MAC Entry: Repairing the Walls of Petraea

[Kai NRG]

Certainly +1 on the minifigure posing and also on the stonework. However, I'm not quite sure that the arrow slits really deserve advanced window credit? Don't get me wrong, they're great, but just so small in a build that's totally focused on something else. IDK? You could probably convince me without too much trouble.

Edit: Also, with both this and your other build, that would make five advanced placement credits. I think you're only allowed four?

Edited November 8, 2013 by Kai NRG

[Gideon]

Certainly +1 on the minifigure posing and also on the stonework. However, I'm not quite sure that the arrow slits really deserve advanced window credit? Don't get me wrong, they're great, but just so small in a build that's totally focused on something else. IDK? You could probably convince me without too much trouble.

Edit: Also, with both this and your other build, that would make five advanced placement credits. I think you're only allowed four?

Oh, I missed that limit! In that case the window technique surely is my weakest claim and should be removed.

[Gabe]

+1 on your stonework texture and minifig posing. I can't believe i haven't commented on this either - it's such a impressive moc. I like the subtle angle of the left side of the wall, the cross-section and all the realistic looking battle damage.

[Kayne]

+1 for me on the credits as well. I loved this when it first popped in here, and still do!

[NiceMarmot]

I think I missed this because I was down under when you posted it. Really great work! A really realistic wall and tower; some of the best wall-work I've seen here.

And it's big too! I make it to be about 30 bricks high to the parapet floor -- that's probably about 38 feet or maybe more. That's pretty high for city walls I think. Glad to know that Petraea is so well defended!

[Gideon]

I think I missed this because I was down under when you posted it. Really great work! A really realistic wall and tower; some of the best wall-work I've seen here.

And it's big too! I make it to be about 30 bricks high to the parapet floor -- that's probably about 38 feet or maybe more. That's pretty high for city walls I think. Glad to know that Petraea is so well defended!

Thanks!

I think I made the walls a bit out of proportion, they should probably have been lower or wider. Originally I planned them about 10 brick layers lower, but I just kept on going and only realized they looked a bit out of proportion when I was finished and did not have time for any more adjustments before the deadline.

But of course our capital must be well defended!

This is why I joined Kaliphin!

Glad to have helped you come aboard!

[Gunman]

excellent moc, perfect photography

[Gideon]

excellent moc, perfect photography

Thanks a lot!

I think I made the walls a bit out of proportion, they should probably have been lower or wider. [...]

I did some calculation on this, and depending of the scale used about 31 bricks high would equal 12.4 meters (if the scale used is 3 studs = 1 m), which actually is around the same height as the inner walls of Constantinople which I based the visual design on. The walls should however have been 11-12 studs thick (instead of the 10 studs in my build) in order to correctly represent the thickness of those walls. In that scale, the tower here is slightly lower than the towers in the inner wall of Constantinople which I think is good since my build looks more slender and would have looked even thinner being another 4-5 bricks high.

Looking at the pictures of this build now makes me really eager to get back to building in the "Kaliphlin color palette", if only time and my wife permits it... Well, at least all of these pieces are neatly sorted and ready to use now

Edited November 15, 2013 by Gideon

[Infernum]

Wow! Coulda sworn I commented on this before. Anyway, love this build!

[StickFig]

Builds like this are inspiration and despair .

Inspiration because it's amazing what talented builders can do with LEGOs.

Despair because wow, how will I ever get that many LEGOs? (Or the talent to go with?! Hahaha)

[Gideon]

Thanks for the encouraging words!

Wow! Coulda sworn I commented on this before. Anyway, love this build!

That happens to me sometimes as well, in my case it's usually being distracted by something as I'm writing the comment and then forgetting it in a tab in some forgotten browser window

Builds like this are inspiration and despair .

Inspiration because it's amazing what talented builders can do with LEGOs.

Despair because wow, how will I ever get that many LEGOs? (Or the talent to go with?! Hahaha)

Building a collection is a business for patience, in my case I started buying tan bricks back in 2011 and always check the "tan color" category for cheap useful pieces when I make a BL order and checked for tan pieces at the rare occasions I have had the opportunity to get to a PaB wall.

A build like this is not really that hard to pull off, provided the bricks and a vision of what to create is there. I just had a rough idea about how it was supposed to look and then started building. I started with a "top-down" approach, building the top part of the tower and then made the footprint of the wall (including the angle) and the tower on the base. The height was dictated by my supply of tan bricks, which actually turned out to be enough for a few more layers than I had anticipated. The only problem was that the wall then became too narrow in proportion to the height and I had to separate the sides and fill in more "junk" at the edges. A typical iterative way of building which I do way more when I don't have a deadline the next day

I still think it ended up slightly too narrow, but if I had changed it more it would have messed up the angle I had made and I did not have time to rethink that before the MAC deadline. If the time would have been enough, I would have made the proportions of the tower better as well.

Edited November 21, 2013 by Gideon