Elostirion

Is there already a detailed map of island #1, formerly known as "The Pig", now known as "Isla Philip"?

Excellent. The small suide building is my favourite.

Splendid build, Phadeout, I love it. Also fits our beloved city perfectly! I've sent you 20 DBs. Three more factories will be sponsored with 20 DBs each by the city of Nova Terreli this month!

2 shares for Román Esteban Fontonajo. Interested in more if any are left over.

That's really nice. I am looking forward to see some pictures of it in the big layout. My favourite part is the fence, quite a great and fitting design.

Elostirion, line 52 January: It states 40, I say it's 44. February: It states 185, I say it's 193 (=149+44). Also see our private conversation from May 3rd/4th. March * Property licenses: Expense 50, Yield 18 => should result in -32, results in -33 in the sheet? Rounding? * sheet states that I paid 225 DBs as ship licenses. I didn't. I bought one ship via auction, and paid the according 33 DBs via transaction form. I did not buy a real license. Maybe I misfilled the form. April: no complaints May: no complaints Except for the 225 DBs for the ship that's only minor stuff. Thanks a lot for doing this, helps a lot!

That ship really looks like a warship, a swimming fortress almost - great work on the strong and sturdy design. And yeah, I love that colour composition as well. And btw. rumors say that the Fontonajos are always willing to send their small warship against pirates. With whoever sails against pirates.

Really nice flair to it, the angled building as well as the curvy flow of river, road and shoreline are superbly executed.

Or a Fontonajo? Or Montoya? One never knows. But hey, they get chocolate here. For free! :-)

Wonderfully beautiful. Lovely. Those techniques work really, really well. And so many different approaches to the same result. Just wow. Also the colour composition is brilliant.

Frontdoor = beautiful. Backdoor = not so much. Or in other words: There comes a point in a man's life when he decides: Enough bricklink. I will just take what I have. That's what happened here. One golden gate, one black gate - all I had.

Thank you! Thank you so much for noticing all those details. Glad you like it! Danke! And yes, go ahead and buy. That's how we are, right? Thanks for... loving it all. I do too. ;-) Thank you! And yes, I did quite some research about the process, also looked at machinery and took some images of factories as references. Thank you! We may not be the ones to win all challenges, but we are the first to make great business. And yeah, feel free to come over from Maestro any day and be part of true wealth. Just kidding, keep it up over there guys, it's all Eslandola after all! The 2cms high comment is maybe the coolest I have gotten here, thank you so much! :-) The river, while always a vague idea, was a last minute addition. I had already taken the first ~50 pictures when I added it (deleted most of them afterwards), so yeah, that never even came to my mind. However it would have made sense, yes. But then on the other hand I have at some places decided to not have it perfect on purpose. Logistics are definitely not optimal (too much walking around, too squattered storing-capacities, ...), neither are storage systems, neither is all machinery etc. But having it all perfect would just not have been fitting for maybe the first factory of that kind in the new world, it just wouldn't be authentic to have it perfectly optimized. Thank you, glad you like it both. I also think that none would be great without the other. Great to see you like it so much, wonderful! Thank you so much, yep, I really did put a lot of emphasis into smaller details. Someone does have to catch those nasty beasts, right? Thank you for liking it! I would love to see people shamelessly stealing, because a) that's what I think communities like this are for (make each other better) and b) what better compliment could there be? And thank you for that massive compliment you just gave me, really just thanks so much! I really like that description, thank you! :-) Unfortunately they are not. One might argue that one of the stairs leads into the roof and then upwards, but really, it doesn't. I totally forgot about that. Damn it! :-) Aside from that thanks a lot for the nice comment, I appreciate it a lot! Those workers are doing their best, aren't they? Thanks! Two aspects to that: First: I didnt have many female faces in flesh, so I ordered 8 of type A and 7 of type B with one of my BL orders. Which didn't provide much variety, so I decided to use both sides to add some variety. Also I found it fitting to have workers look "grim", not because they are angry but simply because it's really hard work. But I guess I get your point. :-) Thanks for the phrase "translated to brick", I like that a lot. Really describes some of my efforts perfectly, thanks.

You guys keep pumping out those amazing ships like it was no business. One can clearly see how much effort you put into that one, and the result is definitely worth it. Just an amazing ship, great work!

Do you wear a shirt? Or pants? Or underwear? I am sure you do. And I am also sure that some of the cloth you are wearing was manufactured in Weelond. Weelond?, you ask? That's right, Weelond, on the island of An Holli. You don't believe me? Come along, young lad, and let me show you. A while ago the largest facility in the new world has commenced its business. In the Augustinian Colonial Textiles (named in the honour of our beloved king), the MCTC fabricates cotton, making some of the finest cloth in all of Terra Nova. From here, the cloth is brought to cities both in the new and in the old world. Come and join me for a small tour through our Royal Cotton Factory, or look around yourself. Augustinian Colonial Textiles The workers are working quite hard right now. Take a look from the top, right through the roof, and see the inside unfold. Isn't it colourful inside? Spinning cotton is no easy task. We have quite some machinery, here in Weelond. Those men are really doing their best to keep the spinning machines running all the time, and running and running. Whenever a piece of cotton is all rolled up to a thread, a new one is put on the machine, and a new one, and so on... Believe it or not, your shirt did not grow on a field like that. Someone has added that precious green colour to it, at some point. Last but surely not least, we are weaving. It's funny, actually, that four women operate the machines while more than 10 people are constantly carrying around fibres and cloth to keep the machines running. Storage racks are important. Because believe it or not, not everything we produce is transported away immediately. This does not only go for white or coloured fibres, but also for fine cloth. We always try to be ahead of ourselves, here at the MCTC. This is why we installed a small wagon to ease our work. Because we care about logistics. And we care about our workers. Take a break and eat some of that tasty "chocolate" thing we have imported from Cocovia. Anyone still want some carrots? Noone? Really? And look outside. Isn't she a beauty, our factory? It's quite funny that the backdoor is the place where we do most of our business. Having a river nearby always helps. Look at those two, bringing in some new cotton for us to make cloth from. Will it be green or purple, what do you think? Yellow you say? I'm not so sure, I think we have produced enough yellow cloth for today. But who am I to tell? Did you know August? That's how we call that small pig. Noone has a clue how August got here, or how he has any right to be here. But we all think he's quite cute, doing what he does, so we let him do his thing. Now imagine you were an eagle, my little friend. Just think about how much good we are doing to the world, running this factory. Noone has to freeze in cold winters once there is enough cloth in the world. Yeah, just look around a bit more and memorize what you see here. Because what you see here, young lad, is the future of the world. It's not ships, nor gold nor treasures, it's factories, it's industry. The real revolutions of the next years won't be against kings. The real revolutions will be against our untechnologised past and for the machinery of the future. I'm a weirdo, you say? Well, just look around and embrace the future, my dear. Believe it or not, accept it or don't - you won't change it. Neither will I. But I will be part of it. Why won't you? see a full album on Flickr for more pictures This is by far the hugest build I have done till now, and by far the best (in my personal opinion). Thank you BoBS for inspiring me to go for something like this. And thank you also to all those people who gave me inspiration with all their wonderful builds here at BoBS. And of course a great thank you to my fellow MCTC members for sticking with me for the Royal Textile Factory, from the initial idea (let's rather call it a vision), through financing and the realisation, and for providing feedback and suggestions during the building phase. You are great. Alright. Time to clean up my Lego over the... next few weeks I am afraid.

What an amusing story. I really love followind the invention and updating of the flying balloon. And those MOCs are really amazing. Please just keep it up!

Welcome. You really put a lot of effort into detail here, works out really well. Great intro, and I am definitely looking forward to more MOCs from you. The chair design is absolutely lovely by the way.

Listen up, folks! Nova Terreli sponsors factories (20 DBs) andd residences (5 DBs) this month! Find out more

Town bank should be: 85/2 = 42.5 from this month (35-20)/2 = 7.5 remaining from last month => 50 DBs available right now. Nova Terreli will sponsor factories this month. * build and license a factory of any size and earn 20 DBs. * no more than 4 factories will be sponsored. * The first two builders will receive their money immediately, the next two in the next month. Nova Terreli will sponsor residences this month. * build and license a residence of any size and earn 5 DBs (i.e. full sponsoring for a small residence especially) * no more than 4 residences will be sponsored. * The first two builders will receive their money immediately, the next two in the next month.

Classical, yet stylish. Very well executed, just a lovely feel overall and so fitting to be one of the finest buildings in the rustic and down-to-earth city of Weelond. I also love how well you represented Román & Marietta with yellow faces (instead of the light flesh ones I always use) - thank you. Of course Román is grateful for your invitation and glad to meet you in person once more in his life and discuss not only the factory but future joint investments as well.

While I really liked the original sails a lot, these are just more friendly, more lively - great job on sistershipping the HoE!

The roof is fantastic, definitely a technique to adopt. The whole exterior looks really well, actually. Keep it up. Did I already say I love your roof? ;-)

Stop it already. That is another amazing build from you. Oleon at it's finest. Many inspiring techniques used here, I will definitely print some of it as inspiration for future builds like that. What impresses me most are the double-curved stairs, just brilliant.

Good to see that reference, I didn't even know that vineyards could be like that. I'd still recommend to make them a bit brushier, and maybe a bit denser, but that is nitpicking. The whole design of the dry soil is just perfect. Inspiring.

The roof, also the chandelier attached to it, is just fantastic. I've only recently come to like those small playing features, e.g. the detachable roof and the unfoldable interior. You did a great job here. Also I really like how you took a field that is rather Corrington-ish (science, progress in navigation and all that sutff) and still managed to give it a full Oleander flair. It really feels so fitting for Oleon and how you guys would approach navigation. Please give us more of that!

That's the downside of the monthly deadlines in BoBS. You don't always have time to bring your MOCs to perfection. What we see so far is looking great. Let's wait for the rest now.