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Castle Ephrasia, Lego building Tips and Tricks

Hello, Legomatic is back! Today I'm sharing a Lego creation which I built for a Lego Ideas Activity. If you don't know what an Ideas Activity is, it comes from the Lego Ideas page, but instead of voting on models to become sets, their just fun inspiration where everyone posts what they've made, and we all just enjoy each others builds. This weeks activity was to build a castle on a 8 x 8 baseplate, and here's what I made, The Castle of Ephrasia! This castle is built on a rocky mound, suspended in the air. The only way to enter is to climb up a vine on the side and scale your way up. The castle is in ruins, from decades of being left, abandoned. One cool technique you can do to make the dirt on top of a rock really look like it should be there is by making it sort of "droop" over the side. I discovered this also works in Minecraft, to any aspiring terraformers out there! Another thing you can do to make your builds pop is to use uncon