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Hello again! Seeing your growing collection, I really think that Western Train could have made the official Western Theme even more successful. Well doen again! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! The snapshot you posted is very nice as it really looks as if the guy was hanging in the air. Only the other photos reveal where he's fixed. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! That's a lovely little hangar scene! As already stated in previous replies, the X-Wing and cart are well done! But you also paid attention to create a proper looking hangar floor. Those grill plates really work nice here. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello everybody! I'd like to thank you all for the nice comments! It's your feedback that encourages a builder to improve and continue building. Thank you and see you soon, ~ Christopher

Hello! These are some really outstanding buildings! I especially like the red one from the first image. The way you used the big arch pieces studs down to create a really rare roof shape is simply brilliant. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! There's a lot of detail in this creation, but also a lot of humor! You definitely know how to use figures to create a slapstick. The facial expression of the scared kid fits so perfectly with the jumping off cap. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! What really amazes me here is that it does not use any single big prefabricated part. You built a great looking digger bucket with bricks! Excellent! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello again and thank you for your interest in the mini model. As a mini builder you have to have a detailed knowledge which tiny pieces come in which colours. Oftem at small sclae, a main shape element must be realized by one single piece. I recommend buying some of these in white. A sharpie is a fine ink pen yes? Well... No. It's a real part as stated above. It comes in old sets of the ferry line theme. Let me explain why a sharpie would make me nervous. For me personally, I need a challenge when I build. This includes that there are not all obvious parts available immediately. As explained some lines above, shape at mini scale is difficult. You have to know your bricks to see what you can use, and what turns out well. If I just used a knife to create the part I need, why do I build with LEGO® bricks at all? I could also start making models from a block of platsic, shape it and paint it. Finding a close matching decorated part to represent a hull pattern or something is much more difficult than paint it. It needs thinking outside the box, as you nicely said above. That's a great metaphor I will have to remember, btw. One of the rules I try to stick to when building is: No saw, glue or paint. Of course that does not mean that I don't respect our fine customizing people here on the boards. There are many people who are real masters of customizing pieces and figures. They're real artists! I really admire them! But as I myself am not good at these things, I try to make my way with what I can. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! I like that you attached many wedge plates in angled manner. Especially nice are the two at the front which close the gap to the 4x4 curved wegde. Very cleverly built! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello again! Thank you for the many nice comments for this tiny MOC. To answer some questions, I think that the scale is too small to have an kind of flag, sorry. And I built the roof black because light bluish gray looked rather pale. Furthermore the black ones go along well with the black windows. Too many colours have more of a disturbing effect, the smaller you build. Thanks all! ~ Christopher

Hello! A good building, ncie use of the lion head bricks. Also the ball globes work well here. That shed is adorable! Especially the typical out-door lamp make it so realistic. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello and welcome to these nice boards! The houses presented in your introduction are a pleasure to see. Especially as you're using rather uncommon colours makes them an immediate eye-catcher. My favourite details you included can be found in the green house. Those studs-down fence piece are brilliant, and also the embedded flower pieces as relief. Very well done! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Using only official minifigure pieces to create something for which TLC has no license and thus no specialized printed pieces is quite tricky. You assembled a great figure here. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! You could easily have your own section in the LEGO® catalogue. You really have got the knack of what an official set would look like. Another great addition to your growing theme collection! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello everyone! There's probably no other building that has been portrayed as often as the White House in mini architecural scale. Have a quick browse over and BrickShelf and you'll find plenty versions of it. So I had to go even smaller, as I respect the other builders works and don't want to cause obvious similarities. Hence it's pretty tiny. Originally I built it for setting it in scene with some UFO mini models of the movie "Independence Day" (ID4), but now am hesitant to show images of it together with the UFOs and its fate. So, here's the Micro White House. It uses old printed 1x6 bricks from the old ferry sets. It was a convenient way to get two levels of windws. Please excuse their slight yellowing, they're really old. The front pillars are half technic pins. The special thing here is that the studs of the 2x2 round plate below are the basement for those pillars. Without the studs it would not have been possible. That's it. I will show the Independence Day mini models separately I guess. Have a great week! ~ Christopher

Hello! The use of the chairs as small support wings is a good idea! Cheers, ~ Chris

Hello and welcome to these fine boards! Although I am not into Doctor Who and not familiar with its plot, the expression TARDIS made its career also outside the series. Your version looks pretty nice and accurate! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! That's a fantastic vehicle combination. The smaller trailer is really cute. What I like best are the SNOT doors which are offset towards the interior. Looking great! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! That's really very smooth! The shape looks very harmonical with all the rounded corners. The amount of SNOT-techniques is impressive. I especially like the steps up to the cockpit and the gaps bewteen motor block and cockpit. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! That's really a pleasure to look at! Winter scenes always have something tranquil. The frozed pond with the trans clear elements is really a nice touch. I'd imagine that a few of those pine trees with marbled white snow pattern would also look great in that scenery. Like your nicely snow-covered leaf tree. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello there! Admitted, I never owned any of the LEGO® western sets. But neverthelese I enjoy looking at the many great western creations very much. In my childhoos I loved western movies. It was something completely different from real-life. Wester movies promote a very special mood, and whenever I see these creations here that mood comes up again and reminds me of former days. So, I am not a western builder, but all western builders fan. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello everybody! I hope you're having a great week-end so far. Today I'd like to present a full dozen of TIE Fighters to you. I recently realized that I had no TIE Bomber and no TIE Advanced x1 yet, mainly to avoid overlappings with the official models. But some time ago, I decided to go with a unique and different cockpit design which now allows me to also include these two models in the collection. Sorry, it's going to be a rather lengthy post. We'll start with a real bricked image this time, no movie screen shot. The quote from the title is by Baron Soontir Fel, probably the Empire's best pilot alive, and commander of the second squadron of the Empire's infamous 181th fighter wing. So, here's the summary of today's set. Detailed images and links to the galleries and instructions follow below in chronological order as they appear in the movies. The images are links to the corresponding galleries -------------------- "A fighter that size couldn't get this deep into space on its own." These are the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi in "A New Hope" when a TIE fighter races past the cockpit window of the Millennium Falcon that just arrived in the Alderaan system which had just been destroyed. The ship they see is the standard TIE/ln starsfighter. Probably the most numerous ship in the Empire, and well-known to everybody here I guess. It already features the SNOTty cockpit I like to use for my TIE fighters. Towards the End of "A New Hope" a different TIE fighter design appears, Vader's personal TIE fighter, more correctly TIE Advanced x1 Starfighter. The cockpit is slightly different this time, as the headlight bricks point towards the outer sides. Unlike the official model this one also features the cutouts at the wing edges, by using these nice wedge slopes. -------------------- When our heros hide in an asteroid during "The Empire Strikes Back", a squadron of TIE Bombers patrol the astreroid field and drop bombs on the larger objects. As for the TIE Advanced x1, I used wegded slopes for the cutouts of the already angled sloar panels. The twin pods are connected via chainsaw pieces with the panels, as every other solution would have made the fighter too wide. -------------------- Shortly seen in "Return of the Jedi", the sleek TIE Interceptor has its first appearance. The funny thing is that I built the first version of this ship before LEGO® released its own version with a stunningly similar wing technique. -------------------- With that we are done with the official movies, and now will take a quick journey through the Expanded Universe. We'll do this alphabetically. The TIE Crawler, also known as Century Tank, is one of the very few ground-based TIE fighters. It appaears in the popular comic book series "Dark Empire". It was quite tricky to get theoctagonal tread panels stable. Next is the TIE Defender, which many of you might know from the numerous computer games it appears in. It's a trciky triangular craft. With the availability of the great triangular TECHNIC® hub it was finally possible to design this craft. Here I use a different cockpit design. Core piece is a 3L axle with stud. It holds cockpit, glass and engine together, and dixes the triangular hub. The TIE Droid or Drone is one of the few EU vessels released by TLC as a playset. Hence most you you will know it. Originally it's from the "Dark Empire" comic series. The cockpit is similar to the Defender, but the wing connection is unique. It uses KnightsKingdom Lareg Figure shield holders. They have tow functions here: provide the correct angle and convert an axle hole into a stud to attach the side panels. Only very rarely seen is the TIE Hunter as it only appears in one single computer game. I usually call it "inverted TIE Interceptor" as the wings are angled towards the outside instead pointing inside. Attching the four wings here wasd also time-consuming until I finally ended up using pneumatic T-pieces. Besides the TIE Crawler itself, there's also its predecessor, the TIE Mauler, the second tracked TIE fighter we know of. It appears in several computer games, and might be familiar. It combines sloped treads with solar panels making it hard to design. The model hence consists of some unusual connections. Another triangular craft like the TIE Defender is the TIE Phantom, also known from computer games. It's designed similar to the Defender, only the solar panels are different. It uses clicky hinges which perfectly grab into the stud notch of a wedge plate. Usually I don't like these unconventional connections but here it works fine, and was the only possibility that cmae to mind then. One of my favourite TIE designs is the tiny TIE Raptor. It only appears in two novels (X-Wing Solo Command, and Courtship of Princess Leia) and one RPG sourcebook (Cracken's Threat Dossier). The little bulb with its short fins was an invention of Warlord Zsinj after the fall of the Empire. The last model is not directly a TIE fighter, but a very close relative. It's the Scimitar Assault Bomber from the Thrawn Trilogy. It's an interesing and dangerous craft, and also features shields unlike most other TIE models. -------------------- Of course there are more TIE models in existence. But theye have yet to be built. With that I am done for today. I thank you for your interest and patience! Have a good start into the new week! ~ Christopher

Hello! Please don't let this be the one and only creation for the following years. That's an excellent ambulance vehicle with much SNOT-work you wouldn't expect in such a vehicle. I only have on minor suggestion. As you perfectly included it on the backside, these ambulance cars have blue flashlights on nearly all sides. Maybe it's possible to include a pair on trans-blue 1x1 tiles on the front as well? Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! The use of large pieces is much more limited compared to small universal pieces. You did an excellent job in including many big pieces into very sleek vehicles! Fantastic use of those panels, cylinders and slopes! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello again! Thank you again for the kind words. I would have liked to present more to you recently, but unfortunately BrickShelf is giving us a hard time not allowing any new updates for one week now. I hope they're back up soon, and if not I'll link directly from my homepage. Cheers, ~ Christopher