I think you are saying you do the same thing I do actually (in regards to building big castles). I do not build the sets the way they are supposed to be built, I buy many bulk mixed piece lots and build my own designs of multiple kingdoms out of them instead. I build giant fortresses, woods, mountains, villages both land and sea battles.. entire kingdoms and armies and such instead with the pieces. I like the " unique" pieces as I use them to decorate the kingdom. I create custom Lego people and use some of the mega bloks people parts instead as decoration within the building design itself as statues and gargoyles and other decoration instead. I too have a ton of the 90's castle set peices as well as the other castle/ medieval sets such as LOTR, Harry Potter and the Lego castle series sets. I use them all together to make massive castles and just use their parts making my own designs instead. I not only mix in pieces, and custom pieces, I create custom pieces by dying, painting, staining or inking blocks as well as creating my own decals and even going as far to acetone welding and creating my own custom pieces from other things to get the look I want. IF Lego doesn't have it I may just make it myself if I cannot find what I want elsewhere.Palindromemordnilap said:Eh, you see the big things like that I don't care about so much. I like the actual building, and the tinkering around with it afterwards. When they're just playsets I don't get that. Then again, my thing at the moment is getting a load of the old castle sets from the early 90s, as those are all modular in design and I want to see how big of a castle I can make just snapping them together without any actual rebuilding involvedLil devils x said:My Lego has gotten so bad I may have to take out a storage unit to store all the giant tubs of them LOL! I always grab them at yard sales and thrift shops if I see them in there even though I already have enough to build a house I could live inside of. I am not a Lego "purist" though so I love many of the Megabloks sets as well including the whole vintage dragons and king Arthur series, they have so many great unique pieces. I am a sucker for buying big lots of them on Ebay when I see statue pieces and such that I can use to build giant kingdoms. I have like every set they made in multiples HAHA!Palindromemordnilap said:The dozen or so boxes of Lego in my room are a bit of a giveaway...
I also like mythologies but thats more of a professional thing
It was difficult to not want to get more just looking for photos of examples.. HAHHA!
I am a very detailed oriented person so if it does not look exactly how I want it to, I will rebuild it though to make it look like I how I envisioned it to be, or if I come up with new ideas along the way. I create quite a few custom pieces though when I am not content with what is available. I am not afraid to mix things in as long as they look like they are supposed to be there. Welding Playmobil baby animals to Lego actually blend better with the older Lego animals than their new one do as well as finding things like flower bead caps that look better than their crappy friends flowers they have and fit on the Lego flower stems great. Things like this work well to make forests and gardens look even better:
Playmobil animals also look more like the originals than the goofy looking friends, so I turn them into "Lego" by welding them:
playmobil animals:
Friends weird looking animals:
original Lego animals:
I customize a ton of other stuff but these are the easy ones you can easily find to make a scene look better without having to mess it up with the goofy friends components.