Eye candy for LEGO lovers, The LEGO® Castle Book: Build Your Own Medieval World 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.
About the Authors
Jeff Friesen, also the author of LEGO® Micro Cities, is an award-winning photographer and LEGO enthusiast whose work has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. In 2017, he was awarded the Brothers Brick LEGO Creation of the Year. He posts his popular LEGO photography on Instagram (@jeff_works). Friesen lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
About No Starch Press
San Francisco–based No Starch Press has published the finest in geek entertainment since 1994—bestsellers like Python Crash Course, Python for Kids, The Linux Command Line, How Linux Works, and Hacking: The Art of Exploitation. Our titles have personality and attitude, our authors are passionate about their subjects, and our editorial team puts every book through a rigorous process of developmental editing, tech review, design, and production.
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