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Hello! With those little details like the outer window sills or curtains you even added the icing on the cake to this excellent fire station. Well done! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! The authentic shape of the front section with that clever wedge plate angles makes this a truly fantastic snowspeeder! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! That's outstanding! I am particularly fond of large dioramas like this! You can feel the Star Wars Universe regarding these images. Your tremendous efforts are highly appreciated. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello everybody! It's my pleasure to provide the last missing Separatist capital ship to the community today. After the Providence-, Recusant-, Munificent-, Lucrehulk- and Diamond-class capital ships, the huge Subjugator-class Heavy Cruiser Malevolence joins the fleet today! The "Malevolence" appears in the first season of the Clone Wars TV series, and serves as the flagship of the Separatist fleet. The huge cruiser is more than 4000 meters in length, and features 2 gargantuan ion cannons to knock out capital-sized enemy ships. I decided to use the big 3 x 6 x 2 2/3 cylinder piece for the ion cannon units and assemble the rest of the ship around it, instead of trying an unfortunate construction of a cylinder on a bent outer hull. The plan worked out pretty well, and finally I attached trans purple dishes to imply the loading ion cannon glowing. A new micromized Venator Attack Cruiser comes exclusively with the Subjugator Cruiser for you today. It's as small as possible to be roughly in scale with the colossal warship. Hence it's not that accurate, but you can find the accurate bigger (but not to scale) version on my AboutMe page, where you can also find the rest of the Separatist Fleet. Please follow this link for building instructions. That's it for now! Thank you for stepping by. Have a great week, and see you around! Yours Christopher.

Thank you. It's my pleasure to help. I guess here you will find what you need: 1. How to upload pictures to Brickshelf 2. How to Deeplink and Post Images I also recommend our formidable Tutorials Index. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Thank you everyone. I am glad this tutorial is helpful. Oh! I am sorry! My bad, I should have mentioned that earlier. There is a great program available for MAC and Windows called GIMP. I have not yet found the time to play around with it, but it's a popular program. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! The review is great, no doubt! However, I don't like this model at all. I don't consider this a mini model. The shrinking factor is too low for me. The original system-scaled playset of the Vulture droid was 16 studs, and this one now is 10 studs. And TLC calls this a proper mini model? Agreed, it's nicely designes, but I'd rather call this a midi model insetad of mini. Best greetings, Christopher

Hello! Thank you for this great review! Although I don't own this set, I analysed it carefully. As a mini builder, I find it a quite inspiring set. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello again! Thank you very much for the nice comments! I appreciate it that you enjoy different interpretations of a scene from different builders. For all the fans of the little biplane, here are the instructions. Although you probably would not have needed them. Have a great sunday everyone! Christopher

Hello everybody, Like TazManiac in his topic 2 weeks ago, I began planning a small scene with the new Gorilla minifigure acting as King Kong some time ago. After planning the Empire State Building in micro acrhitectural style and ordering tan bricks for it, the project was finished a day after TazManiac posted his fantastic vignette. I didn't want to post mine at all as I respect the community, but he encouraged me to do so. Thank you for the opportunity and here is another version of King Kong in New York! The real work was an accurate version of the Empire State Building as I was not too fond of the official one. A small biplane complete with guns and a steering wheel as rotor joins the scene. Click here for instructions. Thanks again for accepting another vignette with similar content. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! A great ssortment of walking and riding personnel! It's especially nice to see how every ca,el has been packed individually with all the nice accesories. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Your son is a lucky one getting an entire town assembled. I am not sure, however, who will have more fun with it. Your son playing with it, or his daddy building it up. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Great movements caught in a bricked scene! The jumping dolphin is a nice addition as well. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Indeed, the Viper from BSG has a unique and elegant shape. You built an excellent version here. It has the sleek and elegant lines of the original. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Great version of Boba Fett! You made him really agile like a real body is. Most fascinating is how reconisable you made the head within this scale. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! A fantastic medium-sized Venator Attack Cruiser! Wonderfully detailed and cleverly using the techniques of the official medium Star Destroyer! Congratulations on this perfectly turned out version! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! A nice version for the "Invisible Hand". I'd like to recommend putting the top front 4x6 wedge one stud before the underside to create a little overhang as for the original. Furthermore, I'd simply use the Inverted 75° 2x1x3 slope for the bottom fin. This way you can get of the asymmetric and black stud inversion. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! It reminds me a little to the Star Wars Freeco Speeder, but wider and nicely incorporated into the space police theme. You're using many wedge pieces, resulting in a slim design which suits the vehicle well. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! A pleasure to look at! You've created the right feeling for this theme. The construction of the station with the large support pillars creates an excellent futuristic look. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! That's a very good hybrid between Bionicle and regular elements. It's not always easy including Bionicle pieces, but you managed the challenge well! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! A massive and impressive collection you have there. It looks like a well-filled parking site. Maybe they all parked their vehicles on a parking place of an interstellar restaurant? It would be great to see some space environment around and between all those nice vehicles. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! My favourite details here are outside the garage, being those slim trees. It's an interesting idea which enriches the plant variety. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello, and thank you for your comments! Your feedback is highly appreciated. I hope to come up with more alternatives soon. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello everybody! When I browsed the forums today, I stumbled into a topic containing unbearable large images with pixel sizes of several thousand pixels and a total image volume of 50 MB in that topic. I got so upset that I immediately closed my browser window. But then I warned myself that this was not the right way to handle this. It's my intention to help, and that's why I wrote up this new tutorial about operating the program paint.NET. It's the most capable free software (currently Windows OS only) that I know of and comes with a large palette of tools for optimising images comparable to Paintshop or Photoshop. But again, the best thing is that it's free! -------------------- Table of content 1. Download the program 2. Open an image 3. Draw a selection and crop it 4. Resizing 5. Sharpening 6. Brightness and contrast 7. Compressing and saving your optimised photo 8. Results -------------------- 1. Download the program To download the free software paint.NET go to the website http://www.getpaintnet.net/[/b]"]http://www.getpaint.net/ and click through the download procedure. After the installation of the software (simply follow the navigation through the menus), you open the program and come to the user interface of paint.NET. 2. Open an image To open an image taken with your digital camera, open the menu "File" and choose "Open". Alternatively you can click on the common icon for that. Another window opens where you can browse your operating system to locate the desired file. In our case it's file IMG_4044.jpg with the dimensions of 2592x1944 and a file size of 1.4 MB. Click on the file and press OK. You now see your image in the program's interface. 3. Draw a selection and crop it From the toolbox on the left side, choose the "Rectangle Select" icon. Your image now has a blue frame where you drew your selection. To crop this selection, click on the "Crop to selection" icon in the top icon bar. The not needed space around the focused object on your image has now been removed. 4. Resizing As the dimensions of our image are still way too huge, we resize it by opening the menu "Image" and choose "Resize". A new window opens with many checkboxes and parameters. You can use the program's standards. Simply enter the desired width of your image into the box "Width". A width of 640 pixels is quite apropriate for an internet image. Larger dimensions are usually not needed and only increase the file size. We enter "640" into the box and press OK. You now see your resized image. 5. Sharpening Sharpening is recommended after resizing, but also if you have taken a blurry image. To sharpen your image, open the menu "Effects" and choose "Sharpen". A small window opens where you can select the degree of sharpening. A value of 2-5 usually is sufficent here. Enter the number and press OK. Your image now aapears sharped. 6. Brightness and Contrast If you think your image is a bit dark or needs stronger contures, you can use adjust the brightness and contrast by opening the menu "Adjustments" and choosing "Brightness / Contrast". A small window opens where you can play a little with the values for brightness and contrast. You see the result immediately as it has a preview function. Once you think it looks perfect, press OK. You now come back to your brightened up image. 7. Compressing and saving your optimised photo After all operations have been performed, let's save our image optimised for easy internet access. Open the menu "File" and choose "Save as". A new window opens again. Here you give your optimised image an new name and press "Save". Yet another window opens where you can compress the file size. A quality level of 90% is absolutely sufficient and does not decrease the image quality but results in a massively smaller file size. Press OK. 8. Results And here's the result of our efforts: The original file was: - 2592x1944 pixels - 1.4 MB file size The optimised file is: - 640x480 pixels - 0.06 MB file size These optimised file sizes enable quick loading times also for areas where broadband internet is not yet common. -------------------- With that I am done with my little tutorial. Although it took me some hours, I enjoyed doing it as it might save me even more hours of loading time in future topics. If there are more questions, I'll be glad to be of further assistance. Have a great week-end, and see you soon! Yours Christopher.

Hello everybody! In the ongoing series of alternate models for the creator sets, I'd like to present you a sleek alternative for set 5762 - Mini Plane. The set is brand new from Februaray 2011 and costs 4.99 EUR / 4.99 GBP / 5.99 USD and comes with has 52 pieces. The alternative model presented here is a clean streamlined design which uses 44 of these 52 pieces. All images and instructions are available here. That's it for now. Thank you for your time and interest. Have a good day and always enjoy building! Cheers, ~ Christopher -------------------- Alternate Building Series Quick Links: --------------------