Inspirations for Fanmissions

**Garrett** · 27th Dec 2004 15:27

THIS THREAD could also be really helpful for FM Developers, thanks to clearing!

hey taffers,

I found some nice pictures about my homecountry: Germany. Look at those pics and maybe you'll get some new ideas for your next FanMissions.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99347

**Garrett** · 27th Dec 2004 15:30

**ihatetheundeadagain** · 27th Dec 2004 15:53

saw a documentary recently on Bavaria photographed from the air, indeed a beautiful land. all those castles you guys have positively look thiefy, garrett could have a field day (night) looting around good old Deutschland.

**Moghedian** · 27th Dec 2004 16:52

Wow... those are really thiefy (And beautiful !) . I've a cousin who used to come here (the States) from Germany... but looking at those pictures I'm wondering why he ever left !

*Adds Bavaria to the list of places to visit One Day*

By any chance did you get a couple pictures of the interiors ? It is fascinating to see how the people used to live in there

Edit:
Quick question... what was the structure used in the bottom picture used for ? Those archways look really interesting, but I'm wondering what their function was.

**Ponterbee** · 28th Dec 2004 02:42

The one at the very bottom looks quite similar to the front of the "Gerome Of The Woodlands" estate....And the one above that looks like "Horns Of Canzo, A Long Way Up."

**TheNightTerror** · 28th Dec 2004 03:06

Originally Posted by Garrett

Hmmm. Not the same, but curiously similar.

Edit: where did my brain go? I really love those pictures you posted!

Awfully pretty, makes me want to go to Europe even more than I do already.

**Christine** · 28th Dec 2004 08:30

Originally Posted by TheNightTerror

Hmmm. Not the same, but curiously similar.

wow, someone remember the Lord Ashton series....

I never noticed that, but I must admit, I am living in Bavaria

**FrenchThief** · 28th Dec 2004 09:18

hello Garrett

And what about this fantastic castle ! The Neuschwanstein !

**TheNightTerror** · 28th Dec 2004 09:42

It would be pretty hard for me to forget about the Lord Ashton series.

Besides the missions being gorgeous and being easy for me to see on my old computer, I remember things visually, and I played the LAS series more than a few times. All the missions were fun, and I have a soft spot for The Secret of Sir Stefan. I just happen to know someone named Stefan, a jerk of a gunsmith who terrorized . . . er . . . lived in Germany for a few years.

Everyone who knows him hates/fears him, to boot. Pretty weird coincidence, but I loved it.

**Preno** · 28th Dec 2004 15:03

Can't help not to post some photos of Czech castles as well...

A very detailed photographic list of Czech castles - contains ground plans/maps

A few photos of Czech castles and chateaus (-x?) )(only exterior)
More photos (exterior and interior) - zamky = chateaux, hrady = castles

TF · 28th Dec 2004 15:20

Stop poisoning the minds of fanmission makers into making more victorian missions. Bleh.

**Oli G** · 28th Dec 2004 22:19

Originally Posted by Thiefsie Fool

Stop poisoning the minds of fanmission makers into making more victorian missions. Bleh.

With pictures of castles built in an entirely different country and century you mean?

TF · 28th Dec 2004 22:59

THE INTERIORS

**Oli G** · 28th Dec 2004 23:20

Originally Posted by Thiefsie Fool

THE INTERIORS

Yes, which do tend to get built at the same time as exteriors.

To me Thiefy 'Victorian' is all colourful wallpaper and wooden panels, I don't see that in these pictures.

**Moghedian** · 29th Dec 2004 01:38

Stop poisoning the minds of fanmission makers into making more victorian missions. Bleh.

*Sigh* Our minds are not being poisoned, but our souls ... our souls are being enriched ! If this be Victoriana ... Bring it on !

And if it is not, well, bring it on anyway

Actually, it looks like typical Medieval to me...

Those are some excellent pictures (and sites). The one with the bookcases and the fresco ceilings is particularly beautiful.

**Ponterbee** · 29th Dec 2004 03:11

Amen, Moghedian!

@FrenchThief- I LOVE the Neuschwanstein! I have 10 wallpaper pics of that old beauty! (And wish a fan mission set inside it were possible...might be a little TOO big, though)

**demagogue** · 29th Dec 2004 06:31

All very inspiring. /sigh/ This is one area where American taffers are simply out of our league vs. Europeans.

I'm afraid if I posted pics of notable north Texas architecture it would be so incredibly uninspiring that everyone might wonder what's the point of people living there at all.

**Twilight** · 29th Dec 2004 08:24

Originally Posted by Ponterbee

I have 10 wallpaper pics of that old beauty! (And wish a fan mission set inside it were possible...might be a little TOO big, though)

Actually, it’s not THAT old yet

King Ludwig II of Bavaria started building it in 1869. Because he didn’t want to miss any modern comfort, they had even telephones there.

Have a look at http://www.neuschwanstein.de/english/index.htm, especially the picture gallery. Garrett’s fingers would start itching if he could see the servant’s room with the candlesticks!

I agree, an FM like that would be cool.

**Preno** · 29th Dec 2004 10:26

I wouldn't mind robbing that place clean. Such a mission would indeed be ultra-cool (well, we probably have missions like that already, they're just not based on any particular real castle).

Originally Posted by Moghedian

*Sigh* Our minds are not being poisoned, but our souls ... our souls are being enriched ! If this be Victoriana ... Bring it on !

And if it is not, well, bring it on anyway

Actually, it looks like typical Medieval to me...

Those are some excellent pictures (and sites). The one with the bookcases and the fresco ceilings is particularly beautiful.

Thanks. The chateaux pictured here are probably from the 17th century, the others might be a bit older but with (baroque, neogothical and such) reconstructions done during the time.

**flying_hope** · 29th Dec 2004 10:55

at last, as i was driven the old city streets of seligenstadt (next to my hometown) my girlfriend told me, thats a good place for a thiefstory, but
i cant build with dromed!

**ffox** · 29th Dec 2004 11:30

Originally Posted by Moghedian

Quick question... what was the structure used in the bottom picture used for ? Those archways look really interesting, but I'm wondering what their function was.

I think it's the cloisters - a covered walkway surrounding an open space, such as a college quadrangle or a cathedral garth. (Garth is OE for garden.)

See the pics here and here. The Trinity College cloisters were a racetrack in the movie Chariots of Fire - our heroes had to run all the way round in the time it took for the clock to strike 12.

**FrenchThief** · 29th Dec 2004 12:51

Originally Posted by Ponterbee

Amen, Moghedian!

@FrenchThief- I LOVE the Neuschwanstein! I have 10 wallpaper pics of that old beauty! (And wish a fan mission set inside it were possible...might be a little TOO big, though)

Ponterbee,
I love it too.

I visited it. There are many treasures for Garrett (especially of paintings) and perhaps some switch (i have looked for but did not find any

)

**madwolf** · 29th Dec 2004 12:59

I've just built some cloisters into my current project, loosely based on those at Durham Cathedral, very near where I live. The cloisters appear in the Harry Potter films.

**R Soul** · 29th Dec 2004 17:13

Right I've put a link to this thread on my Inspiration page, as well as abandoned-places.com

**Bronze Griffin** · 30th Dec 2004 11:15

Originally Posted by Thiefsie Fool

Stop poisoning the minds of fanmission makers into making more victorian missions. Bleh.

Thief is an anocronysm anyway so why does that matter?

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