Week 4 building the Hadrian's Wall in LEGO

 As the year ends this project ends too (luckily) and today I show you the latest update. These past weeks I worked in the snow to give it some changes in the ground level so it doesn't look that plain and boring and I progressed in the wall part and made the minifigs! I would say the next post will be the last one before I post the MOC finished so there's still some surprise and mistery before I show you the finished build. I hope it takes no more than a month. This year I started studying again and progress to anything related to LEGO is painfully slow but I try my best because I have some ideas for future projects that I can't wait to start working on. For the next one I will try to have finished the ground section inside the fortlet. I have been thinking lately about making the big main door smaller to match the size of the other one (more or less) and so the main gate doesn't have an elevation over it in the wall section. I guess Romans kept it easy and made the fortlet walls without any kind of steps to patrol the walls and I find it kind of stupid to have some steps to walk over the main gate. So I assume in the next update it will be different.

       

      

And about the minifigs I made some of them for this MOC. When I had to choose if I do the build in the Late Empire era or the first century era I knew it would be more difficult if I go for the Late Empire era. But I did anyway. The price to pay is to have less minifigs but I think it was worth it. Roman soldiers of the late period have something special that I really like a lot. Even the first-second century soldiers look amazing too that's why I own parts to create 10-15 of them! I have to see if I build some civilians to add to the build. The helmets they wear are modified Brickforge ones. I cut them and paint them after I applied some putty to give it some shape. Some have better quality than others. In the future I will do more so I can create more minifigs but that will be for future MOCs. The minifigs are the commander of the fortlet and other soldiers who are patrolling the walls. The horse is brick built by me inspired in the design of the Instagram user @lazy_brixs. I would like to improve the neck of the horse but I don't know how. If I find a way to do it before I finish the build I will update it. Overall I think it looks decent and I'm happy with it. Capes are from AliExpress and body and legs are from LEGO. Skirts are from Capes4Minifigs. Shields are LEGO Gungan trans-purple ones hand-painted by me. I really hope you like them as much as I do. Can't wait to show you more about this MOC in the coming weeks!

My favourite minifigs of the MOC. Bodies from AliExpress.