| Cacique Caribe | 27 Oct 2009 8:55 p.m. PST |
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| chaos0xomega | 27 Oct 2009 9:03 p.m. PST |
meh… its NJ, wierd stuff happens round these parts. for all we know it predates the dinosaurs… …otherwise it looks like it was done using hirst art bricks… |
| jimborex | 27 Oct 2009 9:15 p.m. PST |
Wow, those reeds are huge! |
| Shriver | 27 Oct 2009 9:18 p.m. PST |
cool beans. it looks to me that its made of individual bricks probably clay. |
| Goldwyrm | 27 Oct 2009 9:45 p.m. PST |
Here's a video of the Weird NJ guys exploring it. They're obviously not gamers or they would have brought some figures along for a quick game. I would have. link meh… its NJ, wierd stuff happens round these parts. Yep. |
| Tim in Saskatoon | 27 Oct 2009 10:11 p.m. PST |
Why would they build it in a swamp…? It's daft to build a castle on a swamp! it's just going to burn down, fall over and sink into the swamp… |
| hwarang | 27 Oct 2009 11:08 p.m. PST |
burn down? only if you have a… umm.. ..girlish son wanting to become a singer. |
Uesugi Kenshin  | 27 Oct 2009 11:09 p.m. PST |
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 mmitchell  | 27 Oct 2009 11:29 p.m. PST |
Dang it, but I want to game on it! |
| Ssendam | 28 Oct 2009 1:57 a.m. PST |
I want to build a miniature Onager and finish the job :) |
| NoLongerAMember | 28 Oct 2009 2:27 a.m. PST |
Me too mmitchell…. The bricks all look unifom so I guess he had a mould and made them that way, possibly using a cement mix or fireclay. Wouldn't be hard, although it is cool I have to admit. |
| Kilkrazy | 28 Oct 2009 5:55 a.m. PST |
It's a nice find. I don't see that it's fundamentally difficult to do if you can get the bricks. What's weird is why build it in the middle of nowhere? One of my father's friends built a model castle in his back garden for wargaming. He had it instead of a rockery. |
| Kilkrazy | 28 Oct 2009 5:59 a.m. PST |
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| Shagnasty | 28 Oct 2009 7:55 a.m. PST |
Very cool! I, too, would be inspired to play a game.
Y'all ought to ditch H'Con next year and have a mini-con at the mini ruined castle. |
| Man of Few Words | 28 Oct 2009 8:43 a.m. PST |
Shagnasty: They'd have to move H'CON a lot more than to "Balmor" to want to game at this site. It one of the places they used to look for Jimmy Hoffa. Oh, those reeds: they are very common in any run-down, useless harbor swamp. Hmmm, maybe some real estate investor can turn it into a hi-rise condo and shopping mall. |
| Ivan DBA | 28 Oct 2009 8:49 a.m. PST |
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| Rassilon | 28 Oct 2009 9:31 a.m. PST |
Swamp Castle from Monty Python's Holy Grail!? |
| Ditto Tango 2 1 | 28 Oct 2009 9:58 a.m. PST |
I Wish I Knew How This AWESOME Fortress Was Built Looks like with bricks… 
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Tim |
| Mock26 | 28 Oct 2009 10:45 a.m. PST |
From the first linked site: "The castle is a piece of "living art" constructed by a sculptor named Charles Simonds, and was built in 1982. Said one of the people who helped him build it: "A big part of the philosophy behind Simonds work is the element of discovery. When you happen upon one of his works in the middle of nowhere, it has the same effect on the viewer as discovering the ruins of a lost civilization." They were sponsored by the State Art in Public Places program, in conjunction with the NEA. In a subsequent discussion at Rutgers, the artist who created the miniature city said, "Opposite two national monuments, Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty, Left turns (the name of the project) consists of three sited elements, each separated and surrounded by tall pampas like grassy areas indigenous to the park. With the dramatic and still presence of Manhattan in view from each of the three sites, the works located within this setting form an intimate and powerful viewing experience and establish a close symbolic relationship between nature and civilization." There were two other art pieces created but the rising tides and marshes have reclaimed them." |
| Space Monkey | 28 Oct 2009 11:03 a.m. PST |
They don't look like Hirst bricks to me… they're not uniform and tight fitting enough.
I've seen smaller examples of such things done with polymer clay… roll out a sheet, cut a grid of bricks, bake them… and build the thing. Maybe go over the surface with a roto-tool to carve in details like shattered/missing bricks. |
| Spectacle | 28 Oct 2009 2:13 p.m. PST |
If it was build in 1982 then I think it predates Hirst Arts by quite a while. Maybe it's actually made of tiny bits of rock? |
| Go0gle | 28 Oct 2009 4:51 p.m. PST |
Definitely screams "GAME ME!!!" |
| nycjadie | 28 Oct 2009 4:54 p.m. PST |
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| kokigami | 28 Oct 2009 6:00 p.m. PST |
This really begs for some local terrain gods to enhance the thing some dark november evening. A miniature sacrificial offering, or a siege? |
| RABeery | 29 Oct 2009 9:26 a.m. PST |
It was built with your tax money. |
| Darkoath | 29 Oct 2009 3:33 p.m. PST |
I wonder what happened to the tiny little people who once lived there? Darkoath |
| Steve Hazuka | 02 Nov 2009 4:57 a.m. PST |
reeds are totally out of scale, jeez |
| Dropship Horizon | 02 Nov 2009 5:33 a.m. PST |
Plenty of stores on Ebay sell scale bricks/stonework that will allow you to build a similar 'stone' fortress. Cheers
Mark |
