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Hi @Grover thank you very much for your early, and as always great, feedback! Great point about adding detail by replacing some of the tiles with ingots or plates, I might do that before the deadline... I had to rush it a bit in the end, since I will not be having time during the upcoming weekend. Same goes for the connection of the tower to the base, I tried to mask it a bit by adding some stacked plates as earth right by the base of the tower. Happy that you like the free-hanging wooden stairs. It was my goal to not build "standard" stairs and it fits with Sam being an engineer and carpenter, there would be the ambition to build something special for him and his team. Thanks again and I am looking forward to the feedback on the entire build.

My entry for Catergory A

Study Sanctuary Among the Trees (finished entry) The message that a new satellite campus of the University of Petrea was to be built at Albion was received with great joy all across the people of Avalonia and was carried to Everwater by Sam Weatherstone personally. He himself is an engineering alumni of the University of Petrea. Quickly the idea came up among Sam and his friends at the court of Everwater to also contribute to this great effort to strengthen the education but also peace and exchange of ideas within the Guilds of Historica. Led by the Lord of Everwater, Alric Ellerion, ideas were plotted and money was gathered. Sam returned to Albion with soldiers as helping hands, stonemasons, carpenters and plans for a study sanctuary which were to be built with an open study hall on the same level as the crowns of the trees to allow for the study of the trees and birds, and provide a calm sanctuary for students and professors alike to study in. Construction started and the stonemasons of Everwater proudly showed their capabilites in building strong towers, that could even withstand the winter storms at the coast of Everwater. The carpenters recently started constructing the open study hall placed on top of the stone tower. Sam, originally a carpenter in his familie's business, just arrived to inspect the current progress. He and his teams are especially happy to have successfully constructed the winding wooden stairs that lead to the top level of the tower. This Challenge was great fun to build and I find the idea of learning new building techniques by having different challenges set in different Guilds and different building styles especially enganging and I am looking forward the next challenges! My main goal for this build was to properly contribute a small part of the story and apply the building technique for rounded towers/surfaces while depicting a lifely constuction site scene, I think I managed that and I am happy with the result. The winding wooden stairs was a personal challange I set myself and I am happy how it turned out and would love your feedback concerning it, among the feedback of course for the entire build :) Below you can see further images of the entire build and thank you to @Grover and the entire team for the work and organisation they put into the Guilds. Fulfillment of the WIP requirement for Category A When the theme and tasks of Challenge I Category A were published, my mind immediatly jumped to a classic round tower. The plan is to finish the small tower with a wooden structure on top, similar to an open pavilion, with winding stairs on the outside of the tower. The entire scene will be portrayed as a construction site, depicting the construction of the wooden pavilion. The tower shall be a study sanctuary for the students of the Avalonian campus.

That's great news to start the year with!

I am very much looking forward to what is to come! Great idea @Grover and really nice shot Love seeing Sam Weatherstone among his fellow Avalonians!

Thank you very much @Grover for your kind and, as always, detailed feedback! I appreciate it very much. Until you wrote that the build reminds you of the 3739 Blacksmith Shop, I didn't realise the do really have some similarities...and in fact, 3739 is one of my most cherished sets I got as a kid...I must have taken inspiration from it without realising it. :-) The next challange for sure for me will be figuring out how to do a SNOT Tudor section...

What a great start to kick off Book IV! I had a lot of fun building for the contest and I am looking forward to what's to come. It was awesome to see the forum alive and bustling with activity. Concrats to @T-86(swebrickLUG) and @Gideon for winning, your builds, as well as all the other entries, where fantastic!

Thank you very much @Ben S. I appreciate your kind feedback!

Beautiful little build! I especially love the color compination of the dark green grass with the shades of brown for the wood and the orange leaves on the tree, great choices.

The scene really feels alive and fibrent. Great composition, lighting and photograpy skills! I also like the brick builtcharacter, I followed it's creation over on Discord and it is great to now see it implemented.

A really nice little scene and the round base is something fresh and different. Great build!

Thank you for your kind words @TalusMoonbreaker and your feedback! I totaly agree with you on the diagonal crossbeams that would have been nice for the segments without windows...I ran out of time a bit and I thought about reworking those sections, but did not have the time to do so, but I will for sure keep that in mind for my next build. Yeah I was going for that classic Avalonian style, happy it worked out @LordDan! I'm definitly going to implement other styles of stone walls again that look more realistic and not so flat...I succesfully used another technique in my first story build for my Everwater story and I'll be using that for sure again. As I wrote above, I got into a bit of a pickle with the time constraints and had to go with a simple and faster technique Thanks for the compliment on the base and the interior, I'm happy how that turned out and especially the base has improved compared to my last build on GoH. Happy to hear you like the idea I had around the tavern @Seagull King of Vaughan! Everwater has some turbulent times ahead but we will see where that leads... Thank you @jtooker! The story was especially important to me, I am happy you like it! Thanks @mrcp6d! The rafters are one of my favourite details @Kai NRG and I am happy you spotted them! I added them last minute Thank you for you kind words!

It has indeed been great to build for the prelude challenge and see how the subforum came alive! What a fantastic start to Book IV this has already been! Looking forward to what's to come. Happy scoring!

Impressive longhouse! That roofing must have taken some time to complete The scene also feels really alive with the crowded benches and all the minifigs.

Wow Great scene! I especially love the design of the central stairs and the arches at the bottom level! The "all light grey" scene goes really well this the dark red leaves on the trees.