Shadows

Some good stuff there, a few bits even look familiar. Your next lesson in the world of good customizing is: image handling. 1. Save files as .png format. A lot smaller than bitmap and no loss of resolution. 2. Put the maj thumbnails in the post instead of the text for the link. People like to click on pictures more than read. You can always add the text underneath. For example: Click thumbnails for full size decals. Inferno Agent Alternate Gold Tooth Outfit (using parts of ImperialShadows decals) Isn't that a lot more effective? Keep up the great work!

Removing his hat and glasses, mild mannered Siegfried transforms into Super Walrus! Nice job, and I'm really glad to get a chance to see it. That is unbelievable. Now that's one guy who would be allowed to enter rendered mocs in contests if it was up to me. About the only thing wrong is that everything is just too perfect, too rich and clean. Amazing.

Sure, start a thread and we'll all take a look!

*shakes the disturbingly shaped turnip menacingly in the dragon freak's face* Aren't you the funny one? I'm just going to sit here on the edge of the counter until dinner. Oh, and yes, I have a plate already. Silverware, too. I slipped them into my pocket in the dining room. I keep telling you I'm sneaky and not to be trusted. Watch out there girly, we'd hate to lose you... so soon. :skull:

That would make it easy, but alas, no. In the first example, you have to seperate the strap from the collar manually, then edit out the original strings. Since there would have been no real reason to create the original in layers, I have to make the adjustment myself. LEGO likes to put details against each other in the same colour (usually black), so it's just a bit of chopping out and creating a shape that seems to fit the intent of the piece you're keeping. The rest is just a lot of copying and recolouring. No fancy methods employed. I think that's what you were asking. It wasn't the most prolific example, but it was intended to convey a sense of possibility, which I think you picked up.

Perhaps a bloody carpet. Takes "out, damn spot" to a whole new level. And since no one else has been along to do it, I'd like to inspect that turnip (I'm not doing the pun again). I'm surprised. Shut up. I'm a little surprised myself.

Sure, I'd love to take the big tour. Wherever you want except a toilet, thank you. Hinck should have most of the staff, he seems to delight in finding ways to torture our little selves, so maybe you'll get to do a big group shot of some sort.

Let's use the big paddle to take that out of the oven and put it on the counter. I think I'd like to take a closer look at it, if anything has survived. Seems someone disposed of some evidence, perhaps. You never know where a clue might ... wait for it ... turnip. Someone take a look at it anyway. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping, something louder than before, "Surely," said I, "surely, that is something at my window lattice. Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore. Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore. " 'Tis the wind, and nothing more."

*sits somewhere and eats his appetizer* CHEF! What's for dinner??? Some of us are so hungry we didn't even check the knife before using it! Plus we have those spooky stairs down there, so I think we should at least enjoy a last nice supper before facing the almost certain death and disaster that awaits us. Mmmm, this is really good cheese.

Both are beautiful figures, each with it's own special new level of minifig accuracy never before seen, so that part is a tie. However... C-3P0 is long out of production and doesn't currently reside in my Home for Happy Minifigs. Chrome Vader is all kinds of awesome, but still out there. Doesn't seem like a hard choice.

Bottled drinks, eh? I'm always up for a bottled drink. Nope. I like my cheese and salami a bit on the rare side. And anyway, what kind of killer would go to the bother of using a knife 182 rooms away and then return it to the kitchen without cleaning it? A sloppy one, not exactly the sort who would go to so much effort to even hide the body and clean up the blood. Maybe that other door leads to a pantry with crackers?

Did I mention that I'd like to look in that freezer upon arriving? If that doesn't have the expected result, I'll also look in the refrigerator for some cheese and try to find some crackers around here, then cut up the salami for a snack, wiping off and pocketing the knife when I'm done. What do you think?

I think this has run it's course and it's time to move on and be a little more positive. You know, we all have petty little gripes in life, but that's what they are, petty, and now this thread is becoming the very thing it is about. Let's try something positive next, ok?

Ut oh. Let's look inside that napkin carefully, then head on down... I've got a bad feeling about this. When we get there, I'll look in the freezer. Just trust me on this one.

I attended last year, at least in sigfig form in Hinck's display. Look for me there.

*pokes Mr. Dunne in the eye with a key* Pay attention! Now, where's the food?

Absolutely amazing! 2 words ... Samurai sword! PERFECT.

I never replied to this? I'd like a 1936 white Auburn convertible. Not a repro, either. Style.

*stands behind the off centre chair, waiting to adjust it just as Dr. Phil attempts to sit*

Don't confuse me, I don't need the help. Oh no... someone is killing us off while we aren't looking! I know! Vote: Willie Fangioli Who? Willie Fangioli! Was that the one that was screwing around with the dragon freak's wife? No no, that was Dickie. Haha... Dickie. Don't. Fine, but I don't remember him. You know, Agent Sky with a bleach job and Mutt jacket. Oh, right! Why are we voting for him? Things must be getting ... Grim. *the audience groans* What audience? (OOC: Just expect it to get worse, we've been locked up in this place for 17 weeks now, yet it's only been a night)

Let's hear about that, anything on it, how it appears to be broken, if all the pieces are still here, etc. Now I know he's crazy. He has a spot for the ballroom cabinet key in the ballroom cabinet. Don't even try to sell me on the logic to that, the old geezer was a nutter. Sounds like something Aluvar would do. No it doesn't, he'd just lose it like he did that one during ... ... who is Aluvar? Oooh, he was close there for a minute. I'd like to know how I'm going to get that pizza at the front door. Fine, forget it, let's go to the kitchen, I'm starving. Chef, please prepare us something to eat! *grabs all the keys* Never know when we might need another one of these to poke someone in the eye. Oh Max, come here, I'd like to show you something! *looks around* Where is Max? It's like, he's missing or something!

My pet peeve is when people start squabbling about stupid things in a thread about pet peeves. Cut it out.

Your barding pic is missing.

Recently, I've been working on my Comprehensive Visual Index of Decals, adding new ones and modifying old ones to make new things. I'm adding new things every day and have been for a couple of weeks, things that I don't create devoted threads for. Usually. In this case, I'm doing something a little different: showing how standard designs can be merged and adapted to create something new. I started with a Dark Forestman. It's a long out of production design that is always popular. It has a very useful shirt with a modifiable collar. Here it is in a variety of colours. More are in the index. Dark Forestman: Original and Recolours (Brown, Green, Blue) Then I took the vest/sweater from a very simple train design from 1995: And extracted the pockets from this 1979 design: Put it all together, and what have you got? Mr. Rogers! Well, a generic sweater and shirt wearing guy. It wouldn't be hard to Fred Rogers it up with some buttons instead of the zipper. Matter of fact, I have those parts right here ... *camera fades* See? That's how it works. Try it sometime, it's a lot of fun and incredibly easy and you never know what you might end up with.

*takes a hard left turn back to LEGO* It's ridiculous, that's what it is! Next thing you know, we'll end up with Knights Kingdom style troopers in purple, red, green and light blue! Crap, that's the wrong forum completely. Well, at least it's LEGO. Worse still, here's another off-topic point... Will we ever see the old style clone troopers back, the simple ones with black heads, open visors and no holes in their helmets? I doubt it. That really annoys me, I think they look a lot better.