Celloguy

Absolutely lovely!

Thanks very much! Cheers! I was pleased with it too. Cheers! I used the ale wagon in a build a couple of years ago which you can find on my flickr by clicking through the picture link :) thanks very much! It seems to be rather popular with everyone here - very glad as I had the idea for ages and it seemed to work out! Yes I really like adding classic smiley heads to things. :) Haha! yes, though luckily someone else did the crime, I bought them off bricklink all sanitised. It's like buying prepackaged meat at the supermarket, and not having to think of all the butchering and entrails! Glad you like the classic style too. Thanks very much!

real nice. Dark red plus dark bluish gray is a lovely combo. I particularly like the feet!

Might be best if you download the photo and draw a circle round the bit you mean just to be sure! Cheers! Yes I love greebling the undersides of models. Always gives me great satisfaction to be thorough, and I always do it last so the difficult structural problems have been solved!

Very interesting reading everyone's thoughts above. I recently wrote to the new lego Innovation portal. My suggestion essentially was a nostalgia line that released a 1 set in each of the classic space, castle and pirates themes each year to shut up AFOLs and make them feel listened to. This was the response I got: So now we know where they stand on that. I guess if they got a glut of the same sorts of requests through the portal that might make them reconsider, but I doubt it'll happen. Lego know that adults endlessly ask for retro themes to be reborn. I wonder if the success of the pirate bay and of Benny's space squad might mean they think about doing more one offs. The Dorling Kindersley £30 orange classic space man is a nod to that certainly! I don't think we should hope too much though. Best just stick with MOCs and keep scanning sets for useful parts. That said, I do have a lego ideas project coming soon. Reading up on it al, I know the chances of it getting to 10,000 without being an IP are rather low, but why not try? Something to do in these Covid times at least.

A nightmare to build at times you are right, but the final model is very stable. If I understand you correctly Re: the arms - it's connected at the top with tiles and plates, and at the bottom with a double layer of plates. Thank you :) Thanks, man :)

Thanks! Yes greebling in black was interesting and fun! Cheers! Thanks very much, glad you like it. :) Cheers! Yes, I love combining parts from 50 years of lego history in the same MOC, it's just part of what the meaning of Lego is to me. Thanks very much! :)

Lovely work! Will support

Lovely! Will you build it in real bricks? Not too many, shouldn't be too prohibitive!

Fascinating! I hope someone gets to the bottom of this!

I love the recent resurgence of classic castle styling on MOCs after the ultra detailed preponderance that had grown over the last decade. Both styles are wonderful, but I enjoy seeing both!

Which is a recolour of this one: Click through if you want to read the blurb I wrote for these guys. It's fun to get head canon down on the page!

Cheers! Thanks, man. haha! Cheers!

Thanks very much! Glad you appreciate it! Wow, that must have been simply magical. There's something about that era of sets which made it a true golden age - the packaging, the parts, the themes. Glad you enjoyed my version. I know what you mean. It was all dictated by the size of the new cockpit which is much wider than the original. I tried more white, but I just couldn't make it work! Cheers!

Doesn't this service essentially already exist? It's Bricklink. And Lego now own it and will no doubt be poring over the data that they have procured. Who knows what their plans are for it...

Prefabricated, fully sealed outposts were one way that allowed the Federation rapid expansion onto new worlds. These surface bases provided hubs for exploratory vehicles, and often contained larger scientific instruments for analysis that would be impractical to carry on mobile laboratories. Once a planet's atmosphere had been properly measured and tested, less stringently sealed construction could occur on the surface, and these outposts could then be recycled for further use on new frontiers. A neo classic space base I made a while back. I started this build with the idea of building something entirely studs up using large panel pieces so beloved of later classic space sets. I got quite far, but I couldn't resist when closing up the back using more modern techniques, in order to maintain certain symmetries. Still, I'm happy with how clean this build came out. I like the windows using horse hitchings! It has a full interior, which I haven't yet photographed. Hard to imagine that it's been 40 years of classic space!

Hello all! I somehow have only been here once before, but I want to start posting my builds here because it seems to be an active community. My latest build is above - an update of one of my favourite early sets! People always ask me if my builds are renders, but they never are. I always build with real bricks and then photoshop (or in fact GIMP) is used to add backgrounds. I will post some of my older builds too! One thing is that I would like to change my name to The Brick Artisan as that is my moniker now on Flickr, rather than celloguy which is what I registered as 3 years ago. I have tried contacting an administrator to change my name, but I'm not allowed to send messages for some reason. My Flickr is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/guidomartinbrandis/

I love these! Four wide forever!