Angeli

so beautiful :) btw, I know where that roof came from - pbb, right? :) I have like five thousand of them from pbb :D

There was a contest a month ago, and one of the prizes was a mushroom house, beautiful set from LEGO bricklink designer program, designed by our talented Jonas Kram (when I say "our" I mean AFOL :) So I built some beautiful castles mocs and submited, and than reazlied I am mediocre builder at best compared with amazing creativity AFOLs around the world have, and no chance I will win the first place and set But than I realized one more thing :) I am not financially poor anymore :) and while 10 years ago 100 eur was investment I would plan months ahead, today (thanks to LEGO bricks), it is less than what I make in few hours. so, I just did unthinkable and ordered set over bricklink When it came, I built it with my five eyar old son who practically lives in my LEGO studio, ad I was blown aways how amazing set it - so I went to facebook and complimentes Jonas directly, and he mentioned Mashroom village, next set in line Also, I was building a 2m big Gazebo with thousands of flowers, and I had few flowers left, so I decided to build a diorama for Mushroom house I also wanted to put some bug-like minifigs in it, but than I saw someone on fb posting picture of hamster army (because they couldn;t find wolpack minifig for wolfpack minifig army:) and I loved it - so I ordered 16 of them from bricklink, as well as 16 red capes from Dr Strange minifi - I didn;t had any of those in hand and only realized when they arrived they do not match and it can be one or another :) And I started building :) I had so much fun, going outside my comfor zone when themes are in question (I am firstly fantasy castle builder), but I noticed over the years and dozens fo big fantasy castle diorama built, when I do something new regarding theme, it brings a dash of fresh that I immensly enjoy :) so I would advise all builders who build mainly ne theme to try to build something else, just to see if it will feel good :) I used the LEGO insects set, some botanical sets for sme flowers Here is what I have built :) You can find larger versions here: (link)

thank you, that is very kind :) thank you :) I was also very focues on building mushrooms all over, as well as myconids, mushroom people - there are so many details there, like microfigs in the white tree (actualy Sussur tree who's bark can be used to make magical weapons, explored also in Baldur's Gate 3 :)

I am back with my black and red Drow castles! ...actually I never stopped building, I just stopped posting Anyway, this is Underdark part of my 12x4 (48x48) diorama and it goes under it, it is 10x2 (48x48), and I will post it in parts, as they are divided in display also :) First, these are Drow :) I am very proud of new Drow minifig desing, with head I found :) Usually in past I would just use plain black head, but this one had menacing eyes, so it was almost perfect (I bet there will be Drow in next CMF of D&D:) Moc is 2x4 (48x48) as always, if you click a picture it will take to the larger version where you ca see details :) The last one is Phalar Aluve, sword in stone, people who played Baldur's Gate 3 will recognize it :) You can find larger pictures and more of them here (link) Next, here is Ilihtid encampment: moc is 2x2 (48x48) You can find larger pictures and few more here (link) I had so much problems playing Baldur's Gate 2 with ilihtids, and they are also main antagonist of Baldur's Gate 3 (well, one off:). I was going like trough breeze once I discovered level five priest spell "chaotic command" that protected my party, but still, truly fearsome adversary :) Third, Dwarven market also made on 2x4 (48x48), this is outside of a dwarven fortress inside Underdark, where they barter for goods with various buyers from all around :) outside of their walls you can see typical Underdark flora and fauna :) Adventurers fighting monsters or other parties, hidden treasures and so on You can find larger pictures and more of them here (link) As extra note, everything was built with a lot of trans neon green and orange, as it will be with blue LED strip light on the ceiling of display. I made example of how it will look with hand hold blue light. Why blue and not black light? Because even though black light makes trans neon bricks shine stronger, it squashes all other colors except white. With blue light, you can still see all other colors, which makes it more interesting in colorful setting Forth, Ramazith's tower As a special threat, here is a 3m tall castle that is on just one baseplate, no other materials inside, and no technic bricks used for construction. It goes above Underdark, but I just wanted to remind people with my black and red castles :) The whole build has only one minifig, and it is Lorroakan, players of Baldur's Gate 3 will also recognize him - and I just went on wiki to see his picture, and saw he was a human - I could have sworn he was an elf, thus elf years :) You can also see my 5 years old son who practically lives in my LEGO studio, helping with every single build, here posing for scale :) you can larger pictures here: (link) Uh, this felt good :) I haven't been coding posts for years :) I was actually building for almost 5 years commercially, sometimes what I wanted, sometimes what clients asked, and after the last job I had nothing lined up, so I decided to build something for myself, my own soul. Especially when son asked me "can we keep this one home, not sending it to events?" when I showed what I desired to build :) I started buying minifig parts, something I haven't dome for almost 8 years, as you can't really see minifigs in commercial builds, also, regular civilians who are not AFOLs can't really appreciate this regular armor over that hard to find one, and combination of accessories - one of things I really enjoyed in past, building minifigs from AD&D lore The idea is to build a wall creations - something long and tall, but not very deep, so it can go on large walls on events, and also allow visitors to see details, especially because they can't go around it, as it is connected to the wall. 4 baseplates deep is good for that In original, the idea was to build 16x4 diorama with 10x2 Underdark under it, and this still stand, with 2m tall dragon I was planning to build with friend from UK - such a large statue must have metal frame inside, maybe be glued somewhere and is a stand alone moc that is inserted into diorama at the end. I also got a lot of heads from dragon paladin and bodies from large knight in NEXO knights, and combined them into army for castle I plan to build around dragon. The whole diorama is around 4m tall from bottom till end, has two gorgeous Selune towers with selunites inside (moon warrior minifig torso is perfect for this, there are ton of dragons inside, 10 from hungarian horntail set with four wings, and hundreds of minifigs, parties, even a party from Baldur's Gate 2 - Keldorn, Imoen, Minsc (holding Boo), Viconia, Imoen and Edwin I am taking it slow, enjoying every moment. I forgot how good this feels, building for joy, and sharing your joy with other AFOLs I missed you :) (link) Selunites (link) Dragonborn (link) Viconia deVir (link) Drow (link) dragons

oh, you remember :) it was more than 10 years ago :) Although Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are my most favorite games (I consider Icewind Dale 1 and 2 part of Baldur's Gate), I must say Baldur's Gate 3 really pleasantly suprised me with quality of content - I really enjoyed myself playing it. In this very moment I am playing my third run (first was normal, and I;ve missed many things, made some bad choices without knowing it:), second I went trough tactician and it was great, but still mad emistakes (don;t allow Lae'Zel sit in that contraption in her creshe, ie allow her to sit but force dice (of 30) to force her to get out before it damages her permanently (-2 to stats, each save is another -2, Con, Wis and Int, if I remember correctly, and only cure is for her to eat tadpol, and I never go that route:) and now I am playing on Honor and I am cruising :) I am building now a large AD&D diorama that isa 16x4 in size (48x48), plus 2x4 Underdark under the main table, 40-60cm high, will have 2m tall dragon - I will make 3 special parties that roam, and only true fans will reckognize it - in first it will be same party I play, more or less: Jaheira, Khalid, Minsc, Imoen, Dynaheir, Edwin (In reality I play me, Viconia, Kivan, Imoen, Minsc, Dynaheir) in second, I will have Keldorn, Viconia, Aerie, Nalia, Jan, Korgan (I play me, Keldorn, Viconia, Aerie, Imoen) in third, Shadowharth, Gale, Lae'Zel, Astarion, Karlach, Minthara (I play me, Lae'Zel, Shadowharth, Gale:) I am already loving the idea, for example, for Edwin there is a new hood in red from red ridinghood, now I have a hamster for Minsc (asll those things didn;t exist 10 years ago), I have a face and hair for Drow - just yesterday I was preparing 60 Drow warriros as new faces arrived - and I will use the chrome dragon helmet and breastplate for Keldorn, for example, I have nice hoods for imoen - and so on This isa a first time after years I don;t have a deadline for building creation, and I want to enjoy myself, take it slow, built with love and dedication - you should see my work table, it is filled with love :) --- btw, I calcualted, if I took all of my fantasy castle creations from all events and connected them in one, it would have been world record largest castle diorama in the world :) 40.000 minifigs :)1000 48x48 baseplates :) 3m tall towers :) To add, I have two kids now, 5 and 2 years old - they practicaly live in my LEGO studio :) build non stop, and we have so much fun. I promised my son that this AD&D diorama will not go to events until he has as much time as he wants to play on it :)

thank you, guys :) no need to be :) Since I was born and until I was 30 I literary had two buckets of bricks. I discovered bricklink on 01.01. 2008. and needed 4 months to make my first order of 40 eur :) spent so much time in bank trying to send money, and I waited 4 months for someone to come from Germany and bring the package to me :) When package came, I just gave one of last exams I had, it was super dificult to pass, I had a new girl that I really really liked for two months, both gorgeous and a pall, and she told me she loved me, and I got my package with LEGO bricks, most were minifig accessories. I felt like on the top of the world Two weeks later girlfriend left me, I faild next exame and LEGO bricks become old, as I already played with them (initial enthusiasm faded) - than I realized that today you can have everything, and tomorrow nothing, and nothing lasts for ever "famous from coin "this will pass also" :) until 2012 I thought I was the only adult in my country (Serbia) who plays with LEGO bricks. Imagine that. I realized than there are other adults, and I started socializing, not soon after we made our club, Beokocka since 2013 to 2024 I have acquired over 6 tons (6000 kg) of LEGO bricks, between 20.000 and 40.000 minifigs, and today I have around 300 diferent size dioramas built, all cruising the world on events. Note that my monthly paycheck until 2018 was 250-350 eur my whole life, and my familly was lower middle class (so no extra money) And although I do have some skilles or virtues developed, so do you or anyone - meaning, anyone can do what I have done - and I also post A TON of "how to" on Beokocka site (totally nonprofit), with literary just one goal - to help AFOLs to do the same (today I earn one new house every two years from LEGO, and even though it is mostly passive income, I build every day not because I need to, but because I love to build - this build is not for a specific event, I just love the AD&D (fantasy castle) theme in LEGO I am 46 now, have two kids, happy home, amazing wife, and it didn;t just happen, I worked on it. I wll never EVER play a lottery and win, it is just as it is - when people mention hundreds of girlfriends I had, I note one thing - for every single one I had to sweat to seduce her (I had to put effort, in my country girls value virtue, achivements, looks have zero influence, as well as money, the better looking girl, the smarter and stronger she is, more virtue value she demands from you when you try to seduce - and I love our culture for this:). Same goes with sport, I played in national team of Serbia for more than decade - but when I started, I was the worst :) the slowest. So I went to proffesionals, modified my technicue and went every day on training - and I salowly came to be one fo the fastest in team, if not the fastes tone. Same with faculty, same with business, same with friends and social circles, same as publishing books that have 1500 and more pages - you just sit and write few pages today. Do that every day, after a year you have a 1000 page book. Our house was so dirty in one moment, I lost desire to clean, because it would take days. So what I did? I made a list of everything that needed to be cleaned, moved and fixed, and went, one thing on list, one day. Everything was fixed within just few days, as some tasks only took miutes and I had energy to go on --- Regarding quantity of bricks - I would suggest you play with what you have. Set aside 50 eur and buy something from bricklink to refresh what you have, minifig accessories and some makeup bricks, and start building (castle, pirate ship, spaceship, city diorama, what ever is you choosing) and just enjoy the process, and play with it :) like a kid :) I think you will love it :) And if you are in EU, we could meet on some event, and I will bring few special bricks as a present :D

I am building a huge AD&D diorama. As a part of it, I have a Temple of Seluna. Two towers, connected with a bridge, and in final setup they will be on two diferent sides of a chasam that is leading directly into underdark, and they will be surrounded with water, with waterfalls falling into Underdark. Each tower is around 1.2m tall (the talles tower in diorama will be 3m tall), and the chasam is 0.8m deep. The towers will have surroundings, water gardens and attached buildings. Temple is work in progress, I am expecting 1000 pearl gold chains to arrive till the end of week (they are around 0.03 eur per piece, so 30 something eur for all) As a special threat, I really like this torso from Night Protector, CM Series 22, bricklink id col392 which I am using with elvish hairs and hoods with masks, with spear and trans purple shields. You can also notice bunch of Mindflayers in the background, as they will have their space in the Underdark Underdark will have huge par devoted to the Drow (my favorite LEGO theme:), one part for the Dwarven stronghold, one part for the Lich with lech dragon and small sceleton army - and the rest will be fungy, Myconids, and the else what can be found in Underdark Above there will be human willage on 4x4 (always 48x48), whan Temple of Selune on 4x4, thank 2m tall dragon with dragonborn castle, and finally lake with elvish ruins, vampire stronghold, forest, and wizard's tower (3m high). The whole diorama will be 16x4 (48x48) with another level below of 16x2 for Underdark, 80 cm high. I already have prepared hundreds of unique AD&D themed minifigs, have a squad of around 100 dragonborn warriors (dragon head from dragonbron paladin, body from that large minifig from NEXO knights, 10 dragons Hungarian thorntails from Harry Potter, just modified with 4 wings and bunch of other things, you can see two of them on a cake in front of my club member in a picture 2m tall dragon will be glued and with metal frame inside, as I would like her wings to go over much of diorama Underdark is by far part of build I am most looking forward for. I love how Drow look with new heads (I used to post here my old Drow cities, you can find them using search)

looks great :) I am hoping we are going to see Drow in the next D&D CMF

Hi :) AFOL can never be late for a moc :D unfortunately, I have zero online presence :) I literary post my creations only on Eurobricks and one facebook group - and that is it :) I have an instagram page Beokocka, but it was just for few months until I finished some job - there are hundreds of pictures there :) Qlso on My Flickr and Brickshelf, but I haven;t upadted those for 10 years :) there ar elinks at the end of every post I make, in footer I have been building, though :) I have built dozens if not hundreds of dioramas since then. When I posted this I had around 300 baseplates under creations - I have 2000 now. You can check the LOTR that goes on 12x12 (48x48), or a 5m long Millennium Falcon, or a Guiness World record Notre Dame :) or, my favorite, 7m long Coral Reef (all fo mentione dcan be found here on Eurobricks) In this very moment, I am in the process of preparing to build a 2x8 AD&D diorama that has two leyers (ground and Underdark), is 3m high and has some amazing minifigs in it :) I will start building within few days, but I will savior it and enjoy every moment (meaning, no deadlines, frequent bricklink orders for minifig accessories, and I will re-read Derfel Cardan;s tutorials :) this is my plan :D his tutorials can be found here on Eurobricks also :)

that is impressive :) I also never had dark age :) when you say baseplate, is it 32x32 or 48x48? My largest diorama is 12x12 (48x48) (or 18x18 32x32), but that being said, I also have, built and exhibited at the same time: another 12x12 (all my measurements ar ein 48x48) castle diorama, one 12x6, three 1x2 diorama, one 2x4, five 4x4 dioramas, and three 8x4 dioramas, all generci castle stuff - which is 550 baseplates under castle stuff, so if I was to connect them on table (and I built them so they can be connected), it is 23x24 (48x48) base plates large castle :) with at least 10 towers that are over 2m tall :) (2.4m is my standard height when I build tall) - or around 9x9 m, or 81 m2 :D It would be a lot of logistical effort to gather those dioramas from events, and pain to produce so many tables, but if that would be world record, I would make an extra effort to do it :) But I don;t know what is the largest castle diorama in the world :) Plus I am building another 8x4 diorama in this very moment (actually, it will be 2x8, but two levels:) AD&D, with all the new stuff coming from TLG, inspiaring me :) Do you have pictures of that large castle that was part of project support? (btw, second best support from TLG, right after PBB (boxes:)

Thank you :) Brickset is good for sets, but, for example me, I have some amount of sets, not more than few hundred, and most of them are small and medium, but I have around 6000 kg of LEGO bricks, with around 40.000 minifigs, mostly in castle gear, one of my favorite LEGO themes. Now, that 6000 kg or those 40.000 I know it is a lot, but how far is it from the one that has the most? I also have around 200 dioramas built, in diferent sizes, alive in this very moment, surface of around 2500 baseplates (48x48) - how that compares with the one that has the most? I always tried to compare to get sense of how actually much that is, but when I spoke with guy in Serbia who was suposed to have next biggest amount of bricks, he didn;t had more than coupl hudred of kg - I expected at least 2 tons, by the way he was talking. who has the largest acquarium made from LEGO bricks (but everything, not real sand and animal made from LEGO here and there), who built and how big it is, the largest castle diorama, both firm and AFOL(s), largest spaceship (I've built 5,1m long Millenium Falcon, for example, I have seen some SW ships that are 7m long :D I believe in Australia - my next moc is 12m long Warhammer 40k ship - will it be the longest? I can easily make it meter two larger, if it would mean world record - and so on :)

that is impressive. How much do you have? Irony aside, of course, only weak use irony, and AFOLs aren;t weak, they are creative :)

which is why I asked people to tell me what they know on this subject. What they heard, and with so many AFOLs, I am sure I will get all the info in no time.

very nice! :)

of course, I did all that before asking here. I mentioned, there are some records, like person who has most unique minifigs - but who has most amount of minifigs? and so on.