Medieval Town

On the tabletop from our old LEGO table, my brother built a medieval scene. (His commentary is in blue, mine in purple.)

 First we have the castle I wrote about before.

 A woman sewing up some pants. (He would like to note it took a long time to balance the 'needle' (A lever without the base) in her hand.) You did it wrong!

 Wait, what? What's the arcade machine doing here? There are no video games in the middle ages! Yes there are.

 We have a jester entertaining someone, a catapult, a garden, and a...

 Pirate ship?

 Here's the jail cell (Cool effect with the hinge bricks)

Cool door!Looks like a clip plate built into the wall, then a clip plate with a jumper plate and a wheel to open it.

 The prisoner. (I think that might my half of a microscale Minecraft villager head in the wall. to the left.) Er, hehe...

 Let's check out these two buildings...

 Okay, this looks like a treasury of some sort. (They need better security on that door.) It's just storage!

 And this looks like a... Oh my. It's the outhouse. That's my brother for you. Hehehehe

 Complete with metal beard's beard and a spider. The spider's supposed to be eating the fly!

 

 What on earth is a mermaid doing here?

 Close up of the garden. Hedwig!

Is that a pair of pants in the bottom right? Interesting hedge shape choice... It's just decorative! What's modern art coming to these days?

 Horse! Eating from a pile of hay, and there's a purple water trough on the right.

 Wait, what's this building? It looks more modern than the others.

 What?

 ...

I probably don't want to know why there were bones shoved in a cabinet. I have no idea what's going on here. They're for his dog! Suuurre... For his "dog." *air quotes.*

Castle!

This super cool LEGO castle my brother built has a bunch of cool brick techniques I'm going to show you.

 Neat entrance, swords held up by horizontal clip bricks. Flag attached by a 1x2 handled bar plate. Two inverted 1x2 slope bricks to create an arch.

 Whoa, wait a sec. Why are there two crests? Make up your mind castle.

 The second story.

 The King sits on his throne.

 A lookout in the tower. No, I have no idea what the golden thing on the left is.

 Cool brick work on the bottom. Some 2x4 inverted slope bricks give the appearance of some supports.

 The side of the castle.

 Other sides.

 Wait, wait, wait. First two crests, now a guy has samurai swords? (I guess they're ninja swords, since I think it's from a LEGO Ninjago set.)

 Cool feature. two 1x2x3 sloped bricks create the triangle shape.

 The front of the tower is actually headlight bricks and a 1x4 tile.

 Built in headlight bricks and a 1x2 tile give the blank stretch of wall texture.
Two 1x2 slope bricks and two 1x2 inverted slope bricks create this diamond shape.

 The vine is attached by a brick with side stud.

 What happened when I tried to remove the top so I could get a picture of the treasure chest. Whoops.

 Here's the chest.

(I put it back together, no worries. He'll will never know. Unless he reads this. Oh well.)

Abandoned Castle

My brother recently created this LEGO castle ruins.

 Over grown, worn down by nature, covered in vines...

 A spider. Alright, you go first.

 Close up of the trees and plants growing inside.

 The top tower, covered with moss and plants.

 Some worn down, rotting. wood

  An old stone doorway.

 Vines creeping up the old stone walls.

 Exposed studs for a worn, crumbled look.

 Two brave explorers checking out the ruins. (My brothers comment after seeing the post "No! The girl lives in the castle and is a sniper who kills all who enter! The guy is her mortal enemy!)

This creation is a cool example of using different shapes and colors of bricks for texture effects. See what you can come up with!

Castle

My brother built a LEGO castle. We planned on filming a movie set in the middle ages, but all the sets we built were destroyed before filming. It is similar to a LEGO castle set he had, which is where the pieces with vines came from.

Close up of the second floor. There is a bed and a chest for the royal gems.

A close up of the lower floor. The floor is made of varying sizes of gray tiles to create a pattern.

Here is a view of the tower. This is where he would perch the archer so he could keep an eye out for enemy attacks!

A view of the back. Bricks with side studs were built into the wall so that 1x2 tiles could be attached. This gives the appearance of bricks sticking out and it gives the building more texture. It's a technique he learned from his LEGO play book.

One final view of the castle...