Hi from the UK 🇬🇧 usually medieval castles wouldn't need an extra wall around them but some castles have a wall that expends out from the castle that would surround the local town or village! We still have places like that here in the UK that has a wall that surrounds the local town so perhaps that's what you should do create a small village that is surrounded by a wall that starts from the castle 😃
Man you have been the whole inspiration for getting back into Lego. Thank you man. Your videos are awesome, so awesome to see you and your family have grown so much in these last few years. You are an amazing father and an inspiration for all of us Lego enthusiasts young and old. I love the castle scene, cannot wait to see more!
I think I agree with you that the castle would be so cool with a fortress wall around it. It doesn’t have to be super tall or anything because it would block the view of the castle, but then you could add some stories of minifigs trying to scale the walls to sneak in 👍🏼
Adding the castle grounds is an awesome idea. Maybe not in this layout as there are space constraints, but maybe you can do it in the new space. You could also elevate the castle inside the grounds... Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see you doing the switch to the new space
Love to see a big green field with a river! I need access to a PAB wall for green plate! I've been growing my Castle setup, building a 2x size Majisto Workshop, and after seeing you take apart your Black Falcon Knights' Castle, I doubled-down, building a whole basement level in MILS, while continuing to MOC the main castle and make it stronger. I built 2 MILS plate, so the castle can still split apart. I brought it to convention last year, with credit to Made With Brix, and folks still loved it, was glad I brought it even though it wasn't "my" design. But this base level is, and it still needs some reworking.
Great to see your medieval scene getting along . I remember my first ever Lego set was a castle unfortunately I never got to keep it . Happy to hear things are looking up with the new place coming soon . Can’t wait to see it carry on the great work. Your friend Chris
I like the idea of having the wall around the castle with grounds. You could have lots of vendors. Also you should have some farming fields maybe windmill grinding grain too.
One option is to blend all the castles into one single castle complex - one becomes the Palace, another becomes the military garrison, and another the market and services (blacksmith, bakery, etc). Ideally, have a corner hill to cascade the castle onto, into and under! You could make a section of outer wall that encompasses the jousting and have crops and small wood - this would allow you to expand the outer wall in your new space and have an invading army attack it.
I highly recommend putting the MOC castle at an angle to make it look more interesting and the layout less grid-like. Otherwise, all of your ideas sound great. 👍
I love how where the castle section is. And where the winter villainess was, is quite like your work in progress zone. Switch out different projects to work on. I LOVE the castle area.
Love seeing the medieval builds. Also really appreciate you building with the pieces you have, it gives us ideas of builds we could do with the pieces we have.
If you could get another white low shelving unit to add onto the edge of your set up, going into the cove area. You can then move the Falcon Knight castle to the left and set up a 3 points type of theme where each castle is at the end of an area. I would also suggest elevating the Falcon Knight castle if possible onto a hill or mountain-scape.
Awesome video as always! Keep up the great work! Just a quick thought (maybe someone already mentioned it before): it would be cool to combine your custom castle with the Lion knights' castle. You can extend the wall on the far side of the Black falcon one to reach to the Lion knights' castle forming a single long fortification. And then branch out the exterior wall and build the village like you thought. So basically it will create a giant medieval fortification combining a few things. Also kinda make sense that the jousting and blacksmith will be outside of that. Architecturally it will be a bit mixed, but real life castles sometimes took ages to build and may got a few different styles incorporated in them.
One thing to consider when you decide to make a bigger castle/fortress, a smaller castle could serve as the bailey for an outer wall with the bigger castle inside that outer wall.
Hey bricksie - i always dig your videos -- we have lots of castles here in the UK! maybe check out Bodiam Castle in Kent for some insprarion for your medieval build - it has a cool moat and bridge ! thanks for all the great videos
I got an idea: you could build only a part of the grounds wall, along the river, and another part just before the lion knights castle. So it would imply that the castle grounds are bigger and encapsulate the blacksmith and the jousting scene. That would make for a larger grounds, and would also leave more room around the castle for details
That bridge is really cool and it looks great but it does not work on that river The bridge is sitting in the middle of the river those two arches were the water supposed to flow under those are sitting above the shores and there's no room for the water to go through they only needs to be one arch over the whole thing but again that bridge is beautiful it just doesn't quite work on that river either widen the river or have the bridge with one arch
I'm watching this for the first time *after* seeing Part 2 (or is it Part 3)... and I love that bridge. I'll definitely be doing something similar with my castle diorama build. I also like the relocation of the Lion Knights' Castle... and I like the idea of making the Black Falcon Castle bigger for more internal detail. I'll be building an absolutely massive castle, partly because I picked up about a hundred Black Falcon knights while they were available on the LEGO online store; I don't live in a city big enough to have a LEGO store nearby, sadly.
Returning to this video after watching the actual Part 1... and I love the idea of enlarging the moat perimeter and putting in an outer wall. I'll be doing something similar with my project; I have eight 3 in 1 castle sets, which provide a perfect parts assortment for building outer walls, and a couple of Lion Knights castles, which are perfect central keep designs that lack outer wall structures. I'd like to get a few more 3 in 1 castles before they get retired... but getting to my nearest LEGO store is tricky for reasons mentioned above.
I love how the new medieval scene is coming along! The river provides a nice breakup of green and just adds a nice feature to the build. I also like the battle idea of yours and if you want some lore behind it, well it could be the dominance of territory for either faction. I definitely think the build needs some trees as well as some more little details around the river. Such as, rocks, pebbles, slopes of various shades of greys and browns and some animal life (something simple like frogs).
Personally, I'd like to see one big realistic castle built to the actual scale of a real castle. I'd turn all the castles into one. Living in North Wales I'd recommend looking at Caernarfon castle for inspiration and a sense of scale. This way the medival village could be within the walls of the castle, and could easily be integrated with the new city layout.
What did you with the winter village/christmas sets? Did you move them to other place? Did you dismount the sets? Or did you store them? Really enjoy all your work in there! Truly inspirational!! Keep up the great work!
Just a suggestion ;) use lions knights castle like a gate between narrow part and a wide part of the display table. and maybe put a castle that needs to be milsplated at the place of it ?
Next you should finally build the shops for the amusement park. I'd take ideas from the new Disney Princess market set, might be a great Mrs Bricksie Project 😊
I love the terrain it’s crazy how fast you build mils plates and terraform an entire river. Love this series question though what about adding a helms deep and Rivendell section in your new studio in the spring?
That's what I call an epic medieval build! It would be interesting to see if you build a time machine or a portal of some sort to connect it with the main city.
The MOC castle looks off next to the blacksmith as it is such a big building so I think you should raise up the castle so that it looks much bigger then the blacksmith as it should look - great video keep up the good work!
Pretty sure there isn't room, but could you elevate the Winter Village to make it look like it is in the mountains? That would give you the separation needed between the Forest and Village.
I'm not sure if your castles will each have a storied history, meaning one castle has a repaired wall, from a previous breach. I went to my first LUG meeting (FortLUG) and I had a lot of questions. Overall, I'm pleased with the LUG activities; one of the reasons for me seeking membership, and I would be interested in a series of videos, (as best as possible,) if you ever decide to go to your local LUG meetings, because I also had to leave my comfort zone.😂
What if the moat flows from the river, with the river forming the front of the moat? That would allow more room in front of the castle and maybe the drawbridge could be crossing it. I could imagine generations of knights fighting over a river drawbridge until nobody knows who built it in the first place
Took down winter village way too early 😂 weather doen here in the mid-west is horrible its -10 (feels like -31 with windchill) and we have had more snow than ever before.
Looking good, but that's a lot of green right now. Hopefully you can break up the green with maybe some brown 'dirt' areas or do something else to add more colors.
Why don’t you make the market a sort of communal thing between the castles either side of the bridge with knights from both castles meeting there and trading. You could also include some houses and things there too. Just a suggestion though. Thanks for the amazing medieval build
i think this year, 2024, Lego will bring back a new version of the medieval market village (10193 i think) as a lego icons set? , so maybe you want that aswell when it will come, and maybe reserve some space for that Bricksie?
You're not wrong but consider the real truth in history and that is one kingdom could have many castles to defend it, but Mrs Bricksie is right too that you need to change the layout your kingdom if it's to make sense and present well, I would suggest you think about the layout before you lay bricks down. 😊😊
Hi from the UK 🇬🇧 usually medieval castles wouldn't need an extra wall around them but some castles have a wall that expends out from the castle that would surround the local town or village! We still have places like that here in the UK that has a wall that surrounds the local town so perhaps that's what you should do create a small village that is surrounded by a wall that starts from the castle 😃
Man you have been the whole inspiration for getting back into Lego. Thank you man. Your videos are awesome, so awesome to see you and your family have grown so much in these last few years. You are an amazing father and an inspiration for all of us Lego enthusiasts young and old. I love the castle scene, cannot wait to see more!
Welcome back
@@ingridwinn9082 thank you:) I’m having so much fun, only problem is I’m a adult now with money😂😂
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Awesome idea!!!! Definitely build the exterior wall and the moat at the edges of the table!!!!
Imagine the EPIC battle that could be happening between these castles!
Loving this medieval layout!
Your landscape and vegetation is on point!
Wow! That bridge look really, really good! Great job!
The river turned out beautifully! All the great greenery you put around it really makes it pop.
You could have an archery tournament happening around the grounds, I love these castles so much!
The Lego math on the river is sooo satisfying.
I think I agree with you that the castle would be so cool with a fortress wall around it. It doesn’t have to be super tall or anything because it would block the view of the castle, but then you could add some stories of minifigs trying to scale the walls to sneak in 👍🏼
Adding the castle grounds is an awesome idea. Maybe not in this layout as there are space constraints, but maybe you can do it in the new space. You could also elevate the castle inside the grounds... Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see you doing the switch to the new space
Love to see a big green field with a river! I need access to a PAB wall for green plate! I've been growing my Castle setup, building a 2x size Majisto Workshop, and after seeing you take apart your Black Falcon Knights' Castle, I doubled-down, building a whole basement level in MILS, while continuing to MOC the main castle and make it stronger. I built 2 MILS plate, so the castle can still split apart. I brought it to convention last year, with credit to Made With Brix, and folks still loved it, was glad I brought it even though it wasn't "my" design. But this base level is, and it still needs some reworking.
Great to see your medieval scene getting along . I remember my first ever Lego set was a castle unfortunately I never got to keep it . Happy to hear things are looking up with the new place coming soon . Can’t wait to see it carry on the great work. Your friend Chris
I like the idea of having the wall around the castle with grounds. You could have lots of vendors. Also you should have some farming fields maybe windmill grinding grain too.
One option is to blend all the castles into one single castle complex - one becomes the Palace, another becomes the military garrison, and another the market and services (blacksmith, bakery, etc).
Ideally, have a corner hill to cascade the castle onto, into and under!
You could make a section of outer wall that encompasses the jousting and have crops and small wood - this would allow you to expand the outer wall in your new space and have an invading army attack it.
I highly recommend putting the MOC castle at an angle to make it look more interesting and the layout less grid-like. Otherwise, all of your ideas sound great. 👍
I love how where the castle section is. And where the winter villainess was, is quite like your work in progress zone. Switch out different projects to work on. I LOVE the castle area.
Love seeing the medieval builds. Also really appreciate you building with the pieces you have, it gives us ideas of builds we could do with the pieces we have.
I love medieval Lego so much, I'm so glad you started posting these videos. Excited to see whats next!
The river looks great!
looks great, so much detail
If you could get another white low shelving unit to add onto the edge of your set up, going into the cove area. You can then move the Falcon Knight castle to the left and set up a 3 points type of theme where each castle is at the end of an area. I would also suggest elevating the Falcon Knight castle if possible onto a hill or mountain-scape.
Maaan I love this theme so much!
A very nice-looking bit of river! Also agree that the Lion-knight castle fits better at the new place where you put it.
You should look back at all the old lego castle sets so you can get ideas...they had cool catapults and jails...fun stuff.
Haven’t seen the ocean and the stream with the kayaker recently. WOW Jordan, that looks amazing!!!
Awesome video as always! Keep up the great work!
Just a quick thought (maybe someone already mentioned it before): it would be cool to combine your custom castle with the Lion knights' castle. You can extend the wall on the far side of the Black falcon one to reach to the Lion knights' castle forming a single long fortification.
And then branch out the exterior wall and build the village like you thought. So basically it will create a giant medieval fortification combining a few things. Also kinda make sense that the jousting and blacksmith will be outside of that.
Architecturally it will be a bit mixed, but real life castles sometimes took ages to build and may got a few different styles incorporated in them.
Update is already looking good🤩
This new layout is giving me some inspiration to start my Medieval and or Pirate MOC’s. Keep Brickin.
One thing to consider when you decide to make a bigger castle/fortress, a smaller castle could serve as the bailey for an outer wall with the bigger castle inside that outer wall.
very nice ... cool river n bridge
cobbled pathways and medieval signs would be cool
Looks Great
Dude you need to put Rivendell in this medieval world
If you could attach the two motes to the river I think that would look great and highlight the motes a bit.
Hey bricksie - i always dig your videos -- we have lots of castles here in the UK! maybe check out Bodiam Castle in Kent for some insprarion for your medieval build - it has a cool moat and bridge ! thanks for all the great videos
Hope you have a whole Medieval section in your new studio space! ❤ Eventually.
I got an idea: you could build only a part of the grounds wall, along the river, and another part just before the lion knights castle. So it would imply that the castle grounds are bigger and encapsulate the blacksmith and the jousting scene. That would make for a larger grounds, and would also leave more room around the castle for details
That bridge is really cool and it looks great but it does not work on that river The bridge is sitting in the middle of the river those two arches were the water supposed to flow under those are sitting above the shores and there's no room for the water to go through they only needs to be one arch over the whole thing but again that bridge is beautiful it just doesn't quite work on that river either widen the river or have the bridge with one arch
I'm watching this for the first time *after* seeing Part 2 (or is it Part 3)... and I love that bridge. I'll definitely be doing something similar with my castle diorama build. I also like the relocation of the Lion Knights' Castle... and I like the idea of making the Black Falcon Castle bigger for more internal detail. I'll be building an absolutely massive castle, partly because I picked up about a hundred Black Falcon knights while they were available on the LEGO online store; I don't live in a city big enough to have a LEGO store nearby, sadly.
Returning to this video after watching the actual Part 1... and I love the idea of enlarging the moat perimeter and putting in an outer wall. I'll be doing something similar with my project; I have eight 3 in 1 castle sets, which provide a perfect parts assortment for building outer walls, and a couple of Lion Knights castles, which are perfect central keep designs that lack outer wall structures. I'd like to get a few more 3 in 1 castles before they get retired... but getting to my nearest LEGO store is tricky for reasons mentioned above.
Great setup.🤯
Looks sweet, man! Impressive!
Great project
Castle sets are amazing. Good job! :) I love how you designed castle scene. :)
You should add helms deep and orthanc into the scene 🤘 whenever you find the mini figures 😱
looks nice but the bridge u made is blocking the river with the middle part of the bridge no boat/skiff or cano fit underneath it
a small village outside the castle grounds would be nice!
I'm loving where this is heading! Don't get me wrong I liked the Winter village, but I like Castles more :-)
I love how the new medieval scene is coming along! The river provides a nice breakup of green and just adds a nice feature to the build. I also like the battle idea of yours and if you want some lore behind it, well it could be the dominance of territory for either faction. I definitely think the build needs some trees as well as some more little details around the river. Such as, rocks, pebbles, slopes of various shades of greys and browns and some animal life (something simple like frogs).
Personally, I'd like to see one big realistic castle built to the actual scale of a real castle. I'd turn all the castles into one. Living in North Wales I'd recommend looking at Caernarfon castle for inspiration and a sense of scale. This way the medival village could be within the walls of the castle, and could easily be integrated with the new city layout.
What did you with the winter village/christmas sets? Did you move them to other place? Did you dismount the sets? Or did you store them? Really enjoy all your work in there! Truly inspirational!! Keep up the great work!
Awesome!
Just a suggestion ;) use lions knights castle like a gate between narrow part and a wide part of the display table. and maybe put a castle that needs to be milsplated at the place of it ?
Great job. Maybe since you have two arches over the river you could widen the water below it. Just a thought. I do enjoy watching your channel.
Next you should finally build the shops for the amusement park. I'd take ideas from the new Disney Princess market set, might be a great Mrs Bricksie Project 😊
I’m glad that the last diorama in this Lego room is a medieval 🏰 diorama. I like lego castles.
I love the terrain it’s crazy how fast you build mils plates and terraform an entire river. Love this series question though what about adding a helms deep and Rivendell section in your new studio in the spring?
That's what I call an epic medieval build! It would be interesting to see if you build a time machine or a portal of some sort to connect it with the main city.
Just got into Lego one year ago .
Put together the hogwart castle, titanic , hogwart express last week
Love the breaking up the castles. Have you thought of a peasant hovel at the side of the river or a water mill?
The MOC castle looks off next to the blacksmith as it is such a big building so I think you should raise up the castle so that it looks much bigger then the blacksmith as it should look - great video keep up the good work!
I think you should leave your black falcon castle as is and add a wall with gate across the front of it and add a castle town/market behind the wall!
Pretty sure there isn't room, but could you elevate the Winter Village to make it look like it is in the mountains? That would give you the separation needed between the Forest and Village.
I'm not sure if your castles will each have a storied history, meaning one castle has a repaired wall, from a previous breach. I went to my first LUG meeting (FortLUG) and I had a lot of questions. Overall, I'm pleased with the LUG activities; one of the reasons for me seeking membership, and I would be interested in a series of videos, (as best as possible,) if you ever decide to go to your local LUG meetings, because I also had to leave my comfort zone.😂
This diorama needs a forest with a dragon layr or elves houses, and in the shelves below the diorama you could make a dwarve mine
Ps are you thinking about putting a dragon somewhere. I think they go well with medieval scenarios. Just a thought
You should make the castle bigger instead of making bigger walls
What if the moat flows from the river, with the river forming the front of the moat? That would allow more room in front of the castle and maybe the drawbridge could be crossing it. I could imagine generations of knights fighting over a river drawbridge until nobody knows who built it in the first place
Something cool would be having a castle on a mountain / hill
The bridge might look better at an angle
Once you get the warehouse you should build a custom roller coaster
Bricksie the bridge doesn't look right with the 2 Arches. Where the water meets the 2 Arch support in the water isn't realistic at all.
Took down winter village way too early 😂 weather doen here in the mid-west is horrible its -10 (feels like -31 with windchill) and we have had more snow than ever before.
Looking good, but that's a lot of green right now. Hopefully you can break up the green with maybe some brown 'dirt' areas or do something else to add more colors.
You can put the castle under a angle would be cool
Why don’t you make the market a sort of communal thing between the castles either side of the bridge with knights from both castles meeting there and trading. You could also include some houses and things there too. Just a suggestion though. Thanks for the amazing medieval build
Add more trees and get a little forest going
You should add a forest and add that faction to the midevil layout
When does the new medieval market come out?
Blacksmith house looks out of scale against the castles.
Do you have majesto gwp?
I think you should make the castle bigger so you have more space for interior.
You could have a ticket booth with a costume department.
i think this year, 2024, Lego will bring back a new version of the medieval market village (10193 i think) as a lego icons set? , so maybe you want that aswell when it will come, and maybe reserve some space for that Bricksie?
Swap the other castle and the jousting over to increase the distance between them
Hi bricksie loving the castles could you build a jousting area. For the knights
it might be cool to turn one of the castles a little bit, like 15° now everything is in corners of 90°
I think that bridge should have 1 central arch going over the water instead of it going into the water and blocking it with arches on the banks.
That there's no a river, that's a wee burn
Ιf i remember well you have a second blacksmith so you can add a watermill
Don't forget Majesto
Mmh maybe a Dragon Cave would be an Option
Green wedge plate shortage.........Lego Christmas trees will be on sale in some places......
You could make a star fort instead
As much as I love the medieval blacksmith, it is just way to high for these castles
You're not wrong but consider the real truth in history and that is one kingdom could have many castles to defend it, but Mrs Bricksie is right too that you need to change the layout your kingdom if it's to make sense and present well, I would suggest you think about the layout before you lay bricks down. 😊😊
Why is there a river if you're going to make a moat?
Finally I caught I just made video 😂
Each side of the battle should be on eac side of the river
Little market maybe?
It was a mistake changing the height of the towers. All 4 towers should be the same height
Day 32 of asking for a double corner town hall!