The Crystal Castle

Published 10 May 07 10:57 PM | Paladin 

Well to follow up my last post, I did indeed build the "Crystal Castle", a transparent version of set 375 "Yellow Castle". I topped it off with the actual white knight fig from the real set.

Not much to say...here are some picked images:

 

crystal castle image 1

crystal castle image 2

crystal castle image 3

crystal castle image 4

Once the full brickshelf gallery is moderated, view all the images here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=250672

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Comments

# David_Gregory said on May 13, 2007 12:08 AM:

That is AWESOME!!!!!  That is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen.  I know that you can't make it to the 500 Festival or BrickWorld, but at some point in the future you just have to include that in one of our Castle displays.

I'm going to feel so empty inside now when I redo the White Witch's ice castle. ; )

# Jeramy Spurgeon said on May 14, 2007 10:30 AM:

Awesome job Matt! You should post this around and draw some attention to it!!!

-J

# Paladin said on May 14, 2007 11:37 AM:

Thanks guys!

It would be nice if someone on Brickshelf would moderate the folder the images of it are in. There are two subfolders under the gallery that have been made public but not the main folder... It's been 7 days now...

# Leah said on May 16, 2007 5:42 PM:

Very Cool! I'd say this definitely hes the wow factor you were aiming for. ;-) I'm looking forward to seeing this in real life sometime.

# Patrick Jon Selzer said on June 21, 2007 11:48 AM:

Matt, OMG !! this is AMAZING !! until seeing this i would have never even imagined that the sloped or corner pieces needed would even exist !! i have to say this is one of the coolest MOC's i have seen and i normally prefer Sci Fi !! lol I hate to ask but my curriosity is getting the best of me what did all those special parts cost?? I know you said you paid 50 for the base plate, i wonder what it originally came with? i guess ill have to check out this brick link site lol I've not been there yet my wife not like me finding it lmao

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About Paladin

Well...here's the brief rundown...

Like many people who end up with the AFOL disorder...I began my addiction to Lego ABS at a young age. At first it was a casual pastime among other things like matchbox cars, construx, drawing, and pretending sticks were magical weapons against imaginary evils.

By the time I was 10, around 1990, my parents made the decision to build their "dream house" and we moved. After the move I made new friends with some of the guys in the new neighborhood. Three of which were really into military history, science fiction, and Lego. This was a recipie for many weekends building models and having fake wars (in which you destroy models, scream at eachother, and then build better ones again later). Primarily I was building Pirate/Castle blended theme models when we got on historic military role play kicks. Other times we did Space/Sci-Fi models when we got on Sci-Fi role play kicks. Therefore most of my teen years until the dark ages of high school (Freshman Year - 1995) when I built models they were of these type of themes.

We moved once again in 2000 as I began college. Many of my oldest models survived the "dark ages". Upon moving I found myself fixing the old ones up or perhaps building a little this or that now and then, nothing serious.

Up to about 2005 I had no idea that the AFOL community even existed. I stumbled on BrickLink but never made any connection. I still thought "Building with lego past age 20? Silly!". I figured I would keep the toy for when I were to have children. However I took some pictures of my old models and posted them on my web site, just for the hell of it

Then I was contacted. One day I got a message in my inbox. It was from a guy named Jeramy, who found my BrickLink account and my photo gallery of old models. His message informed me that there was a club of adult Lego model builders and that I was invited to come to their next club meeting.

The rest as they say is...history.

Currently I am a fairly eclectic builder. I still like the Castle/Pirate themes probably the best. I also enjoy Space/Sci-Fi themes as well. However, many of the club members are into the 9v model railroading portion of the hobby pretty serious. Since that aspect of the hobby tends to bring alot of AFOLs together and the them is a fun one to get into I've been gravitating ever more towards that side of the hobby as well.