The LEGO Castle Book: Build Your Own Mini Medieval World Kindle Edition

I bought this book for my wife, an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO), as a Christmas gift. The book includes guidance on how to make the various components of different styles of castles and encourages the reader to use these techniques to construct their own LEGO castle. The final chapter contains parts lists and instructions for six "master builds" – a welcome addition following Friesen's beautiful "LEGO Micro Cities" book, which does not include full instructions for any of its highlighted city builds. I used the parts list to purchase the necessary pieces for the first master build, Sleeping Dragon castle, to the surprise and delight of this book's recipient. Unfortunately, the day after Christmas I got to watch her utter frustration time and time again as she discovered a multitude of errors in the parts lists – which it turns out was wrong by 21 parts!! From the other reviews, it certainly sounds like this is a problem throughout the book. For a book as lovingly crafted as this, No Starch Press should be aghast to have it publish with so many errors, and should immediately post corrections on their website. I hope that any future printings of this book correct these errors, and that No Starch does better to ensure accuracy in any future LEGO books it publishes.

This is a really cool book that serves as an "incubator" for your creativity, LEGO knowledge and inspiration for "microscope" LEGO castle builds.The author does state that you should be creative and basically improvise when/where you don't have the bricks necessary for the six builds. Unless your collection is rather vast, I'm willing to bet most people won't have all the pieces necessary to complete models as indicated.Having said that... I was really impressed with the quality, knowledge imparted and how the author "shines a light" on creating castles with LEGO in a microscale format! Another review gripes that there seemed to be a step or two missing... cry me a river!! Even if that may be the case, most people who are seriously going to create these models are going to be insightful enough that they can easily overcome these (very rare) instances and successfully re-create what is detailed within the pages. It's not as though this book comes with all the pieces necessary for these models to be completed, many readers/builders will find it necessary to source the pieces via BrickLink to build these mini-castles.I was inspired and was fairly successful in re-creating the "Lands End Model". I found it necessary to use the darker Azure blue as opposed to the light/moderate blue suggested in the book. While the authors use of the alternative blue would have been desirable, I made "due" with what I had and was happy with the result.After that, I decided to give it a go on my own and created a rather "fantastical/mystical" castle of my very own. Again, my parts limitations dictated the use of dark bluish-gray for the cliffs/land-base and light bluish-gray/gold for the actual castle. While I was pleased with the result, I lack many of the bricks/colors/specialty pieces to really construct it as I would like... but again, was inspired by the author/book!!!!So, in conclusion... if you are looking for inspiration and instructions on how to build in microscale to build castles, I highly recommend this book. It really is gorgeous, informative and a nice followup to Mr. Friesen's LEGO MICRO CITIES.I've got a lengthy shopping list now to pursue on BrickLink so I can build more Micro-castles. The book is definitely geared more towards LEGO builders knowledgable about LEGO parts and will most probably require acquisition of pieces that are not currently in most peoples collections.

HASTY KINDLE RELEASE - appears the formatting is OFF, and pages are not fully visible... only left side of page is visible, and text and pictures run off the right side of the page - this is not in effect on the preview - so what gives? would appreciate a reply from publisher or Amazon on how to fix this, as I am really looking forward to the content in this book - but not on Kindle if I can't view the whole page - I wasn't even able to pinch to zoom out, or anything... is it me, or my Kindle reader version? Please tell me YES - as I hope others don't run into this issue - Will update review once I hear back... or may have to get the dead tree version...

Even tells you where to order special bricks. Many designs. Detailed instructions. Love the waterfalls and other water features. Fantasy at its best.

So many good ideas to inspire Lego lovers of all ages. It's a win!

Great book! Not only is it about Lego, it is informative about the different features represented on actual castles. Very inspiring!

Looking for something unique to build and display on your shelfA Lego castle is full of wonder. Very awesome

Excellent book with some great builds and ideas

The pictures are stunning and there is a lot of interesting information about the history of castles and the kind of workers who built them. Everything is nicely illustrated all in LEGO.

Dieses Buch ist ein tolles Artbook für LEGO-Fans und Modellbauer, die Inspiration suchen, um im winzigen Maßstab Dioramen zu bauen. Tolle Bilder und Anleitungen, um die Projekte nachzubauen.

Producto dañado y el embalaje intacto

EXCELENTES IDEAS