Custom Vintage Castle instructions

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I recently completed the instructions to my biggest custom forestmen design (a number of people had been asking for them over the last year or so since I posted the original design). 

https://rebrickable.com/users/classicstylecastle/mocs/

Also you can get 30% off ALL my designs until May 16th using the code 3KGIVE to celebrate reaching 3000 followers on my instagram @classicstylecastle

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To celebrate reaching 4,000 followers on instagram last weekend I'm offering a bundle of ALL MY INSTRUCTIONS at a crazy deal of only €13 for a limited time! That's a discount of over 40% and a saving of €10 on buying them all individually.

https://rebrickable.com/.../clas.../classic-castle-world/...

Big thanks to those that have built my designs in real bricks, whether from my instructions or just figuring it out yourself. It's great seeing people enjoying my designs and supporting my ideas.

Contains instructions for:

Black Wolf Inn

Brown Fox Inn

Ghoulish Gibbet*

Ale Waggon

Village Well*

Blacksmith Inn

Treehouse Treasure Trove

Forestmen's Rest

Forest Camp Out

Forest Cookout*

Border Ambush*

Majisto's Hollow

All instructions are also available individually (asterisk* denotes instructions that are available for free).

For more of my MOCs check out my instagram account https://www.instagram.com/classicstylecastle

MaffyD

That's a fab offer! Really cool buildings too. I've always known a gibbet as an early form of guillotine, but I reckon that's local to where I was brought up. Elsewhere it's still a gruesome way of holding prisoners and making an example out of them.

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MaffyD said:

That's a fab offer! Really cool buildings too. I've always known a gibbet as an early form of guillotine, but I reckon that's local to where I was brought up. Elsewhere it's still a gruesome way of holding prisoners and making an example out of them.

Thanks, yes just trying to boost the bank balance in preparation for the 90th anniversary castle... Didn't know if the gibbet was a bit grim for lego, but seemed to fit the fright knights style, and the prisoner is escaping as well... 

CCC

MaffyD said:

That's a fab offer! Really cool buildings too. I've always known a gibbet as an early form of guillotine, but I reckon that's local to where I was brought up. Elsewhere it's still a gruesome way of holding prisoners and making an example out of them.

Yeah, that's the Halifax Gibbet. 

sklamb

Plenty of gibbet-like details in Ninjago, Pirates of the Caribean, and the original Pirates...

MaffyD

CCC said:

MaffyD said:

That's a fab offer! Really cool buildings too. I've always known a gibbet as an early form of guillotine, but I reckon that's local to where I was brought up. Elsewhere it's still a gruesome way of holding prisoners and making an example out of them.

Yeah, that's the Halifax Gibbet. 

Exactly! We were ahead of our time in killing people via spectacle, apparently. Although saying that, records say if anyone escaped the gibbet before the blade came down and managed to run to beyond the town limits (bizarrely just 500 metres away from the Gibbet), they got to live as long as they didn't return. One person did so and remained free, another decided to come back seven years later. It didn't end well for him.

andhe

I think I lean towards the more 'comical' methods of torture and execution (fr popular culture, not the horrific reality) being a bit more suitable for lego. Eg cages and stocks - good. Chopping of heads and stretching necks - bad.

There's a stocks/pillion in one of the vintage ideas books that I've tried to figure out, but think due to the smallness/blurriness of the that perhaps they detached the minifigs hands to achieve... Which perhaps is a form of lego torture in itself. 

MaffyD

Tickling their feet or something? I could definitely see that happening. Just don't tell Lego Darth Vader he can't use his interrogation droids any more!