Kai NRG

I saw a beautiful first draft of the map the other day from the cartography team, so something is happening

This is nice, ship in the background is great!

Right, we don't want to overheat customers but we do want to wow them with molten glass being blown in their sight

Thanks everyone for the comments! I'm glad you mentioned the roof, because it was a bit of a pain to stick up there, so I'm glad someone noticed it Thanks for the thoughtful comment! I was wondering how long I could go before someone noticed that there was no furnace If I had thought of it when I first started building, I would have put one off to one side or another, because I think I could have made a fairly cool red glow or something. But by the time I realized that this guy had for some reason randomly heated his glass and then walked out into the middle of the market to blow it, a furnace just didn't fit in the rest of the scene. Presumably it is just barely out of the picture kind of in front and to your right. Interesting point about the newsboy hat. I think of it as a "reformer's hat" which feels medieval to me. Of course it really is actually a newsboy cap, but it's not too different from this kind of thing: Anyway, thank you for sending me on a rabbit trail down the history of newsboy caps... and for inspiring me to wear mine today

The way you did the dark grey stones on the edge of the lower story is pretty neat! Neat interior too. A really nice little first MOC.

for that credit!

Still can't get over that beautiful circular window. Great job on the lighting to make it shine. One of your best builds for sure!

This is a very cool castle, I like how it builds to a central tower that really steals the show with some serious height. Really nice to see the bat theme getting some love too. I like the rounded crenelations and the dark landscape. Great to see a new build from you!

In the bustling marketplaces of Barqa, where poor artisans and farmers from miles around gather to trade wares and stories, John and his son Martin work long hours in their modest outdoor space. It's a small start, but that doesn't keep these craftsmen from dreaming big and working hard. There's always lots going on at the market, farmers bringing in their livestock... ...customers inspecting merchandise... ...John touching up a stained bottle... ...and of course a brisk trade at the cheesemongers. This is the first part of a collab with @Eyrezer @jtooker and @RocketBoy. I had fun with this one, paid a lot of attention to the colors and composition. If you'd like to see some WIP pictures and read more about that process check out the behind the scenes on my blog! Thanks for stopping by, C&C welcome as always!

I find the reflections cast by the light through those headlight bricks strangely intriguing. A really nice shot with great color composition, the blue makes the figure pop while the white and red tie into other parts of the photo, brilliant.

Welcome to Eslandola! You have chosen well

Really unique idea for the tree trunk here, I like the way the black works with the lavender. I would be interested to see this kind of tree in a larger scene.

Impressive series of vignettes, I really like the variety of scenes you have put together. The inside of the tavern might be my favorite, lots of fun details like the mousetrap and chandelier.

I really love the black tudor on the A part of the wall, great angles. The use of grey for the roof is also unique. I partly like it and partly think it looks dumb For what it's worth, I definitely think it looks dumb on the real cottage. I wonder what it would have looked like in the LEGO version if you'd done a less-textured look. Don't get me wrong, I love the texture, but it confuses what kind of material it's supposed to be, looks like thatch of an odd color. If it were smoother it'd probably look more like slate, but possibly also look uglier. It's a really cute cottage and I love the dense vegetation bunched up around it. The empty baseplate edges look fine IMO, looks like a stylistic decision to fade out the vegetation.

Such a clever way to use only half the whale! Great little scene.