The_Cook
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Very nice. It captures all of the detail from 6074 very nicely; right down to the little touches like the offset windows on the towers and the arch supporting the upper rooms. My only criticism would be the use of black slopes on the crenelations; personally I think they're too dark and that Dark Bley slope would have been better. Minor personal preferences aside this is an awesome rebuild of a classic. When people say that they want Lego to revisit the classics this is how they should do it; take the essence of the original set but use modern build techniques.
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It's not a bad thing. Conisder all the fire stations and police stations in Lego City which return every few years; even in our beloved Castle the castles are usually more that same than they are different.
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That's quite a build; the structure has echoes of your earlier Minas Tirith build in it's concentric design. Lots of simple yet effective play features. Definitely worth of the top-of-the-range spot in this wave.
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Mega Bloks have a tendency to use large pre-mounded pieces; I hunted down the instructions and that whole set is about 60 piece total. Recreating it in Lego firm wouldn't be impossible; there's hints of 8877 Vladeks Dark fortress about it; albeit with more towers than Vladek. Clever and careful use of BURPs and panels could get you the bulk with a minimal part count but you'd draw the wrath of the AFOL historic community that insist on making everything from 1x1 round plates ;-)
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Cerdit for the Trebuchet design should go to Nuju Metru as part of his Dragonlands designs; I merely reverse engineered his designs into LDD.
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Very nice; lots to do but still emminently buildable.
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A Guide to building a Medieval Village
The_Cook replied to Derfel Cadarn's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
I believe that Defel is publishing his tutorials in Blocks magazine as well as working on a book. -
Vexilloid; the wings should be outstretched as if the eagle is about to take flight.
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It feels like the wings are the wrong way up on the eagle? Just my 2p worth; the rest is excellent.
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A Flicker photo album containing 4 very professionally laid out images that explain how the dragons are built.
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One already exists; Nuju put it together for a competition he ran last year.
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It's a natty little mechanism for sure. The main wheels are spining the shafts that support the mechanism out in front. The gears on the back of the mechanism transfer the rotation to additional shafts that run through the mechanism; these shafts in turn are also driving the side rotation through bevel gears. The wheel at the rear of the mechanism looks to be purely for support, it just spins and doesn't actively drive any of the mechanisms. I'm most grateful to Nuju for supplying more photos for this model than earlier waves it makes reverse engineering it easier. However the density of construction in the main body of the wagon means it's impossible to recreate it fully unlike the earlier buildings that were sufficiently simple and open to be able to determine exactly what was built.
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You should have sold. I'd even go as far as saying that you should have given the bricks away for free. Just remember to charge for your time... ...I don't know your hourly rate, nor how many hours you've spent on the MOC but I'm willing to guess that by the time they're multiplied together the bricks are irrelevant. Art - you pay for the artists imagination not physical paint on a cloth.
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Possibly a slight over-exaggeration on my part, you can see some of the "side" of the CURP from the crooks hideout alt image 4 , this indicates a flat side on that one side. Given how the CURP is symmetrical I'd assume that the "rear" unseen portion would be covered as well. Thinking about it such a situation would pose an interesting (perhaps impossible) moulding challenge; looking deeper into the image there are bricks in the interior supporting the clock which indicate that the back must be open in some way and that the flat side sections runs back for at least 4 studs but not all the way across. It would therefore be logical to have "anti-studs" on the upper underside to aid connection and build up the back which is what the inside wall of the crook's hut it secured into. I'm most intrigued, I think I'll be grabbing both the island sets just to find out what this piece looks like.
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Ah yes, tucked under the wooden stairs down to the dock. From what you can see of the rear side in Crook's Island it looks "contAined" rather than being open at the back as the original xURPS are.
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Is it a new BURP on the Crooks Island? I see no seams to indicate that the rock formation is built of individual bricks. The DkBley section is also suspiciously symmetrical; have they created a CURP (corner ugly rock piece). The sea container sides are also new parts I assume?
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It should be hanging in the ceiling. I was looking at the shots of the interior, particularly the roof, and thinking "there's something missing". I walk past the theatre fairly regualry and I've been inside a number of times and from my recollection everything else feels pretty much perfect. Obviously the baroque detail has been simplified to get it into brick form but the impression that the bricks convey is pretty much spot-on.
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I don't mean to be too critical because the rest of the model is absolutely sublime but it's missing a chandelier; the chandelier is critical to the plot of Phantom of the Opera.
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Somewhere in an alternate universe the leak that came forth from the Lego company was that the new Big Bang range would be a sci-fi inspired, its character would look like space marines from Alien or Warhammer40k (or any of the other space soldier tropes) but would be called Knights to make them sound cool. The sci-fi AFOLs were happy to get some cool new bricks in cool new colours; the historic AFOLs continued complaining about the early demise of LOTR and how their personal favourite minor character never got represented in minifig form; and the forums lived happily ever after. Ah; but the seeds of mis-information have led us to this dispair and angst from which we can never return.
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I'm always surprised that they've never reprised the Forestmen and the "Robin Hood" storyline; I'd have thought that the storyline is well enough known internationally (mostly through cartoons!) in order to be recognisable. It's also a clear good-vs-bad scenario which appeals to children rather than the more ambiguous storylines that AFOLs concoct for themselves.
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Something along those lines was started in Pirates about 18 months ago but the announcement of a new pirates wave sunk it (sic) rather quickly. You could trawl that for some of the research around production parameters that I did.
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Cynical but ulitmately true; they're a business not a charity.
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Just to point out that I didn't design this, the design is very definitely Nuju's, I just recreated it for fun because I wantted a "copy" of the set.
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The simplification is the hard part; how to change the number of unique elements without compromising the aesthetic of the model. It's surprising how building something in LDD doesn't generate quite the same "visual" awareness of the bricks going into the set. With hindsight I've reaslise that a whole set of 1x2 bricks in Dark Tan are just used to support the 2x2x2 slopes holding up the big printed slopes; these could easily have been Light Tan Dark Bluish Grey; another element saved that I wouldn't have spotted as easily in LDD. In terms or recreating the model, the "clean" design (in the same style as a normal Lego set) allowed it to happen; contrast that to the more artful Derfel Cardan designs with their much more "chaotic" design which would be impossible to recreate directly but on "in the style of". Last few pieces for Dunrak harbour might turn up this morning... and I've got a trans-atlantic flight at the weekend so I might try to recreate 64034 and of 64036 in LDD.
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What would be interesting would be to know TLG internal mapping of what they think the Nexo Knights are? Is it the next Ninjago, Chima or is it an instance of the "evergreen" Castle/Pirates loop that they go around every few years? If it's the Chima successor (which the pre-release product codes indicate it is) then there may well be a chance for an "evergreen" Castle to exist alongside at a later date. Mark Stfford would know, but probably isn't allowed to comment as it could divulge future business plans. Personally I'm fairly non-plussed by the range. I'll look at it again once the part listings are published and perhaps consider which ones to partake of as I have done with the Ninjago and Chima sets. This all reminds me of the Elves speculation and the subsequent horror from the assembled Historic Fourm when it turned out to be Minidolls. Again, Minidolls aside, Elves has been a good series and I've been actively buying the sets for parts and for fun. It only seems to be the history forum that gets this worked up about new sets, I done feel the same angst from the other forums. I guess Town is Town and a new Adventure theme will be a new and unique Adventure theme; there's not the same weight of history (sic) as there is with Castle.