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11:30 PM
| Name of Model: Tower of Brothers | | Created by: Noddy | | Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=291565 | Details:
 Oh sure, it's just a minifig-scale Castle model. Look again, though. There are brilliant details, more brilliant details, and yet more brilliant details. This tower is actually quite large, and it features more details than some entire town layouts do. The photography here is top-notch too - and you could get lost in the sheer amount of clear photos of this one. I'm still not done browsing through all the nooks and crannies of this tower. Since I'm not linking any highlights (I'd feel really silly if it turned out I missed something awesome), feel free to post about your favorite parts of this one in the comments. |
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5:10 PM
| Name of Model: Black Falcon's Tower | | Created by: Lomero | | Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=250339 | Details:
 Here's a great new twist on building castles - building the walls sideways. I suppose this trick would work well in a town building too, but it works particularly well to get some of the smaller spots needed in realistic castles. If you're familiar with LEGO® geometry, you're probably used to the idea that the height of three plates is equal to the height of one brick. If you're really into LEGO® geometry, you should know that LEGO® bricks are 6/5 as high as they are wide. If you're truly into LEGO® geometry, you probably also know some tricks even cooler than this one. For now, though, the point is that the sideways wall allows for some smaller details and increased resolution (much like it does in LEGO® mosaics). The sideways effect was used here to allow for bow-and-arrow-sized slit windows on the lower level and a very clever cross-shaped window on the top floor.
There's one other cool trick here - look closely at the top walls that the minifigs are standing behind, and you'll notice that those bricks and arches are upside-down! I'm not entirely sure how they're held in place, but they look great. |
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3:23 AM
| Name of Model: Tower - CCC 07 entry | | Created by: Patrick Bosman | | Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=247155 | Details:
 This beautiful tower includes some nice sculpted scenery and some clever angled detailing. Some parts of the mountain that the tower is in were built upside-down too, which makes for some cool effects and makes it possible for the sleeping bats to hang over the heads of the minifigs. The color scheme is stellar too - a good mix of newer variations on colors with slightly more traditional colors. |
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We've all seen glamourous record-breaking towers before. There was the Canadian record-breaker last August, and the far more popular Pirate-themed ship's mast tower last June, but they are both a good metre below this one in height. The structure of this one looks a bit more sturdy too, but they decided to use support cables (just in case, I'll say). Variations on the The Daily Mail's coverage have been making their way through the blogosphere, but this was actually broken as news the previous day by a blogger who was displaying some of his own LEGO models at the same event. I like the miniland-scale flags and character on the top in the Daily Mail's photos, but since it looks like they take down their photos over time, I'm featuring the Tabletown coverage for the photo above. The animators at Paganomation win the "perspective" award here, though, for digging up an article from the Winter 1990-1991 BrickKicks magazine that discusses the early days of the record-breaking-tower tradition. 
Since there is pitifully little written about today's model, I'm quoting the article I've found in its entirety:
