Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Lego Castles

http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/230059
Ever since I was a kid with a book on castles, I've always had a yen to visit Krak des Chevaliers in Syria, arguably the greatest castle ever built. And today Google suggested "Krak des Chevaliers LEGO"...



... holy crap.

I poked around a little more on the site, and mostly it's pretty... well, fictional and boring (although the siege reenactment from Lord of the Rings looked impressive). But my favourites are definitely the real-life scale models, which require a bit of ingenuity to get the details right. Check out the Belfry:


That's in Bruges, you know. There's some great little details which you can see in the full Flickr set.

4 comments:

Andrew C said...

"It's only a model"

Peter S said...

Is it slightly crooked, like the real one?

Barry Owen said...

Shhhhh!

Paul M said...

Where are the Lego trebuchet?