Exetrius

Thanks for sharing, this should be very helpful for future mocs!

A very great thanks for your awesome comment, Henjin! I chose more and smaller wheels because heavy cargo transporters have many wheels to spread the massive weight, which I wanted to emphasize. For the original build, it was important that it looked like a moving platform, accessible to bystanders, rather than a cart. But what you say makes a lot of sense. Therefor, I made some adjustments (real quick): Unfortunately, I lack some specific parts to refine the wheels and I don't have oxen, but nevertheless: it looks pretty good, doesn't it? Thank you so much for your suggestion, I had a lot of fun swapping wheels (I might post a variant on tracks later on Flickr) and it rolls much better now! Thanks, guys!

Jup, I have it proudly on display, too!

New saga episode: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=139036 !

Exetrius Saga 1: Fallen leaf 2: Message in Kyrrath 3: Equipment upgrade 4: Subjection of a legend 5: Family Dinner 6: Attack of the Hunters 7: Taking the Runestone Episode 8: Supplies arrive! Onicius was worn down by the negative energy that had suppressed his spirit for past weeks. For more than a month, the city had been growing more gloomy with every day that passed. The ongoing suspense for the announcement of the postponed Festival of the Ranks was getting people on edge; sparking fights in the pubs and streets with increasing frequency, as well as a growing aggression towards the Zotharith elite. Nobody knew why the festival was postponed in the first place, let alone if it was still going to happen. Meanwhile, only very few tasks were handed out, hinting that the festival could be imminent... The big problem was: the city management was pending the arrival of supplies. The silent starting point of the troublesome events was last winter, when the Algus invaded the Mitgardia. Onicius decided upon an expedition to the North, joined by three other members of the Zotharith elite. In the end, due to rushed calculations and inefficient stocktaking, a lot of supplies were wasted during the expedition. In addition, a third of Zotharith's entire magic energy supply was depleted within seconds during the big fight in which Garufust was defeated. However, the problems arose some time after Onicius returned. While he and others were preoccupied with housing, observing and feeding the newly acquired dragon Fulminante - which was a stock-draining operation in itself - the city was slowly starting to run low on food for it's citizens. To make matters worse, the cargo carriages that had been sent to Kaliphlin to get goods in order to fix this problem turned out to have been plundered on their way back to Nocturnus, leaving Onicius as leader of Zotharith with empty hands and a head full of worries. And because all of this happened under the surface, the city was enthusiastically training for the Festival of the Ranks, thereby accelerating the consumption of food and magic energy... Actions were required to keep the city from hitting a major crisis, within a very short time. Therefor, Onicius scaled up the operation: bigger carriages, stronger guards and the mission to acquire all goods at any price needed to revitalize the city stocks and citizens! And so, he deployed a vessel that had brought Nocturnus a tasteful meal once before, when it was part of the Touring Dragon Buffet. After he sent this second caravan to Kaliphlin, another long and anxious wait began. At dawn, after yet another sleepless night, the third day after the expected day of return, Onicius' sorrowful stare directed once more to the valley in the west. But then, when his eyes had adjusted to the distance, he saw it: the caravan, loaded with goods, had finally returned!! The heaviest cargo vessel of the caravan, previously used to transport a dragon during the Touring Dragon Buffet. Loaded with grains, berries, whines, beers, salted meat, cheese, carrots and tons of other surprising goods... ... of which a secret stash of high-capacity mana crystals! I should give the one that picked all these goods a promotion, Onicius thought. He found out that, to his great surprise, the person responsible for that was Enzan Armafur, son of late Rambar Armafur (who was involved in the Carakath operation). The young man seemed like a strong, cunning chap, who wished to become a wizard pupil in the Order of Zotharith. Onicius did not hesitate to grant Enzan admission to the Order. As soon as the caravan had unloaded, the administration was done and the stocks had been replenished, Onicius let out a breath of relief. Now, it was finally time, to officially announce the seventh edition of the annual Festival of the Ranks! To be continued.... in the next episode: Festival of the Ranks (part 1) Edit: additional pictures: Hello folks, here's a new episode, I hope you enjoyed! It was harder than I thought to fill up an old build with new stuff, but it was a nice building exercise. Higher quality pictures can be found on my Flickr. C&C appreciated, as always!

Kawashita owns Pokémon? Try beat that, Octan! Blastoise is done very well and the park does its job. Nice backstory!

Actually, it appears in these sets: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=973pb0524c01&in=S plus the pirate Chess set, according to Brickset. But, regardless, it would be nice to get him in proper pirate attire.

One Dragon Trainer, a Sensei and a Moon Goddess for me please! Overall this series is superb, man!

Tip: don't attach them as images, use an online 'photo source' instead (like Flickr or Brickshelf).

Many thanks for sharing! It might be time for another haul... (I'm collecting white hairpieces, don't really know why I like those so much! )

Wow, Narbilu, that's impressive! I like the Rangers the best and the unique characters are nice touches (i.e. Green Shade, who looks a bit like my geared up sigfig , Rothger and the grey haired ranger)!

I've come to think of another accessory that would be nice to see: a Golden Apple (recoulored existing part). And an Elytra or decorated Cape, I'd like those as well.

Or it is Karlof's Elemental Dragon, who knows? It just occured to me that the set list does not give away a single name, unlike most previous years. I hope Turbomobile of the Samurai is the bad guy vehicle, as Nya already has many vehicles and I *kinda* want a samurai that is not Samurai X.

Welcome back, mccoyed! I can't help you on the search limit thing (I tried, but couldn't get it done myself), but I can with the GoH stuff. New folks are still joining and enthusiastically writing new sagas, quite some experienced members (and half of Nocturnus, too) seem to be less active at the moment. More on sagas and what happened in this post of mine, on the previous page. Other than that, no announcements for Book III have been made. (Some five months ago, I thought it was almost happening, since MassEditor had this promising preview on Flickr, but nothing since then) Anyway, I don't really mind the long time for freebuilds, as I still have plenty of story material up my sleeve!

I posted links to images, here's my original post (page 140 of Ninjago 2016 Discussion): And yeah, it's taking so long...

Good winter landscaping! True, some more tiles, slopes or sloped tiles would give it an extra polished look, but this is fine. Although the trees don't look natural, I like them for how unique they are built up; bricks and plates instead of the commonly used organic parts. They are also quite tall, nice proportions.

Darn, they look amazing side by side! But, could you please share where you got Stone Army Cole? I'm super pumped to get it but I still haven't heard of a way to get it in Europe other than a store event in Paris...

Source please?

Lol, good one!

Thank you, found it soon after my post.

Pretty hyped for these!

Thanks for the info! Looking forward to the pictures! Looks like I did pretty well on my predictions (back in April this year)!

Rumoured set list for 2017: Minecraft 21129 Mushroom Island 21130 Nether Train 21131 Ice Towers 21132 Jungle Temple 21133 Witch House 21134 Secret Waterfall Escape http://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/Brickipedia_News:2017_set_lists These were my predictions, I'd say I did good so far:

2017 set names: Ninjago 70621 Vermillion Trap‎ 70622 Desert Dragster‎ 70623 Shadow of the Destiny's Bounty‎ 70624 Vermillion Villain‎ 70625 Turbomobile of the Samurai‎ 70626 Disastrous Dusk 70627 Dragon Wrought‎ http://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/Brickipedia_News:2017_set_lists I really love the sound of these, hope they are real!

Okay, everyone is talking about news with no reference to the source, so here are the tweets: https://mobile.twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/763793314344738816 I liked Garmadon as a villain, so I'm quite glad he returns. Would be nice if he brought something more menacing than a boneheaded skeleton army, though. Edit: sorry for the Dutch in the quote!