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I added a deeplink to see the image right in your post. Thanks for sharing it, Mercenary.

Cool new parts, brciktw. It will indeed be interesting to see this in actual plastic once they enter the production phase!

Nice scene, SirGecko, well built and cleanly displayed. I always love this kind of scenes when I meet them in sci-fi novels, and your brick rendition is very interesting.

I like the way you turned this MOC into a medium to tell the story of such a terrible and fundamental day in our History. The 'running' shot is particoularly interesting. Thanks for sharing, Daniel Williams.

Nice rendition, Bojan Pavsic! This show was one of my favoutites as a kid, and I have been wondering if someday someone would have produced a LEGO version of that iconic truck (I for one do not have a good hand with LEGO trucks...). Thanks for making it real!

Nice little set with a classic feel to it; it reminds me of the last sets from the KKI line. Thanks for sharing the review, TheBrickster!

Amazing creation, lego-maniac! The layout is just beautiful and indeed it conveys a sense of adventure and has a definite videogame feel to it, especially thanks to your presentation. This would really be a cool UCS set

Great use of figs and parts, Plissken. Though I'm not really a fan of zombies, I really like your scene.

Thanks for this nice review, Cardinal Brick! I didn't know about the conversion option untill a couple of days ago, so it's nice to see it in detail in your review. I think it is a quite innovative element in recent space sets and maybe TLG could include more such features (without exagerating) in future ones.

Thanks for sharing these customs, Skalldyr I'm moving the topic to the Minifig Customisation Workshop.

A well deserved promotion and, most importantly, a way to make him do more work! As you see, a total win-win

Very interesting set with some nice figs and parts! Thanks for sharing yet another review, Jjsthekid. Your photographing skills have increased fast

Let's start with a welcome to you, unrealist83, and by saying I totally agree with what Ras said. But I think can gran you it's the same thing for other hobbies, too. You can always meet people who think their hobby is the only one worth some consideration, be it collecting Mickey Mouse comics, WWI and WWII miniatures, playing RPGs and collecting fantasy and whatever else strange and even obscure items. And everyone of them (or at least the major part) will tell you that their hobbies and collections, and only those, are forms of art and have a great historical value, being direct tokens of certain periods and their societies. Now, why shouldn't this be true for LEGO, too? Yes, it is a toy, and it is still in production today; but does something need to be old and almost forgotten to be worth collecting? Or is it because it's also fun? Do we all need to collect stamps and shut them in books on our shelves to be worthy collectors? It is not what others think about your LEGO hobby at first glance: we can all get wrong impessions and dispatch things as childish and/or uninteresting at first glance; the important thing is how you show to the others your passion for it. If you tend to hide and to diminsh its importance in the first place, then the others will ignore it and dispatch it as childish, a remnant of your childhood you'll eventually leave behind some day. Just after my Dark Ages, I tended to be very shy about my LEGO hobby, as I thought people would not accept it. Now my colligues often ask me if I have anything new to show them (not all of them do that, of course, but different people have different opinions and sensibilities, too). The key was to show them some of my creations, the passion I spend on it, and the vast online AFOLs community I'm part of. I'm sure that you'll find your way with it, and people will come to relise it's more than a kids' toy for you!

This time I bring you a less known group of characters; they are not from a film or best-seller novel, but from a recent (I got it last year in the USA as it had just been released) fantasy/sci-fi novel by Mark Chadbourn: Lord of Silence The chacarters are well defined, even if the physical descriptions are very short and quite undetailed. I picked hints from all of the book to build a picture of them as a whole, and some parts I had to improvise. [Note - spoilers may be present in the following paragraphs. I try to limit them as much as possible, but you may want to read the book before continuing here. On the other hand, if you do not know this novel, you may also be induced to read it after seeing this topic.] Let's start with the main character, Vidar, the Lord of Silecne, Stealth and Vengeance Here you can see him both in LEGO version and as depicted on the book cover. The strange thing in his chest is not an Iron-man like implant, but a Vampire jewel, an artefact which needs to be fuel with the lives of Vidar's victims or it starts to leech his own life, bringing him to death. Vidar is indeed a complex man, troubled by this curse and by the lack of memory of his past. His companions are the northerner Asgrim, fiece and pure in some way the other characters can't be and Cheyne, the man who cannot cry and the callous killer with an impeccable taste for fine clothes (his hairs should be red, but I prefer him this way) Now to the heroine, Inquisitor Rhiannon, tasked with discovering who killed Idriss's greates hero And the bad guys, the Red Man, with the intellect destroyed and the ability to 'wear' his victims' features upon his ruined face Verlaine, the dictator who subdued to physical ruin (his body has been changed and twisted by the artefacts which give him power) Finally, the 'neutral' Sam, a tall fat dwarf, as Cheyne describes him (the one on the right in this group pic) Hoping someone will be able to recognise them, comments and critics are welcome.

Hope these are good renderings of your description: Yellow slave Leia torso with long dress (for Slope 65 2 x 2 x 2) and Yellow slave Leia torso with normal legs dress. For the dress, I used my old Disney Belle template. Let me know if it's ok

I don't have anything planned right now, so we'll see. On the other hand, untill I throw them together 5 minutes before taking the pics, neither these were 'planned' I may post some older ones based off a fantasy/sci-fi novel I made some time ago, though. Keep an eye for them!

Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm always happy when I can make some purist figs which convey the feeling of some of my favourite film and general media characters It's the Seso minifigure from the Prince of Persia Battle of Alamut set. It's very dark and quite difficult to photograph, especially when you put headgear on it.

Finally, thanks to the Prince of Perisa line, I could get my hands on a brown minifigure with the perfect facial espression for most of Will Smith's recent interpretations! So, let's start with the actio-packed film rendition of one of the milestones in science fiction narrative: Isaac Asimov's short stories collection I, Robot. [Note - some spoilers may be present in the following paragraphs. I tried to keep as vague as possible, but if you do not want to be spoiled, you may choose to see the film before reading what follows. It is quite worth it, if not for anything else, at least for the special effects ] First off, we have Det. Del Spooner (will Smith himself) in his tough cop leather coat Then, following the film's flow, we meet young Farber (played by Shia Labeouf) - I'm not sure which part he had in the original stories, if any; in the film he's just a sort of comic relief character Spooner has to deal with and sort of take care of The first robot techie we meet (even if in holographic form only) is Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), the brain at the base of the Us Robots and Mechanical Men, and an old 'friend' of Spooner (just ignore the Japanise logo on the lab coat...) And not to the most reworked chacarter when compared with Asimov's original concept: Dr. Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan) (From Wikipedia: 'Asimov portrays Dr. Calvin as a highly driven woman, focused on her work and divorced from normal emotions, almost more "robotic" than her mechanical characters'; moreover, she should be hard faced and quite masculine in appearance... Not just quite her in the film, huh?) Finally, we have the robot Sonny (Alan Tudyk) (Not much to add here; I just used a standard Exploriens robot since it's the nearest LEGO rendition I could come up with while still conveying it its deep human-like nature). Comments and critics are welcome

It was in a shop in Vancouver Waterfront. Unfortunately, we were on a hurry to get to the airport and I could not stop but to snatch a pic with my phone, else it would be sailing towards you by now (I remember you talking about that collection some time ago) Maybe you could take the vest idea for your next present photo, don't you think?

Happy Birthday, o Walrus! To continue the tradition, I bring you another pic of your relatives around the globe, this time from Vancouver (BC, Canada): Have a special day with your family and do not exceed with the clam cake

Thanks for sharing, Mercenary. Care to elaborate a bit more on their backstory (if you have one); their look makes me curious LuxorV

You're right, even if that's strange: the original link to that page was a yellow marker pic Anyway, you probably can use the ones on this page then; they just have a fine point instead of a larger one. @ vexorian - I never used one of these, but I do not think the effect is reversible. I may be wrong, though, so if anybody else has a better knowledge, please share it here. Thanks LuxorV

Very interesting design, Commander Tac, and thanks for sharing the instructions! P.S.: I'll move this to Sci-fi, where it belongs LuxorV

You know, I don't think I ever saw a topic on this before, but I could be wrong. the answer to your question is in the name of the BS folder itself: Yellow-sharpie (link to the Super Sharpie permanent markers page) LuxorV

I merged BearHeart's thread with the old one, since they are about the same topic LuxorV