Hello
Thank you for joining this group. My aim is to have an active Castle group. So if you know someone, who is active, please invite him/her.
I hope we have a good time together! :D
Büürli Burri

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This is a great idea! I hope that it works out. I'll do my best to help. There are a couple of people I'd like to invite, but I can't invite people in any way other than through a comment, which I hate to do. I had Blake Baericks and LWC guy in mind.
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Thank you!
I invited them...


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Hayden ought to be invited, and Deus Otiosus often builds Castle. I may come up with more soon.
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Do you want to be an admin? You're so active and you help me a lot to reach my aim... You also know more people on the 'pages than me, so you could invite more...
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We have only 8 Members. Please tell me the names of some active castle builder, so I'll invite them... Thank you
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Sure.
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I would but I'm very new to MOCpages.. :/
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Hey guys, thanks for the invite! I must say, I'm glad that after just two castle builds, I'm considered an active castle builder. :P
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I knew that there were more to come since you're in LCC. Glad to have you here!
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Wow! We are 18! I've never thought that a (Castle) group grows such fast.
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Yeah, things are looking promising.
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Thanks for the invite! These are some quality builds going on here! I look forward to seeing what the active castle builders can do!
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Thank you for joining!
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Who of you is participating in the LCC Contest?
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I am working on my CIC right now.
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I'm the Lenfald Faction Liason.
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Outlaws. ;D
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Thanks for the invite guys:) Maybe try inviting Josh E.
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I am! Even though I shouldn't, I have too many projects already, ah well.
Outlaws too :D

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Well, the same for me... but LCC is too cool for not joining ;)

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Sadly, I'm not:/
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You can still join, if you want to ;)

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Maybe.
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That's what I call "active" :D
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Argeed! :)
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If someone knows some people to invite, write their names here...
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Christopher Baldacci, Paul Vermeesch, Sir Nadroj, Mister Bones, Ben King, Sebeus I, Flare, Max Pointner, Peter Lewandowski, Stephen Chao, Anders T, Leda Kat, John Moffatt and Tyler Halliwell. Some of these builders may already be members, so hopefully this helps.
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Thank you, I added them :D

If this group should stay active for a long time, we need to get more members... That's a good start!
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Glad to help anytime!
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What do you guys say about a contest?
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That would be fun! :)


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Count me in!
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I'd like to do one...
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With 28 members, we could pull it off. What do you guys say?
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That'd be cool! I'd probably scrounge up some time... ;)
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Count me in!
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Yay! Finished my LCC Global Challenge entry!
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It looks fantastic!
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Seems like a good group you have going here! I'm not sure if you can call me a "Castle Builder" because I build it a wide range. But I do have a couple of castle creations. And I hope to build more in this theme!
-LB Senior
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I'm sure if you do build some more in the castle theme, It will be some impressive creations!
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Thanks! I have limited "castle bricks" so I might have to keep my builds small. You have really improved in your builds as well. And I hope to see many more great castle creations from you!
-LB Senior
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Thanks LB Senior, that really means alot:)
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Hmmm... We are VERY ACTIVE Castle Builders. :P
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For the record, forced activity is destined to drive itself into the dirt.
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Exactly.
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I'm sorry. I registred on CC, on FC and on Flickr... I can't spend all my time on MOCpages, but I'll try to keep this group active ;)

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Nailed it!
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I'm not saying there is anything wrong, I was just stating a fact. :p
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What about... cajoled activity?
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Like with a contest?
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Cajoled activity leads to reluctant activity which leads to forced activity which leads to much drop-outs which leads to hate which leads to suffering which leads to the dark side.

Therefore, don't cajole activity out of someone. (You'll end up with a bunch of Sith in the group)
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I'm serious about the contest, though. Maybe make a separate group, and invite a ton of people.
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Agreed. Quality castle contests are few and far between on MOCpages. It would be good to host one soon.
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Exactly.
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Wait, you're a Star Wars fan and you've been wasting your talent on castles all this time? Why haven't you built a minifig scale death star yet? ;)
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WASTING?! Hang on! ;)
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Okay... fine, castle's kind of cool. But maybe a Chewie hiding in the bushes or something?
For example: http://www.mocpages.com/image_zoom.php?mocid=270869&id=/user_images/73406/1306345985m but in a castle setting. ;)
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That would be cool!
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I'd be willing to either judge or participate in a Castle contest.
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I've just read this thread... it seems like a lot is going on here. Makes me happy :D
A contest would be very cool. Should I open a new group for it and we could invite some people?
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Keep it in this group. If your aim is to have an active Castle group, you'd want to attract people here, not somewhere else.
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Yeah, that would definitely keep this an active group. But it might also make it disorganized. I would suggest that you make separate topics for "entries", "rules", and the like.
-LB Senior
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Agreed.
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Like... this? http://www.mocpages.com/image_zoom.php?mocid=295802&id=/user_images/29890/13216494872
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This is a bit off topic but, Blake, do you edit your pictures?
-LB Senior
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Haha, I forgot about that!
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I did too!
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Aye! I do indeed.
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Photoshop?
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I use pixlr.

http://pixlr.com/
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So when you give your pictures the white background, do you take photos of your builds with a white board then adjust the brightness so that the white comes out really clean? Sorry for all the questions, I've been experimenting with stuff like this.
-LB Senior
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Same with me.

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Among others.
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Nice. I use Arcsoft Photostudio. It's like a photoshop rip-off, but works really well.
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Back to the Contest:
I opened a new topic for it :)

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Sound's good.
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Wheres all the activity I've been hearing about?

I cant be active if nobody else is. *sniffle*
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This group may not be very active, but the members are.
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Well said.
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Could I add castle Brickfilms? I know that technically, they aren't considered builds.
-LB Senior
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Of course you can! Everything Castle/Castle related is allowed ;)

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Anything castle is allowed!
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Sorry guys, but I won't be able to organize the contest. In the last time I had much less time to build and to be active in the community. I have no time left for a contest. :(
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Just thought I would share this with you other castle builders; it is awesome! http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/89458
-LB Senior
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Does Lord of the Rings count as castle?
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Of course it does. :D
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Ah, too bad. Well, maybe another time then.
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That's to bad. But it's fine, we all get busy.
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Should I change the title to "Castle Builders" XP ?
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Heh heh... Oh hey look, here comes the activity fairy!
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Greetings everyone. I am not currently building any castles, but something is planned.
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Sounds very mysterious indeed. ;P
-LB Senior
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Very much so, actually. ;)
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When will you show it to us? *.*
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Not for quite a while... Details must still be figured out...
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Cool, time to moderate this place. ;) How's it going everyone? Any good stuff to talk about? Looking forward to the MOCies, who'll win best castle?
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Hahahaha....

Seems like the MOCies nominations are slowing down. Hasn't there always been a castle category in the nominations every year? I guess the castle theme is prominent on MOCpages.
-LB Senior

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I hope that LL Lolino can win the Castle category. His new Castle is awsome: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59311684@N03/7402642244/in/photostream =D
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Yeah, most people who are nominating are probably finished by now.
I think so, it's like Sci-Fi and Best MOC.
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Hey Luke, I was just curious. What kind of builder would you consider yourself? It seems like you build in quite the variety!
-LB Senior
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Hmmm.... I'm a Sci-Fi/ Fantasy/ Micro /Town MOCer. ;) But I think castle/fantasy and Sci-Fi are my main interests. You too build in many themes, what would you consider yourself?
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You know what, I have absolutely no idea! ;P Well, my brother (LB Jr.) is a car builder, but I don't know about myself.
-LB Senior
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Cool. I like variety, it keeps things exciting and new. :)
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Yeah, I think so too. Only, it might mean that becoming exceptional in one area would be rather challenging.
-LB Senior
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I don't know about that, I think that building different stuff all the time allows you to develop more techniques and meld them into other genres to create new and improved types of MOCs.
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Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Maybe you're right.
-LB Senior
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"Maybe"? Sir, I'm always right. ;) I just feel that a well rounded repertoire of skills can be used for most any MOC. For example, you might be working on round tower designs for a castle and then use the same design for a starship's engine a month later. Someone who only builds starships may not think to use a technique like that. What do you think?
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Haha, you are right in that regard! I completely agree with you. ;) Oh, I forgot, I'm talking with the great LukeClarenceVan!
-LB Senior
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Exactly! ;) I really should change my homepage up sometime, now that I actually have some skill people might not see that paragraph as a joke and just think I have a two ton ego...
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Wow, I've missed a lot in the last week!
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Well, not much actually. At least, not in this group. ;P Welcome back Justin!
-LB Senior
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Thanks!
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Hmmm... we're not too active right now. Time to change that. ;) So, let's talk about trees, round towers, and water. Techniques for these are varied and everyone has their own preferences. Personally, I like plain blue SNOT for calm oceans or very large rivers, clear plates or clear cheese for faster rivers, and clear cheese for very shallow coasts. Trees, I like 'em all. The use of hinge pieces is my current favourite though. For round towers I'm not sure which I like right now.
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So many good techniques!
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Well, that's the only technique I can afford to use right now. I don't really have a sufficient amount of transparent blue that would look stunning when on top of white plates. And I'm too cheap to buy them right now. I think Eggy Pop's famous for that technique.
-LB Senior
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Ah yes, that is a nice one. Thoy Bradley has also earned some renown with that type, even if Eggy was the first to use it in bulk.
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Does anyone have any WIPs? I'm finishing another micro castle, and will hopefully post in sometime during the week.
-LB Senior
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Nice! I don't really have any castle WIPs right now, but I'm planning a micro castle. Great minds think alike, eh? ;)
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You can be sure of it!
-LB Senior
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Derfel Cadarns technic is the best ever, but it is very expensive. I can only build a very small tower ( 8x8 studs, high 14 bricks) with it. Another negative point is that it needs very much time to build such a tower and it is pretty boring to build, because it's all the time the same.
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Hmm... Trees, water and towers...
I'm not a fan of blue SNOT water. It doesn't look anything like water to me, since water is not blue and is rarely that flat. Blue tiles have the same problems. I like anything that uses trans-clear pieces over another color, or on their own. For a fast-flowing river, I actually just dumped a bunch of 1x2 clear plates into the riverbed. It turned out OK, but seemed too rough.
Towers. I like the look of Derfel Cadarn's technique, but there's no way I can shell out the money I'd need to get the necessary parts. Besides, everyone is using that technique now, and if the tower is attatched to a wall (like maybe it's a corner tower on a castle) the texture of the wall would have to be made to match the tower. I like using hinges the best, I think. There are plenty of things you can do with that technique to make it different each time. I've also used the 1x1 round technique, which is great to actually achieve a round shape rather than an octagon or hexagon like the hinge technige does. The problem with 1x1 rounds is that it limits the style/design that you can achieve. The tower is always fairly plain, and it has an extreme amount of texture.
As for trees... I have yet to make a tree that I am fully satisfied with. Mark Erickson and Derfel Cadarn both make excellent trees, but I just can't seem to do it. I guess I have a hard time with building anything organic.
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My favourite trees are A P's Pine trees. They're great =D
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250th comment =D
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Hey guys!
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Hey
Welcome to the group =)
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Welcome, R.M.
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So who of you will be entering the CCCX?
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I plan to. Some cool categories, and I have some plans for castle stuff anyway. Do you have many entries planned?
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Yes, I do. Quite a few actually. But I couldn't reveal my wonderful plans, could I? ;)
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No, it would spoil it wouldn't it?
-LB Senior
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You'll just have to wait. ;D
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