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Hey again! Another nice wagon! It's extremely good to see someone still uses the good old compatibility of DUPLO® with LEGO® bricks. By the way, your background image with the moonlight shining through the dark forest, is it a real picture you took? Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! A nicely rounded up scene. The additional glowing effects on your images strengthen their attractiveness. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! The angled entrance door makes this house different from many others and thus unique. Good job! I hope you will add some nice interiour as it still looks quite empry inside. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Very good use of those technic hinge and towball bricks! I especially like your Malakili figure! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! Really impressive your gargantuan starship! I guess you could call this a capital ship. The only thing I find highly disturbing is the size of your images. I mean each image is almost 5 megabytes big and they load forever. Please keep in mind that not everywhere on Earth there are optimized internet connections yet. And unless you want to print a poster with those pictures (although it would look great I guess ), a resolution of 1024x768 pixels is more than sufficient for the internet. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Thank you. I'll gladly provide you with some part lists if these help you. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! That is an outstanding creation! I had this house myself in those days where I still had both, Playmobil® and Lego®. While it's very difficult to get the timbering frame correctly built with bricks it's nonetheless instantly recognizable and among the very best Playmobil adaptions I have seen so far. The removable roof is a nice touch, and your interiour is clearly superior to the original Playmobil set. This creation really brought me back to memories of my younger days. Thanks for sharing! ~ Christopher

Good morning! Thank you again for the comments, and thank you for the constructive criticism. That's exactly what I appreciate. A motivation to improve it. Such comments not only improve the creation itself, but also your building skills as well. Thanks and see you around! ~ Christopher

Hello! That's great! I am impressed by the tower spires where you used wedge bricks, which is very creative! I've recently been there! I don't live far away from there and we had celebration with friends. Around the yard, the crew has just been preparing several Halloween attractions with ghost shrouds, skeletons, fireworks and all these things, as you can imagine. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello, thank you for all the nice comments! Yes it's true that especially those vessels from the Rag-Tag-Fleet only have few screen seconds in an epsidoe, if at all. The more difficult it is to spot them, and even more to get some useful reference material to miniaturize it. See you around! ~ Christopher

Hello! I find it highly impressive to build something that folds into another completely different model. And the difficult part is to let both models look good after having been transformed. You did that very well! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! It looks like the Chrometrooper will all of a sudden draw a chrome blaster, wiping out the villains, all of them. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello again dear community! Yesterday night I completed Boba Fett's Slave 4, a very ugly but interesting vessel. Today I'd like to share this with you together with some other bounty hunter ships. You'll most probably know the bounty hunters but their ships are not that well-known, except the Slave 1 of course. -------------------- Let's start on the very left. That's Dengar, the bounty hunter who rescued and nursed Boba Fett after he had fallen into the Sarlacc. His ship is the "Punishing One", a crescent-shape Corellian Jumpmaster 5000. -------------------- On the other side of the bounty hunter gathering above you see Zuckuss and the droid 4-LOM who work as a bounty hunter team. Their ship is the "Mist Hunter", a Byblos Drive Yards G-1A transport. This one is already more tricky than the "Punishing One". The front section is rounded, which is not easy at 1-stud-width and the siede panel / wing construction is very unusual. The lessen I learned with that vessel is to always have some old 1x1 clip plates with thin ring. -------------------- But 4-LOM is not the only bounty hunter droid. There's also IG-88 (2nd from left), a dangerous assassin droid. His ship is as deadly as he himself. It's the "IG-2000" a Trilon Aggressor Assault Fighter. This is a really tricky craft. Everything, and really everything is angled here. When you look at the instructions you'll see what was necessary to build this. -------------------- Second on the right side is Bossk, a Trandoshan bounty hunter who pilots the "Hounds Tooth" a Corellian YV-666 light freighter. One of the details that make this ship unique is the overhang lip at the top corner. The front overhang was done by jumper plates, but this required the whole thing to be studs down. The whole thing? No. There is a studs inversion in the middle of the ship making the rear part again studs up. -------------------- Okay, only one bounty hunter left. The infamous Boba Fett! You all know his ship, the "Slave I", a Firespray Patrol and Attack craft. There exists an official MNI model by TLC. As I respect this, and my building rules tell me that when I want to make a Slave 1, too, this has to be completely different to avoid overlappings. Thus, my version of the Slave I is rather a MICRO instead of MINI model. I like it for the fact that I finally found some use for that light grey rounded wedge piece. After Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc and was healed, his original ship, the Slave 1 was in inpound, thus he aquired a MandalMotors Pursuer Enforcement Ship, the "Slave II". You can see it in the Dark Empire comic series for example. The "Slave II" was one of the first ships I built completely with the new bluish gray colours. Unfortunately there's nothing known about the "Slave III" besides the fact that it existed. But we again know a bit about his later ship, the "Slave IV", an Amphibious Interstellar Assault Transport (AIAT). This is a pretty ugly and colourful vessel. It's engines are huge. The cockpit section is very snotty, allowing for a studs down curved slope which is the perfect solution for the boat hull of the amphibious part of the ship. -------------------- That's it for now! Thank you for stepping by! ~ Christopher

Hello! Those vehicles really catch the spirit of certain Dinosaur movies. These are great examples for many different colours working perfectly together. All those green and brown shades are combined very well here. I also like the glass slopes on the top of the caravan combination. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello there! The thing I like best, despite the nice car, is the brick-built fish. This is very nice. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Heya! Thank you! But, no, the front is meant to be open as described. That was why it was so difficult. Trying to build an open cylinder. Here's another screenshot from the series. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello again, and thank you very much for the comments and compliments! I am glad you like them. See you around, ~ Christopher

Hello! A great building! The details on the anteanna are great! You also proved that things like stud holes, notches, and grooves can feature details. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello dear community! Today I'd like to present a new MINI model to you. It's from the Battlestar Galactica universe. The good thing about this ship is that it appears in both, classic (TOS) and reimagined (RDM) series, so that fans of both series may have fun with it. The Celestra is introduced as electronics ship in the classic series in the episode "Take the Celestra" (hence the topic title). In the reimagined series the Celestra play the role of a science vessel. The ship is not the most well-known one, so I think a reference image would be nice. The ship design features lots of tubes, bars, support structure, and other details which make it rather hard to build. Especially difficult was the large horizontal front cylinder which has a large opening. The resulting construction is not simple and features much SNOT technique. I loved to use those old 1 x 2 x 2/3 with Studs on Sides. The middle trench is not a brick in height (3 plates), but instead 2.5 plates (one stud width). Further, several 1x1 bricks with studs on all sides are used like a zip lock. For all images and instructions, see the BrickShelf Gallery: Mini Celestra on BrickShelf The Celestra is part of the so-called Rag-Tag Fleet, following the last surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, of the Colonial Forces who struggle against the Cylon Empire. I'd like to present you also all the other ships of the affiliations which were just mentioned in the sentence before. At this point, let me say thanks for your interest and time, and have a great week! ~ Christopher -------------------- Colonial Forces: (images are links) Rag-Tag-Fleet: (images are links) Cylon Empire: (images are links)

Hello! Definitely a nice layout! But before we sepak of high prices, what's the piece count for that? Often there are more pieces in a model than you would expect. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello there! This is really very impressive! I can imagine the amount of time you've spent to come to that point now. But you really do a wonderful job here. I think the big round tower with the stairhouse inside is very original, and the way you shaped a coned top for the tower with vertical attached slopes is very clever! Looking forward seeing more! ~ Christopher

Hello! Thank you for the nice comments! As we can already see, we all have different memories of the money bin from former days, but I'm glad everyone recognized it. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello there! Those two models are really excellent, and the scene you set up is a typical from the classic series or classic movies. The Enterprise is particularly well done. The saucer dish is nicely round by clever use of cruved slopes, and the large cylinder as main body is the perfect piece. Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hey there! A good build for a good mission. And good luck for your church's program! Cheers, ~ Christopher

Hello! A great snapshot from a good perspective! Very well set in scene. And also funny to read the report. The minifig head for the viking is also very well chosen for the scene. Cheers, ~ Christopher