Themes vs MOCing

[Zzz]

Hi all,

I tend to play video games in the evening. Solid, cheap, clean fun. Push power on, switch off, go to bed. I work long hours and this works for me.

I like Lego more, for some reason, and I have a nice, small collection of SW, Indy, Minifigs and some other stuff. I like TLCs themes, but they are not what I would like to create, display or "play" with. Right now I would be interested in having a WW2 inspired, post-apocalyptic military theme with soldiers, femme fatales and steampowered mechs. AT-ST meets Indiana Jones, perhaps.

I admire people who MOC just what their imagination says, as I seriously have neither the patience, money, time or creativity. I make small things up in my mind but would like to actually create. TLCs themes only come close of what I would like to see, but it's so much easier to stick to the themes and make a few small creations going along with them or a few amendments, than actually starting from the scratch. I am also too much of a perfectionist to dismantle things and randomly start MOCing, when I know it doesn't look as brilliant as stuff others create. Also having not exactly all the bricks and colours I would like to have is a huge problem. So I stick to TLCs themes (what becomes more and more difficult now that Indy is gone) and video games.. but in my head there are fantastic stories about my post-apoc platoon.

Anyone else has this?

[LEGOman273]

Hi all,

I tend to play video games in the evening. Solid, cheap, clean fun. Push power on, switch off, go to bed. I work long hours and this works for me.

I like Lego more, for some reason, and I have a nice, small collection of SW, Indy, Minifigs and some other stuff. I like TLCs themes, but they are not what I would like to create, display or "play" with. Right now I would be interested in having a WW2 inspired, post-apocalyptic military theme with soldiers, femme fatales and steampowered mechs. AT-ST meets Indiana Jones, perhaps.

I admire people who MOC just what their imagination says, as I seriously have neither the patience, money, time or creativity. I make small things up in my mind but would like to actually create. TLCs themes only come close of what I would like to see, but it's so much easier to stick to the themes and make a few small creations going along with them or a few amendments, than actually starting from the scratch. I am also too much of a perfectionist to dismantle things and randomly start MOCing, when I know it doesn't look as brilliant as stuff others create. Also having not exactly all the bricks and colours I would like to have is a huge problem. So I stick to TLCs themes (what becomes more and more difficult now that Indy is gone) and video games.. but in my head there are fantastic stories about my post-apoc platoon.

Anyone else has this?

I think that not having the right/enough of the right parts has happened to all of us.

I will often have that problem. I have a LOT of LEGO, but I often do not have enough of a specific part that I need. What I do is build small, but very detailed, MOCs, thereby making the best use of the parts that I have.

[-zenn]

What I do is build small, but very detailed, MOCs, thereby making the best use of the parts that I have.

Same here. I also do a lot of modding, especially if I want it to look a certain way and it can't be build with regular parts. But I've set a rule to myself when I do this, it must be done clean and thorough.

Besides that I'm a big pc-gamer. But I can go easily without gaming (been my 3rd week as of now) and just mess around with Lego. Trying to come with idea's and stuff.

You can always just start sketching out your ideas at first and then start building...

[Peppermint_M]

Parts are not always a constraint either. Look at what you have and build them to build a shape you were looking for. I built two of my best planes with parts I would never have thought to use after I ran out of inverted slope parts in the colours I wanted (my preferred parts for plane building). I always challenge what parts can achieve.