Paul F

Thanks chaps! Yes there will definitely be some medievel work going on :-) I still have a lot of my Robin Hood sets

I've been looking at all the MOC on the forum and this is definitely my favourite so far, love how you've improved the original :) Sorry bit of a necrobump

'Twas fairly funny scrolling through, I guess it lets everyone have a chance, I just wonder how long until something silly gets voted through to finals taking up a place

Amazing, can't believe you find the inside so well too, and with four ships inside!

Really interesting! It must be quite satisfying getting the bit you need, I would love to do it like five pages at a time

Really great stuff! The yellow arch is brilliant and the sporadic use of single circle studs in the brickwork to make it look worn is a great technique

The first set of treatment bays look great, and I love the scale with it encompassing the wheels, reminds me of Starcom design

I really like the prototypes too, plus I think the bionicle parts make that engine Plus asymmetrical ftw!

Amazing, I can see why you chose that building. Doing it mini figure scale is truly impressive, I'm imagining a whole city built up like this as opposed to the smaller buildings, really great!

Love the two tones of imperial grey, I'm building an imperial ship at the moment and was thinking of using a minimal highlighting colour but not sure now after seeing how effective and clean it looks on your model

Coming back to Lego there certainly seems to be more parts and options than there was in the the 80's, surely giving more options and more creativity. One part I don't like are the new large pieces, like the front of the Lego space shuttle, which seem too easy and just looks like a bit of a toy with Lego added on the back I have noticed more people building just to display, I think that's become more active (since star wars?)

Really like the dark green as a highlight, nice build!

Great ship! The circular padding and the two rear thrusters makes the engine look more powerful, love it! I'll have to build an M Tron battlecruiser to dogfight

Hi I'm Paul from England, I love a good forum (I'm admin at PlayStationAge.com, my other passion of RPGs) and looking at the posts here it looks like a good home for me. I was bought Lego before I was born and was my first toy when I arrived in 1981 (not duplo!). Growing up I would constantly cause the stthhhhhhhhsssss noise of pouring the bricks out to my parents sighs (who puts Lego away I believe should be determined by hand size, I'm much better at it now I have man spades to scoop the bricks up). I loved every style, Police, Castle and M Tron especially and would mainly do my own creations after quickly completing the instructions then pulling it apart and assimulating it into the Lego box. I would tell everyone that I was going to work in Legoland in Denmark when I grew up building new sets for Lego. I probably stopped around the time the Star Wars sets arrived, I was a big star wars fan but spent my time being a ninteen year old in England in pubs and clubs "growing up", chasing girls and listening to Nirvana . At the age of around 27 I took a small Lego Cookie Tin full of Lego from my parents to my house and had a play around. I was really pleased I still had the building skills and created a transforming robot truck with the limited prices I had, it was fairly large, looked great in either mode and was enough to make me go out and buy a couple more sets. This coincides with me meeting my (now) wife who is fine with my addictions (I have a room especially for Lego and Videogames, I'm very lucky!). The Lego side of me has grown to the point I've done what many of you have and sorted the bricks into draws (although I'm not 100% sure I like it for building, sometimes I see pieces in a pile that give me ideas). I recently watched the inside Lego programme on how a guy from London applied to become a Lego designer by submitting his portfolio and then going to a build off and then was successfully assimilated into the Lego (box) family which provoked my wife into encouraging me to do the same which has bought me to today. I know the chances of being successful are slim, they may not even do it anymore or may stop it soon, but the thought of spending time building up a quality Lego portfolio sounded like too much fun even without a move to Denmark at the end. Plus I'm actually following my dream, not many people can say that! I already have a job as a casino manager to fund my portfolio plus I used to be a professional photographer in my twenties so am happy with a camera and Photoshop. All I need now is the builds! My first build is a large Star Wars Imperial ship, it's currently about three foot long and completely built from scratch, I designed a smaller mock up and used that as a guide. The front and body is complete just the rear engine section needs finishing but I'm really happy with how it's looking. I took on a smaller project to go with it which is ready to be photographed and uploaded here, a smaller ship, I wanted to try "no studs on show" (what's the acronym?) which has worked well. I was hoping by contributing here I could also get some feedback on my portfolio builds as I'm always learning, and the members here seem extremely talented. I'll be making sure the portfolio is diverse but mainly (say 80%) mini figure scale (can't wait to start hunting down M Tron bits on eBay!) some will also be original lines. Ha never thought I'd write that much as a hello, sorry! Really looking forward to chatting and getting to know you all! Cheers! Paul