Handle_of_God

Here's my Category B submission. Proof this is 16x16 is in the gallery, I placed it on a 16x16 island base & took photos. Link to gallery/pictures: http://imgbox.com/g/lyENmeGBLR Backstory: Vikrant is one of the last blacktron officers who lives a quiet,secluded life. He doesn't live in a mansion (like some others ) and just digs up rare minerals that he then sells on the black market or to various contacts he's made when he was in Blacktron. Time's are tough mow that TLG pulled the plug, shame. He's still happy though, he's always smiling as you can see in the picture gallery. Or maybe he's just glad someone decided to photograph his home, I doubt he gets much company anyways. Both he and I thank you for looking.

bretty gudd brah. you're what im up against. everyone else is doing miniscale in category B except us so far. ill be putting up my entry this week. we are awesome cause we did minifig scale in 16x16, go us.

Here's my submission for the freebuild contest. As you can see, it is a tree house, but with some added bonuses. In the front, two sets of stairs guide you to the base of the main tree where you may continue to the main living quarters or to the other spaces available. The main quarters has a four rooms; a bedroom, a kitchen, a dining room, and a bathroom. I wanted to give all the rooms big windows to be able to give better view of the trees and scenery (which, ideally this treehouse would be located in the forest, I wasn't going to make tons of trees for the surrounding area.) This is especially true in the dining room where I gave large windows on both sides. Since the bathroom should be a little more private I just gave it one but with the bathtub underneath it so you can drink your wine and still have a view. The bedroom also has a big window and for the kitchen I just gave it a smaller view to the back. Onto the other areas, from the base of the main tree I wanted to provide a guesthouse for family/friends that offers two beds, dressers, table, etc. Merely a simply sleeping room, you wouldn't want to spend all your time there. If we go towards the back from the base I installed a table with chairs and an umbrella. I really like this area. From here you would be able to see the sunset/sunrise, hangout and read a book, or just play a game of chess. Pretty simple but I feel it adds a lot to the "home". The last building is only accessible after you pass the outside seating area where I decided on a mini-study/library. Again I had the large windows put in and inside are two bookshelves with a desk and chair. I really like the shape of the building, it's like a pod or something, and with the large windows it makes it even more pretty. I love my windows obviously. Other random info; there's lots of lights/lamps around, I was concerned if you're in the middle of a forest you need all the light you can get. Total piece count came in at 1945. The color scheme I felt unsure of but it really is the only thing that would work, remember this is in a forest and I felt it should not intrude too much on the land but rather would, hopefully, compliment it. Also the color has to be uniform, can't have crazy colors clashing with eachother in the middle of a forest, that woudn't work. The length came in at exactly like at 100 studs, width is much less. Man, I would've loved to have rendered this but I don't know much about that and from the looks of it it would've taken a day or two to render. I don't know what else, I guess that's it. Thanks for looking. link to .lxf file http://www.megafileu...entree-lxf.html

I don't really listen to music when building, I wouldn't be paying attention to the music anyway since I'm preoccupied. However I don't know if I could just build in absolute silence either. For me it's fine to just have the tv on in the background or random music playing from my ipod, just have something going on in the background.

Hi Supernaut, great name and great song (have you heard 1000 homo djs version with t. reznor singing? it rocks) I too am new and just looking around to familiarize myself more. Welcome back to Lego

Great contest. Im glad it is all digital. While I have a decent number of bricks, one can always have more. I will be entering the freebuild and microbuild, I actually already know what Im going to do so now it's just a matter of execution.

I too grew up with classic space so that would be cool to bring back the older stuff. Having said that, I think it's important for TLG to try and push new ideas within a theme, they need to try things out. If it weren't for their innovation and risk taking, we would never have a space theme in the first place. I think a good analogy would be a music artist trying out different things with every new album, sure people might miss the old stuff, but the artist needs to try and discover new things, that way they can accomplish a lot in different areas and they can have fans admiring different phases of their work. I see the same thing with TLG. Having said all that they should pay attention to what their customers want, to an extent. I suppose maybe comes down to cost benefit analysis...

Very nice. I like how you made the monorail come up from underground, that is a beautiful touch. Also all the action around (Blacktron spying, workers sleeping, accidents by the workers, etc.) Cool build.