![]() South side - the front of the fortress is most symmetrical. Next to the south-east corner, we can see many mushrooms (higher and lower) growing on rocks and grass beneath the wall. East side has more dark azure round plates on bottom. In the north-east corner we can see the base of the tower. West side is lower rock formation with as many different angles and foliage. Rest of the walls are lower, only of height of 4 bricks to the first floor of the fortress. The rear wall of the Fortress, the one opposite of the entrance, has to be the special one as the rocks are higher than the floor of first level and its top reaches the second level of the building. That would also make the baseplate more fragile and this one - trust me - could be just lifted with one hand and relocated elsewhere as it’s incredibly strong and firm! Northside rock formation (between 10 and 11 brick height). Two layers top part supported by tiles - not plates would make it possible - but it’s already a super complicated build. At this point I think the only thing that would make it perfect is… Accessible dungeons below. None of the other buildings I saw or built have so much work put in the foundation. ![]() For me this baseplate makes this moc the most unique. ![]() It is built with the most (41 of 45 available) of “Panel 1x4x3 (Side Supports) (60581)” parts. Between two layers of baseplate - the Tan ground and Dark Tan floor of first Level of the Fortress - there is a 3 brick high construction supporting the whole building. ![]() Three 31120 sets have many Dark Azure and Tan plates and this construction uses all of them. Bottom level is built with two layers of tan colored plates. Incredibly strong base plate made of big plates and many many bricks has two main levels. Hee we have various colored clopes and bricks arranged under different angles and covered by various foliage (geens, leaves, flowers on the ground and in the water or the ivy on the walls). It cannot be just a flat surfaced vertical wall as we would not distinguish it from the castle walls on top of it. That might be work which I’m overusing while reviewing Medieval themed sets and MOCs but it's important to make it interesting. Mentioned rocky hill is very interesting. But let's go back to the Lego build whe currently talking about. The “high ground” is very important (as one famous Jedi said once). It’s very good approach of the design as it's faithfull to medieval engineering, as the fortification was always built on any kind of natural elevation - hill or island - to make it easier to defend and spot enemy. Whole Fortress is placed on a rocky hill surrounded by water (moat or lake). Very nice to build and a great addition on the display. It’s one of the most varied and realistic medieval constructions I have seen so far. It depicts a great medieval fortification built with an inventory of three 31120 sets. There are many more possibilities to build fantastic constructions using multiplied inventory of this brilliant Creator 3 in 1 set and we can find instructions that guide us to build great constructions like… like The Medieval Fortress - MOC 80329 by mocscout delivered via rebrickable. As I already said there is no point to buy just one 31120 Medieval Castle set when you could have two of them. (comment 1/4 as it was too long) Little review from my side.
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