Larrynautik

I personnally don't buy sets that seems too expensive to me, even if they please to me, like some of the PotC ones. Same thing with most of the Star Wars sets, whose only interest is minifigures most of the time. But the worst are Harry Potter sets. I only bought one. The others ones looks good, but are definitely overpriced. However, I don't think the Lego company really takes care of the overpricing problem. I would even say that it amplifies from year to year. Lego fans should merit a little more attention, as they highly influence whose toys are bought for their family, friends, children, and all the people they know. There are a lot of little things the Lego company could do easily to satisfy Lego fans, like the minifigs series idea, but also re-editing old sets, conceiving more Modulars, bigger Creators with more possibilities of building, proposing more shipping options on the Lego store, increasing the interest of being a Lego VIP, suppressing the chinese production of bricks because of their lower quality for an equal price, giving the possibility to buy licensed minifigs on the pick-a-brick, etc....

I understand the comments he lets are not really sympathic for your creation, especially that in my opinion your Executor is really well designed. But such creations are like an artistic work ; no-one would create exactly the same ship, and will vary the colours, parts, general design and construction techniques used. What you create is really personnal, and having radical opinions like the one on BrickPirate is not really wise. We can criticize a creation, but as you said, constructive criticism, not just demeaning comments. Just continue creating without thinking of this. What you make has a sense and is admired by numbers of Lego fans.

As a member of Brickpirate too, I agree with Mixtil. But consider that Anio is a particularly punctilious MOC designer, and it is to his credit as he created some fantastic MOCs. He also explains in the post on Brickpirate the reasons of the choices he made for his Executor. My opinion is that you should have a long look on his Executor to see the details and structure he has chosen. It could really help you find ideas for your one, and make a even better one. Maybe you should rebuilt completely your one ten times before being totally satisfied by the result. Each creation work knows this severe rule to reach some kind of perfection.

Larry is the americanization of my french first name, Laurent. Nautik simply refers to the surf on the web.