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That water I'd be tempted to add a bit of colour variation but perhaps that wouldn't work on a smallish patch like this. The whole build looks great!

Great idea - Have to agree with Isundir now he's said that though

Hi - thanks but what's a 'panel' please... lol. Is it the seat shaped things?

Fantastic Boat!

Hi all, I've stated to play around in LDD. I'm trying to make the windows as they are quite central to the look, however I'm stuck with the tops - any ideas welcome? The arch brick seems to be the right proportion but I'm not sure how to 'glaze' the rounded bit (cheese sloes don't fit.) Is there a solution or should I change scale?

Thanks all! Henrysunset - Thanks for that - You've popped me a link to the book before (on my Newman thread - now on hold due to costs and job move but I may return to it one day.) DanSto - thanks for your thought - I've already been admiring your Notre Dame -its stunning and instantly recognisable! Edit: is there a 'set' scale or architecture 'sets' or just as small as possible?

Great idea and love the execution!

Thanks all... great to get nice comments from builders I admire too (lord v, little John especially!) Any ideas to improve on in future anyone?

Love it!

Lovely build! Loads of informative info and detail!

Hi all, Having seen Durham Cathedral's Lego project I'd like to have a go at building Birmingham Cathedral, first in the Lego Architecture style, and then maybe bigger. Here's a google image search: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=birmingham+cathedral&biw=1164&bih=845&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMIlIyp4OnkxwIVQznbCh2NxQu1#imgrc=fTgqBABQtxbheM%3A Questions: 1) What colour brick would be best and have a good range of parts? I'm torn between light grey and tan. A lot of images are nearer to tan but in person the building is more grey (I've heard a few people describe it as white) - see the range of images to see what I mean. 2) Any ideas for building the rounded end? The windows here re also stained glass (the rest aren't). Please feel free to post links to useful parts you know of I'll update this with my progress.

This is fab! I too started back to lego with only old bits. I found the best way to get newer ones was to buy sets 'without figures' with some interesting parts (I think I got four 'council of Elrond' pretty cheap which gave me quite a lot of parts I've used in most of my builds. Your creation however is super with the parts you have - some great details and a sense of narrative going on. If you want to improve I'd recommend the Doctorate of Petrea program in Guilds of Historica. (see link in 'new members thread there). I found its helped me focus o improving a little at a time and small builds done well rust fine. My difficulty is trying to build as big a possible and stretching my parts collection too far. Keep up the good work - look forward to seeing more from you :)

This is a great addition to this set - well done! Do you have links to the others you've done please?

Looks great! I'd like to see how the insides are put together - haven't made a powered seam engine before and don't know where to start with power functions but a little engine like this seems like a good starting place.

Nice little build. I'd give credit for the tree and flowers, however would like to see 3 trees minimum (o something extra special) for forest.

This is amazing! Can we have more photos of toothless please? Are you planning/have already built any of the others? If lego licensed this I'd b bankrupt - never mind what the kid wants!

Opps! Sorry I'm on my phone... lost track switching between windows. Drop the last one geography. Will edit it out on pc tomorrow.

Hi all. I've had a go at my first build for this. The trade is; Tax and customs. Also looking for some doctorate of historica credits http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=114133 Hope you enjoy.

I'd like to receive some credits for my moc 'Crocodile Customs " please. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=114133

Hi all. I present my largest moc so far "Crocodile Customs" For some time Lord Bonebane has been growing an army... For what purpose is yet to be revealed. Whilst he and his mysterious mage are hard at work 'recruiting' troops, the more menial tasks such as equipping an army are outsourced to different tribes throughout Nocturnus. One such tribe is the crocodile tribe of His Toothiness Croc Quextilox. For many years he and his tribe were known bullies to the surrounding villages, but being a small tribe the powers that be have little time to deal with them. This made the tribe perfect for Bonebane to make use of. With help from the double crossing human known simply as Gorrick, the Croc were set up with a new trade - customs officers. Anyone passing along the coastal trading route was required to declare their wares and pay the going taxes. This cost was usually by confiscation of 25% of wares, sometimes far more if the wares were useful for army building. In return for sending war supplies and weapons to Bonebane, the Croc were licensed to keep 5% of non military wares for themselves and would be granted larger lands once the coming war was won. However... slowly the dowry paid to Bonebane became and less and less and rumours of the croc's riches began to spread. This needed checking out. Gorrick was dispatched with an armourer to find out what was going on. He arrived at the customs house posing as a trader, stepping into a scene of people unhappy at the huge and sometimes total cost of taxes. Upon entering the customs house he was confronted with more unhappy 'customers'. When handed his tax note he found out why- a tax of 100%!!!! This was strange - nowhere near this amount of 'taxes' was being received by Bonebane. He demanded to speak with the management. Upstairs he found Quextilox flanked by his treasures dining like a king. Quextilox was unconcerned by his anger and asked his guards to show Gorrick out. Outside Gorrick soon found a messenger and had a letter sent to Bonebane as fast as the horse could travel. Before long Bonebane arrived with a raiding force. Fighting soon broke out around the customs house as the crocs realised they were about to loose their luxurious lifestyle. Inside Bonebane and his mage soon found Quextilox and 'reminded' them of the original arrangement. To be continued....... Hope you like. C & c welcome. More photos of the build below. I really enjoyed this once I worked out what I could do with the part I had. I really like the modular and wanted to try something along those lines but don't currently have enough parts to make a fully fledged modular. I'd like to claim doh credits for the following: Anthropology - life in Nocturnus General Building - interior design Lance design - tree technique 2 Architecture - roofing 1 forgot to take a photo but in the pic above if you turn the barrel on the balcony it let's a trapdoor on the balcony fall over. A little play feature I thought would be a fun way to load a cart parked below.

Stunning! Love it, love the whole castle!

Thanks or the extra info.! Quite pricey but it does look stunning!

I really want to go and see this, especially as I'll be working in a cathedral myself soon!

Haven't seen any yet myself, but not been out since the Monday so probably why. Where do ou get the 20% of smiths vouchers? I'd love a castle or fantasy themed set! They could hit the classic D&D characters and throw in the standard low level monsters - goblin, troglodyte, skeleton etc.

Awesome ship - an interior would finish it off though, even if it were just some simple greebles/clamps to hold cargo in place and a claw/docking thing for the smller ship to attach to.