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Well, for Castle/Historic it's technically it's Mill Village Raid, since I just bought marked down a second copy for some reason... but for what I'm actually going to use, that'd be Medieval Market Village (hasn't arrived yet).

Why are the towers in an army picture? In more seriousness though, the Jesters are in that spot because that's where the instructions say to put them.

Ok, first my old motley crew. As you can say, they're in a sad shape, and don't even have enough weapons these days after the destructive ways of my youngest brother and also more recently my niece (who doesn't play with LEGOs, she just destroys them... or so it seems ). They're safe now, but it's too late. Though the actual wear on the colors etc is from heavy playing from long ago, it's just the broken and missing stuff that's not my doing. And then my currently-assembled Kingdoms armies. I already rearmed them as you can see. Missing Wizard and Evil Knight that I have assembled but forgot to add, and also the skeletons since they're missing arms (silly that PaB has all skeleton pieces but not arms, so gotta BL them at some point). King's Castle and more copies of Knights Showdown and Prison Carriage Rescue are yet unopened, thus the army isn't at its full potential manpower yet. I have this mad craving to buy loads more soldiers, but that's difficult right now money-wise. And what I have should already be enough, but since when did cravings make sense anyway! Not to mention I still want/need Escape From Dragon Prison, Kingdoms Joust and Prison Tower Rescue even if I don't buy more chess sets for pure army building. As for further thoughts on the "clone armies"... well, I suppose for me personally it depends. I like having some uniformity, but it's still nice to have several types of soldiers. Here I have on the Dragon side for example the axe+shield, sword+shield, handaxe+shield, halberd and crossbow soldiers. Similar selection for the Lions, though they'd have more crossbowmen (the neck protector helm ones that are unarmed right now) if not for the lack of crossbows and quivers, which I need to hunt down from BL at some point I guess. Having an entirely mixed army isn't that bad either I guess, but I kind of like having the feeling that these are proper well-trained and organized armies instead of random bands of hooligans. But even so, I did have the urge to keep the minifigs "as per instructions"... but too late for that now! In any case my old childhood soldiers were always a motley crew, so I guess some uniformity is a good chance of pace in that sense too.

Cool building! I only have one single Wolfpack soldier from set 6105, but looks like your Wolfies have a good place to call home :)

Well, I'd like to do that, to a point at least. Right now the soldiers are pretty much assembled the way they were in the instructions. Chances are there will be changes later to "facilitate visual cohesion". Although - it's hard to explain fully, but I have an aversion of mixing parts between sets these days. Probably mostly because my childhood sets are a mess in large part because of endless mixing. But I'm even getting some new weapons today from PaB, so I'll have to put them to use anyway, and if I manage to get even more soldiers, I'll have to start choosing what type of soldiers I'm going to create eventually. It'd look much nicer than the mixed motley crews you get out of the box. A good example is the big army by Dovchenko in the first page of this thread, it looks awesome.

I don't really have any "ensemble" pics yet, as the army isn't 100% assembled... but currently for my main armies from Kingdoms I have: Green Dragons (total 37): - 1x Crossbow Soldier with broad rim helm - 1x Crossbow Soldier with neck protector helm - 2x Crossbow Jester - 1x Axe + Shield soldier with neck protector helm - 5x Axe Knight with slit helm - 4x Axe + Shield soldier with broad rim helm - 2x Hand Axe + Shield knight with slit helm - 2x Halberd + Shield Knight with neck protector helm and breastplate - 1x Sword + Shield knight with slit helm and breastplate - 9x Sword + Shield soldier with neck protector helm - 2x Spearman with broad rim helm - 4x Flail + shield soldier with broad rim helm - 1x Wizard - 1x Wizard Queen - 1x Wizard King Lions (total 40): - 3x Crossbow soldier with neck protector helm - 5x Sword Knight with fixed grille helm - 8x Sword + Shield Knight with slit helm - 8x Spearman with neck protector helm - 1x Spearman with broad rim helm - 4x Spear + shield soldier with broad rim helm - 4x Sword + shield soldier with broad rim helm - 2x Corseque soldier with neck protector helm - 2x Corseque + Shield knight with slit helm - 1x King - 1x Queen - 1x Mounted battle-geared King Undead faction (possibly GD-aligned): - Evil Knight - 5x Skeleton with neck protector helm and probably random weapons The pictures are coming at some point! I'd still like to expand the armies further, but I'm not sure how much I'll be able to expand. I guess it depends on how long the Chess sets stay in production, as I most likely can't get more than the one I have right now in the near future. In addition I also have a few older soldiers from '88-'94, but those are staying separate from the Kingdoms armies as they're in a pretty beaten-up condition.

Truly fantastic work, as are your other ones. Some cool building techniques used apparently. I'm still new to this adult MOC stuff really, and awesome stuff like this is inspiring but also quite intimidating at the same time

Sorry to have a bit of a negative post as my first one here, but... Difference in prices between Europe and US, for example, I can somewhat understand. What I don't understand is the price difference between for example UK and Finland (where I'm from) for some sets at LEGO Shop @ Home. Now, some sets - say, the Super Star Destroyer - are quite close in price using a straight up currency conversion. But certain specific sets like Death Star, Fire Brigade and Medieval Market Village are 30-50% more expensive in Finland compared to UK. It's a bit of a big deal when you consider the Death Star costing about 120 euros more for a Finn than a Brit. If it was simply about the economies of the two countries etc, common sense would dictate that all the sets would have similar differences. But they don't. Which makes it all the more puzzling to me that some do to such a drastic degree. UK and Finland aren't of course the only examples for this kind of thing happening, but it's the one I'm the most familiar with.