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The first question is a really good one for this build. This castle is located in my home town and my sister works in there as a registrar. After I´ve finished my revenge shy ask me to moc the castle. It starts with a simple question: what is the most important part and is it possible to manage it within in minifig scale. And guess it or not, this are the blinds with two different sizes. After I have found a solution I start planing and building the tower without any plans and only with a bunch of pictures. The first building step ends 8 years ago after I finished the masonry and the first of three roof parts of the tall tower. I restart in 2022 and visit the castle to get all measurments I need to recreate the castle in an size down scale. After round about 2 of 3 from the whole build is done I get drawings from the mayor of the village. Theese where nice to have but not really necessary at this moment. Good to see was, that all work done so far fits the drawings. I never use any digital program to create my mocs. All is done with bricks and I start with doing some essential tests and a complete layout to see that all scales will fit. With this large selection of parts and colours we have at this moment all requirements are possible but it has to be difficult to make it interesting for me.

Hey there, it´s a veery long time since my last visit here at EB. The last 9 years () were full of children, construct a house and after all, design a new Lego room with shelfs wooden boxes and a long period of time to sort all my unsorted pieces a long time ago. And here we are! I returned building in september 2022 and finished my newest build last week. Now I have done some pictures to show and compare it with the original located in my home village. The start for this castle was in 2015 but only for few month. After this the tower including the first step of the roof was waiting seven years for continuing. So overall the building time was 1,5 years. The measurments are: LxBxH 1,6 x 1,4 x 1,25 m and the amount of parts are round about 70.000 Like always (my old threads speak the same language ) I have made a lot of pictures. Sorry for that, but there is a lot to show and discover. The following pictures are good to compare And here are some additional pictures for details and overwiew. This three pictures show how the roofs are made. The last two ones are made with a normal light chain inside. thanks for viewing Phil

Hello friends, it is a long time since my last upload. I´m now working for the german LCP and this is very strange situation because of building the whole day at work. My private time for our hobby is nearly zero but that´s not really a problem. Many of our projects are special work for our customer therefore I can´t publish this here. One of them is done and now stored in a box so I can publish it here. The cathedral of Magdeburg Facts of the cathedral: pieces: about 30.000 (rough estimate) building time: 14 days scale: 1:60 height: 1,65m / 104m (the real north tower) length: 2m width: 0,8m The original was only given by pictures from the internet. Now (after the build) I could visit it live and take some pictures, see below. The cathedral is for sale, pm me. And here are the pictures pictures from the build front portal damaged Mini cathedral for additional decoration, the famous magdeburg hemispheres and the original greetings Phil

The counterweight was only needed for the construction time. I first start with one side till the end to see if all ends well. At this point started the copy for the other side and on the end both side force cancel each other.

German for sure. It is a german publishing house

The first two languages are german and english. After this another licenses are possible but in this moment not sure. This is the fourth book from this series. Other licensed are given to france, russia, south corean and some other. Let's see how the book sale starts.

And later is -> today Hi guys, after a half year with many many new lego creations (work for the LCP program) I have now time to present the promised pictures. I have also start a new project whit the Revenge inside ... a little bit For more information check out my new pirate moc 'harbour scene'. To present the ship on convention and for the photoshoot we have to put a crew on it and here it is: some overview pictures at the paris convention and the new pictures with harbor and photo equipment around Phil

[pid][/pid] 256C Hi there, after a busy half year with many new creations done as an employee of a LCP I start build some own mocs. In addition, I have joined a group of autors to publish a construction book about knights realm. The publishing date will be in september and for more information I will start a new topic if it is done. And for this we need some background material to present some bigger and some little special mocs. One of this little mocs is a medieval crane. He should be placed in a harbor scene with some houses, figures and a ship. The ship was easily done - my Revenge. For the rest I build some buildings and a heavy time required cobblestones street in one week. The result was better than expected, so I decided to present it here as well. The final picture will be highres and professional photoshoped. My pictures are done after that and photoshoped too. But more quick & dirty enjoy The next two pictures show the photoshoot scene. The final shot for the book will only show a little bit of this but we need the whole build to find the perfect shot. Phil

about 15000 over all 13000 trans light blue 1500 trans clear 500 white

Hi everyone, we have had a big convention one year ago in cologne. And for this we decide to rebuild the old city of cologne after one member of our club build the cologne cathedrale. The complete rebuild is done in 1:50 and has a size of 10x9 meters over all. This is one picture of a paper model of cologne and all sharp parts are done for now. One part of it is the row house street "Am Bollwerk" This was my part and I try to rebuild it exactly. The second building from left is done in light yellow and was very difficult to collect. I try to make pictures from the same angle to compare original and rebuild. Now we show our big layout on different places like the cologne city hall, a shopping mall and so on. have a nice evening Phil

Thank you very much. I have done another picture edited by photoshop. It shows the backside because it is my alltime favourite view. Only the coat of arms is still missing on this picture The original is an oil painting with a ship on the waves. Now my revenge rides on this waves This is a small version. In my brickshelf is another bigger one.

Yep the same I found, but the drawings show another version. So I take the dragon from yours and put it in the later coat of arms. Maybe it is historical wrong, but I like it and every other wooden ship builder took the same. Here is a wooden version of an austrien modelship builder build with the same drawings. I use his photos to retrace his rigging. (Sorry for bigger picture but it is only linked)

No the other way around. The avatar is used because of this coat of arms. It is the coat of arms of Elisabeth 1. in a light changed version by myself. Very similar to the version on the drawing I used for my replica.

The planks are easily bent only by the pliability of the plates. Only tiles and plates 1 x 4. You can take 1x2 too for a smaller bent but it will not look like a plank. Phil

Hey guys, thank you all for your positive feedback. This is really kind of you. I have done another bunch of pictures with details and how-to-do. The first picture shows the nameplate I have done especially for the convention in paris and left at home at the beginning of the journey. I will show it at the next convention instead have fun This is the foresail and took about 10 hours of construction time. Same for the mainmast. The other are a little bit less on time. Phil

Good morning guys, greetings from Paris. We have joined the convention and I can say that nothing damaged on transport. Very nice. Ok I don´t have that much time I want to answer all your questions but I will show you 2 pictures from the wip. One from the "insinde" It will also show that there will never be an interieur!! have fun The big grey plate tower is just the conterweight to control the pressure of the curved structure. the whole construction would collapse without him. I have many many pictures made of her at the wip. I will search another one later. Phil

[pid][/pid] 155B Hi guys, I have done it. After nine month of work i will present you my replica of the english galeon Revenge. It is not all done with Lego but the sails and rigging is not suitable with Lego. I need two weeks to find the modell I like. The minifigscale was one of my prerequisite and so the original ship have to be a smaller one. This size fit in my car so I can´t build a ship like the Vasa, the Sovereign of the seas or La Coronne. But a galeon at any rate. And after a talk with my workmate (a wooden ship modeller) the ship was found. He owns a lot of books with many information about ship modelling and drawings especially some very nice ones from the revenge. After the selection I start with the hull and change my complete design after the first wall was finished. The new technique and design fits very well and I continued work. After three and a half month the most done with Lego was finished. And I start the work with all the cloth and strings til now. Minifigs aren´t on board at the moment but I will join them later. If anybody is near Paris this weekend he can visit the "festibriques". I will show my ship at this event. Ok thats it for now. enjoy the pictures ;) Phil [bloggedcp][/bloggedcp]

Wow this is brilliant so far. Your digital picture look very similar the the original ruins of Bodiam Castle in south england. Every Monty Phyton fan know it ;) Phil

Hello jeroenaa, sorry I'm very busy with my new build last time so I missed your question. The complete amount isn't count but I would say over 30000 is a good guess. The minifigures are the last work and not my beloved ;) In this moment it has about 40. The picture and the message is given by the admin of EB. Phil

Yes you are right. That is not really a good defense construction, but I have to say sorry for myself but I couldn't wait to present you my new technique for the X design shutters and the tower was the first I have build. Maybe I make one next week. I am very busy for this weekend. Maybe I can tell you more later. I am a member of a famous german LUG since one year. We manage the biggest german convention in November 2012 and with such a LUG you can organize something a little better. But most of them are ebay purchases. The roof was really tricky. The problem was the little place of only 14 by 14 in octagonal. And my wish to do this with two different angles. The upper part is done wit only plates and tiles. The lower has wedges in addition. And the attachment isn't done ;) It lies only on the wall with an extra protection not to slip off. I have to decompose many parts of my castle to let it fit in my transport box. I can do pictures of the complete decompose castle later. I think this will be funny to see. The windwo was a little funny story. I want to use the typical castle window with tiles around them, but all version does not fit my mind. So I have done it without this part and add the fence with trans yellow plates. I have made a little construction manual for the window. Hope you can recognize all: That was 'Z' I have asked him to do this. All around? I don't have any idea. But a little example. I have ordered 2000 headlights in light bluish gray and now I have about 150 left ;) Phil

Yes that's right, Thank you all for your feedback. Here is another picture of the whole layout done with better light and without a room around. Phil

Big update!! The castle is done. Most of it was finished at end of 2012 for the CCCX. But the upper castle yard wasn't. Now all of it is done and connected to the other chapters. I have made many pictures to show every detail. Now the last missing part is the ramp. But the whole layout will be new on a new chapter (like I said before) Let's have a look That's it for now Phil And off course, a picture from the whole setup Done at night, that is the reason for the bad light. i will do better later

Hey kibosh, thanks for your feedback but it is better not to quote pictures. Your other quote is edited by Z. You should edit the last too. Phil

Updatepicture The gatetower was done three times to find the right design. When all its done I will show you pictures of them. Phil

You mean this one? Ok the Gatehouse is still missing but the rest is fine. Something like that? Off course :D no problem for me