Lumber Room Treasures
Some Introduction?
Few of you may even know me, I’m Kris Kelvin and I play with bricks despite my advanced age, that should be enough. I have recently realized interesting fact. I had a chance to talk to few people and I noticed that some of the, in my view, cult brick models are completely unknown to others. Our little world of AFOLs is rapidly growing. More people are getting involved in a hobby; they start reading about it, look out information on the web and don’t realize that what they can see is just a tip of the iceberg. They simply don’t know creations from few years back.
The world of AFOLs used to be more coherent and rather hermetic one. Every good model was getting noticed all around the world. Today, sheer number of web pages and blogs and new models appearing everyday is some immense that the life span of a new creations became very short and they are quickly forgotten. Never mind the models from few years ago! This is why I decided to bring back some of these “old” masterpieces. As my area of interest concentrates mainly around Castle I will primarily deal with this subject. It’s quite possible that I will present well known models or that some of you may not like my selection. In what I consider a milestone someone else will see just a plain old tower. Oh well …
You will have to live with it.
Let’s start from what got me started. Long time ago when I was still young and beautiful (nowadays only beautiful) when browsing through Brickshelf I found creation that was responsible for me seriously taking up the hobby.
Presenting Col Du Mont Tower by Brody
For me it’s a legend, like Michael Jordan or Andre Agassi. When I first saw it, I could not believe that you can do this with bricks. I did remember childhood brick buildings, old LEGO catalogues. But it was this model that opened my eyes on true potential of plastic bricks.
Just the sheer scale is impressing. Square base 80 x 80 stud swith the huge tower protruding from the rock.
Rock, but what a rock!
No doubt, one of the most beautiful terrains I have ever seen. It’s simple and that’s what so great about it. Plain dark gray rocks, some green slopes and bit of greenery. And a very nice tree. Some of the cobbled road, old well, a mushroom…
What else would you want?
The tower itself, as you can see, is rather simple, without any crazy architecture and weird building techniques. Simple steps, drawbridge, black roof. Even some of, so often shunted, wall panels. And on top of this few well chosen details: an owl on the chimney, lamps, sword holder, telescope, bit of tudor. Almost no tiles. No SNOT whatsoever. All the studs on top.
One more thing, perfect presentation. Fantastic, clean photos. You can seat and contemplate this masterpiece.
This model is over three years old. Keep this in mind. Back then there were no out of this world techniques, even some of the bricks in different colours. Even though this creation is still as good as it was three years ago. You can put it next to any of the today’s models and it will still impress.
That’s all folks!
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13 Nov 09 20;25
Witaj Kris, fajnie, że przerwałeś przerwę (
) na Klockach. Co do tematu, to bardzo ciekawy, czekam na dalsze notki z tej kategorii. 
Jeśli chodzi o budowlę, to wielce mi się podoba. Skała rządzi :D, zielenina super, grzybek po lewej trochę gargantuiczny. 
Co do samej notki, to spodobał mi się ten fragment o odpadającym dachu, jednak dzięki tobie zrozumiałem, że dobra praca z Castle nie musi wykorzystywać SNOTu ani być wytilesowana (wykaflowana, jak wy to tam mówicie na LP :P). Kamienice to co innego. Dzięki!
14 Nov 09 10;13
Urocze… achhh zaraz popłyne we wspomnienia… jak byłem jeszcze młody w kółko budowałem takie zameczki i idyllyczne kajobraziki, ale nie dorównam tu krisowi, bo on musi to robić znacznie dłużej. Ja wolę dioramy akcji i ruch, a nie statyczne modele. Prostota jest jak widać najważniejsza
14 Nov 09 10;46
Czyli Kris bedzie nam urzadzał podroz przez to, co sam uwaza za must-known creations? Jak dla mnie świetny pomysl
Co do pracy, schodki mimo wszystko bym wytilesowal :pp
14 Nov 09 11;13
Świetny temat, choć subiektywny. Osobiście uwielbiam prace w których klimat gra ważną rolę, ale wszystko “rozwijać się i zmieniać chcę”, Lego też, choć jak wspomniałeś ta praca nadal wzbudza dużo “ochów” i “achów”. Nie ma co kryć, żyjemy w SNOT’owych czasach. Może kiedyś nadejdzie postmodernistyczna era i przyjdzie moda na prace w konwencji właśnie wyżej wspomnianej. Ja gdy widzę takie MOC’e od razu przypominam sobie zamki Takeshi Itou (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=hachi) Zresztą, zblogowaliście go kilka razy. Bardzo ciekawa notka, czekam na kolejne
14 Nov 09 18;55
Świetna notka, oby tak dalej! Jeśli chodzi o stare prace, to polecam:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1045788
14 Nov 09 19;44
A cieszę się, że się podoba
Owszem zamysł jest taki, żeby co jakiś czas przypominać piękne prace “castle”. Niezbyt często, żeby nie zanudzić, ale myślę, ze raz na jakieś 3 tygodnie coś wrzucę