Just spotted this classic yellow-style castle on Brickshelf. I really like the round design. It also has a nice touch of the red and white flags that blend in nicely with the classic crusader fig.

Whole Gallery: Hilltop Tower

That is really taking the yellow castle up a notch. And the non-classic faces are a brilliant addition. Nice find!

God Bless,

Nathan

i thought about posting this yesterday, because, it just gives me such a positive vibe; sure, yellow walls are not really prefered by castle builders, but this one really reminds me of the good old days.

This is areally a brilliant little MOC here. I love the sloping path, I love the construction of the tower, and the yellow actually doesn't look out of place!

Great find

I love the design!! The colour doesn't bother me i't's a nice moc! Great find!

Great find! Those classic crusader figs are so beautiful *wub*

Just a quick note to say this was by cc member DARKspawn, his post can be seen here:

over on cc...

God Bless,

Nathan

Did you ever see this?

Hi, Everyone :)

Thanks heaps for the kind words regarding my Tower! Although I prefer to work with grey I did this in yellow to honour the original castle theme.

Thanks again :D

Well, welcome to Eurobricks! I hope you'll enjoy yourself here :-)

  DARKspawn said:

Thanks heaps for the kind words regarding my Tower! Although I prefer to work with grey I did this in yellow to honour the original castle theme.

Welcome to Eurobricks DS. The yellow castle was my 1st Lego castle, so I like the classic yellow. You design a great MOC. Nice to see you join EB.

I'll add my welcome DS!

God Bless,

Nathan

Welcome and you did a really good job on you tower *y*

Vaders_son

  ImperialJohn said:

Did you ever see this?

Wow!! That looks great( If I imagine it's gray it looks even better)

Is Mr Darkspawn also the creator of this castle?

That's awesome! I would never want to destroy if I had designed this.

  TheBrickster said:

That's awesome! I would never want to destroy if I had designed this.

weeeeeell... it looks kinda weird to me... it seems to me that the builder just wanted to add as many differently shaped towers as possible...

How does one build walls at 45 degree angles?

  Mr Tiber said:

Wow!! That looks great( If I imagine it's gray it looks even better)

Is Mr Darkspawn also the creator of this castle?

This fellow named 'Infyrana' made it.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=121455

  Mister Phes said:

How does one build walls at 45 degree angles?

45 degrees vertical or 45 degrees horizontal?

Horizontally like the Hilltop Tower. I notice its got 8 sides... I'm wondering how that's achieved...

  Mister Phes said:

Horizontally like the Hilltop Tower. I notice its got 8 sides... I'm wondering how that's achieved...

This technique uses the standard brick hinge pieces to form an octagon...

God Bless,

Nathan

One can use hinge bricks like these

to make the octagonal shape and then it can be attached on a combination of SNOT tile and studed plate or brick.

7019 Viking Fortress uses this hinge technique (hinges are in black) for each large wall which all connect with these red peices.

Thus, it has a very nice looking and original octagonal layout. Way to go TLC!

Great use for the hinge bricks.

Very nice MoC. I really like the figs. Happy little visors :)

On another note, the octagonal design was also used in Sentai Fortress.

Ohh nooo the castle is being attacked by a giant kid!!! Abandon castle!(or is this only said on ships?)

BTW, I think this castle deserves his own thread...

lol great pic, Mr Tiber! That is why I have a toddler gate on the doorway of my LEGO room :-D

Thanks for the warm welcome guys :-)

The shape of my tower was indeed done with the very same brick hinge, the shape was braced with the old 45 degree wing plates

PS I LOVE your smilies on this board ;-)