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Ok, that part may be a bit tricky. In short, your entry is a minifig masked as a fictional character, but his/her costume is not a professional one, and you have to show it. It may be a Darth Vader in a discoloured or mismatched dark grey suit instead of the regular one, or a bald Wolverine. It may be more subtile, like having the right suit and all, but with clearly visible trade marks on it (for example, someone dressed like Neo, but with an eye-catching Nike mark on the shirt). It may be even an ethnic exchange: having a caucasian impersonating Blade would look quite strange, even if the costume was perfect. Hope this helps to clear things a bit Of course you can: it's called 'purist customisation'

Yes you are. You can use every customisation technique you want, as long as the result is clearly LEGO looking, does not contain clone-brand parts, and it is your own work. Just remember that So, you'll have to include an estimate of the cost of the sculpey and paint you used.

Eurobricks Staff in co-operation with BrickArms is proud to announce the Minifg Customisation Workshop Contest 2010 To find out all you need to know about the rules and the awesome prizes of this contest, click on the banner and check the Minifig Customization Workshop Forum. What are you waiting for? Hurry up and get busy customizing your minifigs!

Let’s go cosplay! - Minifig customisation Contest Eurobricks Staff in co-operation with BrickArms is proud to announce the Minifg Customisation Workshop Contest 2010 The Theme Create a new custom minifigure depicting someone who is going to take part to a cosplay meeting. Explanation: For those of you not familiar with the term, here is a handy link to the meaning of Cosplay. It can be anything, from anime, manga or films/movies. Here comes the interesting part: the masked minifigure must include details of both the cosplayer and ordinary life nature (i.e., how your character is in his/her dayly life, when not wearing a costume). This means that you have to make a fat Darth Vader, a dwarf Spiderman, an aged Wonder Woman or a male Sailor Moon… Adding 'home-made' details to the costumes could also be a way. Your imagination is the only limit! The main goal is not to create the perfect Cosplay custom minifig but to create an imperfect but realistic Cosplayer minifig. By 'imperfect' means the Cosplayer should have like an amateurish costume, not very well done make-up, hair, and the like. (Thanks go to KielDaMan for this perfect description) Note - Just one custom fig is required: the one with the costume; any other figs (like a not masked version of your character) will not be considered part of the entry. The Rules • Your entry must be a recognisable reproduction of a cartoon/comics/films/other media character • Your custom must be clearly recognisable as a masked geek: include some details to allow us to understand he/she is not the real character, but just someone pretending to be that • For the nature of this contest, no digital entries are allowed - only actual brick-built entries • For the same reason, photo editing of the entries will be allowed only for a better presentation; no digital added decals or parts’ colour changes will be allowed • Your entries must be at least 51% recognizable LEGO • Entries must have a background story, a note on which theme they are 'from' and which character you've copied • Your custom figure must be showcased in an 8x8 vignette, showing how it blends into the LEGO world • Entries' description must include an indication of the cost of the material used to create the custom (Not including the parts used for the vignette!) • Contestants may submit a maximum number of 5 pictures per entry, keeping in mind that a base of 4 pictures (overall vignette plus front, side and back of the figure) is required to qualify for this contest • Entries should have a link to a picture folder (non-resized pics, close-ups and stuff like that for the rest of us to enjoy) • Max picture size for deeplinked pictures is 800 x 600 pixels • No webcam or phone pictures - The pictures must be undisturbed - make a studio, anything but a table with a cat in the background • Entries must be new customs. Any entry published online prior to the start of the contest will be disqualified • You may not include in your entry any decal or other design element created by other customisers; actual custom plastic items (such as BrickArms, BrickForge and similar) are allowed, as long as you clearly refer to them in the text and you give due credit • Clone brands’ (Oxford, Megablocks and suchlike) parts are definitely forbidden! • Contest entries must be posted before the 20th of October 2010 12:00 GTM • Only one entry per person • All entries posted until the end date of the contest are considered Works In Progress • All entries not living up to the rules on the end date will be disqualified • Entries must be something the whole AFOLs’ community can enjoy. Please, avoid nudity, excessive gore, or other offensive content • All entries will be commented 1 week before the end date by me, giving guidelines on how to qualify for the vote Entries are to be posted within the Minifig Customization Workshop and type "MCW Contest 2010 Entry" in the topic description line. PRIZES There will be 3 prizes consisting of rich items’ packs offered by BrickArms Find out more about the prizes here. The Contest will run from today (20th of September 2010) to 20th of October extended to the 27th of October (12 GMT) Have fun and start customising!

Let’s go cosplay! - Minifig customisation Contest Eurobricks Staff in co-operation with BrickArms is proud to announce the Minifg Customisation Workshop Contest 2010 Prizes The prizes awarded for the best 3 entries are: Grand Prize (1st place) - An incredibly large assortment of accessories that spans the entire BrickArms line-up! - 3 BrickArms Trans Packs: Trans-Clear, Trans-Blue, and Trans-Red - An assortment of BrickArms prototypes of designs currently in development - A selection of electroplated Chrome BrickArms accessories - 3 custom printed BrickArms minifigures: 2nd Place - An larger assortment of accessories that spans the entire BrickArms line-up! - 3 BrickArms Trans Packs: Trans-Clear, Trans-Blue, and Trans-Red - An assortment of BrickArms prototypes of designs currently in development - A selection of electroplated Chrome BrickArms accessories - 2 custom printed BrickArms minifigures: 3nd Place - An large assortment of accessories that spans the entire BrickArms line-up! - 3 BrickArms Trans Packs: Trans-Clear, Trans-Blue, and Trans-Red - An assortment of BrickArms prototypes of designs currently in development - A selection of electroplated Chrome BrickArms accessories - A custom printed BrickArms minifigure: Many thanks go to BrickArms, who strongly wanted and supported this contest, and offered us this awesome range of high quality and very valuable prizes. (Click on the logo to go to the BrickArms homepage, browse their shop and see the variety and quality of their products)

Actually, that's a BrickArms M21 Sniper rifle

Hi antimatter, I see you are a new member here on Eurobricks, so welcome. Please note, though, that we do not like much bumping of months (in this case one year) old topics. Please avoid doing it in the future. Thank you

Eurobricks member Cygnet shares with us his review of one of this summer's most anticipated products from BrickForge: the Centaur body piece. (Click on the image to read the review and join the discussion)

Happy Birthday my friend! Have agreat day with your loved ones

Thanks everybody for the B-day wishes I had a great week-end with some friends in the mountains in Piemonte (sorry, I did not take pictures ) No LEGO presents, but I'm making a S@H order today to rectify that Hope you had a great day, too

Glad to have EB News back on track once again! Great interview, and also neat background story Thanks Sandy for taking the time to share more about her hobby and interests; and thanks to the surviving EB News crew for the effort.

Happy Birthday Lady Cecilie! Have a great day and take some rest after building all those Series 2 vigs

Thanks for reminding me I still have this unfinished project I still plan on making the last groups (Gaara's team, the Legendary trio and some minor characters), plus the legs and arms decals sometime. Unfortunately, work requires a lot of time lately, plus a special project I'm after in these last months. I hope to post something new by mid October

Please be aware that our forum software does not use the HTML tags like <img src="http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/image.jpg" width=....> but the tags [img=http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/image.jpg] as for the text font and size, you can use the bottons and menues on the top of the window when writing a post Btw, I arranged your first post.

Another great Fabuland MOC! Thanks for sharing Hinckley My favourite details are the shutters, with the wooden texture and iron bands, and, of course, the beautiful landscaping surrounding the quaint stone cottage, with those ingenious tree trunks.

Wow, I wasn't expecting this Welcome back Jebediahs!

This is indeed the right place to ask for decals, and you can look into our Indexes (especially the Town Index) to check if what you want already exists. On a side note, please try to use a more easily readable font and check your spelling and capitalisation. Thank you.

Nice to see you back with such a collection of 'good' new characters, Penguin You really found some useful and inventive uses for the Series 2 figs here!

I want to remind you that Eurobricks is a community aimed at AFOLs, and as such requires a minimum of maturity in posts. Please try to improve your capitalisation. Thank you

Nice to see these products hitting the shop! It will be a fantastic addition to every castle/fantasy MOCer I'm amazed by the other releases, too! This is like Christmas time for the customisation world

Happy (late) Birthday, def

Note to all the followers of this thread Untill Jebediahs comes back and replays in this thread, please stop posting requests. They would just pile up and make this a hardly readable queue of requests going on for pages. Thank you

you could follow this link to the LEGO colour chart in our MCW Index, which contains the Hex codes .

Wow, thanks for the explaination. On the other hand, you still need to resize those images, please