Si-MOCs

I have a small break now... then I have to do something else for an entire month I'm sorry guys - worst leader EVER. As for LEGO collection... This is 2/3 of my build area: Possibilities abound... by Si-MOCs, on Flickr For most of my brick, they are in baggies / clear shoeboxes(I think I'm up to 100!). My brick is in several stages of sorting: By Colours: Bleys (always sorted down to piece), other colours are down to types of pieces By Piece type: different colour of the same piece in the same baggie Already Presort: broken down to basic brick types - 2x plate, 1x plate, bricks, wedges, greebles etc etc Unsorted tablescrapes: left over stuff I'm too lazy to sort out Unsorted brick - includes sets. Most of the sorted pieces are grouped into larger tal bins in the same presort categories. No idea how much I have, but I would wager it's easily 250k+ at this point.

For those that won CMF's, I went out to the store and got some Robots and Alien Troopers... and can swap those in if anyone wants.... As for all the kudos, you shouldn't thank EB Staff, thank the contestants who pummeled us with great build after great build. Without them this month would have been sads-ville. You should consider building in Sci-Fi more often I've noticed traditionally non-sci-fiers usually build really neat stuff as they approach Sci-Fi very differently than the regular Sci-Fi builders. Just take a look at the winners, a lot of those builders aren't known for their Sci-Fi. Moral of the story: Everyone should build more Sci-Fi Why does everyone always blame me?

97 Micro Sci-Fi entries: 64 Forbidden Animal Planet Entries: Out of 161 entries: 17 prize winners and 3 raffle winners were chosen! Did you win?

It's been a wonderful month of Sci-Fi month, and there was an astounding 226 contest entries (new EB record?). I want to thank each and everyone one of you for making the first Sci-Fi month such a phenomenally successful one. The quality of the builds was nothing short of stunning, and the true winners are the members of the LEGO community who got to see all these wonderful builds pop up everywhere.... First a little recap: 97 Micro Sci-Fi entries: 64 Forbidden Animal Planet Entries: Due to the unprecedented number entries, we've decided to go from 3 prizes in the two building contests, to SIX prizes EACH + THREE judge prizes! And the winners are..... Forbidden Animal Planet Contest 1st. 37. rEvolution - zane_houston Prize: 70705 Bug Obliterator (provided by TLG) +Trophy + 2nd.5. Duh-Nuh - madLEGOman. Prize: 70704 Vermin Vaporizer+Trophy + 3rd. 22. Pigs VS Cows - Ninja Nin. Prize: 70702 Warp Stinger +Trophy + 4th. 15. Chicken Moonbase - vecchiasignoraceppo. Prize: 4x Alien Buggoid, Olive Green + 5th. 17. Attack of the Fish - cmaddison. Prize: 4x Alien Buggoid, Dark Red + 6th. 40. Dinosaur extinction? - Cecilie Prize: 2x Sci-Fi CMF's + And rounding out the top ten: 7th. 16. Froghead - Yatkuu 8th. 36. The Source of All Ants - Ryclen[/color] 9th. 24. BannanaTank - alex54 10th.52. Ivory Poaching - Ecclesiastes Micro Sci-Fi Contest 1st: 8. Iron Giant - cmaddison. Prize: 70701 Swarm Interceptor + Trophy + 2nd. 65. Planet Express - Oky. Prize: 70700 Space Swarmer +Trophy + 3rd. 5. Freighter over Ice Planet Biodome - Lt. de Martinet. Prize: 2x Sci-Fi CMF + Trophy + 4th .28. Ice Planet - Crystal Station - Siercon and Coral. Prize: 4x Bright Green Robot Sidekick with Armor + 5th. 6. Ice Planet Colony - Dark_Alamez. Prize: 4x Dark Azure Robot Sidekick + 6th.13. Invasion! - 4estFeller. Prize: 2x Sci-Fi CMF + And rounding top ten. 7th. 15. Landing on Xurus - K.Kreations 8th. Dark Shadows Over The Colony - Mr.Brickman T9th. 23. Micro USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Bridge - toutouille T9th. 72.The City of Tomorrow - touthomme Sub Committee Incharge (of) Finding Individuals Hopelessly Overlooked (SCIFI HO) judge awards: Micro Sci-Fi: Best Science: 7. Saturn V launch - Legonardo Prize: 1x of each of 4 GS figs + Best Fiction: 32. Survivors - Teazza. Prize: 2x Sci-Fi CMF + Forbidden Animal Planet: Best use of Big Animal: 52. Ivory Poaching - Ecclesiastes Prize: 1x of each of 4 GS figs + 1st. 4. Kristel. Prize: 1x Sci-Fi CMF + 2nd. 22. Oky - Prize: 1x Sci-Fi CMF + Vote Raffle winners: Using random number generating droids, the voting raffle goes to #35, 120, 43, in the Avatar, MSFC and FAPC voting threads.... each get 1x Sci-Fi CMF: Winners: LFCMessi, Shadows, gedren_y Congratulations to all winners! Winners: please PM me your: Real name Shipping Address For top 3 in FAPC and MSFC - rank your preference for which trophy you will like, and I'll try my best For Sci-Fi CMF (Collectable MiniFig) winners - rank your preferred choice(s) - either Evil Robot or Space Marine (I'll be even be nice and try to fulfill any CMF request you have )

Ahhh the traditional shuttle exhaust configuration Headlight bricks would definitely work. You could also use technic bricks to join the engines I think the key won't be how you connect them but what you build around them. You have some nice sloping. I would suggest the sloping extends to cover up the connection area so just the back of the boasters are showing

5. Duh-Nuh - madLEGOman - 1 15. Chicken Moonbase - vecchiasignoraceppo - 1 17. Attack of the Fish - cmaddison - 1 36. The Source of All Ants - Ryclen - 1 37. rEvolution - zane_houston - 1 And polls are closed...

5. Freighter over Ice Planet Biodome - Lt. de Martinet 8. Iron Giant - cmaddison 15. Landing on Xurus - K.Kreations 21. Containment Breach - phuonom 68. Alien Autopsy - legolegolegolego ... And polls are closed!

4. Kristel -1 7. toutouille -1 19. ROOK -1 29. Gunman -1 64. Tohst - 1 .. and polls are closed!

Looks like another winner for Team Jigsaw! Wow. Love'n this. Who designed the train? it's absolutely gorgeous.

The rear tail is gorgeous! Really awesome colour scheme and execution. Some fantastic shaping in the engines too. I'm really tempted to look at the instructions to see how you did it... but that would be ruining the magic :wink; Really cool build

*cough* what about your FAPC build? That was probably a lot harder than a GARC ship. And why is there a pirate flag?!?! Though I agree with others the dark green boxy front is ace. And the side mirrors are awesome. The suspension is really cool - think you could take an underside shot for some of us who aren't as good ?

Wow! If this isn't best advertisement for the WIP thread, I don't know what is. it's REALLY cool to see your first WIP (which was already amazing) and tweaked it into this... I think I'll have to start using it more and get more results like this! Fantastic! I love the engine overview you put in How stable is it? The legs look pretty strong, but it seems so top heavy....

I didn't need to read the story to improve the build. The build is already awesome! I love the rocks and the green... ... cells? I'm not even sure haha. The portal is really well done, as is the mudflaps holding up the 'cell'. Really attractive build. is the entire portal in the back / with the three guys held on by connection in the corner there (like free floating) or is there an invisible stand somewhere? my only suggestion - and I'm being SUPPPEr nitpicky, is maybe try to rotate the cell a bit so the gap in the two domes isn't as obvious.... But dude this is awesome. And I really did like the story you came up with it

Blast from the past? This looks like a blast from the awesome future! Really cool build, love the colour schemes and your unique take on walker. The foot assembly in particular is stunning. But I have to ask, why is he only SEMI-Protected? why can't he be fully protected?!?

:looks at rank: :looks at rules: errr... I guess it doesn't explicitly say I can't enter, so I guess it's unwritten rule that I can't YAY! I built it right :) I totally tried to build the walker from Aliens. Though I had to compensate for the FabuFig's fat head

thanks! I basically built normally except i used brighter colours The pieces are actually used from bricklink, and a bit dirty too! you can see the smudge on the left yellow door. I would suggest checking out the tutorials in the Reviewer's Academy which can teach you how to shoot like this. But to answer your question, this was shot in a lightbox, it makes thing simpler, but isn't necessary, I've taken similar pictures without the need of lightboxes. The key is to take an overexposed picture (use your camera's manual settings) so that things are nice and bright. I dumped it into photoshop and changed up the brightness and contrast a bit. I then cropped out the background (it was slightly off white) and replaced it with pure white.you can see a bit of the shadows from the off white background which I left. If you got any more questions/want me to explain more, feel free to shoot me a PM Hehe. I've been saving the castle battlements for a moonbase build ... but this seemed like a better use How can I get in trouble for breaking a rule for a contest that I'm not even allowed to enter? Though if you're really going to be a spoil sport about it, I'll just swap out the Rocher with my LEGO rocher:

Maybe LEGO is just giving them away at random to all VIP members? Or would that be, you know, too nice?

That's a big Chocolate, and needs a big loader to move it. And in a rare treat, my friend Siegfried and his spank'n new Loader will be helping me moving that delicious nugget. (yes I had to Sci-Fabu it up.)

Before / After:

APPLAUSE! Best MicroWall-E EVER. So which one is you?

That is ummm a creepy little robot I think the joints could use a bit more work, but it's pretty faithful to the source material.

Wow you're on a Blacktron binge! They keep getting better and better! The asymmetrical layout is awesome. Any chance for a base?

Normally I would say 2-3 pictures max are required for builds of this scale... But WOW. I couldn't help but stop, and scroll back and take in all those details. I'm incredibly impressed at how much you packed in such a small space. Brilliant MOC!

Woh, that side ways windscreens are awesome with that side hatch. ! Really cool take on the old theme, the colour blocking is great

Opps. After reviewing the build, it does break the rules and should have been giving a warning to resolve the issue prior to voting. Given that the stupid organizers didn't notice it, and that the overage is confined in the base, which doesn't substantially add to the build. The ruling is that it should be DQ'd but will let it slide this time. Let this be a warning to all, organizers included to pay closer attention to the rules. And that next time they will be enforced with laser batons. Gubi - if you wish to change your vote - PM me. Note to all - rules prohibit editing your votes - contact me if you need to change something - lest your vote be DQ'd. (Thanks Rook!)