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It is "Plate, Modified 1 x 4 Offset", you can buy it on Bricklink here for all colors or here for just black.

Those sets look great. The VW looks very cool especially. Might have to get that (And not just for the parts). The Winter Post Office looks nice but since the scan is rather blurry I can't see a lot of detail. The detail I do see looks good though, I hope those instruments are brickbuilt. It looks like the person on the bench might also be wearing that red shirt that has the classic space logo on it, which would be nice since I always need more CS shirts . The snow also looks good but easily removable on the roof. The car looks great too.

Looks nice. Have you posted this before? Looks quite familiar. Nice use of the zamor shooter.

Interesting Mech design. You did a great job putting in all the details of Boba Fett (The yellow bit of fabric on his armor, the targeting thing (Or whatever) on his helmet, all that stuff. I don't really like the wings from Slave I much, they seem a bit out of place. The jetpack looks nice though.

Well I didn't even start collecting until late 2007, so my collection of all of the old colors is small compared to the new ones (Though rapidly growing). Due to lack of sorting space, I keep them sorted together, but I plan to separate them eventually. Since I mostly do space stuff, I like the bley parts more because they look cleaner and sort of like metal, and artificial, good for making clean, new ships. I do sometimes make rocky things like castles and stuff (Haven't posted any yet) so those I use the old greys for (Or sometimes a mixture).

Nice lion, especially considering the scale you built it in. Planning on making a lioness soon or just the male? (Or perhaps a zebra for him to eat?)

Nice TECHNIC cars. The Ferrari looks coolest. Is the Porche supposed to be orange or red? It looks kinda reddish orange, but LEGO never made that color. Also it seems like this belongs in the TECHNIC forum anyway... Maybe a mod will move it?

Nice Futurama MOC. I don't watch the show, but it's a nice design. I like the satellite dishes on the roof.

Probably a good idea. Also inherent price of gold is increasing in general, and the price of super rare stuff tends to increase over time as well.

Great curves on the water. Nice use of the mesh part also, very useful part for curved flatish sections.

Hello. I'm also a fan of most themes (To varying extents). However, I disagree with your hoping to fit in on EB, how boring it would be if everyone fit in, especially on a forum for a product designed for creativity... What problems are you having with the avatar stuff?

Nice Viking ship. Are the sails custom made or official LEGO ones? Nice ballista design also. It's kinda bugging me though that the ends of the ship are dark bley, I think it would look better if it was brown like the rest of it.

Nice hotel MOC 'Hoexbroe'. Lot's of nice details. Is the 1932 sign the same design as the Fire Brigade one? (Also shouldn't it say 1965? ) For some reason the back end of the car is just really bugging me, maybe the sticking out tail lights? I guess most old cars looks like that though...

Nice Rcho car. The windscreen looks a bit blocky though, but I suppose it's rather hard to make a non-blocky one without using a prefab windscreen. Cool functions with the various doors and such, makes it a way nicer model. Nice figures also, but the arms seem a bit short. And now I'm going to catch up on the last few seasons, since this reminded me that that show exists.

Wow that's cool your son won that. I think in terms of just the value of the gold right now it's probably at least a thousand dollars? Might be a bit more/less considering the collector value.

Well I mostly look at sci-fi and Pirate stuff, and occasionally SW and historic stuff. I occasionally look at TECHNIC stuff, but some I never look at (Fabuland grosses me out). So if it's not any of the themes I look at regularly, there is almost no chance I will even notice it unless I happen to see a link to it on the frontpage or another site. Then sometimes I don't comment because: There isn't anything to say that someone hasn't already posted, The creation is so utterly crappy I can't even think of where to start, horrible pictures (As in you can't even see it), etc. Also sometimes I'm just too lazy to comment.

Or depending on your methods, backwards, waay forwards, sideways (as in using a method completely different from anything described in the list), or perhaps you just go mad from trying to sort and the universe implodes.

Heh, that's how my closet looks kinda. I've got about 40 re-sealed (empty) boxes stacked up in a corner, I've got a box of instruction books on the floor, and several of those yellow bags they put stuff in at the register in the LEGO stores. I've also got 5 or 6 PAB cups on the shelf, each full of parts I've sorted but don't often use. It looks rather like the PAB wall and set storage room and register got smashed together.

Seems I skipped a lot of steps. For me, it went: 1. You don't sort your Lego. You just keep them in the box they came in. 3. You give up on individual set boxes and toss all your Lego in a big storage bin or a Lego denim bag, or a couple of your large set boxes. You become very familiar with the sound of someone digging through large bricks looking for a 1x1 transparent red plate. 7. You cave in and actually get a storage system. Maybe it's rubbermaid bins, or piles of blue buckets, or fishing tackle boxes, or ziplocks. But now you've got a system. 20. Bizarrely enough, you actually give up and go back to sorting by color. Only this time, you sort by color after sorting by piece. So you now have a bin for yellow 1x3 plates, and a bin for black 1x3 plates, and so on. (Just starting on this) 11. You have now invented your own Lego categorization system. You have no doubt separated out bricks, plates, wheels, minifigs, slopes, and so on, but you've also clumped "things with curves" together, and doors and windshields together. You also have a category called "misc". Your categories, amazingly, don't look much like the LDraw categories. 28. Of course, somewhere along the way, you probably quit buying just sets, and started to do things like: - Buy lego sets in bulk, to the point where you have 10s to 100s of unopened boxes. - Work on very large construction projects. - Acquire other people's collections. - Run large auctions over the net. And those bring up entirely new sorting challenges.... but those won't be written about tonight, at least not by me. 14. You begin to develop large piles of lego in various states of being sorted, i.e: the sorted stuff the stuff you've kinda sorted and is ready to be put away piles of lego you aren't going to sort because you think you'll use it all to build something else anyway lego sorted some other way than the way you sorted into drawers to see if this way works better than that way did your building projects your new boxes of lego, some opened, some not oh, and let's not forget your various models and MOCs 16. The original categories you made begin to follow this life cycle: - They grow too large to fit into their container. - You divide the category into two categories in order to get them to fit into the containers... one for each category. (Now you have windshields, doors, and windows, each as a different category of pieces, each in their own containers.) - You store those subcategories together, but as parts of them become too numerous or too hard to find, you split them out. So your tackle boxes now have a different compartment for each type of door. You realize that at this point the endgame is that you will have a different compartment for every type of piece you have. 16.5. Every once in a while, you open a drawer you haven't opened in a while and discover that you've been sorting some piece into two separate places in your drawers. This throws your categorization for a loop. How exactly do you categorize the 1x2 plate with the little robot-looking thing on it? Oh no... partsref doesn't have it either, augh! 19. You develop a multi-stage sorting system. It may take a piece several hops before it ends up in its final resting spot, but it's a bit more efficient to sort this way, and you can do some of it while watching a video. 21. Finally you create an "overflow" system of buckets, where, if the bin of 1x3 yellow plates is full, you just any additional ones into that overflow bucket, along with other plates. (One of the first indicators that you should do this was that you didn't have a compartment big enough to hold all your Lego horses...) 17. You rearrange your house so that you can fit your storage system into, hopefully, just one room. (I do this every few months ) 22. You begin to toss most pieces directly into overflow. (Just started) 23. You now have what, to a stranger, would be a bizarre sorting system. You have some parts thrown together in bins by type. You have some parts split out with a separate bin for each part. You have some parts split out with a separate bin for each color. You even have some parts split out by how old they are: red 1x2s from the 60s, red 1x2s from the 70s, new red 1x2s that hold really well, and all the other red 1x2s. And you have an alphabetized pile of large buckets for the overflow pieces and another one for the 1st stage of sorting. 23.5. That stranger would also think you were certifiably insane. Or at least retentive.

Nice fighter. I like the use of those big cone parts, very hard parts to use IMO, especially on such a small ship. The cannons or whatever those are inside the cone parts also look great. The entire nose of the fighter looks great also. Looks like you took apart the Neptune Carrier set from Atlantis to make most of it (Good parts in there for Space stuff). Nice background also .

OK thanks. For a slightly non-purist method, you could use the compass from the POTC sets and rub off the printing with something (For dark blue).

Funny. I started decluttering my LEGO room about 4 months ago. At this moment, I have about 10 boxes of parts on the floor, a partially sorted through box of parts in a corner, about 60 percent of the floor space that isn't taken up by the bed or shelving is covered in LEGO to varying depths, I have 3 sets of drawers filled with sorted parts, and the top part of each drawer set is lightly coated in random parts, bags of sorted pieces, half finished MOCs, and minifigs. The area under my bed has small amounts of parts underneath, as well as 4 of those big blue tubs that LEGO has for those "basic brick" type boxes. When I'm not sleeping on it, the entire surface of the bed is covered in parts and MOCs that I'm working on (I take the pillow and covers off most mornings and pile them up in a corner). I have a large worktable on the other side of the room (Which I can only get to by clearing out a path through the "sea" of parts on the floor) which, except for a small section reserved for various sciency instruments, is covered in small piles of parts and a few layouts (which I might eventually finish). My entire closet is filled with empty set boxes and a few PAB cups on a shelf. The cleanest area is my book shelf, the top half of which has various sets and MOCs on it also. This is after 4 months of cleaning... (I would have finished it except every few days I get a new set or start on a new MOC and mess everything up, and all the stuff I got at Brickworld didn't help...). I might post pictures eventually...

Awesome 7 wide cars. The black and white police car and the red civilian car are my favorites. Too bad the police cars don't have a back seat, not much point in a police car without a spot for the prisoner . I suppose you would have had to stretch it out a bit for that though... Maybe just handcuff them to the passenger side door? What kind of wheels did you use also? I don't recognize them. Are the 2 civilian cars supposed to be any particular type of car, or just generic ones?

Somehow it seems like a bad idea to have an open bar at any convention. It'd probably end up with someone getting super drunk and punching someone or some other stupid thing... Not for sure, but I certainly don't think it would be pleasant to find out (Especially as the one getting punched) The idea with the sodas and stuff isn't a very bad idea though (And the under 21 people could come).

Wow. Cool use of the curved 1x1's for the body, and the transparent parts for the eye area. My favorite part is the wings, at first I thought you had used some kinda metal thing for that area to have it as 1 part until I noticed the little hose parts. Any interior?