Once upon a time there was a knight who went out looking for a romantic adventure… but the adventure he found was a little more down to earth than he had hoped!
I built this creation for a LEGO Ideas contest–the challenge was to build a minifigure scene. I definitely wanted some humor, and castle is one of the themes I feel most at home with, so a little village was a logical choice!
I wanted to get as many little details into this build as I could, and signpost was a must. The new(ish) quarter tiles worked well for arrows!
This whole MOC is meant to be seen front and back–no false facades here!
I started by building the house with a blue roof–my goal was a quintessential medieval house, not too big since I wanted to build at least one more house for a little village, but big enough to get some good detail. I was inspired by a variety of concept art.
The smaller house is much simpler–mostly studs up, a basic single slant roof–in part because I wanted to put a small awning on one side, and figured having single plate offsets on the wall would be awkward.
The foundation design here is a first for me, and I was happy to be able to continue the same technique for the chimney and tie it all together!
Another really fun part of this build was the little vegetable stall!
The back of the smaller house was looking very plain, so I added a couple tools and a wheel to spice things up a little.
Now to take a look at the techniques behind this creation! First of all the sign, whose two sides are not completely connected to the travis brick in the center.
The roof of the smaller house is not connected at all, but it rests snugly ontop of the four walls.
In good keeping with the unattached roof, the chimney also slides right out!
But the bigger house is by far the more complicated of the two. These tan triangles were the hardest part of the creation. I made use of the new “lightsaber handles” in order to center the tan tiles and clip them onto the rest of the house frame at the same time.
There’s a complicated variety of offsets going on, and these two jumper plates are the connection point for the roof.
Inspired by the LEGO Ideas Blacksmith shop, I decided to try for an angle in the middle of my roof. Since my roof is so much smaller, the solution is way different, but I do love how natural a bit of an angle looks!
These little details around the base of the house were very fun to add, especially the ‘shrooms!
The woodpile is actually attached to the foundation, though the top log is just resting there.
The house is angled on the base, so there are only two attachment points–the purple studs.
Tiles around the outside edges keep the transition seamless. The purple studs are attached to opposite corners of the rectangle of SNOT bricks I used for the foundation.
And that wraps up our look behind my little slice of medieval village!
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What do you think?