[COR-FB] Plans For Expansion

[evancelt]

Still in Terraversa following the hostilities with Oleon, Captain Brickleton and Major Brickford ( @LM71Blackbird ) go for a walk to discuss their plans to expand ETTC presence to every settlement in the Brick Seas. They stop near a barn and decide how they can bring the trade company to the settlements they govern.

 

OOC:

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It was my intention to build a cool base and try a new tree idea with this one, but the roof made of backpacks is incredibly fragile. After the 4th time the roof broke and I had to rebuild it, I decided to scrap the base idea and snap some pics before it all fell apart. I highly recommend not building a roof with backpacks.

The barn door is built using a boat prow, which was pretty fun to build

The stone wall near the minifigs is rotated 45 degrees using cut wedges, which worked better than I thought it would.

 

[Khorne]

While I applaud the originality of the backpacks' usage to build the roof, I'm not a huge fan of the visual outcome. To me, it looks more liked "stacked backpacks" than an actual roof.

That being said, I do like everything else here: the boat pieces used for the barn door and the lower wall made of Nexo Knights shields. Clever way of angling those! I like the visual style you have here. It's a bit cartoony and somewhat unlike your other builds. Kind of looks like something Warcraft-y Viking-esue.

Too bad the roof was to flimsy to add some terrain.

[Ross Fisher]

That's phenomenal. Kinda agree with @Khorne that it doesn't necessarily look like a roof. Still, maximum points for effort!

[evancelt]

8 hours ago, Khorne said:

While I applaud the originality of the backpacks' usage to build the roof, I'm not a huge fan of the visual outcome. To me, it looks more liked "stacked backpacks" than an actual roof.

That being said, I do like everything else here: the boat pieces used for the barn door and the lower wall made of Nexo Knights shields. Clever way of angling those! I like the visual style you have here. It's a bit cartoony and somewhat unlike your other builds. Kind of looks like something Warcraft-y Viking-esue.

Too bad the roof was to flimsy to add some terrain.

 

4 hours ago, Ross Fisher said:

That's phenomenal. Kinda agree with @Khorne that it doesn't necessarily look like a roof. Still, maximum points for effort!

Thanks guys. Yeah I may redo the roof in another style and submit it as another build with a base / vegetation / different story. As I haven't licensed this one I hope that will be OK  I like the boat prow and pentagonal rockwork a lot and think the roof detracts some.

For this build above I just stuck the backpack neck holes on plate studs, but I think the backpacks could probably be made more secure by using technic pins into technic bricks or technic plates

Perhaps in a future build a roof could be made with muskets 

 

These weird ideas for roof elements came about because I recently did some sorting of spare minifig things and realized I have a lot of some of these pieces - enough they could be used in weird ways

Some pictures from sorting the spares:

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Edited August 21, 2021 by evancelt

[Kai NRG]

I think it's too bad the backpack technique was too fragile for a base; that would have helped remove it from the immediate focus and made it look more natural.  The texture is a little odd if you look directly at it, but I think it would work well as a less focal point of a larger MOC.

The stone texture with the shields is great!

[NOD]

Good idea to use boat pieces. I like the front, back and the wall. To me it also looks like a Viking house. That might go well with pirates too. Maybe I'll use your idea in my next building.

[blackdeathgr]

Points for trying new techniques but the backpack one is a bit lacking texture-wise and so is the shield wall imo (as I find those "stones" too big). Again, purely personal thoughts). By seeing your work, I DO however thought of an alternative, using reddish brown ingots. Maybe they are cool enough (and chocolate-y ) 

The boat pieces look  viking-er" than pirate-y but their use is very smart and that could definitely work as a fishing shack or whatever you decide in BOBS universe.

What I would really like to see in the future is the "thatched" roof technique using muskets as it looks interesting! 

[Capt Wolf]

The roof built from backpacks isn't perfect, but it still works for me. And overall I love the clever part usage throughout. I thoroughly enjoy builds like this. Well done!

[evancelt]

9 hours ago, NOD said:

Good idea to use boat pieces. I like the front, back and the wall. To me it also looks like a Viking house. That might go well with pirates too. Maybe I'll use your idea in my next building.

 

Thanks. Would love to see it in your next building.

3 hours ago, blackdeathgr said:

Points for trying new techniques but the backpack one is a bit lacking texture-wise and so is the shield wall imo (as I find those "stones" too big). Again, purely personal thoughts). By seeing your work, I DO however thought of an alternative, using reddish brown ingots. Maybe they are cool enough (and chocolate-y ) 

The boat pieces look  viking-er" than pirate-y but their use is very smart and that could definitely work as a fishing shack or whatever you decide in BOBS universe.

What I would really like to see in the future is the "thatched" roof technique using muskets as it looks interesting! 

Haha thanks. Yes, the end build does look viking-y. I guess the barn builder had a thing for antique styles 

Yeah, the musket roof could be fun! I think I have enough muskets, but only like 30 of the reddish-brown 1x1 tiles w/ clips on top, and like 10 of the reddish-brown 1x2 plates with clip on top. Would either have to find another method to secure them, buy more parts, or disguise the clip parts in the roof.

I have another thatch roof style in mind for when I reuse the walls/boat part of this build in a new build.

3 hours ago, Capt Wolf said:

The roof built from backpacks isn't perfect, but it still works for me. And overall I love the clever part usage throughout. I thoroughly enjoy builds like this. Well done!

Thanks! Yeah I love seeing those posts where people make walls out of carrots, fences out of breadsticks, furniture out of pistols, etc. Fun to try it with my excess pieces. I have a few more in mind from my sorting overflows.

[CapOnBOBS]

Stonework with the shield tiles is very smart (and obviously the backpacks are great)

[evancelt]

On 8/22/2021 at 9:39 PM, CapOnBOBS said:

Stonework with the shield tiles is very smart (and obviously the backpacks are great)

Thanks @CapOnBOBS!

[KotZ]

... how many backpacks do you own that WEREN'T involved in this roof? Very clever structure you have there. I go back and forth with liking it and thinking it's an abomination. There's definitely a way you can make it more stable I'm sure.

It actually might work better for terrain than roof, now that I think about it.

[evancelt]

9 minutes ago, KotZ said:

... how many backpacks do you own that WEREN'T involved in this roof?

Too many! @PxChris asked for some so I'm going to mail him some this week.

9 minutes ago, KotZ said:

Very clever structure you have there. I go back and forth with liking it and thinking it's an abomination. There's definitely a way you can make it more stable I'm sure.

It actually might work better for terrain than roof, now that I think about it.

Thanks! Yeah there is definitely something to be done from the stacked backpacks  I'm working on another build with the house sans-roof now, so expect to see it again!