very nice castle! the city style sculpting [emporum] and others, make it shine, now that you mention it, I don t recall big pieces you ve done, only smart, neat, small ones, the stables, and pig...[den?] are stylish and elegant even if pretty simple to do, I don t know why, seeing this, makes me want to do something with horses, they just look so cool, the bridge is just perfect, I might build a castle someday, as I certainly have enough now, but, since I exchanged my medieval figs for used parts...it will have to be another period, a bad guy s lair coold be nice, yours sure is! bravo flare!

Wow, Flare, you have gotten to be a much better builder than when last I saw your builds. :D This castle is extremely well built and put together, with some sweet techniques and excellent attention to detail. Nice work!

The bridge technique is very cool. Z

Wow! Great creation! The water is nice and the castle is beautiful!

Excellent work!

Wow! I love all of the detail you put into this! I especially like your bridge design, it's really cool!

Wow this is amazing i love the water!!

Great build, and lots of great details.

Nice I love that bridge design and the pond. And what no tommy gun in the violin case?

I don't know if I've ever seen that type of pond built with lego bricks like that before; regardless, it's my favorite feature of your castle.

Congratulations on "Across MOCpages", Ben!

Excellent stuff Ben! Lovely job on the landscaping also.

Amazing! The wall is great and I love the bridge. You put some fantastic details into this. Very worthy of Across MOCpages. Congrats!

This is an excellent build, very detailed, and the skill you obviously have with a camera enhances that even further.

This is pretty cool right here Ben, exactly my type of MOC, just got to love it. Smart bridge, beautiful depthness on the water, the SNOT on the walls is looking very clean, and the landscaping is enticing. I'd love to visit it if I was a minifig :D And congratulations on most discussed!

Ben, The build is lovely, and the depth of field photography is great, but can we see some pictures where everything is in focus? ~Dave

Awesome! All 23 pictures of it! Blogged on BrickEnd: http://brickend.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-mighty-castle-of-buduje-by-flare.html

Beautiful landscape! I specially like how you did the different depths of the water areas.

Magic stuff ! Very creative, right down to the lake !>>.....well done

This is truly spectacular! It must be so fun to play with because of all the extraordinary details! Do you know how long it took you to build? That bridge is amazing! How did you make it? I just love the whole lego. you must have spent so much time on it.

This is just stunning! I didn't see the true amount of detail and time you put into this until I scrolled through all of the pictures, let me just say it was totally worth it! The stables, the bridge, the lake, the complexity of the castle wall! You really out-did yourself with this one:D Fantastic job!

Woah! Just wasn't expecting this... :p I was actually thinking about building some Castle MOCs too.

Well to be honest I didn't get many bricks from bricklink towards this project. Most of them I got from my modular buildings. It took a couple months to build this, only because it was off and on.

How do you source that many parts from bricklink or other paces, how long do the bricks take to arrive, and how long does it take to build?

Really nice detailing on the landscape and castle walls - I love the way you've used lots of different techniques to give a variety of shapes to the walls, but it still looks like a coherent whole. It takes a lot of time and bricks to produce something like this; well done!

Very nice.

Amazing!! I think for you next castle you could do the whole castle. That would be really amazing!! So much detail! I really liked the two trees and the stable.

Cool,I like the bridge.

The bridge is really nice. Landscape overall top notch.

I'm speechless. Fantastic build.

Alright! One of the best builds you have done in ages, welcome back in town...

"Epic!"

Absolutely your best Castle ever! The whole build is very clean and the figs are excellent! Great work!

Fantastic. There's no way I could have appreciated this MOC without those 23 photos;) The detail is very thorough and all the grass really gives life to the other features of the landscape. The wooden path and bridge are beautiful, but it's the placement of all of the features that really caught my eye on this one, especially the water features.

Hi Shannon! Thanks a ton for that! I will keep the point of the similar motif in mind for my next castle build. Hopefully my next one will have a more uniformed look :)

ravishingly beautiful!

Excellent work. But I don't know how effective B1s would be deffending the battlements. :P As for CC, I like the castle and all the detail. The landscaping is brilliant. But I don't really like the slope-curvey thing on the wall. Though it's well built I don't think it goes well with a square shaped castle. Maybe a more round castle.

You ask for constructive criticism, and El Barto is the only one down there who'll oblige. Well, the landscaping looks good to me, so allow me to constructively criticize the castle wall. It needs a unifying motif other than the gray and tan mottling. Look it over, starting from the left, and you'll see what I mean: You have a straight stretch of wall, come to a little tower with nice recesses in the walls topped with arches, then it makes a sharp corner. The main gate has this neat ribbed pattern on the sides but it doesn't echo what we naturally expect, which should be some columns going up to an overtopping arch. Then we come to this curved section, which because of the pattern necessary to the technique, doesn't match anything that came before. On the end, the straight lines and sharp angles do mirror the left side, but we lack either columns/recesses or ribs. Each section on its own is well built, clean, looks good. All together in a short stretch of wall looks jumbled. But pick one or two motifs and repeat them, and it will just look "right" in a way this doesn't. All curves or none, columns and recesses or not, it doesn't matter. Just whichever motif you like best (or more practically, what your collection will allow).

there are too much details for getting them all in just few minutes! awesome work !

Very cool, I like the inside and the lake! 5/5

Super. i really likes the water.

Very nice, I'm happy you finished this after all, great job on the castle walls, the bridge looks nice but also inpractical, keep up the good work

Lovely work on the trees, caught me out for a second there. Excellent detailing on the minilake/pondthing. The wall itself is good as well, so excellent work!

Thanks so much everyone! :) Let me just answer some questions: No it was 64x48. The river was blue plates beneath trans-clear plates, but the lake was dark tan & tan plates beneath trans light-blue studs. :)

Awesome! I love the lake, and the castle, and the river, and the bridge... Well, I love everything!

Great castle! I especially like the bridge. The lake looks great too! Also the curve wall makes the MOC look even better. Can't wait to see your next castle! :)

Fun details all around! The pond and curving road are excellent!

Awesome job! I've never seen a bridge built like that.

Deffinetly one of your best creations yet! I love the bridge and the castle walls :)

Wow, great job Flare! But wasn't that island MOC you did 64x64?

Great build- lots of good techniques and I really am drawn to that pond for some reason; makes if feel like a marshy area to me.

Gorgeous water, mind-boggling bridge, and very pleasing castle wall detail--love those angles! You best so far!

There are some sweet, sweet details on the castle wall's architecture, and I love that bridge. You're better at Castle than anything else.

Nicely done! I like that little bridge, crafty parts usage there. Dancing monkeys, always a plus. The main wall looks a tad short, but still, well detailed. One option would have been to just make it taller, another, since it's a facade anyway, have a taller wall on the back edge of the baseplate, like a forced perspective, to create some height. Just a thought. Looks like your siblings had fun!

The mighty Flare strikes again! Excellent castle design. Although I've got to say my favorite parts are actually the pond and the bridge (might have to use that sometime). The angles of the walls are great as well.

A violin case...? Really...? Well, still a really sweet castle moc, and great technique for the drawbridge!

Love the bridge!

Great job. Love the angles of the wall. One question: how did you get the blue tint on the lake? Blue plates beneath trans-clear 1x2s?

Excellent work, I love the angles you put into your castle walls!

Excellent work, I love the pond.

everything is so awesome but the bridge is my favorite!

Great job. I really like the bridge. :)

Pretty cool. Castle seems to be "the thing" amongst TFOLs these last months, and I am actually glad that my kind is building something better tahn cubans and sharpied clones. Is still boring, though.

The castle wall is incredible! Love your idea with the bridge! And the pond is very realistic! And about the sibling remake... You're not the only one with the problem. :P

If you do a Pick-a-Brick at a lego store, you can get TONS of grass pieces. Awesome creation!

Great job! I still don't believe how many grass pieces people can possibly have!

warning do not step on grass lol

Epic! I really like the bridge, and the different color of the lake vs the stream. Superb build! 5/5

Amazing build! I really like the waterplace. Greetz, Elio

Amazing Work Here, Flare!

Sweet build. Very eye-pleasing. -LB Senior

Great one, mate. :)

Oh, my goodness! FANTASTIC build- great castle design, and very nice foilage!