finally started the castle with mom today, this one has an absolute ton of pieces and it looks like a lot of little detail work (the trees) that i might take on once we’re done with the structure — the part mom wanted to do anyway. i think we’ve both been both looking forward to this project (the building of castle) and dreading it (the sheer number of pieces). maybe me looking forward to it a little more and mom dreading it a little more but it’s pretty cool we get to spend time doing projects like these together at least
Box frontBox rearStart of the frameFirst facade of the hill? Mountain?Another facade/wall/thingI googled, Neuschwanstein Castle is on a “rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps” I mean that sounds pretty cool to me
welp, got another missing piece 🙁 sucks because we’ll have to put it on pause mostly until we get it since we’re still on the bottom. and, uh, mail to my house from lego to here in the good ol’ us of a might be an issue at the moment…
[edit: didn’t pause just stole a replacement piece out of another bag and kicked the can down the road. probably do the same next time we work on this one as we’ve got a bunch of this hill to build and it uses a ton of those pieces]
The missing culprit (a 2x1x2 “roof tile” in pale green)We continued building what we couldBeginning of the curved wallFinally getting to some actual castle bitsSweet rampart
small progress today, not a lot of pictures as mom was a bit more with it and we were a little chatty (and two were really, really blurry)
Wall in progressWall in place (back left)
small update today was a little struggle but we finished up. kicked the missing piece down the road yet again. also uh we are ready for castle and ready to be done with the hill
This ramp/walkway/path/road? was neatLooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggg castle is longStopped here for the day with a problem area
and a couple more steps/bags done today i was expecting the back of the hill for support structure but nope it was castle time???
Had another picture before this one but it was real blurry so i deleted it, oh well. but neat little castle bit anyhowThe road to the front continuesThese interior windows, how are we ever going to see them?They do look cool, thoughConnecting the road… oh that’s what that round thing in the front was that we built like forever agoAdd a little castle structure and the book called these two towers something specific fix this caption later mindtap ok
more (saturday, october 4th, 2025)
Brain fried today. Captions gonna be slackingAnother spiral staircase tower? Were the other ones?First row of windowsHaven’t really taken many pictures of the back but there was a ramp and windows here this timeFrontRear with mini courtyardAttached to the main structure. The angle tower here was neat and I was wondering what was going to go in that space but it was thisFull-size courtyard. This is where people gather for guided tours of the real thing. Maybe I’ll find some minifigs to put here
tiny bit more today (sunday october 5th?) mom was kinda tired and i really wanted to do some work on the train station
More castle groundsA lot more castle groundsThe guard tower (very square)
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