Bingo Little

Lovely figures, especially the doc manhattan - and nice custom job on the rorshach face! I'd never have thought of using the crash test dummy for the doc, though. it's about the closes to the hydrogen symbol one could get.

So there I sat a few hours ago, watching tv and fiddling with five or six headlight bricks... I made exactly the same pattern. You did it on a better scale, quite some time ago, and on a truly awesome model, though I almost wish there was more market place, as the little human details there are so amazing.

Oh wow, that looks amazing. Lovely exterior and interior, as well as a good riverbed feel - is there any chance we could see the figures better?

If I make a castle under siege, do you mind if I steal this idea for ram construction? Cause it's awesome.

Oh wow, that trireme... I'd love to see a whole one, if you felt yourself up to the task. Lovely use of dark tan on the shoreline, but it feels a bit weird to me mixing flesh and normal minifigs.

I absolutely love the model and the architecture - and you're right, it would look awesome with the new column pieces. Talking of columns, the one with the statue is awesome. My criticism would come with the use of the exo force faces, which to my mind look far too cartoonish... the rest of the figure design, however, it top notch.

The blood sacrifices are just scary/disturbing - in a good way, of course! Awesome looking MOC, very lovecrafian - I can't help wonder if the boy and girl observing are about to be dragged into some mildly clichéd plot

I have to say, I prefer it to the original - I love the green colour scheme, it's quite unusual as far as I've seen, yet also brilliant.

It's excellent - not just the truly beautiful windows, but also the shape of the building and the buttresses etc look awesome.

Although this is a double post, it's a few weeks apart and no one would notice if I just edited it in, so: the guy who photographed this for me finished cutting together a video of it (shows a few things the pictures don't quite capture) and has uploaded it to youtube: Enjoy! Also, it's now pretty much entirely gone - all that's left is a mess

Yes, but if you want to get technical, it wasn't a stable, it was the lower floor of a peasant house. For the nativity scene people expect to see, this is brilliant.

Watching this and some of your other ones, it's really good fun to watch the build/the figures all having fights etc! I loved the smoothness of the flags moving here. They're also good to watch if you're thinking of getting the set - after all, you see every element,even those reviews or other photos might miss.

I'm working on my own Nativity for Christmas - although I'm going to be slower and it's going to be bigger! (The Inn (full to bursting, naturally, as there's no room) and some fields with the shepherds in.) Sadly, no PoP sets, so I don't have any camels for the wise men... they can arrive on foot or horseback if I don't get any in time. I love the tiling on the roof! However, I'm not sure about a few minifigures faces... is there any reason to have an embaressed angel? And given that Mary's meant to be young, it looks like there's a disturbing age gap between her and Joseph... eh, maybe I just have something against that face since I bought the Kingdoms battlepacks and ended up with what seemed like ten thousand of it. But yeah, in conclusion, that'd be an awesome decoration or ornament for christmas!

IT'S THE CRIMSON PERMENANT ASSURANCE! First time I've seen a proper town/pirates crossover!

Great fantasy ish MoCs - and good humour too! Reading your background text for the Chateau, any chance you're doing a proper castle any time soon? It looks like you're more than up to the challenge!

Well, this looks awesome. After seeing all the amazing architecture, why it is that my first thought is "I really like how he did the tulips on that grave"? Anyway, the rest of it's brilliant as well. With a model that size, I wonder if it could use more figures... however, they'd probably just make it cluttered.

I love the small domestic details like the kitchen! The outside's really well done too, it's a great attention to detail and the sort of model I'm trying to learn from.

As has already been pointed out, it's rather too late for that - though the buildings themselves still stand (with halves of guards and so on sprawled all over them like there's been a particularly bloodless war). I didn't really have enough tiles to do them anyway, but would a good alternative be using these and these? Admittedly it limits my roof colours, with what I've got, to red or brown, but it's the closest I could get to tiling.

'fraid so. Just the figures and details at the moment, the buildings still stand: but to make it more positive, I've made a start on my next creation already!

By the end, it was "hmm, he's in the army, he's been in a few fights." *breaks out eyepatches* "Hmm, he's got a full face mask." *Breaks out that one face I already had two of and seemed to get twenty more of in the battle packs* Dismantling has begun, by the way, sadly.

When I was trying to find if I had an old brickshelf account when I uploaded this (though it ended up going on flickr) I found a fairly similar Saxon manor house (much smaller) from three or four years ago that I made - I might upload that as well, though I haven't got very many pictures of it.

But... I see pidgeons and no haystack! You're going to lure a lot of hapless assassins to their deaths, you monster.

Well, what else can I do? It's been a lovely time building it, but now I have something to remember it by... I'd quite like my desk back, and to be able to start on other projects.

It's been eight months: I think I'm going to stop now. I'm running out of people, space on my desk, and ideas - not to mention money! I think in a week or two, I'll demolish it and start on a nativity scene. As for studs on top of rooves, I happen rather to like it as a technique - I don't see why it's much more of a suspension of disbelief to accept the studs there than to accept the studs all along the ground...

This didn't actually start off as anything to do with Medieval Market Village, but halfway through construction (a very on/off affair over eight months) I acquired the set, and it went to something between an MOC and a MOD. I eventually decided that as there's a lot extra in there, it's an MOC - kist a fairly derivative one! Anyway, it went from being a hunting lodge to the village, which seems to have a royal visit and some sort of troop muster going on... One of the things I wanted to do with the minifigures was portray some old factions of soldiers and make them look more updated - and make a few new ones look more 'classic'. It's not just about soldiers though - there are 89 figures in the model (probably, counting gets pretty hard) as well as a few statues and suits of armour, and I've tried to make sure of two things: 1. None of them share faces. (Except beneath full face helmets, or with an added beard, where you can't tell - I was running out of different heads...) 2. None of them are original TLG figures (except for the Jester, because he's really too perfect to change). I figured that since I'd used two full lego buildings, even with a few changes to the interior, I should really not use anything else of theirs, save, you know, bricks. Anyway, enough of the babble! Some pictures (the rest are on my Flickr, which is here) Pity I left the Blacksmith's open... A travelling fair. Not quite pictured: the fire eater, standing behind the guy prancing around in a mask. Robin Hood watches from on high... The gatehouse. Guess which faction owns this castle? The King's chambers. All the buildings or sections of building had either an openable roof or a wall that swung out. My friend who helped with the photographing loved arty angles, and this is one of them. I feel like the gardener would use it for his facebook picture. Possibly my favourite person in the set is the hunter, feeding his dog a bone. There's lots more in the flickr link above. Also, once it's edited together, I should have a video tour available which covers a few things not quite shown by the photos. It's the first MOC I've shared here, so be nice please!