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Rocky Peaks Adventure Center There is a lot to do in the Brickanian Mountains. Visit Rocky Peaks Adventure Center ... Builder comments: this is my latest moc. It took about 6 months to build and was a welcome step away from my usual Space and Sci-Fi builds. It will be displayed at Legoworld 2019 In Utrecht (NL)

It has been a while since I have posted anything on this forum. My last posts were in de Dutch Moonbase topic. But as Dutch Moonbase is no longer active as a group I made this topic for my own moc's. My latest build is: Novus Vita - Beyond the Horizon After the Lunar Defense Force (LDF) had defeated the Darterians, Novus Vita was colonized by mankind. Alien races were more than welcome and Novus Vita became an intergalactic meetingpoint and tradingplace. After a period of relative peace plans were made to expore the rest of the galaxy. With the use of Darterian technology and the knowledge of other species, mankind took the next step into discovering the universe.. The project is together with my son Alex. It is 2 x 16 XL baseplates with the possiblity to add on both sides. The solarpanels were the startingpoint and we went from there. All pictures can be found on Flickr:

In this topic we want to introduce Dutch Moonbase, a mini-LUG from the Netherlands. Some of you will already know us, others might not. In this topic we will keep you up-to-date on our projects and show pictures of moc's of all sorts, like moonbase modules, spaceships, greeblies etc. A small introduction: we (myself and Mike van Leeuwen) started Dutch Moonbase 5 years ago after Legoworld 2004. We started with just moonbase layouts but slowly our ideas went further and further and today we build a wide range of space-related and Sci-Fi moc's. Most new moc's (starting from 2008) are part of our storyline called "The Story". I can tell much more but I invite you to visit our website. ****** Our current project is called "Earth under Attack", depicting an alien attack on a military installation from the LDF, set in the background of an old WW-II battlefield that was turned into a museumarea. It's a 12 x 4 Xl-baseplate layout (4,6 x 1,6 meters). Here a preview. We have no idea when it's finished (almost done ...) but we hope to show at a meeting somewere in 2010. ****** My latest moc is the Dutch Flood Memorial. Build in 2024 as a place to remember the great flood of 2021 (also part of The Story). Here are all the pictures. PS. this part of The Story still has to be written ****** We hope you will enjoy our pictures and we welcome your comments. Marco Baas (legopapa). The Dutch Moonbase Team.

We added some more pictures showing lots of details of our layout. Pictures and video's can be found HERE

This year we visited Lego FanWelt again after a succesful first time in 2010. This time we didn't really build a space theme but more a mix between Sci-Fi and City. Photo by NXTchris 2012 The story behind the moc's and more pictures and video's can be found HERE

My lastest MOC is the MIRACLE Adventure Tower. This old communications tower was transformed into an adventure tower with a bungy-platform, rappel-track and some other fun stuff. Next to the tower is a small amusementpark with a maze and some other stuff. Builders comment: this tower was build as part of the layout we will show at Lego Fanwelt 2012 in Koln together with my Project MYRICL and some of Sky4walker's moc's (not yet named). All pictures can be seen HERE or visit Lego Fanwelt 2012 in Koln - Germany.

Here's the link to my website. It's a different approach than your wonderful build.

I build the 6 meter long Trench Run last year and now there is this microscale version. What a great detail ... what a wonderfull build ... WELL DONE !!!!!

My new project: Project MYRICL - the McKnight Yubari Research Institute Cryogenics Laboratory. In this laboratory research is done into ways to get (and keep) people in artificial sleep to make long distance spacetravel possible. Ones based in the USA, the lab was transfered to The Netherlands as the US government banned testing on humans. The Dutch government was very willing to get this research to The Netherlands for employment possibilities and offcourse the nearby presence of DASA. A special law was passed to make testing on humans possible with only one restriction: only volunteers are allowed to join the project. Project MYRICL on Flickr Builders note: This moc was build over a period of 9 months with on-and-off building. It is 6x2 XL baseplates and IKEA led-strips are used for lighting.

For your information: the Tatooine layout will be on display at LEGOWORLD in Zwolle (NL) from 19 - 26 oktober 2011.

Like last year we (The Dutch Moonbase team) were asked by Hein-Jan Kemperman from The Little Arms Shop to help in building new MOC's for the Star Wars Event in june 2011 in Legoland Germany. This year was a particular challange because we had to build all new MOC's as last years MOC'S were taken down. Sky4walker (Mike van Leeuwen) started on a large scale build of Tatooine where several scenes from the 6 movies were depicted. After 4 months of hardcore building he ended up with a 7 x 1.8 meter layout. I started on a build that started as a joke. On Legoworld 2010 in Zwolle (NL) I was challenged by Mike and Hein-Jan to build a 10 meter long trench from the film A New Hope. Well, I accepted ... It took me 3 month of building to complete a 6 x 1.2 meter trench including X-wing's, Tie fighters and Y-wings. All build to a 2/3 minifig scale. Tricky but it worked. It wasn't 10 meters long but I was out of parts, baseplates and space in my hobby-room. Other MOC"s were the enormous and highly detailed Droid Factory by a German builder, a hangar with ships from Mike's son Mitchel and a scene by Hein-Jan with the Millenium Falcon. The event stared sad as Hein-Jan's father pasted away the first day the guys were in Gunzburg. Hein-Jan returned to Holland and Mike started alone with setting up the tent with the help of some young ladies from the park. The event was a great succes. Just have a look at the pictures and our WEBSITE as pictures talk louder than words.

Goofy?? You have to be completly nuts to build such moc's ... and as we are nuts ...

@ P4trickvH: we know about the photo thingy but we have our own website ... so, we use our own website to showcase the total project and place some teasers here.

If all goes well, we will be posting more pictures on our website this weekend. We will keep you informed ...

@MarvelousRoland: What part of the netherlands are you from?? And don't worry about going off-topic ... you are just proud of your build and you should be.

@ MarvelousRoland I would advice you to start your own topic with your Tatooine build. That way people can respond to your wonderfull MOC in that topic. May I ask that you remove the pictures and just leave hyperlinks to your pictures. That way we keep this topic all about our pictures ... THANKS. Good work by the way Oh, in joined builds like the one we did last year, we only build with Dutch Moonbase teammembers. This is just the way that works best for us. Single builds like Tatooine and Trench Run are what they are ... single builds build by one teammember. For your information ...

Wouldn't that be something ...

@Legocrazy81: YEP. we did the large 5 x 5 meter scene in Gunzburg last year. @All: thank you for the compliments . It makes it a lot harder to do even better next time ... But we shall try ... I saw a few people ask how many bricks we used ... well, a motherload of bricks and parts. We never counted them ... but for the Tatooine layout you can assume that there were a lot of happy Bricklink sellers

@Holodoc ... sorry, but these MOC's were only on display for the duration of the Star Wars Event.

The project is no more ... We are almost done with sorting out all the parts from this project. I know I really hate sorting bricks

Here the project "Earth under Attack" we brought to Lego FanWelt 2010 in Koln (Germany) on 18-21 november 2010. PICTURES

In the weekend of 4/5 september 2010 Legoland Germany was host to a hugh Star Wars Event. Star Wars fans from all over Europe gathered for a weekend of Star Wars madness. 250 uniformed Star Wars fans from 501th regiments all over Europe were present to give the weekend just that magic touch. Hein-Jan Kemperman from The Little Arms Shop displayed some large scale moc's on request of Legoland Germany. Early 2010 we (the Dutch Moonbase Crew) were asked by Hein-Jan to add a large part to an allready excisting moc (Clone Wars Assault). And so we did ... The result is shown below. De standard vehicles (sets) were supplied by the legoshop in the park. The layout is 70 baseplates (10X7). The lightgray buildings are from our hand. You can read all about the event en see more pictures HERE.

Hope we didn't disappoint you ... Even I was impressed by the size of the moc and I was part of the buildingteam ...

This moc is currently on display at Legoworld 2010 in Zwolle, The Netherlands.

Well, it took a bit of recruiting ... but at the end we had enough volunteers