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Greetings! I'd like to refer to this MoC-Page of Diablo 2 Characters made of Lego. Some of the effects can be enhanced, but I liked some of the spells like the bone armor or the fireball. Also notice that you can link the older version of the flame pieces like on these photos and bend the flaming streams. I use this piece of fire with a lightsaber hilt as a firesword and a blue lightsaber as a frostsword. Many futuristic (transparent) Lego parts can be used as magic effects. I hope I gave you some inspiration. Maybe someone should make a guide about this... Brick on, dude!

Really a great review (as usual), thanks for that! But i was surprised that someone didn't know leet speak yet. 1t'5 th4t n3rdy 1nt3rn3t l4gnu4g3 th4t b3c4m3 p0pul4r 4r0und t3n y34r5 4g0! Terms like "LOL", "brb" and "rofl" are also often associated with leet speak.

Thank you very much, I just had the picture to that russian image-upload in my bookmarks. I edited it. I like to have the real creator if someone wants to contact him to ask for further details. And of course it is just fair so he can earn the glory. And maybe I can even find something on that russian site.

Thank you for the new entries. They are excellent, I will add them with the next update which will hopefully not take as long as the last one. I always wait some time between them. There will surely be great creatures in Guilds of Historica challenge 3 among the guardians as well as the Lord of the Rings MOCs. I've already spotted some interesting wargs. An update to a post that long is quite boring with all that copy & paste work, spell checking and creating a standardised format. And I HATE those brackets... yesterday I forgot to close two of them and, don't ask me why and how, I created a three or four-level recursion of the first post from "scorpion" down to the flickr-entries. THAT was nasty (and interesting to see that this is possible). It even took quite some time for the forum to calculate the post after having sent it because of its length. And just because of two missing squared brackets. I hope this won't happen again.

I finally did an update of the MOC-Index and the Set- / Mod-Index. The changes are mainly by Toshiya: and shinji-o:

Greetings! This really hits the bull's eye of a classic MOC! I've always taken the grey "parrot" as a falcon or any other bird of prey of comparable size. And I think the "head with the grey helmet" is an enemy's head stuck on a spear. I also like that you gave some of your guards black leather gloves. I try to arrange that no knight in my armies goes into battle without gloves of a suitable colour.

I forgot to mention that I used instant glue... just a small drop. More is not always better. And I don't know if the roughening of the glue-points was necessary or even helpful. But it worked in this case.

Not at all! You just have to be carefull not to pull at the shield itself when you want to remove it from the minifig again but instead push the handle from the back. When attaching it to a minifig you have to push it into the hand NOT in an angle of 90 degrees (so it would make a "click") but instead push it from that rounded ending where the thick part has been. It has to be rounded (with sand paper) that it can easily slide into the hand like a train on the track. You will have to try this out before gluing it to the shield.

Just for the record: Though it really hurt to cut those tap-pieces, it worked perfectly in the end!

Thank you so far! I don't think the size of the surface would be the problem as I managed to glue an original handle to its shield (and give it to a minifig), and that surface was smaller... but that tip with the neck-bracket is really great, just in case it doesn't work! To buy another shield just to fix the old one seems not that attractive to me as I could use the new one instead. I don't need exactly these shields, I just don't want to trash them. But on the other hand, the black falcon shield may be rare... I will keep it in mind

Greetings! I got many used bricks from a friend and sadly there are shields that came without a handle... would I best use the "tap-parts" as new handle? Maybe I could cut off the right (thick) part, roughen the left part with emery paper and simply glue it to the rest of the shield at the point of the original handle? Is there a better way? Did you face these problems and how did you solve them? And again I got a typo in the topic... it has to be "be broken"... Believe it or not, I read it for correction, but I didn't recognise it... my brain is just switched off. How embarrassing... would a mod correct the topic please?

That is another point of view I can understand, I've thought of it, too. But over the years the faces got more and more detailed so you would be able to recognise not only sex / gender but also real existing persons (like Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones or Cate Blanchet as Irina Spalko). Often it are the accessoires that make it possible to recognise the gender. But in many cases a minifig wears a helmet and has a neutral torso. There are very few torsos with a plate mail that hint at a female owner, the only one I remember is Princess Storm: Of course, in real life there are men with long eyelashes and remarkable lips and women that don't have either of these... so you could see the common face as neutral. But many things in LEGO are quite stereotypical. Men often have a mustache, a full beard or at least strong jaw bones. Almost every woman has eyelashes and pronounced lips. So this is not free of sexism, but at least it can be made equal on both sides. Among my minifigs there are only few that maintain with a "common" face. In real life there are also people that look like everyone else and have no remarkable spots, so why not transfer this to LEGO? But I for my part define these as male. I think that is my point...

Greetings! I hope this isn't too obvious, but i haven't read a thread that proposes this so far... If you want to have more women among your minifigures, here is a quite simple way how to even the scales, especially for those who don't have the ressources for bricklink or pick a brick. All you need is the following: - A couple of classic LEGO-Heads (most of you will have plenty of them) - Black and Red permanent markers Simply enlarge the eyes for the illusion of eyelashes and draw the lips, voilà! To make it easier, stick your classic heads together and just paint those in the center, so you can always touch those at the ends without destroying anything. If you did something wrong: Use toilet paper and lighter-fuel to erase the permanent marker from the head. Maybe you wont use them for the protagonists in your creations, but this technique serves quite well when the face is behind a visor of a (now female) knight in your army: The faces may not be the most beautiful among your minifigs, but i think they are comparable to these: How do you (try to) achieve gender equality among your minifigures (if you are aiming at it)? EDIT: Damn, I should have set a "TUTORIAL: " in front of the title of the topic... would a mod do this, please?

And I thank you for the info! I edited it and called the entry "Unicorn (Amethyst)" (was with typo before), so people who look for a unicorn would find it more easily, like the dragons. I was aware of that minotaur of MicahBerger, but I was to stupid to click the "up-button" in his folder at Brickshelf. Thanks to your thread I found out that he (if that person is not a "she") has built so many more creatures. I hope I can keep this thread alive... Edit: Added links to LEGO Customer Service and Peeron to the official sets section.

A major update: But if there are some I will not deny them. I found this wonderful unicorn with some customised parts (I think so) and had to add it. Also there were some birds added to the posts above. Besides those smaller additions this could also be called the "MicahBerger Update". At this moment the first and the last entry of the Custom Creations Section are his creations. This is representative as he seems to be the Alpha and the Omega of brick-built creatures in minifig-scale. Praise him, he deserves it! I guess with his creations included this can finally be called an index!

I updated my picture with white background and Nocturnus Guild Flag. Some of you may have to clear the browser cache / temporary internet files since the new pictures have the same name as the old. Maybe you (Angeli) want to change this in the first post.

I suppose clothes a person would wear at a prom for dancing. Like a beautiful dress, a nice suit and maybe a tiara. But I agree that "ball clothes" without the context sounds funny...

Greetings! As this is all about Valentines Day and romantic stuff, I will send Sir Maulalot into the Arena! He is the embodiment of horrifying cuteness and a very heart-rending nature. He uses his "Lonely Heart's Club" to send everyone straight up to cloud nine. His fighting style is "hug & slay" and he can stir up everyone's blood, so a creature that encounters him would quickly lose its heart to him. These wordplays could go on forever...

Greetings! Strange entry for a first post, but definitely an excellent one! I like the map since it looks more authentic, the mountainous ridge looks more realistic. I also like the fact you used those allusions to ancient Greek and especially the Hades. The dead have to cross the Styx to get into the Hades and Cerberus guards it etc. It is brilliant in my opinion. I used those allusions as well, by creating "Kerakatha" as Queen of the Restless Dead. "Ker" is a demon that embodies the cruel death while "akatastatos" means "restless".

I am sure this was an accident, after all we are still a guild of Historica. But on the other hand maybe we will have to rise from the dead, so we would know how those undead creatures feel when being summoned by a necromancer. "To control the unlife you must BE the unlife" is also the motto of Order of Arachna. So this may be just a lesson we have to learn. And after that lesson we will be better. But anyway... to get a discussion started: What are the motives and reasons for the nocturnian nature? Are we just "evil"? I think it would be too easy if we said "We are evil and want to destroy everything! Loot, pillage, burn!". If I understood Angeli correctly, the Drow are driven by their hatred on other races. Why do they hate other races? Do Nocturnians hate other races / people from other regions too? Are they driven by gods or demons? Or (like many politicians in the real world) don't they just look far enough to recognise that their behavior leads to their own death and decay if you kill, make slaves and exploit nature? Is it their goal to destroy or to gain power and rule? What would they do if they ruled everything? Would they just like to make sure that no one opposes them? Do they really "like" the eastern darklands? Do they want to conquer the other lands to make them look like the eastern darklands (i. e. swampy, barren, volcanic...)? Or are they just mad because of the sulfuric atmosphere and noxious fumes? I for my part can say that the Order of Arachna worships Kerakatha, Queen of the Restless Dead. And Kerakatha demands sacrifices. The first sacrifice of a member is to poison himself / herself so he / she will be at the point of death itself. For that sacrifice Kerakatha grants that member the power to perform necromancy. And she grasps at a part of that member's soul. But this is another story. Further the Order wants to discover how to control the power of their artifact, since this would strengthen their bond with Kerakatha. What would you say is it that your character is aiming at? Edit: *Badabing* Back online, lesson learned, necromancy mastered!

Sure, why not? I think, this is not about beautiful photographies of a unicorn in the moonlight. As long as it helps someone to identify something and say "Ah, that's how I could do it!", optional along with interesting usage of parts and if it meets the rules mentioned above, you can post whatever you want. I may still decide afterwards if I add it to the index (the first few posts). Edit: As promised, this is the "backbone" of a genereric animal from LEGO-Universe. On the bottom of the first image you see parts that could optionally be used as limbs, heads or tails. Click on the images to get a larger version.

Thanks for this (first) entry! Now we will have to get some christians to feed them to your lion... any volunteers? I've made some pictures of my own creations, mainly modifications (click to get larger pictures): There are more images of these in the posts above. If you want me to post an instruction of those Mods you can post it in the thread. Also I found some nice flickr-pictures, which will also be added above.

About those Nagas: You can do what you want. Choose what you like best, this is all about fantasy. For more information read this. And if want to add something to a post and not necessarily create a new one, you can use the edit-button below your post. And please cut your images to max 800 x 600, I am not that interested in towels

And finally, out of the Dark stepped the Black Widow! Here next to her mount: She is the Grand Mistress (that holds the title "The Dark Lady") of the Cult "The Order of Arachna", a band of witches and warlocks who worship Kerakatha, Queen of the Restless Dead. (this may be updated some time... battery of the camera needed to be recharged) Additionally on that picture you can see some guards and scouts in the services of the Order, who are not members on their part. To become a member, each novice has to get bitten or stung by a venomous creature, e. g. a spider or a scorpion, and survive the process without getting an antivenom. By doing so the members develop a high resistance to poison which is quite handy in the Moruth Swamps. On the downside they sometimes suffer from negative permanent side effects: After getting bitten by a spider, the skin of the Black Widow turned pale as the moonlight (how ironic), others' may even turn green. The high conjurer of serpents became blind after he was bitten by a pit viper but instead developed some kind of infrared vision that allows him to sense sources of heat in his proximity. When a member has seen its own death but fought it, it develops the power to control the afterlife. That is a requirement for performing necromancy according to the rules of the Order. An artifact of the Order of Arachna is a crystal that is emitting waves of dark energy. As no one has ever been able to control it by channeling the energy, one goal of the Order is try to find out about the origins of said crystal. The scouts of the Dark Lady have come across an ancient tome in the abandoned ruin of a tower that is extremely of her concern. What might she have found in it? You may see it soon.

As much as I would like to, my reputation is not as high as yours, Angeli. So I wouldn't dare to disobey the will of Lord Ssilyrrlith... The time will come where peace ends, I think... but it shall not be my fault. That comment about the Watchdog-spell sounds cynically to me. Captain Obvious to the rescue: cynical derives from "kyon" (greek) = dog. A dog bites. So do cynical comments. It is a wordplay. Those Serpents from Ninjago would be perfectly fitting into the Eastern Darklands, as there are the Reptrians already. The Serpents could be related to them somehow. They remind me of Naga.