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 unconventional pieces. A headlight brick turned around can make a great microscale square window. Storage containers make up the towers of my castle, and a robot claw is at the steeple!

If you don't have many plant pieces like me, that doesn't mean you cant have plant life. Green plants and tiles can substitute as grass, green bricks as leaves and bushes, and brown bricks can be built into trees. In order to become a good Lego builder, you have to know your pieces potential. Don't see it from one way and think that's how it works, it's uses can be limitless!

Now, one of the hardest parts of building this was the rock formations. You have to get to know how to use your sloped pieces to get the look you want, mixing the light and dark grays. I can't give to much advice on this, other than use cheese slopes to smooth things out. Studs really can kill the looks of rocks sometimes.

That's it for me today. Now, if you want to see some REALLY good buildings, don't forget to check out the Lego Masters TV show, with an new episode every Wednesday on Fox. This has been Legomatic, I'll see you guys soon.

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