Carriage Crossroads

Background:

Two royal tax collectors make their return to the castle, their carriage laden with gold and silver from villages around the countryside.  Pompous and carefree, the tax collectors are reveling with one another over how “efficient” they are in carrying out their duties.  Through the trees, a bandit scout is alerted to the tax collectors presence.  Where one bandit is, surely more will be close at hand.  Meanwhile, the castle has dispatched a carriage of troops to escort the tax collectors and the treasures they carry.  Lightly-armed, this carriage is ill-equipped to handle any significant threat.

Will the royal escort carriage make it to the tax collectors in time, or will the tax collectors joy turn to sorrow as the bandits claim another spoil…

Description:

Hello Lego Castle and Medieval fans.  I hope you enjoy Carriage Crossroads.  The model was built with the hope that it can integrate into Castle / Medieval collections big and small.  The weapons carriage is detailed for a particular faction here, but can be adapted to a faction of your choice with some different colored tile accents.

The tax collectors carriage is dark brown with tan accents while the weapons carriage is reddish brown.  The back doors on both carriages swing open.  The tops of the carriages and one side panel can be removed to access the interior and place minifigures.  From the base of the wheels to the tops of the carriages is around 11 bricks (not counting the flags and tops of some ornamentation elements).  The carriage component is around 22 bricks long and from the horse to the back of the carriage is around 36 bricks long.  The tree design follows the classic black color scheme and the branch and limb elements are mostly attached with bar and clip elements that can be rearranged if desired.

Main features :

• Two carriages with back doors that open, along with tops and one side panel that can be removed.
  
• 2 sticker elements to add text to the 1x4 tiles on the sign post.
  
• 5 minifigures.
  
• 2 horses and 1 squirrel.