Progress since the tear down.

Here it is, rebuilding from the bottom up. A section of the cliff, twice as high as the last, and a touch more realistic.

To which I added a little outcrop accessible from the castle.

Yes, I used Styrofoam. It saves Legos and it's easily cut to the right size and shape.

The new gate house.

Some construction workers and a few guards.

The first part of the wall going up. 

Again, to save the grey bricks you just make the inside colorful :)

The gate house you saw earlier.

And from the back with the second door.

Wall going up and up, with the walk way in the wall.

After much tearing down and refitting I finally got this little doorway in there :)

The overall height of the front wall with the house attached in the back.

Minus the roof: finished height with the walkways.

Again from the back.

After some rebuilds, the tower, more or less original from the last castle, is standing.

Starting on the main gate house with the portcullis and the archway over the slope leading up to it.

Side view

And as far as I've gotten with the front battlements finished and the arcade with the roof.

The next update will probably only happen after the Lego order arrives with the necessary parts for further construction. Hope you enjoy the progress!

Back at it!

A farmer milking the cows

The British visitors giving some gold to the local jesters.

  

The Arab visitors with their genie and diamonds :)

Some of the town guards and two fellows playing a card game

(And an archer in case something goes wrong with the visitors)

The Spanish visitors brought some monkeys from the tropics.

And apparently an Aztec :)

The first gate to the castle itself.

The walkway to the castle

(The moat is made up out of blue base plates and a few thousand 1x1 round translucent pieces for texture)

The main gate house with portcullis and murder holes. The front has tilting boards allowing the archers and crossbowmen to shoot at.

Uruk-hai...ehem so, they're strong, fast and feared = good soldiers

The feast! (Got a little dusty due to lack of care)

The winch to the round tower with the catapult

Some of the daily commotion in the castle

(Top to bottom: Boy with slingshot hanging out the window,

Father returns from a journey to his wife and son who is holding his sword

Another knight is preparing to leave)

The crossbowmen on guard

The church in the town.

Windmills on good ol' Bilbos house

A small market stand

The procession

Horse pasture

(And a high speed train in the back)

Some farmers bringing in the hay

Soooo, then I had this "magnificent" idea and the enthusiasm and Sunday at my disposal for the tear down and partial (Ha. ha. hardly) rebuild.

So it begins. Sigh. Split the two tables so as to access the castle better.

The little bags were used to sort all the pieces with. (Ended up with dozens of them)

My friend helped me out for the tear down. (Here's a better over view too)

Wups, no more castle.

The "junk" walls to keep my current work space clear

The junk walls again

Marking things off for size and future placement

The walkway out of the castle.

Laying out the moat

Uhmmm, am I still following the plan?!

This is how far I am so far, the pillars for the mountain that the castle will finally stand on.

Brother's Home

My brother who's been living across the ocean fnially cameback and WE BUILT LEGOS :)!!

And here's everything he did.

It's missing the Infrared and the motor, I put it back into the ICE train for now, but it's easliy switched out depending on which train I want to run.

 

 

You can see the holes on the top. In the back would be the switch for the power and on the front the infrared receiver. 

There's the ICE train running through the new gate house he built.

 

 The top of the gate house.

The view down on the gate house, and you can see how the train passes through.

 (Ignore the slipper)

 

 

And then he made the train tracks go all the way around my Lego table!!

 Along the horse pasture

(Everything had to be moved in 2 studs, or it wouldn't be able to hold....as you can tell it's hanging off the edge a bit :)

 

Behind the castle.

(To save straight tracks we used curves where you couldn't see them anyway.

 

A pullout which has changed subsequently to this picture, but you get the idea.

And here's the part I worked on. I ended up rebuilding this wall roughly 4 times. Each time trying to be out of the trains way when it took the curve. The first time it was a right-angle, the second, it had 4 "L" shaped edges, the third is the above picture, and the fourth is the below picture to fit the new train my brother built.

Simple as that

 

Hidden doorway, also my brothers idea.

 

Ignore the left over Legos, just look at the gray lines to see how the wall looks.

 

And then I built myself a cellphone holder out of Lego...just for fun