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I'm keeping mine for a while. The pic came out good and the skull looks pretty hellish.

It's a bit blurry, but here's all the pumpkins I carved this year, Including the Lego Jolly Roger at the bottom right. As for how I went about it; I create templates which I transfer from paper to pumpkin with a spikey pizza cutter looking tool (for the Lego one, I blew up screen shots from LDD) and then I figure out what I want to be cut out, what I want to be pumpkin flesh and what I want to be pumpkin skin. The cut-outs are done with a saw and the flesh portions are shaved away with a sharp knife. In the future I'm going to look into getting a power saw for the cut outs, as I think I'm getting carpal tunnel and all that repetitive sawing hurts. For Intricate delicate carving, it's best to start from the center and work your way out in widening circles. On the Lego one, I did all the shaving first, then I did the cut outs.

I'm behind the wheel all day, so to assuage boredom I listen to books on my mp3 player. Lately it's been Terry Pratchett's discworld books. Some favorites would be "The Colour of Magic", "Night Watch", "Monstrous Regiment", "The Truth", "Unseen Academicals" and "Going Postal". I also like the Nac Mac Feegles featured in the Tiffany Aching books.

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Lunch. It was lemonade and a couple tornadoes. Oh... you mean Legos... I wish I could spend my money on bricks... unfortunately there's this stuff called rent, food, utilities and gas for the car. =(

I'm disappointed that these didn't make it in the latest version 3933 3934 3935 3936

There's no such thing as too many zombies.

Brick responsibly.

I found that they didn't remove my shark, they just removed the individual parts and added it as a single part.

I like that cake shown in the initial post. My sister-in-law's birthday is tomorrow. (or is it today already?) Anyway, happy belated birthday.

I use it more for LXF files than for pics, and those are for the "Official sets built in LDD" topic, so it's nice to hear I don't have to post those elsewhere now. I'm kind of grumbling that Superkalle wants us to go through our Brickshelf files and update them for LDD4 though... =(

As long as there are things to knock off, there will always be knock offs made by unscrupulous people who appreciate a quick dollar.

This is pretty impressive. It reminds me of amusement park maps with the rides drawn on their locations. =)

I remember a lot of my old bricks having that "before" look. If I still had them all today (I wish), I'd definitely use some sort of wash and polish technique. Though instead of incescant scrubbing, I think I'd figure out a way to run them through the dishwasher or something. Maybe figure out a way to get maximum brick interior exposure for one cycle, and a wall setup for the exterior for another. I think Lego bricks would fare well in the top rack of the DW with some cascade and jet dry. Then polish them after. I wonder if some sort of compound put in a variation of a rock tumbler would work... I think they do that with coins. It would have to be gentle though. You want to polish the plastic, not scratch it worse.

He could rebuild it in LDD and post the LXF file. then you could make your own instruction guide. But some people are weird about giving you their design plans.

This is my Halloween avatar entry. It's one of the pumpkins I carved yesterday...

Upon examination, they appear fixed at the hip and there is only hinge movement at the knee. I try to design ball joints into my mechs. I need to get back into making some.

It would be interesting to see this placed in a proper setting. Is it ginormus and in minifig scale? or something that's somewhat up close and on some other scale?

Boo! Space Mafia is one of the coolest things they've ever done.

Thank you for your comments. There will be more pics of it tomorrow probably. As for a topic, I did start one. It's in the community thread about pics of Lego themed pumpkins and halloween stuff. I suppose costumes could go there as well. I'm sure someone somewhere is going out as a minifig for a party or trick-or-treating or something. I think the room was too dark and there was too much light in the pumpkin for a proper pic, so it looks nice and creepy, but it's a little blurry. My brother has a better camera than I do and I'll get him to take some nice shots. I also carved Grover's face from Sesame Street and will be doing more carving later. I also plan on carving more shading detail in the Lego pumpkin and will update the image.

That's just what Saber-Scorpion would say. >_> Anyway, my dream license would be Discworld. Rincewind and his luggage The Watch Unseen University various places in Ankh-Morpork though, if you insist that Lego is for kids, you could do the Tiffany Aching stuff. I don't know how the wee free men would be handled though. maybe micro figures.

You have shown me that cube dudes can be put in action and not be just desktop curiosities keeping guard over the paper clips and showing up your cubical mates dopey sports bobble heads. This is a pretty cool diorama. I should put some cube dudes in Brick...

While I think LOTR sets won't happen, Hobbit sets would be highly plausible. I'd like to see Hobbit sets, though I think hobbits, dwarves, humans and elves would cause a problem in minifig scale. As for elven sets, there are two elven communities in The Hobbit, including Rivendel. The other being the elves of Mirkwood Forest. In the meantime, there's always MOC's people can create... and I thought you LOTR fans would like this... and this...

Thank you, ADHO15. I'm an artist and sometimes forget that engineer types need everything spelled out for them so that they can grock significance.

I'm almost done reading the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, which has a bit of a SP element to it. (Or at least modern day gilded age feel, I don't think their version of Earth had discovered penicillin, as they remark how many more people there are in the worlds that closely resemble ours in comparison to the world featured in the books.) Oops, I'm off track. What I was getting at is that this reminds me a little of the rotor craft they have in the third book. Very insect-like and with different tech than we have today.