ElCrab

Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time, because all I ever do is look at the pictures you guys post and say something like "amazing" and hit reply. But this is amazing. Great work.

Incredible. Just incredible.

I bought mine off Craigslist for 70 bucks. Should've bought the other one the guy had as well! I opened it to look at the book, that's all I've done so far with mine.

Amazing work!

I sell minifigs on eBay, and I have access to sealable bubble wrap bags. I put the minifig and all needed pieces in a small sealable jewelry Ziploc, then into the bubble wrap bag, fold it a few times over and seal it. Then I put this into a manila envelope, clamp it shut and tape over the flap. Using the bubble wrap bags I do, it means several layers of wrap on each side protect the minifigure, and when someone opens that up, the contents are all collected in that inner sealed bag as well. When I ship a larger item (like a Jabba the Hutt or a dewback), I have small boxes for those items. But they still get wrapped in a bubble wrap bag and any additional space is packed with more wrap.

I don't know if I truly missed out on it, but once in a Goodwill Bargain Bin location I decided against looking around at everything, which I usually do. I stuck with the books and a cursory glance at a few other bins. Anyway, I get in line and this kid gets in line behind me with a tub of LEGO, mostly minifigures and accessories. I'm pretty sure they JUST had found it and decided to leave right then from their conversation. I wasn't too upset, given some kid got a screaming deal (and it sounded like he was paying with money he earned), so good on him. But the one time I don't go looking around before digging in, I likely missed out on a LEGO gold mine.

I didn't even notice the use of the hull pieces until the second picture. The first picture, I was impressed, a nice lil building. But when I saw the second, my eyes widened. Great idea!

Nice tree! And while I agree on the use of a yellow grill (as a target as you say), it gives me a grand idea for a MOC that's been evolving in my brain. Not to harp on the issue too much, but I also thought it was a clever way to make it appear an axe is embedded and previous throws have exposed the wood underneath the bark. As you said, it's a target, but I never would've guessed that. It's good on you for having a better imagination than I did. Either way, again, love the tree and the effect of an embedded axe. Nice little scene.

Fantastic! I've got a whole bunch of microfigs from extra sets of Heroica I picked up really cheap, and was going to sell them. Good to see that someone with imagination found a use for them.

Thanks for this. I've yet to get any modulars, but just looking through this thread makes me want them. And gives me so many useful and interesting takes on how to build. I would guess the modulars are great for showing you how to use pieces you never thought of in ways you never imagined.

Very cool, especially love the name. I have a Facebook friend that served under General Mattis (then, a colonel) in Desert Storm.

K'lëïxlbvrû'stæòrbr: It's pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove. Cool little build! Love the way you did the smoke.

In the past week: 79014 Dol Guldur Battle x 2 79008 Pirate Ship Ambush 31026 Creator Bike Shop & Café 60036 Arctic Base Camp 75052 Mos Eisley Cantina x 5 70404 King's Castle 75030 MicroFighters Millennium Falcon 30246 Imperial Shuttle Polybag 8028 Mini TIE-Fighter Polybag (which is apparently from 2008) 60059 Logging Truck Kind of all over the place, but I have quite a few ideas that I want to build, most of them in the Historical section. Plus, I came into some money (who knew the run-up to getting married would be a lucrative proposition?!), and splurged just a tad.

You'd be even more jealous if you saw what I've taken home in the past week! Mos Eisley Cantina x 4 King's Castle Arctic Base Camp Dol Guldur Battle x 2 Bike Shop/Café Creator Pirate Ship Ambush Not to mention a few polybags from Target, though when you're buying nearly a dozen 70-100 dollar sets in a short period of time, what's a 3.99 polybag or 4? It helps that I'm getting married, oddly enough. We have been saving money for months to pay for it, but always figuring her family would pitch in for some or all of it. Her dad paid for the whole thing (plus extra), and her aunts and uncles gave us a check at the same time for a gift, so we divvied up the pile of cash we saved and I splurged a bit. And when I got paid a few days later (and had a lot more than usual, since we weren't saving anymore), I splurged a little more. This method is the same I've used to fund my crippling book collecting habit as well. I got into buying and selling for profit, and finding ways to get the books I wanted for free, essentially. That skillset has now translated over to my renewed crippling addiction to LEGO.

I buy sets at work, looking at what pieces come with it and what minifigs do as well. If either there's a lot of "good" pieces (colors, style, etc) and/or the minifigs will recoup most or all of my money (or even net a small profit), I buy them, often times duplicates. But I get 20% off LEGO through work, plus we often have discounts to boot. I still have yet to build anything, but one of these days... In the meantime, I have probably quadrupled my LEGO collection, which I used to think was good-sized when I was a kid. ;)

I always write it as LEGO. But I also have to write the band CAKE as such, and my favourite movie "JAWS" is always capitalized as well.

Fantastic stuff here! Love the watermill, the use of the underside of the plates, and the banners for a tattered sail. Great work!

Middle Zealand! I was at work yesterday and saw we had a bunch of pallets with cases of LEGO, and got really excited when I saw one pallet of "Knight's Castle" sets. Sadly, they're the easy build sets, and not a new run of Castle products. I should've known that, too.

This one has my vote, but I'm a sucker for sea life.

Personally, the Lone Ranger Cavalry troopers are a better starting point, as you get dark blue torsos with light blue trousers, just as were issued to actual soldiers on the plains. The older LEGO cavalry troopers were the same blue, top and bottom, and it's the wrong blue for either. One of these days I'll finally get around to making something, I've been amassing parts for months now. I've been wanting to build Old West MOCs, and one of my original plans was to recreate an entire cavalry regiment, likely Custer's Seventh. It was going to be a multiyear project, given that a full cavalry regiment was authorized for nearly 800 men, plus scouts and such. The fighting strength was what I was going to recreate, plus the look of a regiment on campaign. But that would still be around 650 minifigs and an equal amount of horses, if not extras for the pack train and extra mounts. I need to win the lottery.

This is amazing! Very nice!

Simply awesome, thanks for sharing this with us!

Ditto on the Haunted House. I got it as a gift to myself at Christmas, and it's amazing. I'll never take it apart, and I hope to buy a few more before it's retired. One for parts, at least one to save for resale.

Forgot about the dogs, cats, spiders, mice, parrots, horses (so obvious). I'm going to edit my post and put in the list. There's a reason I want this info, as I'm planning my first MOC to be something that needs animals. I did not specify, but I meant actual animals of this planet. Dinosaurs count, and I don't know which had been made, other than pterodactyls, T-Rex, Triceratops), but, say, wargs and Chima minifigs don't. I'm looking for minifig-like animals, the ones that basically are purpose-built as figures, not of bricks.

So I just now found out there was an elephant. What other animals have I missed out on?! I have several sharks (plus the sawfish shark), an octopus, a bear, the minifig monkey and the accessory monkey, and a few alligators.. I've seen that a manta ray exists as well, as well as the aforementioned elephant. What other minifig-like, purpose built animals exist? Thanks in advance. EDIT - The list so far: Horses (what colors besides black, brown, white?) Cows (what colors exist?) Chickens Goats(?) Bear (polar and brown) Monkey (minifig and accessory) Sharks (sawfish, white, gray) Parrots Elephant Alligator Manta Ray Octopus Dogs (Dalmatian and German Shepherd) Cats Mice Spiders Starfish Crabs Fish Snakes Scorpions Bats Seagulls Crows Camels Owls Pigs Frogs