Wow. This is awesome. The water looks great and I like the curves and colours of the castle. Looks real!!!

Lovely Castle creation ! Especially the water, giving the most perfect effect !>.....well done

That's fine, I thought as much, just thought I'd ask. Thanks anyway. :)

Thanks a bunch everyone! :D Thanks! No, sorry. I'm not going to be participating this year. Thanks for the invite though! ;)

Excellent as always! Are you planning on joining the Mocathalon this year? It would be an honor to have you on my team.

Irish Castles. You're doing them right :)

Awesome job! This is a superior demonstration of expert SNOT. The rockwork is awesome, and the curved wall is awesome! Great job with the detailing, the water, and the foliage, as always! Great job! I really like the design points, and the detailing, as I mentioned earlier, is superb! the castle itself is awesome, and the type of tower you chose to build is sweet! Great, great job. Mind blowing creation!

This is a work of art.

Superb. -LB Senior

Brilliant, as always, Mark. I love all the different tones in the castle walls, and the rock work is, of course, amazing. The wall around the little courtyard is a nice touch. You changed it up a bit on your water effects, going with the trans-pieces rather than just straight bricks. It makes the water more vivid and gives it that transparent feel that you can't get with normal bricks. Excellent work.

So beautiful!

A very fine model indeed !>.....well done

Man what an awesome MOC! Stunning rock and wave work. The castle is just fantastic!

love this. such a detailed, compact little stronghold! so good!

awesome work!

Water looks wonderful

Nice details and a great tower! It's just awesome!

Nice details and a great tower! It's just awesome!

Wow, awesome! I love the techniques and details

Nice water, and I like the use of minifig legs for the arrow slit window.

Beautiful. The curved wall is great.

wonderful as always... it's the stunning effect about your speed too, that scares me ;-) ! Do you dismantel your MOCs after taking pictures and sit down to built the next, or do you have millions of pieces and you built the castles hole the year and only present them us in that speed to the end of the year ?

Lovely Mark! I LOVE the curved wall! Your water technique is amazing, as always! ;D I am using it in a upcoming moc, with credit of course. Best of luck! Talk to you soon!

Lovely Mark! I LOVE the curved wall! Your water technique is amazing, as always! ;D I am using it in a upcoming moc, with credit of course. Best of luck! Talk to you soon!

Mr. Spacek has beaten me to the punch and said, in essence, my exact thoughts... but this time, I feel this build deserves a large, detailed comment (not that the others didn't, of course, but this one strikes me for some reason as something special). Man, it's fantastic. Where to start? I love the rockwork; you're an expert of SNOT and incorporating those awesome tan paths into the landscape. The foliage is amazing, as usual (nice olive green useage!). The stud-water technique is awesome and vibrant, and the weathered castle looks great! The colors are perfect, the curvature brilliant, and the architecture stunning. Well done, Mr. Erickson... well done.

Mr. Spacek has beaten me to the punch and said, in essence, my exact thoughts... but this time, I feel this build deserves a large, detailed comment (not that the others didn't, of course, but this one strikes me for some reason as something special). Man, it's fantastic. Where to start? I love the rockwork; you're an expert of SNOT and incorporating those awesome tan paths into the landscape. The foliage is amazing, as usual (nice olive green useage!). The stud-water technique is awesome and vibrant, and the weathered castle looks great! The colors are perfect, the curvature brilliant, and the architecture stunning. Well done, Mr. Erickson... well done.

Love the use of both the Dark Grey and Dark Bluish Grey to show weathering on the rocks.

I'd love to leave in-depth comments on all your CCCX builds, but you pump them out so fast I don't have time. I hope the simple gorgeous, brilliant, stunning, and masterful aren't too boring. :) That said, gorgeous work Mark! This is stunningly masterful. Brilliant stuff mate! ;)

Really nice build, but it has the feel of a tower more than a full castle.

I'm not real sure about the wavy footprint of the wall. It seems a bit odd. I love that keep, though.

More pics yay! Get a better view of the front of the castle in these.

Totally amazing!!!

Beautiful work on this. Great wall texturing and great water technique. Awesome work!

No words but... Beautiful, just amazing! Wow!!!