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Posted by Caleb N. Diffell on August 21, 2006, 4:40 pm
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I just got back a bunch of stuff from my parents that's been in storage
since I was younger. One of the items was a large tub filled with LEGO
blocks I had as a kid, mostly castle stuff. I found peeron.com where
you can see the instructions to these, and was able to recreate several
great old castle sets:
6012-1 Siege Cart
6074-1 Black Falcon's Fortress
6016-1 Knight's Arsenal
6049-1 Viking Voyager
6066-1 Camouflaged Outpost
6039-1 Twin Arm Launcher
6018-1 Battle Dragon
6042-1 Dungeon Hunters
6081-1 King's Mountain Fortress
6061-1 Siege Tower
6022-1 Horse Cart
6060-1 Knight's Challenge (incomplete, unfortunately)
In addition, I have the instructions to Black Monarch's Castle (and
tried to put it together, but am missing a lot of pieces - mostly the
curved tower tops and some of the black window toppings) as well as the
6080-1 King's Castle, and the 6077-2 Forsestmen's River Fortress. I'm
uncertain if I have enough pieces to complete the King's Castle or
River Fortress without cannibalizing some of the above sets I've
already completed.
Anyway, I noticed that there are either 2 distinct colors of gray
blocks, or else some of my blocks have "yellowed" over time. Both
colors are the typical "light gray" but some are decidedly more of a
yellow or tannish tint than others. I'm wondering if I've just managed
to mix blocks from different sets so the gray is not exactly the
same...? Or is this a known problem with some of the gray blocks
changing color over time? It's weird because there is not a spectrum of
color; there are 2 distinct colors, one more of a pure gray and one
that's noticeably yellowish. Anyone else run across this? I'm thinking
I may try to swap out pieces from the sets to get all the "yellowish"
gray blocks together in a set if possible.
Since I can't complete the Black Monarch's Castle (but have a bunch of
the figures and probably 85-90% of the needed blocks) I thought I might
try to use the black pieces and change the King's Mountain Fortress
into a "Black Monarch's Mountain Fortress". This might free up enough
gray blocks to complete the King's Castle, which would be cool - giving
me 1 castle for each of the 3 factions.
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