I mentioned a while ago my intent on entering the CC Battles Contest. i've had my entries completed for over a week now, but I finally got to photographing them today. It's my first year entering the annual contest, but it was exciting (and difficult) trying to build something more focussed towards action rather than structure. As such structures kinda feature heavily as backdrops in both the entries, but I like how the battles turned out, and they're both completely different from each other.

Attack on Widmore is a purely a classic-castle battle with Forestmen attacking a Crusader fort, separated only by a river. The idea originally was to have trees bridging across the river and the actual fort a lot more crumbled and overgrown, in a state of neglect, but now it kind of contrasts with the greenery across the river, which I like. The fort has a small interior too. It's completely unnecessary given the criteria of the contest, but i'm weird like that. The river is SNOT too which I think is a first for me, but I like the smoothness of how it turned out- it's something i'll be doing again.

The Battle of Mortia on the other hand is a lot more in keeping with that of the current Lego Castle line, with necromancers and skeletons- it's also got a lot of the newer colours too such as the dark-green. Generally i'm a fan of neither, but it was fun building in a new style and colour-way to what I usually do. Originally the battle was going to be below and over a bridge (again with dark green), but I needed somewhere for the Necromancer mastermind, so the tower was included. It wasn't going to be as high either, but, well...I got carried away.

At this stage i'm not sure if there will be a third entry or not. A lot of my bricks have been used and the thought of de-assembling and sorting those two entries frightens me completely. The contest ends on the 5th of April though, so I may build a smaller entry yet. It depends how forthcoming new ideas are.