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    Hi all, With a house move it's been a while since I made anything but finally squeezed in a small Moc. I wanted to try some sort of contrasting landscape so a present: "Fishing" on the Nocturnus Boarder. Husbandry Challenge - Food's scarce but some have found luck finding enough to support themselves by venturing to the boarders. Usually quite risky as the war means that the boarders are a common place for clashes or full out battle and so most people avoid these areas. The offshoot is food is more readily available for those few brave enough or foolish enough to venture out in search of food. You're just as likely to get a sword in the gut as a good meal! I'd like to claim UoP Doctorate credits for: Landscape Design - flowers and dense foliage Agriculture - 'Fishing' Geography - River scene Hydrology - flowing water C&C welcome.
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    This is AWESOME! Are there instructions or a parts list for it available at all?
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    Fantastic build!
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    That's fantastic! Love what you did wit this set
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    Good review. I agree this has to be the best crane. Having this myself from when it was out I can totally agree the 9/10 playability - whenever the trains were out (including a couple of years ago even in my 'dark ages') this set was the focal point of any 'play'. Only downside was the outriggers weren't stable enough to support the crane when lifting a full size wagon (I had a few occasions where a harbour cranes were drafted in to rescue this crane...... edit - apologies to mods- after posting I realised it's been a while since there were any posts on tis topic.
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    That's amazing! Looks huge too!
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    Hi Rollermonkey - yes I am (but thanks!) - I'm actually bricklinking a falcon myself with that mod so that was my thoughts too. I think the tricky part will be the ground level chance on the curve and I'm also trying to work out how to attach the colums whilst keeping the as strong as possible. Getting them to follow the curve would be easy using hinges to mirror the curve hiddin in the roof, but havn't work out the ground level connection with the change in ground level... other than just keeping them to the normal 'grid' placement. Any thoughts would be super welcome!
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    Hi all, I've had a go a building Edgebaston Hall (where I lived as a student). Between getting the size wrong on the LDD file and a couple of calculation mistakes ordering parts it's missing the end sets of rooms (which I'll rectify in time), however I'm petty pleased with it and someone who saw it on facebook recognised it and identified their student room too so I call that a success. Would love to hear any C&C!
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    Wow - love the living room - that table is so clever! Lot's of genius uses for parts in there - well done!
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    Haven't decided about levers yet myself. Debating modding the rear flaps so will decide then, probably next time I can afford to place some orders. So far I reckon I'm in the region of £320 including postage, stock parts and pick a brick. Would estimate have safely less than 1k parts to go and as far as I can tell have all the large plates. Don't know how many lots that translates to, need to double check parts and date my wanted list when the last order arrives. Being optimistic I'd like to keep it below £400. To save money I'm using a lot of alternative parts - lot's of greys and working some dark blue into it as well. The inside is grey, black, red, yellow, and blue. I'm hoping it will look ok, if not I figure it's lego - I can always swap parts out at a later date.
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    I started again a year ago by buying several of council of Elrond set without figs to get plenty of tree parts and natural plates, also got lucky with a couple of decent ebay bulk lots. no settling down a little and using brick link and lego store for specific bits for a couple of projects. however temptation to start collecting poly bags and minifigs has seriously dented my budget... gotta get a grip!
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    This is fantastic - really captures the original building - well done - gives me hope for a good outcome on my own project, although much simpler look than this!
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    Great review and awesome looking model. I've not built any technic since the super car 8880 (released 1994) and the old black truck with pneumatic crane (logger? - can't find it on brickset) on the back. Both have since suffered from age (small cogs/rubber bands) have broken in places can't get too. When the technic style began o change from these I really didn't like where it was headed - however this model for me is the point in that evolution where I can say all is happily forgiven and subject to cost is on my list to Santa (I know... I'm 31 but e all still play with a toy....). It also looks far more robust as far as aging goes and whilst most of the parts are now alien to me looks to be very impressive cramming in so may functions even compared to he two beasts of a model I just mentioned. Thanks for such fab review!
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    Wow! Really not sure what else to say apart from perhaps 'what a lot of chairs!' - so many different ways of using them - great work!
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    I've d all sorts over the years, and go through phases where they re-emerge on a whim. Things I'd perhaps call a hobby currently are Viking re-enactment (i.e. metal weapons rather than foam) although finding the time with a family and a cross city trek by bus for training is difficult, geocaching, food, board games (playing and designing), and with a new house I guess gardening will appear on the list. Recently warhammer 40Ks dropped off. pricewise I can't really justify that anymore for the time I get to spend doing it with a young kid around. I suppose reading/films also go on. I'm probably missing stuff there too.
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    I'm using paper and pen. Seems quicker to me than excel, but then again I've made a couple of errors so had to redo it. having to recount the 4000 pieces I've currently got, but that's due to an error with store terms I missed rather than the paper method. I've added a wanted list to bricklink that i'll just use to find bits, and delete completed ones as I go.
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    love this - fantastic and inspiring little build!
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    Great idea and well excecuted! Have supported.
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    Thanks Tom. I'm some where in between, I want it to be as accurate as possible so people could spot their bedroom/classroom for example, but really it's more of an essence. e.g. - the halls I've only included the main windows - to fit the smaller ones in would mean a much bigger scale. So in answer to your question -no 'm not fussed about the exact number of columns, proportion is more important t me... but by saying that I think the number of columns will end up being pretty close based on using x1 round bricks. An idea I've had for the front is sing 1x2 pieces staggered and seeing if they'll en enough to make the front, I've seen some people modify the UCS falcon engine this way. I think I'd need to play with the pieces to see how ell it would work I this context though.
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    For me I'd say Thunderbirds - cools models with plenty of scope to make our own pod machines/diroamas and just have a load of fun!
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    Very stylish - great work!
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    Love this. It reminds me of the cake shop from the Studio Ghibli 'Howel's Moving Castle' for some reason. Keep up the good work.
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    These are fantastic!
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    Right, I've had a play on LDD. Apologies for image quality, issues uploading so had to use a phone camera. Test look: left most -my preferred look but also the most expensive and difficult to source parts, especially in large quantity. Windows are trans clear tiles. Right most windows are white tiles, and next to that trans plates. These two would be cheaper. Thoughts? Halls: Quite happy with this. The middle joining block doesn't look right, can't work out if it's because I accidentally made the big blocks 1 story too short. Quick look at prices, a single large block is gong to be £80 on bricklink, £60 from lego... may have to wait before building anything for real t those prices :( Gym - untidy mock up to try to work out the scale. C&C welcome
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    Thanks for that! That was sort of what I was thinking, but hadn't thought of using them that close together to keep the size down. For the curve I was thinking of trying to use these in a snot formation if they didn't look too over proportioned (which I think they may) so might settle for the parts you suggested http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=61678 I was hoping to get the ground level change and the curve more prominent, but I think perhaps best to just give an impression due to size. There's an architect model at the uni that's a small scale but it's still too big to make with lego. at least or first attempt and even on that the columns are thinner that the light sabres so will have to u some artistic license!
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