The second floor jutting out and being larger than the first floor was actually a real architectural technique! It is called "Jettying", and had a couple of uses; The first floor was usually cold, with just a dirt floor, and was not great for living. So it was used as storage, while the second floor was the actual living space. (This is also seen on the blacksmith set, which is cool) The second floor was made larger because not only did this create more living space, but they could do so without taking away space for the roads in-between the houses! Just a fun fact that people often think is just a fantasy invention (: (Mind you this was not super widespread and was mostly a west Europe thing.)
And it had one major drawback: in case of fire, the closeness of the floors made it easier to spread quickly through the cities... another drawback was that the streets were much darker because they received less lights.... that s one thing french people can thanks Haussman for, as he got rid of this in Paris...
Great build Ben! It’s awesome to get a behind the scenes look into a building style I rarely dabble in! The way you did the foundation of the house was really cool with the flex tube and clips! Using the yellowed bricks was a great touch as well
Such an outstanding creation! I especially love the use of dark brown as opposed to the more commonly seen reddish brown color! Adds so much more contrast to the white.
Ben, if you're going to make a video like this, you need to upload the still images the same day! Like, right before the video goes live, make sure they're up. This is how more Castle MOCs should be. Detailed, but not overly so that it becomes too busy. The use of the yellowed pieces is really smart, and your consistent desaturated color pallet really works. I never noticed the light aqua pieces, but they start to look like bare stone, maybe with some liken growing, they don't look like they're part of the blue family of colors, and that's great. The sand green and olive also make it feel like it's a slightly marshy landscape, but after a bit of a cold snap where there's some frost on the ground. My one critique would be to have your vines growing on the building have an origin point on the ground. It just needs one spot where it crawled up over the stone base, or through those gaps, and then it can start growing on and in the walls popping in and out. You make a space fan appreciate a castle build.
@@BenCossyOfficial Well, at least it did eventually happen within the same day. There was something that took like a whole week before, it was agonizing.
Nice work! Maybe too much work, but an effective result makes it worth it. It must be my colour blindness, but I can't see the difference between the sand green and the light aqua. They look identical to me.
Hey, random question - a while back I got some cargo pants, like, with a lot of pockets. Do you think those could work to use while MOCing? Like, for me it seems ridiculius, but like, actually, I think I'd want to try 😂 Because, you know, you just wouldn't have to go around the room as much in the long run And my room isn't even all that big to easily be able to go around when all my boxes are out, but even then I first need to find how to place them so they all fit nicely around on the ground, the bed, the windowsill, table, chair, shelf, and now, pockets?! Hell yeah!
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The second floor jutting out and being larger than the first floor was actually a real architectural technique!
It is called "Jettying", and had a couple of uses;
The first floor was usually cold, with just a dirt floor, and was not great for living. So it was used as storage, while the second floor was the actual living space. (This is also seen on the blacksmith set, which is cool)
The second floor was made larger because not only did this create more living space, but they could do so without taking away space for the roads in-between the houses!
Just a fun fact that people often think is just a fantasy invention (:
(Mind you this was not super widespread and was mostly a west Europe thing.)
And it had one major drawback: in case of fire, the closeness of the floors made it easier to spread quickly through the cities... another drawback was that the streets were much darker because they received less lights.... that s one thing french people can thanks Haussman for, as he got rid of this in Paris...
Awesome job
very entertaining video and your detailed MOC is very impressive 🫨 👍🏼
This is so beautiful!
I couldn't even guess it was Lego.
Great build Ben! It’s awesome to get a behind the scenes look into a building style I rarely dabble in! The way you did the foundation of the house was really cool with the flex tube and clips! Using the yellowed bricks was a great touch as well
Cheers mate, glad you like it :)
Looks awesome
Love the dedails
Of course i know what a dedail is
XD
Such an outstanding creation! I especially love the use of dark brown as opposed to the more commonly seen reddish brown color! Adds so much more contrast to the white.
Looks absolutely amazing!👍🏻👍🏻
the light aqua also makes me think of lichen which is also very fitting!
That looks amazing.
wow, this looks great!!
I love how deceptively simple the build is! It looks so elaborate and complex at a glance.
As a beginner it’s amazing to see your process
Sick build Ben, love your system videos .. miss them! We need a room tour wrap up!
I have a room tour video here. Unless you mean something different when you say wrap up haha :P
th-cam.com/video/CvdVmgS8o_U/w-d-xo.html&t
@@BenCossyOfficial yea I think I forgot about this one! Sorry!
@@josephnalis No dramas ;)
So cool !
Really loved the video
Such a lovely tutorial, I learned a ton, and a very beautiful build! Thanks!
Awsome design and creation!!!
I love this moc, it looks really good!
Wonderful build and breakdown video. Great stuff 👍🤩
Ben, if you're going to make a video like this, you need to upload the still images the same day! Like, right before the video goes live, make sure they're up.
This is how more Castle MOCs should be. Detailed, but not overly so that it becomes too busy. The use of the yellowed pieces is really smart, and your consistent desaturated color pallet really works. I never noticed the light aqua pieces, but they start to look like bare stone, maybe with some liken growing, they don't look like they're part of the blue family of colors, and that's great. The sand green and olive also make it feel like it's a slightly marshy landscape, but after a bit of a cold snap where there's some frost on the ground.
My one critique would be to have your vines growing on the building have an origin point on the ground. It just needs one spot where it crawled up over the stone base, or through those gaps, and then it can start growing on and in the walls popping in and out.
You make a space fan appreciate a castle build.
Images went up on Instagram a few mins after the video went up, images will be on Flickr now (Would have done it sooner, was busy watching Dune 2)
@@BenCossyOfficial Well, at least it did eventually happen within the same day. There was something that took like a whole week before, it was agonizing.
Great work, thanks for sharing!
Ok , now your just showing off.. lol. Great job
amazing build ! Great video, the perfect mix between building and showing techniques.
This is absolutely beautiful
Lovely build, I would love to see more of your Mocs, keep them coming
Sand green gang rise up!
Sand colors squad XD from Life on Mars
I've got no words honestly, wellll done! ❤
Amazing!! 😍
Nice work! Maybe too much work, but an effective result makes it worth it. It must be my colour blindness, but I can't see the difference between the sand green and the light aqua. They look identical to me.
Awesome moc! Where do you normally find pictures for inspiration?
Hi, just wondering what is the music 4:40?
Phenomenal as always!
Did you consider some dark green foliage? Or still too much of a clash?
I briefly thought about it, but decided against it yeah
Hey, random question - a while back I got some cargo pants, like, with a lot of pockets. Do you think those could work to use while MOCing? Like, for me it seems ridiculius, but like, actually, I think I'd want to try 😂
Because, you know, you just wouldn't have to go around the room as much in the long run
And my room isn't even all that big to easily be able to go around when all my boxes are out, but even then I first need to find how to place them so they all fit nicely around on the ground, the bed, the windowsill, table, chair, shelf, and now, pockets?! Hell yeah!
Well, I wouldn't put the entire boxes in pockets, but you get what I mean 😅
You know what, screw you Ben, now I am gonna be building Lego all evening, what the the hell.
"Huge"