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Clocktower
The Schloss Drachenburg first captured my imagination over a year ago when I stumbled upon it in my Twitter feed. My first question was - is this even real? I was shocked I had never seen the beautiful structure before, and from that moment on, I was pretty well set on bringing this hidden gem to life.
I've been told several times that I'm "obsessed" with this castle, and perhaps that's true. I started by making several Minecraft variants of the structure, one of which is one of (if not the tallest) structure ever made in the game at 671 blocks tall. If I could make a massive version in Minecraft in 9 months, surely I could make a LEGO one in under a year!
So I started designing this in LDD shortly after Brickworld 2018. That was my first mistake. I've never made a MOC in LDD before, and it's hard to get a sense of scale in the program, and also hard to know which bricks you do and don't have. Also, owning 2 modular Town Halls made me realize that dark orange is not as common as I thought. Thus the Bricklink orders ensued, as well as the random E-Bay hauls. Dark orange and medium dark flesh was a far more limited brick palette than I'm used to, but I think it's in those limitations that I was able to make this build something special.
The final model comes out to approximately a 4 x 2 foot base, with the clocktower being 3 feet tall. The 30,000 piece count makes this my second largest MOC, behind the behemoth that was the Tunnels Project in 2016.
Yet in what probably adds up to about 20 days total of build time, I was able to pull off what I regard as my best MOC. Without further ado, a proudly present my rendition of German's Schloss Drachenburg.
Come see it at Brickworld Chicago 2019!
Clocktower
The Schloss Drachenburg first captured my imagination over a year ago when I stumbled upon it in my Twitter feed. My first question was - is this even real? I was shocked I had never seen the beautiful structure before, and from that moment on, I was pretty well set on bringing this hidden gem to life.
I've been told several times that I'm "obsessed" with this castle, and perhaps that's true. I started by making several Minecraft variants of the structure, one of which is one of (if not the tallest) structure ever made in the game at 671 blocks tall. If I could make a massive version in Minecraft in 9 months, surely I could make a LEGO one in under a year!
So I started designing this in LDD shortly after Brickworld 2018. That was my first mistake. I've never made a MOC in LDD before, and it's hard to get a sense of scale in the program, and also hard to know which bricks you do and don't have. Also, owning 2 modular Town Halls made me realize that dark orange is not as common as I thought. Thus the Bricklink orders ensued, as well as the random E-Bay hauls. Dark orange and medium dark flesh was a far more limited brick palette than I'm used to, but I think it's in those limitations that I was able to make this build something special.
The final model comes out to approximately a 4 x 2 foot base, with the clocktower being 3 feet tall. The 30,000 piece count makes this my second largest MOC, behind the behemoth that was the Tunnels Project in 2016.
Yet in what probably adds up to about 20 days total of build time, I was able to pull off what I regard as my best MOC. Without further ado, a proudly present my rendition of German's Schloss Drachenburg.
Come see it at Brickworld Chicago 2019!