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  1. Grover
    Very nice! I love the interiors and how the whole house is hinged. I think you have captured a dwarven style very well. Great work!
  2. Grover
    I will second what a lot of people said already: The roof is awesome, the border is fantastic... it also reminded me immediately of the Skyrim sawmill. A few other things that I noticed: the 1 x 1 x 2/3 45° quadruple convex slope pieces (the metallic ones from the NK sets) look really good. I would not have expected the metallic pieces to look that good next to the greys, but they do. The waterwheel looks awesome (and like it was a pain to put together!). The whole scene really looks well put together and organic. The stone path winds in a natural way, the small flowering bushes along the side of the path seem like they grew there, and the docks fit perfectly into the river and mill. Great job!
  3. Grover
    Nice! I really like the take on the challenge and the photography. The textured walls and the details in the furniture are great. The girl sitting on the bed has some nice brick built legs, too. I will say, it took me a minute to figure out that the kid was supposed to have his knees up to his chin--the legs seem a little tall to me--but I don't know what that would look like with legs sunk into the bed a little more--maybe better, maybe worse. Great job!
  4. Grover
    Wow, great job! There's so much to like here: The level of detail, the awesome tree, the advanced techniques with the lever base put onto the flower stems with the petals, the various techniques for plants that look great, and the time it obviously took to make the detailed stone wall. The functional hinged gate looks good, too. The path now looks more like a path to me, as it's below the level of the grass, and the rockwork is taking shape in the corner. I love it! The lighting in the pics isn't perfect, but that's something that a lot of us struggle with. I've been trying to figure out how to take good pictures for a couple of years and am slowly figuring it out. More lighting and playing with the settings on my camera has helped me, although still not perfect. Great job!
  5. Grover
    Awesome! I've been trying to do this for a couple of years. Unfortunately, I'm only about 2/3 done. You beat me to it, but I'm glad it's all in one place. It was quite a challenge to try and dig through everything trying to find it all. Great job!
  6. Grover
    Really like the whole story! The scene is great, especially the path and the plants. I would not have expected lime green to work in the desert, but it's great! I was a little amused; from a first glance, the sauraman torso looks like he's wearing a bow tie!
  7. Grover
    I love all the stories and the neat vignettes! The art is a great use of that tile, and the bookshelf behind the matron is awesome. I love the water pouring from the barrel. What piece did you use for that?
  8. Grover
    That is fantastic! I really love the dense foliage. It's almost a jungle feel, but not quite. I like how you used the palm trees as large plants by putting them vertical. The Snot stonework for the base with dirt on top is awesome, too. It's a little hard to see the gem at first from the photo, but if you zoom in, you can see it. I like the rushing water, too. Where did that map come from? Great job!
  9. Grover
    Thanks for the clarification!
  10. Grover
    That pipe organ is great! I like the cloak, too. Great story and vignette!
  11. Grover
    What a funny scene! I need to do some more landscape like this. I feel my landscaping skills are lacking, and need some practice. It's a little hard for me to get a true sense of what's going on with the horse. I think rockwork is really hard when put in grass. I love the color choices, but it seems slightly busy and difficult to get a sense of the landscape. I can't really put my finger on it, as I am still trying to figure things out myself, but overall I like it. I love the kinetic throwing of the rider from the horse. :-)
  12. Grover
    Very cool! I love the Varlyrian feel. It seems like it's more of a countryside build from the tall grass and greenery as opposed to the many city builds we're seeing. The terracotta roof is really great, too. Perfect choice of colors. The base is really good, too--not irregular per se, but more defined with rounded corners, giving it not a traditional baseplate feel, but also less 'modern abstract' that some of the irregular bases do. I think it lends to a regimented, maintained household feel for the whole build, which seems appropriate given a guard out front. Does it have an interior? Great job, and I look forward to seeing more builds from you!
  13. Grover
    I was under the impression there was no minimum size, but if someone wanted to use all the studs in area, that there was a minimum width, so you couldn't have a 1x4096 build or something. Personally, I am going to try to build something, but am probably only going to have time for a 16x32 build. Is that legal, or am I mistaken and have to use a minimum of 32x32?
  14. Grover
    Fantastic build! Hilarious livestock traffic jam. I really like the roof, the not-overly-detailed walls of the building that still have detail, the nice spindly trees that appear to be the kind that grow quickly down by the river, and the awesome fence. The road looks organic, too, even with the lack of wedge plates. I am still of the opinion that the light blue trans makes water look like the Caribbean or ice, so I am not a fan of that, although you did make some nice depth features there. Also, people keep calling this livestock sheep, yet all I can see is a goat. I think the horns make it look like a goat to me--are they supposed to be ears? I think that sheep have ears that stick more out the side in my mind, but then again, I have been on a lot of farms and been around livestock quite a bit, so maybe the ideal in the general public's mind is quite different. For goats, however, they are awesome and I think that I will try to use it for a goat when I start playing with livestock.
  15. Grover
    I think my favorite part of this is the roof. The black slopes are great. I liked the Christian iconography in the original build as well, but this works, too. Keep up the great work! I like how these builds are not cluttered with too much and look clean, yet retain detail and style. Nice job!
  16. Grover
    Another nice, clean Varlyrian build. It looks like it could be an official Lego set with the way it is made. I really like how the sets go together. :-)
  17. Grover
    I like the nice, tight build. Clean lines, great Venetian style architecture, and the use of the curved tile on the door is great. Well done!
  18. Grover
    Nice micro build! I particularly like the use of the grating brick for stairs. It works well. I like the overall effect, as it gives a really good sense of the city plan without having to use thousands of pieces trying to do that on minifig scale (and photographing that size would be a nightmare). I am curious: is the water supposed to be from the river or from the ocean? If it's the ocean it may be a bit too calm. Maybe some clear trans plates would look like some surf.
  19. Grover
    Very cool story! I like it! I got that your fig was supposed to be standing on the shore with the waves over him, but I'm a little confused about what I see as a docks. Why is the dock extending out into shallow water? Docks usually go into deep water to facilitate getting into a boat. Or is it not a dock/pier that the guard is standing on? In any case, welcome!
  20. Grover
    Awesome! I like the whole thing! Textures, colors, story... all great! I like the Varlyrian feel. The only part I'm not totally convinced of is the round trans studs in the sea, but it does passably well to my eye, and I realize the tiled pieces can be difficult to source sometimes. Great job!
  21. Grover
    Welcome! I love the pic! Look forward to the story!
  22. Grover
    Our Lady of Perpetual Motion. Symbol: Also, for those coming up with their own religions, please, for all of our sakes, do not use the iconography of Priapus.
  23. Grover
    No worries, I was confused. I think if I try to explain what I was thinking, it's going to make everyone else confused, too, so I'll avoid that. lol Thanks for the clarification!
  24. Grover
    Not what I meant, so nevermind.
  25. Grover
    One of the things that I really like about this is it's not a 'pink bomb' as I like to call it. The pink, lavender, and magenta have their places, but so many girls toy are nothing but pink. Your use of the sand green, white, and tan does a good job appealing to a different color palette without pandering to the stereotypical (and I think somewhat artificially created) 'girl' market. Great job!
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