The time has come to chose a name for my yellow castle build, though I have been thinking about what to name it for quite some time. When I embarked on this castle build I decided that I wanted it to be more like a 1650 era palace than a defensive fortification, or at [...]
One of the goals that I set for myself in my current Yellow Castle inspired build was to build in a different time period than my previous castle build, The Fortress of Falkenholt, I have therefore chosen the year 1650 as a rough time period. The interiors of the Fortress of Falkenholt were mainly [...]
In my previous post I mentioned that this year the Brixpo Committee had encouraged exhibitors to give small tokens to builds that they thought had merit and discussed the builds that I chose to give tokens to myself, but in this post I want to thank the exhibitors who gave my build a token. [...]
My current Yellow Castle build, is now quite a bit further along, so I thought it was time to post more progress photos. I have been building a lot of the first floor level of the internal buildings and fleshing out some of the architectural details in terms of columns, doors, windows and stairs. [...]
I decided to make some instructions for another feature of my castle that I have been asked about, and this one was created before the doors and window designs, this time it is the arrowslits in the outer curtain walls. These ones really take advantage of the shape created by the profile of ingot [...]
Today a few people let me know that my Dragonkeep Postcard that I built for last month's Bendigo LEGO® User Group monthly build competition has been featured on The Brothers Brick. Thank you to The Brothers Brick team and especially Daniel for featuring my build, I particularly liked how he specifically mentioned the snout [...]
I have just finished working out how my castle windows will be built and decided to create some instructions. As with my panelled castle doors, I have inset the window frames by half a stud allowing for a 1x4x2 arch to sit proud of the wall by half a stud at the top. The [...]
After my panelled castle doors, the thing I have been asked about the most in my yellow castle build are the segmented arches. They are actually pretty simply achieved, but I have created some instructions. I have been trying to find a way to create a nice arch with visible voussoirs and a keystone, [...]
I decided to put together some instructions for the panelled doors in my yellow castle build. The door itself uses two 2x2x2 box pieces for the panel detail, and is inset half a stud from the frame meaning that two 1x3x3 arches can be used at the top sitting proud of the frame by [...]
My current Yellow Castle build, is well underway, so I thought it was time to put some progress photos up here. So far I have roughed out the layout, built the terrain and water around the castle walls, and almost completed the water entrance, the outer curtain walls and gatehouse in tan. [...]
