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  1. Gary The Procrastinator
    Updated with a shot of the completed interior, posted below. My second largest single-build MOC ever. The roof alone consists of 3623 1x1 dark red slope 30 cheese wedges (I'm single-handedly responsible for their price bump on Bricklink...sorry about that!) The architecture is inspired solely from a single photo of one of those staircases from Dankwarderode Castle in Brunswick, Germany. For a rear view, and the full story, just click on the picture or here for the link. As promised a while ago (though it took longer than I wanted) here is a shot of the interior: Thank you for your comments! Cheers, Gary
  2. Gary The Procrastinator
    Well done! I like all the details, such as the wife unhappy to see the recruiter and the garden.
  3. Gary The Procrastinator
    That's my other concern, besides the frustration of ending LOTR line. This could be a Friends-friendly type of effort, in which case
  4. Gary The Procrastinator
    As I said on FLICKR, wonderful and interesting build Dan, keep this line going!
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    Amazing build, the details are incredible. Love that shot with the kids, "Can we play now?!"
  6. Gary The Procrastinator
    Thank you! I appreciate your comment.
  7. Gary The Procrastinator
    Way cool! Love the motion here, never enough of that in builds IMHO.
  8. Gary The Procrastinator
    Clever build and story. I'm on LoR, so got the references and yep, why fight for the Queen when you can just profit from her machinations!
  9. Gary The Procrastinator
    Oh man I wish I could have seen this in person. Fantastic work, you fully deserved the win. Do you have a FLICKR account?
  10. Gary The Procrastinator
    I'm using several different ones here but primarily these two: PotC Cannibal 2 Torso PoP Seso Torso I was lucky enough to run across a seller at Brickfair who allowed to scarf up every one he had, and that helped the cost factor. Mostly though I just purchased a bunch of PotC Cannibal 1's and 2's on Bricklink.
  11. Gary The Procrastinator
    Wonderful, clean build with a lot of detail. The rocks are fine, the composition is top-notch.
  12. Gary The Procrastinator
    Thank you, it worked better than I thought it would. Thank you for the compliment. In a dry spot right now recovering from Brickfair, but more is on the way. I will be doing the Battle of Waterloo as well next year! Great compliment, thank you very much! Great to hear, it will be next year prior to Brickfair though. I have some castle builds coming up.
  13. Gary The Procrastinator
    Awestruck. Magnificent work here!
  14. Gary The Procrastinator
    Great thanks to Ecclesiastes for the Front Page post, very kind of him! My first front pager here on EB. Thank you Kayne, I tried to make the scene as intense as possible. Again, Macsen thank you, and I can't wait for your next magnificent Ancients build. Sam!! Thank you my friend and it was a joy meeting you as well; the LoR companionship made for a truly great Brickfair. Hope you can make it next year (and this time, we will defeat that little girl ...er, that probably looks bad, but you know what I mean ). Oh I'm very glad to see that, thank you so much Oiley, I was a little concerned that you wouldn't like it after your fantastic version. Thank you so much, really appreciate it. I'm honored by your comment, thank you! I definitely want to do right by all sides here with this portrayal of such an important event. Thank you LT, cheers! Thank you. Agreed, it's a shame that neither side took prisoners during the conflict until the very end. Thank you! Yeah, they just showed up and ambushed me! And apparently under a bit of confusion by that ambush I somehow pronounced Bionicle as "Beeyonicle", and now my kids are taking great delight in giving me grief about it... Thank you, I knew I had to do this one right and I'm lucky the techniques I tried worked so well. Thank you! Yeah the Beyond The Brick interview went well...apart from that "Beeyonicle" bit
  15. Gary The Procrastinator
    Love the colors and shape of this build, instantly eye-catching.
  16. Gary The Procrastinator
    Please do not consider this any kind of hostile reply, but a civil war is defined as a war between organized groups within the same state or republic, or between two countries created from a formerly united state. For nomenclature, it doesn't really matter which side started it or what the goals were of each side. As Balthazar points out, and Tedbeard drives home, it was a civil war.
  17. Gary The Procrastinator
    Beautiful, incredibly detailed, competely realistic. I follow you on FLICR ad I can't think of any other builder near your level of skill in this arena.
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    Yes, it's a coincidence of time I think. When I saw your post of Oiley's version, I was a little disappointed that someone beat me to the punch, but I've intended to do this since the Royal Guard came out, and have been collecting parts for over a year. That droid arms roof technique is very skillful and Oiley did an amazing job, it must have taken incredible patience. It does make the buildings look like huts, because they are not minifig-scale; the hospital alone was 23 meters long. Oiley was able to build the entire layout this way effectively, including the storehouse as well, but it's compressed to half-scale. I wanted to build at true minifig scale of 1 stud per foot...and 77 studs worth of droid arms would have been quite a challenge!! But this worked out, Oiley's now stands out as the original with that technique, and mine stands out for scale. At Brickfair I received lots of positive comments about that simple technique for a thatched roof. Of course, I only got the hospital side done, but for next year's Brickfair I will build the other half of the battle as well. Cheers! Thank you very much!
  19. Gary The Procrastinator
    As I said on FLICKR, sweet vignette with great presentation. One of my favorite subjects in history too!
  20. Gary The Procrastinator
    Kudos on that rounded shape, I think you did a great job there with the 1x8 reddish brown tiles. Turned out great.
  21. Gary The Procrastinator
    Good, solid review, thank you for doing it, and bringing back some memories. Back when I was still a Noobz to LEGO, bought a lot of these when they were on crazy-sale in 2004 due TLG being in financial trouble at the time. I took 6 ships and made this, and thought it was a "MOC" : What a Noobz I was
  22. Gary The Procrastinator
    Compact and functional, very well done. As others have said, the wing pods are very cool, and I like the little detail of the 1x1 trans cheese slope for a HUD.
  23. Gary The Procrastinator
    Spot on, Nathan. I didn't realize you were on EB until I found this build, a perfect rendition BTW. And since others have already stated it, I won't mention the war
  24. Gary The Procrastinator
    Can't say enough good about this magnificent creation. I truly hope it's destined for a nautical museum, not taken apart. It deserves to be shown to non-AFOLs. Again, greatly admire what you have done here!
  25. Gary The Procrastinator
    On target, great movie too. Nice job there!
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