No Starch Press have sent over a few extra details about their upcoming new microscale-focused book about LEGO® Castles. The LEGO Castle Book is the second title from Jeff Friesen, has offers step-by-step instructions to help build your own microscale kingdoms. The book will be available from August, in both print or digital formats. Learn more in the press release below.
The LEGO® Castle Book: Build Your Own Medieval World
A LEGO lover’s guide to building fantastic structures and villages
San Francisco, CA (July 4, 2019)—Eye candy for LEGO lovers, The LEGO® Castle Book: Build Your Own Medieval World ($24.95, 208 pp., August 2019) is a magnificent gallery of custom miniature castles and villages, each as believable and architecturally accurate as the LEGO medium allows. The entertaining book also presents step-by-step instructions for the featured models, plus inspiration for readers to imagine their own custom creations.
Created by award-winning photographer and LEGO model-building expert Jeff Friesen, the projects are illustrated with his remarkable photography and peppered with fun and practical design tips. A whirlwind tour through the history of medieval societies and architecture illuminates the functional parts of castles and related structures—ideal reference and inspiration for creating scenes with the air of authenticity.
Instructions lead readers through everything from basic castles to the book’s six master builds:
- Sleeping Dragon
- Land’s End
- River Gate
- Winter Palace
- Eight Arches
- Mountain Kingdom
The LEGO Castle Book is a colorful coffee table book, and the definitive reference for designing and building stunning castlescapes.
