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Building on what @ColoradoBricks said, you could use that style in many colours. There are classic castle sets which have half-timbered/mock-Tudor bits in black/yellow and black/red, and I think you could make it work with a lot of lighter/pastel-y colours (like the blue in the MMV).
There is a guy on MOCpages (whose name I cannot remember - d'oh!) who has made huge castles/fortresses/buildings in red/yellow/white (original brick colours, basically) for an old-school Classic Castle look. If I'm not mistaken the idea is that it's just a massive continuation of the imaginary Lego kingdom he invented/played with as a kid, but for the life of me I can't remember his name!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/buurli_burri/13868293944/
And @diggydoes maybe not THAT bright lol
EDIT: I see they're all collected in one place here.
At Bricks by the Bay I spotted a beautiful nice pink castle, unfortunately I was unable to find it again after Googling for it.
Here's also an interesting use of lime in the standard MMV style layout.
Simon (who did the rainbow castle above) has used bright colours a number of times
The rainbow build was in fact for a whole competition based around the colours of 'Skittles' so there's a few other block colours build that might inspire you
http://classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25172&hilit=skittles&start=15
I think the teal roof build on brothers-brick might have been one by Derfel Cadarn. He often uses surprising colours and intense detail in his builds, though when I found it, I discovered it was from 3 years ago... how time flies.
Sorry for resurrecting an old topic, but here is a castle (actually made of brick) I want to build and I am wondering how to achieve this light red-ish brick colour. Maybe some of you have some ideas that could help.
Thanks in advance.
It looks as though you'd be building in graduated rather than solid colour, and looking at the Lego colour palette from 2016, I wonder if nougat, medium nougat and light nougat would be useful, amongst others. Admittedly, I'm not familiar with the costs/availability of those colours on Bricklink etc...
Medium Nougat (Medium Dark Flesh) is much more common, and for a build like this I think it, Brick Yellow (tan), and possibly Dark Orange could be a good combination?
Regrettably, at the last LEGO convention I attended (BrickFair Virginia), the Castle section was still mostly dominated by very conventional greys.