Day Two: And so it begins...

Today was our finalization of plans for the final project.  And the project will be...(drum roll) the Hogwarts Castle, complete with large snake in the basement and growlig three headed dog in the upstairs.  We designed about five different rooms, to decorate and build, but we can go less or more, as long as we construct mainly the first three rooms in our castle.  These rooms contain major events from the books, telling Harry's journey from fighting the 18 year old Tom Riddle to who knows how old adult Voldemort.

Today's Featured Room:  The Chamber of Secrets

We started fromt the ground up, building first this room, which will be featured below the Great Hall.  It was our first choice due to the fact that we knew most precisely what we wanted to build for this room.  We started the skeleton and had all but the roof on this room by the end of class today.  Oh by the way, our design will be made majorly our of LEGOS, allowing us to be able to customize the style and shape of the rooms, will keeping them sturdy and easily changeable if something needs to be changed or fixed.  The Basilisk skeleton and triggering was completed.  It currently looks like a yellow skeleton, but by the time December rolls around, it will sure to be an ugly green grotesque monstrous cockatrice.  Brainstormin what to make the snake's skin is slightly hard.  Felt would be furry, aluminium foil would be to bright and shiney?  We'll think of soemthing eventually.

Picture of Progress:

The Terrifying Basilisk-Don't worry, he doesn't have eyes.

The bare skeleton of the Chamber of many Secrets

This shows the outside of the walls, where the supports are so our walls don't just fall over.
The square hole is the entrance into the chamber, although that entrance may still change.

Great start to our project.  I'm really excited as to how fast this first part of the skeleton went up.  Not happy with the LEGO blocks that didn't want to come apart and thankful for the LEGO brick separator.  It's the greatest tool ever invented. 

Below are a few pictures of our progress so far.