NuckElBerg

Great build, love the characters and scenery, both with and without the cool lightning!

Uhm, this truly is an awsome build, and I hate to be the devil's advocate, but the rules state that no minifigures are allowed (which you did comment on), only 1 image may be photoshopped, and there is a size limit of 24x24 bricks (minimum overhang allowed). So, ehm... Bob?

Thanks! Yes, POV-Ray. I'm thinking about trying Blurender (that's what it's called, right) in the future, but at the moment it looks a bit too cartoonish for my taste. Wow, that praise, thank you Beltar! I don't think I explicitly thought about the birth of a phoenix when I built it, but now that you mentioned it, I definitely see that I had a similar imagery in my mind when creating it (or essentially, that same imagery, but with a volcano and a wasp rather than ashes and a flaming bird)! That's what I've been saying all along!

Damn, that's just beautiful! And the giant whale/fish/Pokémon-thing on top of that... great job!

Great flamboyant duck and rockwork! Looks great!

Haha, I love the idea of hermit rats. The desert and plants look very good in their simplicity as well. Good job!

Thank you all! It seems like I misinterpreted the rules, so I added a few more low-quality renders under the spoiler button. I don't think even M.A.N.T.I.S. would want to try befriending these bugs... or... hold on a minute... Yes, you should really, really try befriending them. Like, all of you, at the same time!

Beautiful bird, I really love the colours of choice! Also, great rockwork, water and foliage!

Seems I forgot to comment when I looked at it yesterday! Great job, beautiful lavafalls and SNOT work, just look out for the fire wasps (or don't, since you're M.A.N.T.I.S. )! I have a feeling they like to rest in lava streams such as those...

And, if anyone want to make the banner clickable (with a link to the main AG thread), here's the code to do that: [url="http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98049"][img=http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c299/aeralure/kawashita-sig-narrow-uk.png][/url] Just replace the http://i29.photobuck...g-narrow-uk.png part with whichever version of the banner you prefer.

Thank you shmails, getting a comment such as this from an awsome builder like yourself truly makes me both honoured and humbled! Thanks! And as I said earlier, I think it would look awsome in bricks, so if you want the .lxf-/LDD-file, just write me up! Thanks Kai! I think the shape turned out very much like I wanted it, with a very curved body (which can mainly be seen from the side)!

Awsome looking snake and great little rock, great work!

It's worm-week in AG! Great work, the teeth in the throat looks very menacing!

Great build Mike! Love the use of chains (as everyone) and the combination of wheels and blue technic clips for the eyes!

That's one nasty looking worm! Beautiful, love the azure teeth!

Wow! Nice waves and beutiful SNOT rocks! However, I think I'm going to imagine them as floating rocks in the clouds instead!

Great base, menacing looking 4-legged mech and troopers! This will make sure that we can stand against Octan in the sector!

Great work creating the lava and the plants, took a lot of inspiration from it in my Challenge 1 build!

Oh shmails, how can we mere mortals hope to win any challenges with builds like these to compete against? Beautiful work, truly.

As you wrote, great work on stepping up with the story-telling, really loved it here. All in all, great build, great humor.

Haha, great build(s) and great story! It's nice to see those M.A.N.T.I.S. bastards getting what they deserve!

Beautiful battle scene, I really love the look of the Kawashita commander (kinda reminds me of Darth Malak)! So, I guess that was the end for all hopes of peace...

Nooo, don't steal our gold! It's the only reason anyone would want to be on Guinevere! Anyway, great industrial build, love the looks and functionality!

Maybe you just inherently have a thing for red, green and white? Anyway, beautiful build, really love the serenity of the landscape, the story... truly a great example for what challenge builds should strive for.

[Challenge 1] Birth of a Fire Wasp on Guinevere This is probably my favourite build in AG (by myself that is ) so far! Getting everything to work together took a lot of tinkering, but the end result ended up looking almost exactly as I had planned, so I'm very happy about that. The build clocks in at exactly 1000 pieces. EDIT: Seems like I misinterpreted the rules as only being allowed to post one rendered image. Since that doesn't seem to be the case (as Bob uploaded a couple of renders), I added a few low quality renders under the spoiler button. --//Private Log Begin. Date: 2006(38)15. Scramble code: None.//-- *Sigh*, this is my first private log since arriving in the 'Gates. Now, I generally consider myself a pretty level-headed guy, most problems can be fixed with some smart thinking, a mech suit and a few building bots. But seriously. I hate Guinevere. The whole planet is a big heap of sand and dirt, and the little places that aren't are instead covered with fire- and lava-spewing volcanoes. Sure, those biologist wimps say that the "bio-life is really interesting here, we can learn a lot from it!", but seriously guys, who are you trying to kid? We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Guinevere's extremely rich Gold veins. Now, on top of the environment in general being among the s*ckiest imaginable, there are all sorts of things trying to kill us here, ranging from sand worms to M.A.N.T.I.S. to whatever other godforsaken thing you can imagine wanting to kill you. And then there are the Fire Wasps. [Attached: Video.of.Fire.Wasp.Being.Born.ahqv] Seriously, these things are like the unholy offspring of fire and death itself. They are born from eggs which their mothers lay in volcanoes, godd*mnit! If that doesn't make you sh*t your pants, consider that they are around 8 meters tall, have an absurdly strong exoskeleton (it has some sort of nanotube-like structure, which is the main reason why the fire wasps have managed to grow so big while still having exoskeletons), AND have a burning core in their tail, making them both almost completely fire resistant (including our laser weapons) plus having the ability to shoot fire/lava instead of poison from their stingers. At least the fire wasps mainly eat sulphur based creatures, so we aren't seen as food (yet). However, they are extremely territorial, so as soon as we get anywhere close to their nests (which is basically within a couple of kilometers... they have really good hearing/sensing)), they start attacking fiercely in large groups. God, I really wish we could get off this planet soon. Q, out. --//Private Log End. Signature: Q. Scramble code: None.//-- Thanks for reading/looking, C&C always appreciated! More pictures/comments under the spoiler button!