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    I love it (the color scheme especially!), but I will say the prop should probably be bigger than the one used. Have you tried seeing what this part would look like when added on? I'm not trying to be critical, just trying to give feedback that might improve it. Again, it's an awesome model, with your usual perfect blend of old and new parts / colors. EDIT: I just noticed you misspelled safari in the title.. just so you know.
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    Life; I command you! Bring this thread to LIFE! ...IT'S ALIVE!!! - Dr. Victor Frankenstein (probably) These totally purist Spanish Armada figs (six soldiers and one ship's captain) are to be used with my copy of the vessel in set 76440 (Triwizard Tournament - The Arrival) from the Harry Potter theme. The ship won't be built for another four months, but modifications are being planned to give the Spanish treasure ship brick-built sails, cannons, and printed shields - among other things. Thoughts?
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    Just testing to see if the Brick City Depot - inspired house looks good on a removable modular base, which was borrowed from another model. In the process, I updated the pictures of the model in the first post because I changed the MOC around a bit. I also added the digital version of the car that is already built in real life, as seen above in the main post. Thoughts?
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    Thank you for your kind words @JopieK!
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    I didn't come up with it, but I agree it is clever, @The Reader. Thanks @LEGO Train 12 Volts! I wasn't sure of it originally, but it work out nicely.
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    By this point, I'm beginning to think the groom stepped out for some cigarettes and never came back. It's either that, or the bride is the one from Disney's Haunted Mansion (Constance Hatchaway) and has had several husbands, all who mysteriously died under suspicious circumstances. Maybe both are actually true, but we'll never know!
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    The permanently parked 2-6-2 'Prairie' steam loco is enshrined in a small public space in Lego City. The park used to be much bigger, but eminent domain for more buildings has shrunk it down quite a bit to the size you see now. Nowadays, the OCTAN Company is threatening to take the rest to make into a automotive service station, hence the billboard. Octan and the local historical society are currently slugging it out in the courts to see what will happen to this lot and it's resident steam loco. Nevertheless, this park remains a popular place to grab a hot dog from the vendor and hold a picnic. If you need a rest on your walk, there are two benches, and if you want to read some about the loco there is plaque is placed behind the stairs to the engine's cab. The back side of the MOC, which is pretty ugly and sparsely decorated. I've been on a bit of a modular building kick recently... this plinthed 2-6-2 Prairie-type steam loco with surrounding public park is like my twelfth in a year or so. I've got two others waiting in the wings waiting to be finished as well. The food stall is run by Heimlich Stewblaster from the old LEGO Universe video game. ...Someone left a cake out in the rain, with all the sweet cream icing running down... (this is a reference to a song called 'MacArthur Park' and was sung by Richard Harris - yes, the original Dumbledore had a singing career!) Back when Bricklink allowed you to buy custom MOC instructions, I bought some plans for a small 2-6-2 steam loco from @SavaTheAggie in January 2014. (You can now buy Sava's instructions for his original MOC - and more - at Brick Train Depot.) I devoured the instructions, used the techniques shown to make me a better builder. Now, ten years later, I've revisited the model: I built it in LDD, (with some stand-ins for BBB parts) then went to town making it into my style and then bought the parts in the real world. I changed the boiler to be studs-up instead of SNOT, and removed the squeaky old tiny wheels from the model, and made space for XS Big Ben Bricks wheels instead. (this actually was easier than I thought it'd be!) I added a different stack along with heavily revising the piston / side rod assembly. As for the all-new, longer tender, different wheels were added and a 'painted' box put on the sides. The rear of the loco. The engine is numbered 119 and lettered for BRS (Brick Railway Systems), my original LEGO railroad that I began when I was in late-stage elementary school nearly 20 years ago. (Man, how time flies!) I also gave it the original black-and-red paint scheme of my first train MOCs from the early 2010's, as a nod to my past. This loco was my third set of instructions I purchased from Sava back in the day, although I had never built this one until now. (I did build the 4-6-0 and Berkshire I bought in 2010 and 2012 respectively, but oddly not this one from 2014) The inside of the cab. Thoughts? EDIT: @JopieK Do you you think this in the right area? Or should it be moved to town? I was confident before in my placement, but now I'm not so sure...
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    @The Reader : RE: the above picture you posted on August 29th could be titled: 'How it started - how it's going'. It would certainly be an appropriate title!
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    If @The Reader uses the mask for his purple-skinned tribe, I don't think they're would be a problem. Those figs don't seem to be based on real humans anyway...
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    For those of you who don't know, the department store Sears (remember them?) used to sell homes through mail order catalogs as do-it-yourself kits from 1908 to 1942. Over the years, they had 370 styles available, and ~70,000 homes were built over that timeframe. They had optional extras for each style including electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, and telephone hookup. You can read more and even flip through numerous catalogs here on Wikipedia. The house I've made is not based on any specific model or year, but it *looks* like a 1920s / 1930s kit house to me, so thus it became one. This house is a super heavily modified version of a Brick City Depot design, specifically this Winter Village house that I bought instructions for over a decade ago. I updated the design quite a bit, while leaving enough of the early-2010's charm of the original MOC. I also added a much-needed back half to the model with stairs to the upper level and a chimney. The building folds open dollhouse style. Inside the front we have the entryway / foyer, and living room, with bedroom upstairs. In the back we have the dining room and stairway, all with the proper furniture for each room. The modular footprint is removable from the building. I like the late-1930s car from 2015 San Diego Comic Con set 'Action Comics 1 - Superman', but don't particularly like the colors - or the insane price! So I used the instructions and built my own version in dark blue. The car has a number of changes from the set, but it still seats one figure at the wheel. The rear of the car. Inside the car, featuring the drivers seat. ...apologies for the dust everywhere. I don't know where it came from, I just built this MOC last week! Thanks for viewing!
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    That's a absolutely brilliant idea - I wonder why nobody had thought of that before! Be sure to keep us updated @The Reader! If you need ideas / inspiration, it might look good in an updated version of set 7682 - Shanghai Chase: If you do do this, be sure to make instructions or something - I know quite a few people (myself included) who would KILL for a update to this set!
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    Congrats to the winners!
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    It looks FANTASTIC! My favorite bit is Gandalf and Frodo taking a bit of a break from the quest to destroy the one ring. Also, Emmett is about to bury the photographer in snow!
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    Thanks @johnmike, and welcome to Eurobricks! Thank you @Lion King! A pirate themed restaurant would be cool to see someday.
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    Thanks @Lion King, and I agree they should make more 16x32 buildings. Also, I consider Adventurers the final, fifth part of the 'Golden themes' era. In order of appearance: Town, Space, Castle, Pirates, Adventurers. That order doesn't mean any are less than the other - they are all equal in my book. Thanks @The Reader, and I'm glad I'm not alone on that torso use - it's too perfect for Kilroy! To answer your questions: I have no real building standard besides 'make it look old', as my town is set in the late 1910s to mid-1950s. Some buildings fit the modular footprint with ease, some are close but not quite typical modulars, and then their are ones that are just not meant to sit on baseplates with fixed roads. (Those last ones outnumber all the others by far) The reason I build modulars is so they can be used in my LUG's layouts. I really try to make most of the modulars detachable from their bases for use in my own, non-modular town, but some - such as this Adventurers building - aren't like that and are firmly attached to baseplates. As for the car question, the legs that are closest to the centerline are attached via jumpers. The other, outermost legs are not attached.
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    Thanks, and it helped my wallet that I had a ton of the bricks in my collection already @Feuer Zug!
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    VERY nice work, and I love the throwback of using the older stickers!
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    Regular reddish-brown would look good in place of trans-clear, and there is a higher chance of it coming in that color someday. (It would also match the bottom 2/3 of the doors.)
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    "From Merchant to Pirate" by Yatkuu
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    I'll repeat what I said on Brickset: 'Who asked for this? A small snub fighter trying to out run a giant rainbow-colored pickle with as side build of an abacus made of human heads?'
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    Thanks @Shiva! And to think I almost didn't include the car in the post! Thanks for the kind words @Feuer Zug!
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    Nice work @The_Cook, I especially love the new doors! Keep up the good work!
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    We don't talk about Bruno. (as a minidoll, apparently)
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    I spy a train (do you have that posted anywhere?) and what appears to be a @SavaTheAggie train picture in a frame, maybe this one? The big ship WIP is really nice too.
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    This building is my Adventurers' headquarters building, and is used by Johnny Thunder and his friends to store and research recovered artifacts from all over the globe. (and beyond!) The model's framework / basis is half of set 76108 - Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown from 2018, and much like that fictional building, is filled with secrets and dangerous artifacts. The building is built to modular standard on a 16x32 baseplate, and is also infinitely stackable - the two middle floors can be repeated to be as tall as you want without changing anything, just like Cafe Corner from 2007 was able to. Sadly, the lamppost is not placeable in the proper place because of practically no clutch on the baseplate in the correct spot. (the baseplate is pretty old and worn) The rear of the building isn't very pretty. It has a basement entrance (purely for looks - it goes no where) and a back door to the first floor. This floor is the lobby / reception - it's where Johnny and co. get info on lost treasures and also the whereabouts of Lord Sinister and his cronies. This floor features a large cabinet, radio, desk, telephone, bankers lamp, and two chairs. A clock hangs on the wall by the door near a hat stand. This level is the break room / reading room for the upstairs library. We have a couch, standing lamp and table on this floor. Trophies, treasures, and weapons adorn this level. These include: the Storm Amulet from Ninjago, the Golden Shield from Orient Expedition, a Trident from the lost city of Atlantis, Thor's hammer (Dr. Kilroy is worthy), the fabled Re-Gou ruby, a T-Rex tooth found on Dino Island, among a few other, more puzzling items. This floor features items that can alter your mind and corrupt your soul, such as The Ice King's Crown, the One Ring, and a strange crystal skull. (Do NOT look it in the eyes!) Also on this floor is the library on everything archeology, the occult, myths / legends and somethings better left unsaid. This car is named the Scorpion Tracker, named after set 5918 - Scorpion Tracker - but styled after set 2995 - Adventurers car and skeleton. It was also heavily modified from a model by BricksAA and these free MOC instructions over on Rebrickable. The model features a spare tire hanging at the back of the vehicle and seats three figs - one in the back row and two up front, as shown. I'll leave you with this parting shot of Johnny Thunder, Dr. Kilroy, and Pippin Reed off on another expedition into the unknown... where are they going now - who knows? But wherever they will go, ADVENTURE awaits! Thoughts?
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