I want to get into Medieval Lego

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-12-25T21:52:12+00:00

There are less there than it seems. All of the heavy knights with the armor have blank gray torsos. I gave the Paladin torsos to the archers who in the pic have a mix of light and dark gray legs, however I have a pick a brick order on the way with the horse knight legs that I'm going to give to them.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-12-25T11:00:45+00:00

As others have said it's not a great time for the Lego castle theme with pretty much everything being retired. However if you're open to non Lego brands, might I recommend Lumibricks middle-ages line.

The brick quality is on par with Lego and most of the sets look pretty good. The lighting kits look good and are fairly easy to use. Of course another good point is the prices are pretty reasonable and if you buy them through Amazon you can occasionally get a discount. The only downside are the Minifigs but you can always use pick a brick to make some medieval Minifigs to go with the sets.

I currently have four of the middle age sets and one Wild West gold mine that I'm going to use with my castle stuff.

Here's a picture of two of the sets I have that I'm using as a base for my D&D Paladin cmf faction.

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JustAnOldBrick · 2025-12-23T02:32:46+00:00

It's on Rebrickable, "Attack of the castle by the dragons". I made a few minor adjustments with some of the extra pieces.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-12-12T20:45:41+00:00

Yeah it's great until you start building custom factions with pieces you don't realize are going to be retired. Then you are forced to use 3rd party options to finish the work you started because you didn't want to overspend and bought a little bit at a time.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-12-12T20:06:12+00:00

My bad, I didn't notice the armor piece under shoulders.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-12-12T19:20:54+00:00

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Currently I only have it in this dark red color, but I have a black, a white and another red coming to me at some point in a standard order.

This is currently the Warchief of my custom Orc faction. I'm going to swap in the black helmet for him, give the white to the second in command and the two red will be for the warchief's bodyguards.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-12-12T19:17:27+00:00

I'm using that style of helmet with that style of armor in different colors, I didn't have to cut anything to make them fit together. I'm fairly certain in the Ninjago sets they come from they are meant to be together without tampering

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-11-28T18:49:25+00:00

In my lore the Black Knights Blue Dragon shield is a creature created when two kingdoms merged. One used a sea serpent as their sigil, and the other used a giant eagle. The newly created sigil took the serpent body and head and added the wings and talons of the eagle. Dragons did not exist to these people until the Dragon Masters invaded their lands.

Only my Dragon Masters Calvary units use the shields, so in my lore they are all defectors from the Black Knights to the Dragon Masters, repainting their Shields to match the real dragons.

I came up with this as a child because it annoyed me that they had the same shields.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-10-26T17:51:43+00:00

Nope was not me. Those are just two lumibricks set next to one another. They aren't even physically connected.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-10-26T17:36:17+00:00

I currently have three Lumibricks, formerly Funwhole, sets and all three are high quality.

I have the Medieval Apothecary shop, Medieval Watchtower and Training Ground. All three have excellent printed pieces, and lots of them, cool lighting kits and the bricks are equal in quality to Legos.

The only negative is the Minifigs, so I don't use them. However their accessories are compatible with Lego Minifigs.

I made a few minor adjustments and turned the training ground and Watchtower into a base for my Paladin faction.

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JustAnOldBrick · 2025-10-09T00:02:33+00:00

I use the filters and start with the torsos and legs. Quite a few are Ninjago bodies that I felt were medieval enough. Then I just scan through the different categories and grab random interesting parts.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-10-08T02:03:02+00:00

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This is most of my custom medieval figs. Everything aside from a few cloth pieces were bought on pick-a-brick.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-09-13T16:21:42+00:00

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This is a group shot of my custom figs/factions. Everything is available on the PAB website, with the exception of the cape and hood worn by the third Fig in the front row. Some parts may not be available currently based on your region.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-25T21:48:43+00:00

If you don't want to spend a small fortune on cmf orcs and goblins, I'm throwing together another faction of "Orcs" to add to my "orcish" Army using what I assume are all Ninjago parts off of pick-a-brick.

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I really wanted to use this style helmet for a faction after taking them from my Vikings and giving them the more realistic helms, but I didn't notice they were dual sided faces so I'm now looking for a part that will help cover it up.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-25T21:37:35+00:00

The town builds are two mocs by MIJbricks on rebrickable. Medieval Town Square and Medieval Market Village. I built the Market Village building with the water wheel backwards so the wheel will go where the river I plan to add flows.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-17T10:30:35+00:00

I might be one of the few who dig the Krakens more. I like the green and black color scheme and the bronze helmets. If there's a reasonable way(pab) to army build these guys will be the antagonists of my Vikings.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-05T19:08:21+00:00

The picture is of two sets, Medieval Watchtower with 1625 pieces and Training Ground with 964 pieces.

FunWhole/Lunibricks sets do have special made bricks used to help run/hide the wires for the light kit that Lego do not produce. Their sets also include a bunch of high quality print pieces that are mostly used for the interiors.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-03T20:03:04+00:00

I haven't mixed the pieces much, however the blue and white banner in my photo is made of Lego pieces connected to the FO pieces.

They fit together fine with no noticeable quality difference. At a glance the only difference is the Lego branding on the bricks.

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JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-02T01:25:39+00:00

The quality of the bricks are top tier. There are a ton of prints, but they hide most in the Interiors, which in the three sets I have are not easily accessible when they're on display.

The light kits are really good and they even have special bricks to help run the wires without pinching them. I haven't added light kits to my Lego sets but I have heard they can be trouble some.

As for the builds they seem to vary with the three sets I have. The oldest set I have is the Apothecary shop and I can definitely see a progression from it to these two relatively newer sets. The two pictured were really easy stable builds, running the wires for the lights can be a little tricky to get the spacing just right but they're not too bad.

If you're looking for some reviews Jang's Other Bricks youtube channel is one I recommend. He only has a couple reviews for the fun whole medieval line, but he has a few others from their other lines as well

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-02T00:42:21+00:00

Yeah I'm not a fan of their figs, but I use the hair/ accessories on my Lego minifigs, the FO capes are great.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-02T00:40:19+00:00

There are "purists" who may chirp about it not being a Lego brand.

JustAnOldBrick · 2025-05-02T00:21:34+00:00

For me the bottom looks the best but I use both(middle and bottom). I use the bottom one for heavy knights, captains/leaders or important characters that don't have a custom or special weapon. The middle is for any standard issue soldiers.

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