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Yes, he was painted green.....well, in photoshop painted. (did not want to ruin my only Eomer fig) Here is a shot of him on Guard! free image hosting And a shot of the roof off, on my work desk. (sorry for all the clutter) photo upload and my teaser shot I did .... image

After around 6 months of work, the Golden Hall of King Theoden is finally complete. I didn't think we'd see an official one, for multiple reasons..so I decided to take a stab at it. My Custom Black Pearl now seems like a much easier design, as this was my first attempt at a modular build of a building, and not a fighter or ship. The roof is constructed in 3 sections, that lift off...the top, and the two side roofs. This allows access to a very detailed interior. My version is scaled down a tad..in order to put it on the larger gray baseplate, but I made sure the main details remained. The interior is loaded. It has a side room for the King's son to die in, the main hall with raised alter and throne. It even has a stool at the right hand of the king...for nasty Grimma. The alter has fire pots on both sides, and some flags in the back. Left side alcove has a small table for the king, and the main room has a fire pit, large gathering table, fireplace, and ale station. I will try to upload more pics soon! photo sharing websites The side room: image Interior as you enter the main doors: photo sharing Bad Wormtongue! image ru

Funny, ..well not really.... the Strike Raptor , Classic Raider and Viper MKVII on page 11 look like my Brickstruct designs....but I did not see a shout out. :(

I don't claim to be an "expert", but a few years back I interviewed with Grant McCune at his model shop here in Los Angeles, and he had an X-wing (one used in Star Wars) in a plexiglass case in his shop. It was a base of white, with the other colors on top. I would not say it was anything close to glossy , or bright...but it was white. And my eyes were popping out of my head to be that close to the real thing.

I just finished my copy, and I like the NEW tie fighter better. The new X-Wing is light years better than the last version, but I still can't believe it lacks REAR landing gear. It looks awful sitting on those rear engines. If you take the time to design forward landing gear, make some aft....and get that bulk up off the floor. I designed my own x-wing early last year, and built this new store version to compare. It has some great stuff going on, I just wish they had added some landing gear, like I put on my version (below).

Port side shot coming thru the fog.... and Cannons ablaze!

I know, trying to get shots worthy enough to post. Thanks so much! Here is an overhead shot.

Here is a close up shot of the helm. I will most likely post more pics to my Brickshelf account, and provide a link, once I get that organized. thanks!

Here is a shot of the Pearl from Aft.

[pid][/pid] 117D First let me start off by saying thanks for all the inspiration one receives from checking out other ship builds on this forum. It's truly amazing some of what I've seen. After 4 months, and hundreds of hours I've completed my first ship. I wanted to build a "proper" Black Pearl, as I felt the official version was not quite there, so I used the game and tons of photo ref of the movie ship as inspiration. I'm quite happy with the final results. It has lots of details, and working features. Both anchors are chained to moving turnstiles, and can be raised and lowered. It features an accurate forecastle, with a forward set of stairs leading to the lower level. Lower level features brig, and rear hold for treasure and rum. Not to mention tons of tiled deck space for cannons. Each side features 11 opening gun ports, although I only have 4 mounted in the photo. The main deck will hold 4 large shooting cannons, and could hold other smaller ones. The capt's cabin has a working door, framed with lanterns, and has a map and rum table, and quite a bit of room. Dual staircases go up the upper deck, where I built a clear arched window (behind the mizzenmast) that looks, and lets light in, to the capt's cabin. The Foremast , and the Main mast have a crows nest, large enough to be manned. I guess the reason I say hundreds of hours, is because the model has an instruction manual, which I do to several of my models I get really excited about. The manual is what took me the better part of two months to create, as it's 108 pages long. The ship contains over 2,000 parts, many of which are from the official set. I will attempt to post more pics in the future, or at least on my brickshelf page once I get a chance! Thanks again for all the inspiration, and enjoy!

Oh, I am just seeing this now, saw your PM first. Thanks! This is awesome and you're the best!

Thanks Philo, unfortunately I can't access LDD on my computer as it's running too old an OS. I noticed a lot of the parts on LDraw have your name as the creator, how awesome....any plans to maybe do the three ship Hull parts I mentioned at the top of this thread at any point?

I felt like there was life left in the Indy line as well...but that did not pan out to well. I have a feeling unless we get a POTC 5, we are not likely to see any more sets in the near future. Wondering what the next big Disney release will be to see a lego product line?

Or you are having my problem of the part existing in LDD, but not LDRAW...which is what Bricksmith uses.

Yes, I am running Bricksmith using the Ldraw library of parts, not LDD4. (I have to upgrade my computer to be able to run LDD4.) I need those hull parts as .dat files so they will work in Ldraw. So far, no one on Ldraw.org has created them. Hope this makes sense. I thought it might be possible for someone running LDD4 to convert those parts into .dat files........if that is even possible.