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Nice tailors, I like the use of the minidolls as mannequins and the back rooms are a great addition with the spools and cloth. Would be nice to see a fitting room perhaps in the main shop area and maybe a customer or too. The best bit is probably that snot floor in the main shop, those pieces work really well IMO!

Cool basement, can't wait to see where this story goes.

Beautiful Eslander house, the whitewashed walls with red roof looks great and I really like the garden. Nice build!

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Akatu, in the employment of Sir James has completed the first stage of works on a small sugar plantation just outside of the main harbour, towards the interior. PlanviewPlantation, on Flickr This is licensed as a small plantation.

Good point about the builds not be square, if I'd have thought about it I would gone with number of studs. However, my brick collection/skill as a builder makes it tougher to make more organic looking builds! (something to think about) Anyway, here's my own sugar plantation, as mentioned previously it has been built on Serentia, just outside Stormhaven. PlanviewPlantation, on Flickr

As you might remember, Akatu a member of the Berellian Ténotclaxcan tribe was recruited by Sir James to aid him in the establishment of a series of plantations in the new world. And this move, it turned out was rather prudent, for it took much longer than anyone could have anticipated to tame the dense forests of Serentia. The climate was perfect for the sugar crop Sir James so desired, but the terrain was rather hostile, the mangroves at the perimeter of island were flat, but much of the water supply was saline and the land was not suited to farming, The interior jungles seemed to resist all attempts to clear them and once removed pushed back almost immediately, giving the Corlander labourers and Akatu’s Ténotclaxcans no rest in the war against the vegetation. IrrigationOfTheSugar, on Flickr The freshwater problems were soon solved by Akatu and his people, who were experts in irrigation techniques and before long terraces like those Sir James admired and observed on Berelli had been constructed just beyond the mangroves of Serentia, not far outside of the harbour of Stormhaven. PloughingThePlantation, on Flickr It was Gibson who had been charged with inspecting the first crops of the sugar cane. He came in his usual business manner, appearing to not notice the dense jungle and swamps of the island pressing in around them, he did not even remove his top hat. Quill in hand and papers at the ready, he began scribbling notes, numbers and quantities mostly transcribed from the broken Corlandish Akatu spoke. His grim expression never left his face, with Gibson it was always hard to tell if he was actually displeased or whether he just looked that way. AkatuAndGibsonDiscuss, on Flickr The Ténotclaxcans who came with Akatu seemed to be totally at ease in Serentia, the humid climate and abundant flora of the island seemed not phase them. The Corlanders on the other hand appeared to be suffering a little in the humidity, but their spirits were high all them same. “Well everything seems to be in order here”, Gibson finally spoke up as he returned the papers to his pocket, “We’ll arrange a ship to pick up the first harvest and then we’re in business. I trust your accommodation on the island is suitable, do you have enough supplies?” Akatu merely nodded, Gibson noted his new white breeches, he had already started to change his Ténotclaxcan garb and adopt a more civilised attire. ‘One to watch out for, this chap’, he thought, ‘I hope Sir James has knows what he is doing, dealing with these natives’. PlanviewPlantation, on Flickr A slightly hastily (read lazily) edited planview shot

Oooo Ariel's back printing is goood :-) And actually her hairpiece on the minidoll makes me reconsider that as a useful character, looks really good.

Awesome! On of the most appropriate pirate crops ever and fantastic execution.

Great micro build, I like the burning town and the two-toned wet-dry tiles for the beach look fab. A good month for a Searat ;-)

Haha, batten down the hatches, who's next on the hitlist??? Great scenes, cool storyline and you've captured the Eslandola settlement feel really well. My only nitpick, are those 4 studs visable behind the smoke, through the door, that wall could have gone a little higher to avoid seeing them at that angle, but its only one thing, cause everything else looks great :-)

Nice antlers, I had to look the up to see where they came from :-) I like the scene, the lawyers office has an appropriate grand and sombre feel for the occasion. I keenly await developments in the WETEC :-)

The shot of inside the mine is fantastic, the size is just right to feel cramped enough. The whole scene is great, a real hub of activity, with lots of nice details. I can't wait to see more mining action :-) and I hope this endeavour makes you a tidy profit :-)

Then shouldn't MKJoshA be getting 50 not 45? Edit: nevermind, I worked it out

Congratulations to the winners! And thanks to all the judges :-)

Hahaha, it was the worst mistake I've made with the the build so far, Lego Digital Designer DOES NOT work well with hinges and I would be getting very worked up over that if anything. Sylvanian families!! I always have to go and see them in a toy shop even if I don't allow myself to buy them, I had a lot of sylvanians :-) (the narrow boat was the best, I still have it, I like toys). Anyway back to size limits... sure I agree we can diversify this conversation out to the rest, but since we are not exactly making the rules over here just having a discussion, its not the end of the world. And hey we could be talking about this privately and you'd never know our feelings on the subject I was not actually advocating that the rules should be applied strictly, with borders. But this is my opinion, if a build is licensed as small it can smaller than the requirements as longs as its within the spirit of the game (I suppose everyone is entitled to their own spirit). But if one aspires to licence bigger than small then guidelines are required, these are set out as minimums because otherwise a range should have been stated. *snip* and I deleted the rest because I realised I was ranting and it really doesn't matter... what matters is that everybody ends up singing from the same hymn sheet, to use some hideous management speak. If not, this is probably the source of cries of unfairness... edit, one of the sources, if indeed there were any cries at all.

Bregir, I agree, but since I'm currently finishing off a (small) plantation covering 32x32, I would like to add that I found it a challenge to actually get a uniform area of crops to fill the space... I wouldn't be too harsh on people who were slightly smaller in the sizes in the plantation case, i.e. not making the 32x32, but you have to be close to approaching the minimum... Celes, haha, the dolls house is staying at medium, really considering its functionality as a cottage school, you could easily argue that it is only a small endeavour, but I probably would have stopped fiddling ages ago if that was how we were looking at things.

I was working as all those as minimum sizes... if it said 32x32 I think thats what it means, to my mind adding an extra couple of rows of studs doesn't qualify and I've commented as much before on other peoples buildings, when they asked, not unsolicited comments... Shoot me for using an LDD example, but I've made the building of the school, a little over 32x32 because I wanted to licence it as medium, perhaps I could have gone smaller and argued the grounds are part of the build, and probably if I'd built in actual bricks I'd have done that be happy with the result (with LDD I went bigger than 32x32 just to be safe at licensing medium, call it the LDD bonus). Hmmm while typing this I realised that under some peoples thinking my challenge one build could be licensed as a plantation...? TerraceFarmingIslanders, on Flickr But seriously its 4 times smaller than the requirements, so this had never even occurred to me before?

Is it Dubloons you get for building in Kings Landing? That's how you stay so rich, if you are issuing knock-off gold. I'll stick with Doubloons thanks. I must admit I feel saturated with building this month (and other things), so I've been unable to look at any challenges, I would have liked to contribute to some. So I somewhat agree with Bregir above, but I like to see them come and go, even though I did not participate in the Bardo music fair it was a great one to observe. Not every challenge will suit everyone and that's okay, but equally I guess its easy to feel like one is missing out by not contributing, but if people are signing up and enjoying the builds all is good.

Not looking so boxy now and not long before I am reunited with my bricks :-) One last look at the school progress I before I finish it... SchoolhouseAlmost finished, on Flickr Been a bit busy with non-lego stuff and the momentum has slowed since I'm now mainly just tweaking bits, but its been a fun experiment.

How did I miss this? More stories about the Doctor please!! :-)

Hahaha!! Clara and Donna? But no Amy, no Rose? Neat building, I like a good Eslandola courtyard and fountain. The colours seem appropriate too. I'm intrigued to find out more about this Doctor fellow.

So the arms race continues... Looks really great, I do like her back end.

Looks great, I finally had time to read the whole story and it was definitely worth the wait. I love the duel shots and the scene where they enter the bar. A fantastic tale!

Piggies!!! Great little farm, a very nice build :-)