Nidingsbane

Than you. I agree that the motte is not so much of a motte but I wanted to try and go for a classic castle look. I do however promise that the next one will be above sea level

Thank you all for your responses. I do however agree that the photos probably would have been better with a different background and base. I will take that into concideration next time!

Greetings all! This is my first MOC and I am humbled by the opportunity to present it to this esteemed community. But enough of this. Forward and onwards to the MOC. The basis for this one is the 6075 Wolfpack Tower from 1992. I was always fascinated by the Wolfpack sets as a child and decided to do my own version, or a Wolfpack Tower 2.0 if you like. The idea I had was to make a more of a motte-and-bailey type of structure rather then a single tower. The two last factors I liked to put into my build was to as much as possible use elements and inspirations from the -80and -90 sets but give it a mixed feeling of let’s say classical sets and more recent ones from the Kingdom- series. And this is what I came up with. I wanted the whole structure to look like it had been abandoned for some time before the Wolfpack took over it. That is the feeling I got as a child from the 6075- set and something I tried to take further in the MOC. I also decided to upgrade the Wolfpack itself so to speak and try to show its hierarchy and auxiliary forces which in my head should exist somewhere. Therefor I added a Wolfpack Leader, one Raiding Party Leader, a Quarter Master, smith and a stable boy in addition to the Wolfpack Renegades. And since there was no female character in the original Wolfpack, I added that as well. The setting for the MOC is that a Raiding Party has just come back, and the Raiding Party Leader is showing the Pack Leader the loot which is inspected by the Quarter Master as the rest of the Renegades refreshes with beer. One of the Renegades is making his way into the tower and another one is on sentry duty. The smith is working on a sword and the stable boy is feeding the Raid Party Leaders horse as he looks at the loot. Apart from the 6075- set the MOC is mainly made up of pieces from 6059 Knight’s Stronghold, 6040 Blacksmith Shop, 6041 Armor Shop and 6080 King's Castle.

You are all far to kind. I will do my best!

Thank you!

I am humble before the grace that has been shown to me in letting me join this noble forum of Lego Masters and Mistresses! My name is Mikael from the harsh and cold Viking land of Sweden and I am a Lego fan, especially the Castle and Kingdoms series. My first set of Lego was either the 6067 Guarded Inn, 6041 Armour Shop or the 6035 Castle Guard. However, it does not really matter because I was anyhow instantly hooked. I dare to say that playing with these sets and many more in the same series was an influential part when I much, much later in life decided to study Medieval Archaeology and later became a professional archaeologist. Then came the Dark Ages. Due to a new calling and the general curve balls that life throws at you there was for a time no Lego. Then my son was born and Lego was rediscovered. Be praised! He enjoys the what he calls The Knights Lego but is more of a Batman- fan. Then I found this forum (Be praised again!) and quickly realised that this is the place to be. Hopefully I will be able to post some stuff that me and my son is working on and I might dare a review on one of the classical Castle sets in the future. /Nidingsbane