Posted September 23, 20159 yr Hello ! I always loved the Bavarian castle of Neuschwanstein, since I was a child. So, when a few years ago I saw it made of LEGO, I said to me that one day, I will made it too… (When I look back, I think it was probably at this time I came out of my dark age) This is the work of the LEGO castle's specialist : Bob Carney (http://www.carneycastle.com/index.htm) It was its 127th castle, in 2010. It was exposed at Brickworld 2010 and 2014. I used reverse engineering from pictures of the LEGO castle to draw my own plans of a part, to begin. When I found correct dimensions, I used a Lego CAD program (MLCAD) to build it virtually. I only used the pictures that are on the castle's page of Bob's website (http://www.carneycas...stein/index.htm) After several months of work (it's hard to have much free time when you have a job and a family…), in January 2015 I was ready and ordered the first parts. In April, I made a second part. For now, I have build the whole entry, the lower courtyard and the watchtower. Instead of leading to the upper courtyard, the stairs leads to a wall walk and to the foot of the watchtower. Sorry, at the time the photo was taken, it wasn't quite finished... Its builder himself said that it is technically a palace, not a castle… I hope you will be accept me anyway in the Castle theme ;-)
September 23, 20159 yr I love Bob Carney Castles! His version of the neuschwanstein was so beautiful! Yours is looking very good! Hope the remaning build goes well for you, especially since the rest of the build will be very large and time consuming!! Looking good!
September 24, 20159 yr Having been there myself, it was instantly recognizeable! Can't wait to see the finished product.
September 24, 20159 yr Author I know that it's a project on several years... For the moment, I don't have the stock of bricks to do the rest of the build (and the money to buy it !) And as a member of a French Lug, I will also have other projects to do for our exhibitions. That will put this castle project on hold. However, I will not give up. I already started to study the following parts to build. This step costs nothing (except time...)
December 1, 20159 yr Author Hello, for the 1st time I showed my castle during LEGO exhibitions for our LUG Festi'briques. It was in october in Auxerre and in november in Nancy (both in France) I finalized the sides. So for now, this version is completed. I will work on some other projects, and I will come back to make another phase of this castle project. Here are some pictures taken during these exhibitions : For more pictures, you can visit our LUG's Flickr gallery. Here are the folders dedicated to this castle : https://www.flickr.c...57661172481476/ for Auxerre exhibition https://www.flickr.c...57658763837283/ for Nancy exhibition For those who like other themes, there's many other folders for these 2 exhibitions, and for many other ones... Edited December 1, 20159 yr by brick_bzh
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