tear apart intact models for let's say 10 bricks total), but my currect stucture does give me a pretty clear view of what I'm gonna have to order. I'm planning of ordering some amount of dark grey bricks to make the grey walls less dull. Thinking like 2 or 3 dark grey bricks per row. (I'm aware of "old" and "new" gray) As for the rest of the scenery; I have like practicly no green bricks, they are not very common if you're using your childhood collection, so I'm leaving that for later. I haven't been brainless; The structure is 64x20 at this point so it will end up as either 64x48 or 64x64. I'm open for comments, suggestions, tips, anything that could be helpfull. PS: It might take a few weeks before I get the nessesairy bricks to continue building.