Mike F Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 (edited) After seeing the newest castle sets, (the crown knights with skeletons) I wanted to collect some men and make a castle. A few years ago, I made My Castle. I thought it was cool, but then I demolished it to make something else. Over time, I reconstructed a band of knights together. I kept them for a while, but then started buying more castle sets to make a suitable castle. I designed it of off Duke's Riverside castle. It is still a WIP, but it is improving every day. I have about 32 Crown Soldiers and about 30 skeletons, orcs, and trolls together. I am making a citadel, a blacksmith, a wizard's shack, more orc siege weapons, a stable, and tons of food items for a feast. Here are some pictures,(kind of fuzzy) though there are more on flickr. -Mike Edited October 22, 2008 by Mike F Quote
Raven Brickroft Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 LOvE the flowing burning oil!! But the color's too grey. And a little more details on the wall. Quote
SupremeCommmanderGrievous Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 That is excellent! I also like the the flowing oil, and I like how you made the ladders. It his hard to see with the kind of blurry image quality, but some of the castle details look beautiful. I love the walls. The one thing I would change is put it on a larger baseplate, if you have one, the battle is so crowded it is hard to see what you have going on. But overall, good job! Quote
Guss Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 excellent! a lot of action, like Raven Brickroft said, The flowing oil is pretty nice ! great job ^^ Quote
Lt. Col. Thok Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Very nicely done! There are some great effects there! Quote
KimT Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Could you please redo the pics. It would be much easier to evaluate and comment on your work with some sharp focused pics. Thanks in advance Quote
SWMAN Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 You might want to take a new picture. This one is a little blurry. Quote
Apolloo Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Really nice. I'm just wondering were you holding the camera up or was it sitting on soemthing? If you were holding it that could be areason why it was blurry or just the quality of the picture. Quote
Mike F Posted October 24, 2008 Author Posted October 24, 2008 (edited) That is excellent! I also like the the flowing oil, and I like how you made the ladders. It his hard to see with the kind of blurry image quality, but some of the castle details look beautiful. I love the walls. The one thing I would change is put it on a larger baseplate, if you have one, the battle is so crowded it is hard to see what you have going on. But overall, good job! I know about to hard to see thing, soonce I do more work I will take better pictures. I am working on it every day now, and I will put it on a larger baseplate. I also have better close-ups in my Flickr. Thanks! Could you please redo the pics.It would be much easier to evaluate and comment on your work with some sharp focused pics. Thanks in advance As I said, there are more pics to see stuff in my flickr. Really nice. I'm just wondering were you holding the camera up or was it sitting on soemthing? If you were holding it that could be areason why it was blurry or just the quality of the picture. I was trying both sitting and standing, but my tripod is big and bulky, and I can't steady my hand. For now, please look at my other pictures on Flickr. Thank you. -Mike Edited October 24, 2008 by Mike F Quote
Captain Zuloo Posted October 25, 2008 Posted October 25, 2008 I really like the oil. It has the potential to do some serious damage! And the seige tower is great. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see the final. Quote
Zepher Posted October 25, 2008 Posted October 25, 2008 It looks really nice, but the pictures aren't that good, so I'd like to see some imporvement on at least that front! The castle itself is nice, but I think that the siege tower is just a set, but correct me if I'm wrong. The oil and wall are well done! Keep up the good work! Quote
Mike F Posted October 25, 2008 Author Posted October 25, 2008 It looks really nice, but the pictures aren't that good, so I'd like to see some imporvement on at least that front! The castle itself is nice, but I think that the siege tower is just a set, but correct me if I'm wrong. The oil and wall are well done! Keep up the good work! Thanks for the comments, and the seige tower is from a set, although I replaced the dark red headlight bricks with brown ones and made the pikes dk bley instead of light bley. -Mike Quote
Mike F Posted November 10, 2008 Author Posted November 10, 2008 I am kind of stuck,the gatehouse wasn't to my liking, so I destroyed it and gathered some peices, but I can;t seem to get it good looking. I've looked at CCCV mocs, other mocs, and real castles, but they all have the gatehouse integrated into the walls so you can't see a distinct gatehouse. As an example, Lolas made a wonderful castle, but the gatehouse is barely distinct, there are only some window slots above the gates and that's it. So, if someone could please show me a gatehouse of a castle with a design similar to mine, that would be helpful. -Mike Quote
Mike F Posted November 12, 2008 Author Posted November 12, 2008 Maybe my gate will help Wow, that's impressive, but with mine, I fear that haveing too much space to look inside the gatehouse would be bad, maybe just some archer slits or places for light to get in would be okay, but then the rest of the wall would look too bland. I tried playing with designs, but it doesn't look right somehow. Thanks for the help. -Mike Quote
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