dullbrain

Hello everyone, I've been enjoying the contents of this forum for a few years now, and since the successive waves of covid finally got me starting a chilhood dream, I thought it was my turn to share something here. For as long as I can remember, the medieval theme was a favorite of mine and I dreamt of having a lego minifigsize-ish castle with the full defensive apparatus : drawbridge, portcullis, iron-reinforced door, deadfall trap and so on. This project was designed on stud.io but saw some real life modifications to better suit the physical and structural constraints. It consists of a quite large keep sitting on a rocky island, whose access is further defended by a barbican. The keep - designed to be self-sufficient - has four floors, the first one being the access floor with the kitchen and well, the second one hosting the drawbridge's and portcullis' mecanisms as well as the soldiers' beds, the third one being the lady commander's quarters and the fourth one the guards' floor. The tower's top has a working trebuchet on it, making it able to have an active defence against any siege equipment. I gathered ideas from all medieval-related materials on the internet, including this forum of course, often twisting or adapting some of the great ideas I found - except for the well which is a faithful copy of Aurore's design (please see this as an homage to a rendition I knew I had to include as soon as I saw it !). The keep itself is mostly inspired by one of the tower of the Foix castle in France. The excrescences at each corner are made to hide the fact that the closing of the opening walls is not really airtight (it was on stud.io but not in reality) but it ended up giving it a sturdier look. The corbels seen on the keep and the barbican are toilets. The building is home to 5 crossbowmen, 5 foot soldiers and 4 dragon knights plus their leader, the last 5 ones being the lady commander's personal guard, while her old father still lives in the luxury stained glass window decorated quarters that sits above the stables of the barbican. It amounts to ~20 000 pieces, not including the basis and filling pieces, and took me almost two years to complete from first digital brick to last physical one. I'm truly interested in your opinions and ideas, and if there's a specific detail you'd like to see a picture of, please feel free to ask :) PS : please excuse the poor picture conditions ! IMG001 by RandomPhotoUser_001, sur Flickr IMG003 by RandomPhotoUser_001, sur Flickr IMG002 by RandomPhotoUser_001, sur Flickr Full flickr album with details : https://www.flickr.com/photos/195333789@N04/albums/72177720297806121

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