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  1. Gideon
    Thanks! Yes, it took much more time than I had planned, it was quite a few short nights the weeks before the deadline to finish it It's not a very complicated technique, it was just the solution I settled on with my limited supply of dark red pieces (and zero ridge slopes...). I'm alternating cheese slopes put on a 1x2 plate with 1x2 tiles put on jumper plates (a mix of 1x2 and 2x2) in between the cheese slopes as you might be able to see from the zoomed-in picture I added below. (I added a guest pass to the picture so you can click it if you want to zoom in even more). Btw, the first post has finally been updated with a picture of the whole castle:
  2. Gideon
    I've finally uploaded a picture of my whole castle: All the modules of the castle: South Tower Gatehouse North Tower Great Hall Sorry for building my largest build during my first year in GoH in Avalonia and not in Kaliphlin, still got a collection clearly biased towards the gray/green palette. But with a lot of those pieces tied into this build at the moment I'm looking forward to building more in tan again!
  3. Gideon
    Finally I have a picture of my whole castle taken and edited, and I thought I should post it here also for those not frequenting the Guilds of Historica subforum or my local LUG forum This is by far the largest build I've done and it was built as a part of the Swebrick medieval community build (presented here), but also as a standalone MOC intended it to fit into the Guilds of Historica setting. I've tried to build it with a level of detail which can handle closeup views fairly well while still maintaining a clear and simple shape of the whole castle when viewed at a distance. Maybe it ended up having a bit too much 'big gray wall syndrome' for my taste, but I hope that the details make up for some of it. C&C welcome! More pictures of the four modules of the castle can be seen on my flickr or in these threads: South Tower Gatehouse North Tower Great Hall The castle is also on display right now at Lego World in Copenhagen, until Sunday (February 16th), in it's intended setting in between about 70 additional 32x32 baseplates of medieval eye candy. Check it out if you are going to Lego World! (On Saturday and Sunday I will also go there myself, see you there?).
  4. Gideon
    The only time I've done it was in my Book I, Challenge VI entry, where I built the windows laying down in frames (2 bricks thick where I had trans-clear panel pieces in the bottom). With the 4 studs wide and I-don't-remember-how high surface, the cheese slopes created quite a pressure so it was no problems raising the windows vertically after pushing on the upper part of the frame (which actually was not possible to push all the way down on the studs). Good luck!
  5. Gideon
    Welcome back! Looking forward to more awesome MOCs from you
  6. Gideon
    Nice approach on Kaliphlin, I especially like the palm tree and the small protruding part of the building below Wish we had those gothic arches in tan also in real plastic... Edit: I hadn't seen that The Simpsons House came with 4 of those, just waiting for a few more to find their way out on BL...
  7. Gideon
    Thanks guys! I'm glad the small details also were appreciated I'm trying to achieve some measure of historical accuracy, while still being able to build with my (relatively to what would be required for true minifig scale at least) limited amout of bricks. So the scale and level of "accurate" details is always a compromise... A fair amount of bricks, too many nights with too little sleep and a supporting family. But I've gotten it explained to me quite clearly now that its not acceptable to start another project on this scale A question to you here: If I were to modify my castle instead of dismantling it after getting it back from Lego World, do you think it would look good if I were to rebuild the section along the left wall (removing the tree and low kitchen building) and add some more two-storey buildings on that side? I'm also thinking that the rear wall should be slightly lower to match the other walls on this side, as I built it that high because the ground (which is never really seen anyway) on the back side were too high and I wanted a wall there with the same height above the rocks there as the wall. That would mean removing those lower level arrow slits however and just let the storehouses' roofs go back to the wall (if not the storehouses were to get an upper floor also)?
  8. Gideon
    Very good start, the build is way better than the regular GoH newcomer level I really like that house and would not mind seeing more of those trees. Suggestions for improvements are to make the ground more detailed as previously mentioned, and to try to take sharper pictures.
  9. Gideon
    So many Kaliphlin mini-challenges right now! I have started a less cordial Kaliphlin-Mitgardian themed MOC but I suppose however we should help our poor Mitgardian fellows instead of taunting them? So I'll shift what little brick time I have now to this instead of the other one, before I get started with the Sultan's Gate build in March (I have some time home alone when the rest of the family goes north to visit the grandparents during the first week of March). The other MOC was to good of an idea not to build however (and I still want to get back at Kabel for confiscating a Kaliphlin ship ), so that will be finalized when Sultan's Gate is completed.
  10. Gideon
    Nice figure combinations I should probably figbarf a bit more, so immediately rewarding compared to bigger MOCs which there never seems to be time to build these days...
  11. Gideon
    SK that snowy and icy roof looks really good, can't wait to see the final result!
  12. Gideon
    Wow! Good job with the landscaping and the figures The photography is great as well, you've really improved a lot here in GoH...keep it up!
  13. Gideon
    I hadn't seen that cap before, fits Mitgardia very well
  14. Gideon
    Good job with the limited selection of bricks I would however suggest that you mind what's in the background when taking your pictures, the MOC presentation would greatly improve if you put something more neutral (just a plain white sheet goes a long way) behind the build.
  15. Gideon
    I had a smaller crunchtime close to the deadline of the first challenge of book II as well, as most of my potential building time during the holidays was spent at my parents and my in-laws, and the week after the new year I was supposed to spend on building lego home improvement was instead spent mostly in the couch being sick... So the last weekend before the challenge deadline I had to finish 2 1/2 challenge builds
  16. Gideon
    Once again thank you all guys for your overwhelming words! It's a technique I saw being used a couple of years ago, so I made sure I ordered a lot of 1x1 and 1x2 cheese slopes and 1x1 bricks with studs on the side in my first LUGBULK 2 years ago It's actually a quite simple technique, which as you can see in some parts of the castle also works well for shorter (2 studs long) straight arrow slits as well as longer (4 studs) arrow slits using two 1x2 cheese slopes after each other. The drawback is that especially the 1x2 cheese slopes have a tendency to tilt somewhat. I remedy this on the towers without interior by simply putting black bricks as support on the back, but on the walls or the towers with interior space I'm left to having to check that they havn't rotated. Sadly I missed that in some places while I was busy moving the modules around for photography, I hope not too many people notice Thanks SK! I had planned on more interior buildings, but I had to finish the castle in time for the Swebrick fall exhibition and ran out of time... If I keep the castle together for this year's exhibition as well I will probably replace the tree and the low kitchen with some more elaborate buildings. For this build, I had not yet discovered the technique of using curved slopes to offset windows (I actually learned that from a friend at the very exhibition I built this castle for), so here I have been using panels. I have however used curved slopes to offset windows outwards a couple of times after that (here and here). Yes, there you actually were able to see it in its proper context with about 18x4 32x32 baseplates additional landscape (forests and more) attached to it. I assumed correctly however that not all had seen all the details when I posted those so-so pictures, so I figured I should take proper photos of each module The base of each module is 48x64 studs, which makes the whole castle 96x128 studs (3x4 32x32 baseplates).
  17. Gideon
    Thank you! You are correct that these are transparent pieces put in the lattice. On some windows I used 8x8 plates with grille, which I simply attached to bricks with studs on the sides. On the smaller windows I used fences, which I attached to headlight bricks if I remember correctly (might have been 1x1 with stud on the side also). Sorry, I can't see any way I would get this all the way to the far side of the Atlantic and back... But it's going to be on display at Bella Center in Copenhagen Thursday-Sunday this week at the fanzone on Lego World 2014 I'll be there myself Saturday and Sunday, anyone else going there? I like that door technique quite a lot as you might have noticed A lot of this castle was built using the same techniques many times, as I didn't have time to experiment with new techniques for different parts. I tried to vary the arrow slits somewhat, but as you can see I quite fell in love with those cross-shaped ones with 1x1 and 1x2 cheese slopes. It's actually one castle which I just divided into modules to be able to transport it to the exhibitions. But I photographed them as four separate builds so that the angles and details obscured by the other modules should be possible to see. Photographing builds of that moderate size is also way easier, as I don't have to do almost any post-processing except correcting color balance and contrast. It's not torn down yet! If I can live without these bricks for another year I might keep this castle intact a while longer, to be able to include it in our next iteration of our Swebrick Medieval CB. I also have some ideas for improvements, especially the original idea was to include more buildings on the courtyard which I didn't have time to build (the tree was a way to fill in that gap). But I suppose you still would have to come to Sweden or Denmark to see it then too
  18. Gideon
    Nice build, I love that brickbuilt deer UoP +1 for Countryside Scene, but I'd like to see some more sideways rocks to give you credit for that. Thought about claiming credit for brick-built creature otherwise? I'd be glad to give you that credit
  19. Gideon
    Good job with that mosaic
  20. Gideon
    Nope, that was finally all four parts. Now I just need to finish some pictures of the whole castle
  21. Gideon
    Seems like reviewing UoP credits has slowed down recently? I'm still looking for credits on some old builds, and some new ones as well. Book II Challenge 1 A: To Ambush an Ambush (1 more) Book II Challenge 1 B: Swamplands Tower (1 more) Book II Challenge 1 C: Recruiting a Cyclops Tribe (1 more) Nordana Castle, Gatehouse (1 more) Nordana Castle, North Tower (2 more) Nordana Castle, Great Hall (4 more)
  22. Gideon
    Thanks de Gothia! I hope I've inspired you to actually complete a castle for your sigfig. Just don't do it in 1½ months as I did with this...my wife is usually very supportive of my Lego hobby (much more appreciated than playing video games for example) but the last couple of crunchtime weeks before the Norrköping exhibition was really taxing on my Lego approval Thanks Kabel! All modules are up by themselves now, go check them out if you wish Still got some editing to do before I post the pictures of the whole castle, but I think you've seen one of them already? Thanks Wedge!
  23. Gideon
    Thanks! I'm angry at myself for not noticing that one of the merlons (on the small protruding platform) wasn't attached properly. Fortunately I had a couple of good shots of the module where it was not visible but it limited the camera angles. As this was originally not intended to be displayed by itself, I had to do some quite extensive editing on the first picture. Can anyone notice where I did it?
  24. Gideon
    Nordana castle is located in Avalonia and is the ancient seat of the earls of Norshire, from which Sir Gideon the half-elf has his human blood through his mother (as described in my character intro). This is the eastern tower and great hall of Nordana Castle. The great hall stands on the same place as the ancient wooden hall of the earls of Norshire, who later built the stone castle on the site. Sometimes the castle still is refered to by it's old name 'Nordana Hall'. Other modules of the same castle: South Tower Gatehouse North Tower Great hall. Eastern tower. Great hall, front and statue. Entrance to cellar underneath great hall (inspired by a similar cellar under half the great hall of Conwy castle). The Master-at-Arms yelling at the troops. A servant is going down to the well to fetch more water to the kitchen. Stacking supplies due to the rumors of upcoming conflict within Avalonia. Stained glass window, detail. Together with the north tower. For this build, I'd like to claim the following University of Petraea credits: - General building: Stained glass - Anthropology: Life in Avalonia Fourth and final module for my Swebrick Medieval community build castle, adapted for the Guilds of Historica setting. Edit: Picture of the whole castle finally uploaded. Edit 2: Moved pictures of the whole castle to the top of the post since ZC linked to this topic (thank you!) from the frontpage.
  25. Gideon
    I think that it would be nice to see some different interpretations of this gate on top of the escarpment, but I also agree with the view that we maybe should not "waste" builds not expanding the canon and fleshing out Kaliphlin. When it comes to freebuilds generally it would be interesting to know if a generally high level from a few participants would count as much as a multitude of builds of varying level from a guild with dozens of active members (*ahem* AoM). Regardless of what the scoring at the end will end up in, I will still generally go for fewer builds with more work put into each build.
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