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Its time to show what I have been working on for the last 7 months. A big castle layout, inspired by an french artist I follow on Instagram. He doesnt use LEGO bricks for his castle, but various materials, such as wood, carboard and more. His skills to paint is out of this world and attention to details too. When I saw the first picture of the gate and the diamond gate tower, I knew I had to build it in LEGO. And that was the first step in the project. The diamond tower was really tough to construct, especially because of the base angled arches and the tilted inner walls. It took me about a month to figure out and find the right size and techniques. I could write a whole essay about the work, but I will stop here and let you enjoy the pictures

In the ancient Viking North, a terryfying dragon roamed the deep and dark forrests. It lived in the steaming swamp and was only nocturnal. The local farmers have had many battles with the dragon as it killed their live stock. The dragon became a myth and its presence gave many wandering stories and some even lead to occult worshipping. This moc has taken me about a month to build and comes in 3 modular sections. The neck is build on the frame plate. The head is in one piece and is tightened to the neck with Lego magnets. Many technique has been used to make everything fit and avoiding gaps.

I will keep that in mind

On a remote and desert planet, a space mining facility has been build to use the minerals from the colorfull water. The location is on top of a cliff bank surrounded by the harsh and barren nature. This is my first attempt to build a space/sci fi microscale moc. The idea came along when I bought the 1x1 trans dark purple bricks with glitter on the side. Here i saw how i might could work as water, using the glitter as sunbeam effect. The rock piece is a whole lot of crazy angles, allowing the gaps to be present as a way of showing the rough sculpturing. The facility is mostly disc buildings with gear pieces as windows and walls. Finally the pipe line that absorb the minerals from the water.

Here a picture stroll of my new micro scale castle. I have taken inspiration from various german castles, where some are build up on fantastic mountains with a lovely sorrounding nature. The castles features some nice NPU parts to create the towers. Arround the castle a moat is securing the tall walls and later it runs down into a waterfall that splashes the big lake with water. Small villages creates the life together with a mill and a mighty church. Please enjoy.

In addition to building castles, I wanted to build a room from a castle and scale up the size for better details and size. The choice came with The Kings Great Hall. The frame is 3 bricks tall, giving the depth to fit in cheese slopes and shield tiles for the tiled mosaic floor. Also the frosted windows is cheese slopes fitted tight in a frame ang get a beautyfull pattern. The columns are the idea from @ranghaal i have used. The King sits on his throne, guarded by his life guards.

As I have seen many of your other mocs, this one is among the best. Great details and color choice. Also there are many fun stories to see and how an imaginary dystopia world could look like.

Tha villain Prince Oleg of Krimh lives here in this old small castle. His ancestors raised the castle and after overthrowing the legal heir to the throne, he is now hiding here protected by his best guards. In this build I have focused on capturing a dark feeling. Especially color combinations. In addition to more used colors for walls I used sand blue parts. It works very well with black and dark blue. The challenge with sand blue parts, is the limits of parts, especially snot bricks. Many of the techniques is build up behind the walls and then build forward again. The corner tower was really difficult to build because of the limited space inside. Here a stroll to you all.

Great work guys. I really love the feeling and atmosphere.

In addition to my minifig size castle mocs, I have over some time build on a micro scale castle. Being inspired, I wanted to take up the challenge and see how good I could do it. Also being creative using less parts, but still get the detail and shape right. The rock piece is build up using chains of mixel hinges and shape them up to create the curves.

Thanks. Be carefull on buying them. Most bl shops have them mixed up in both the old and new sprue design. I asked the bl shop if he had the old one, even send him a picture, but I still got both types. Many dont bother, because the sprues are just left over.

He he thanks. Well as a member af a castle club, I had to find a proper name for this build. Many of my other castle mocs, has either a title because of certain history and others are because of some kind of action taken place. I thought this name was kinda cool and not so known.

Thanks. The diagonal stripes on the gatehouse, is plates in angled position to get the tilt effect. At each end of those plates I put a cheese slope, where the angle on the slope should fit the wall next to it and minimize the gaps. It other words its nested to to fit tightly. On the backside of the plate structure I build a support wall to make sure it couldnt fall out. About the landscape colors, I will might chose some more variation. The dark tan tooth pieces are just some wild flowers.Thanks for your comment

In the year 1139, the Scottish King Cuthred lived in this castle and became his prior residence. His Kingdom was wast and streched along the northern coastline. Before he came to live in here, the castle was a part of a big defence plan, to ensure safety along the coast. During times of war, the walls were pretty worn and shows signs of decay. When the King moved in, he restored the walls and the house. The project has taken about 4 months to build. First the landscape plate, building in many directions to create the natural formation. The hexagonal towers was quite a challenge to make it fit and be strong. Especillay closing the gaps between each corner side. The towers are build in separate modules and can be removed. Next came the outer walls, the house and the wood floor. Finally the castle is done and I am proud to share it with you.

Deep inside a forrest, by the edge of a muddy bog, stands The Kings outpost tower. This is The Kings way of making sure that no one passes without permission. Now the build itself features many techniques and styles, to make it look as natural as possible. I like autumn colors, because it make the feeling more rough and wast. The start was pretty basic, building the landscape base, making sure of the size. Next was the rock and how the elevate it to make the bog fit underneath. It worked pretty good, because i build the bog in an hidden box with wedge edges, so the bog is in an angled position. The tower pillars and arches was very important, because I wanted to tower to be above the bog. Moving on to the tower on the gate door. First i didnt plan on how they would enter the tower, so I rebuild the entrance part, adding the curved staircase. The staircase is build up with a 2 layred beam of swivel hinges, mounted on brackets by the top and end. The door frame is also snot build with brackets to make the archway around the door fit as tight as possible. The wooden door frame detail is chain links, and is only resting on top of the door. Finally moving on with tudor houses and the final walls leading towards the top. Please enjoy and comment if you like.

Thank you. The dark orange and dark red ground along the stone path is just to capture the autumn feel.

Thanks, however there is no white colors in this build. Only dbg and lbg😊

This is The city Gates to Morwen, my new moc that I completed today. It has taken me about 1,5 months to build. Starting af with the base landscape, then moving on to the build. The 2 towers are build at the same time and after a certain hight, I started with the curved gate arch. The arch is build up with swivel hinges, stretching over 16 studs. After that, the tudor house was build, using some fun techniques, especially flex tubes for the walls and the roof. After the tudor house, the towers were completed reaching a good hight. Next was the nature foilage and the old tree.

This is a really great build. Many good details and color schemes too. The croocked roofs and tilted walls is really an important detail.

Thanks for your kind words. Yeah Ranghaal has a been a big inspiration to me. About the exposed studs from the baseplates, they will all be covered with a layer of blue plates and then trans dark blue tiles. Its the final touch for my lake project, so a lot of water. Its all build up in modules, about 20 of them.

Thanks its an technique, using 3 different parts. 1 headlight brick, 1 1x2 plate with round corners and 2 1x1 round plates. This tower has 24 small sides to create a cylinder.

For the past 3 months I have been working on the last step of my expanding medieval project. The Kings villa. A word I became familiar with, during the HBO series Vikings. Its an old Roman castle that later on was taken over by a King. During the protection of the castle an outer wall was build, but later became a ruin during many attempts to seige it. The build itself has been an fantastic journey for me. Being inspired by other great castle builders, it was a big help for me. Many funny techniques has been used, such as the small links as wood tudors. Its build up in modulars to make it more easy to handle and transport. I would like to give a shout it to Ranghall and Luke Alexander Watkins as inspiration. Lets see some pictures.

As I have completed my latest layout last year, I choose to add some extra buildings, so the layout can be more flexible in size and content. Because the lake is modular, its easy to make it fit depending on the show and transport. After the watchtower was done, a friend of mine suggested that I should build a medieval inspired chapel. He found a some pictures online and send them to me. One particular stod out and I choose to go with that in mind. First I build the landscape island, where others were build with wedge plates, this one is 1x2 dark green slopes snotted in many levels. Now the chapel is build as an octogonal shape with 9 studs between each joint. Most important in the lower part is the frosted mosaic windows. Next section was build seperately, so its modular in 2 sections. As I reached the roof, I started to doubt how I could make it work and fit. It took many tests to finally nail it. The first part of the roof is tiltes with hinges in the back and attatched to a center beam in the middle of the structure. Next up was the mid part of the roof, and it really made troubles for me. I came down to a solution to use magnets, so the small panels can come off. Above the center beam I added magnets to where the panels should fit and on the back of each panel another magnet. It works really good and holds a strong position. In between the panels, there are some gabs that I filled up with some beams of 1x2 round brick. The greenery is not much, but a twisted gnarly tree makes it all look great. I also added some wild growing stems crawling of the walls. Overall I think this one is one of my best mocs ever. Please enjoy and comment if you like.

Since the lake was finished, I have had time to get my inventory updated and added many new parts. But also a new build, a watchtower. That was again something I have never done before and spend much time to come up with ideas and design. A few months ago, I started to follow a german builder on Flickr, Ralf Langer. He build some fantastic things, including medieval builds. Once in a while he reveals his techniques and that was my inspiration to the tall cylinder wall. In the way of styles to make a wall look old and weathered, this wall is made with rings of mixels hinges. These hinges can twist and bend in many ways and makes it a perfect use for a stone wall. Each ring is completed in size and then placed on to up the one below. In 4 different spots, the rings are attatched to eachother with plates inside the cylinder. Once a ring is in position, tiles are put on the studs. Keep in mind that each ring have to be adjusted before you can add the tiles.

So since my last activity here, I have been working with getting all my medieval builds into a layout. Last year after the latest build, I thought of ideas to what landscape it could work with. Since all houses are build on small islands with many colors, i transfered it into a big lake as being the world. The lake souroundings and all the water was not that hard to pull of. Placing the houses and connecting them with woodbridges was a way to do it. Also i made some smaller boats and a few riverrafts. It finally was completed during december 2019 and ik february 2020 it had its debut in Legoworld Copenhagen. All the water is a big puzzle with a number line up to make it easy to set up.