Arcturus24

Awesome little build! All the details are really amazing, and I like the way you made the legs of the sitting woman. Very clever use of those curved bricks!

That is an impressive army you have there! I especially like the sarangay. May I ask where their headpieces came from ;)?

Those are awesome! I haven't read diskworld, so I don't know how they're supposed to look, but they look very good ;). Nice details! Arcturus

Really amazing build! It rendered me almost speechless... It also inspired me to get out of my 'lego dark age' and start building again. Which is also why I'm on these fora now ;) I'm typing this as I'm surrounded by bags as I'm trying to sort my collection, getting ready to improve my building skills. Thank you so much for being such an amazing builder and inpiration!

Thanks a lot again for all the tips! I'll start by doing some smaller builds and then doing bigger and bigger ones, as BrickCurve suggested. But for the moment, I'm mostly busy sorting what I have. I was, however, having a dilemma: should I break down my current builds (mostly models with some MOC's) for parts, or should I leave them be? Is the loss of models on a shelf worth the gain of parts?

Thank you both for your responses! @zblj: I have quite a few recent sets, the most recent are probably Malevolence from Star Wars (9515) and Attack of the Wargs (79002) from The Hobbit. I will try your suggestions for sure! @gotoAndLego: whereas I do find the idea epic, I don't really have the money to buy multiple big ships... and one of the aims of my project is to combine most of what I have into one big build, and this would beat that point.

Hello wonderful LEGO people, I'm a 20-year old student from the Netherlands and have been playing with LEGO for as long as I can remember. However, as I grew older, my interest grew less and less and the people I used to play and build with stopped doing so. The love still remained, and I still can't walk by a toy store without scanning for LEGO. However, when I moved into my own appartment, I took my collection with me (now also bolstered by one of my parent's old collections), and the spark of ignited again (somewhat). Lately, I've seen pictures of the Star Destroyer Tyrant, which sparked my inspiration like mad. The desire to pool my entire collection into one big build surfaced again, and I'm trying to get ideas for a space ship to build. However, looking at my OC's, I realized that I'm not a good enough builder to pull something off even remotely close (my latest cruiser fresh in mind, where I ran out of hull parts and inspiration half-way...). What I'm asking for mostly is advice on how to go forward. I really want to become a better builder, but seeing the progress I made over my youth doesn't bode well for any progress if I just keep stumbling on. What can I do to improve? Are there good articles to read? Video's to watch? Building exercises to do? Builds to study and draw inspiration from? (And is this even the right place to ask?) A note on my collection might also be appropriate: I've mostly collected medieval/fantasy themes and space/science-fiction themes, but also have a healthy amount of standard building bricks. Thank you for bearing through my ramblings and any advice you might be able to give! Arcturus24