Into the West (LotR build)

[Tomsche]

And here we go, my very first steps into the <a href=http://www.mocpages.com/group.php/24760> Middle Earth Lego Olympics </a> . Thanks to the organisers for tossing me an invitation, and off we go to hopefully make it through the qualifier round.

For the first round, the theme was `Music of Middle Earth`, and I selected to go for Into the West, the final ending of the whole trilogy as the ships carrying Bildo, Frodo and Gandalf set out from the Gery Havens and sail to the mystic elven lands.

For this build, I tried some totally new things for myself: micro scale building, and SNOT, both things I have read a lot about, but never have put into practice before.

I tried to make the towers of the havens in microscale, as I did with the ship (yes, I just had the urge to at least include the One Ring somewhere in the build) and for the SNOT part I took a baseplate, and turned it 90 degrees, so the whole build is actually build so that you are looking top down on it.

And this is the particular scene of Return of the King I pulled my inspiration from:

Now to keep my fingers crossed and see if I can survive the qualifier round in what is so going to prove a very eye candy like contest!

[Slegengr]

Nice microbuild, Tomsche!

I like how you made the ship and the gap in the rocks with the sun shining through! The little towers on top are a great addition to add more detail.

[Tomsche]

Thanks, it was a total new learning experience for lil' me

[Balbo]

Amazing work .

The 'Into to the West' scene is just perfect for the theme. I like how you made the ship, the rocks and the towers - the techniques are very smart and it looks awesome!

Good luck for the contest!

[Tomsche]

Thanks!

I hope the judges see it that way as well to get through the qualies ;-)