Toltomeja
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They say the bigger MOC, the longer the description... Don’t expect a brief one now, then. :) This MOC is rather an OOC (Our Own Creation) – the build’s been constructed by me and Legofan (his Flickr here, at EB called Lindon if it rings a bell) together. Intended for zbudujmy.to LUG’s summer exhibition in Swarzewo, Poland. It will be displayed there up until the end of August. Whole construction is 8 baseplates of surface and about 70cm in height in the highest point. The hillside town has been largely inspired by Mont St Michel, France. Frankly speaking, it is the biggest MOC I’ve ever created. At first I tried to make it fully modular to make it easier to transport it to exhibition place 700km away. However, my strong will (and modularity as well) ended soon and all has got one solid construction. The hill is empty inside, apart from a chaotic (and pretty charmful in result!) scaffolding of technic bricks. At last I ended up tearing it to about 90 separate pieces to ensure safe transport. At first it was frightening to see all the mess I would have to rebuild at the exhibition place, but having a proper photo documentation from the WIP stage and all the sections numbered, the work was as easy as building a set with instructions :) Feel free to see the photos from when it was still at WIP stage. I've got them only here by now: Dropbox. For more photos, please visit rafalholub's gallery here: MAJHOST And in case you wanted to see the... innards: Huge thanks to Legofan for a great adventure building (hope this is not the last time) and rafalholub (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rafalholub/) for beautiful photos. Oh, the castle chapel is St Stud's Chapel of course!
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A one-photo MOC for continued Dark contest of Mike Doyle. Kinda dirty industry scene. Abandoned Factory di Toltomeja, su Flickr Factories of Chernobyl (Ukraine), Bhopal (India) and steelworks of Silesia and Kraków (Poland) were the main sources of inspiration. Enjoy!
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My entry to Mike Doyle's contest, Beautiful Lego - Dark Largely inspired by tomb buildings from ma favourite cemetery - Cementario de Monjuic in Barcelona. And this chapel in Supraśl, Poland. The Nocturnal Chapel di Toltomeja, su Flickr There are PF lights inside, as seen here: Full Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/gp/64544801@N03/5u3f02/ Enjoy!
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Here it is - the next episode of round-the-world MOC series. This time we visit a tranquil Greek town. As usual, it is largely based on various architectural sites (houses of Vathia, Kapnikarea, Panagia, some church in Athens). Full gallery Enjoy!
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Well, with a bit of delay but here it comes... My sixth entry to CCC XI. Court entertainment. The king has been blue for a week already - it was a busy time for the royal jester, who tried numerous tricks to entertain him. Unfortunately, all of them were fruitless - even most dangerous acrobatic performance seems not to be enough... Brickshelf Flickr Enjoy!
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My fifth entry to CCCXI. Arthurian Scene. King Arthur and his faithful wizard companion Merlin set off to icy mountains. When they reached the lake, the Lady emerged from the water and offered Arthur the powerful sword - Excalibur. Brickshelf Flickr Enjoy!
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My third entry to CCC XI, Trial & Error A picture goes first, but feel free to get introduced by a story below. The city had been endangered by a cunning, nasty creature having its lair definitely too close, that is a dragon. It was wreaking havoc in nearby villages, turning huge houses into a pile of ash, and what’s even worse – every day set off in search of its breakfast – usually slim and blonde. The sage king order immediate eviction of the dragon from its dark cave. The decree was to be delivered by six royal guards, but before they could inform the creature about its rights, it claimed its right to get six fresh pieces of roast. The sage (and now sad) king finally declared, that a brave man who frees the city from danger will be given half of the kingdom (after being taxed) and a swimming pool ticket valid for a year. Many faced the dragon, but none succeeded. And now another man comes, this time not a knight, but an inventor (he had been famous for introducing a wireless hammer). His newest invention, Dragonator, was designed to take numerous measurements of the reptile to find its weakest spot, which would allow to beat it with a single stroke. But it seems that the dragon has found the machine’s weakest spot first... More at Brickshelf Less at Flickr Enjoy!
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Second entry to CCC XI. Secret Hideout category. The ruins of the cathedral had been deserted for years. Now however, it has been arranged by a ring of road thieves to be their observation point and secret den. Having dug a tunnel under a nearby road, they are ready to use their cunning trap to assault unwary merchants... The trap is fully playable and working. Pressing one of the stones, you can see the trap go off and the thieves reveal their secret... OK, but now seriously: what are road thieves without a bush-like disguise? There are some rules even the criminals must follow... Flickr Brickshelf Enjoy! Poor merchant...
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Thank you all for the comments guys :)
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Entry for CCC Miscellanous For many years the Synneora Rock was dwelled by a lone monk Athios, who had decided to spend the rest of his life meditating and devoting himself to God. When Athios passed away, the rock soon became the center of the country's religious life. Hundreds of pilgrims and the nearby villages inhabitants volunteered to help building a new chapel for the memory of Athios - a man of Faith and Sacrifice. Thea main sources of inspiration were Greek monasteries of Meteora, Zhangjiajie rocks (China) and Ha long Bay in Vietnam. I came across an article about Ha Long Bay and that was when I promised myself to try a new "tilted rock" technique, attaching part of the layout diagonally. I recommend it to hardcore-builders. It was the most extreme rock that I've ever made and that is because it is not really a strong construction and once you put a segment to place, nothing can be done... :) Well, it was fun. See the full gallery at Brickshelf: http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=536195 Flickr Enjoy!
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Thanks all for your comments!
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There has to be. You still have some time though, the contest ends on October 31st :)
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Built for this year's Mini Castle Contest. Finally got me a cause to build microscale, and finally the contest returned. Once again it makes me realise that microscale is what I like building the most, no doubt about it. The contest's scale was game-fig, but I took the liberty of making my own miniminifigures instead. For some reason I don't really like the look of game figs, so it was a fine challenge to think of something new. Flickr Brickshelf (full gallery) Enjoy!
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Wow, I had no idea such group exists. Joined and added. :) Never seen such a tree, but it looks desert-like indeed. I was first intending to put there a cactus or two, but finally I had no place for it. Yes, it took pretty much time to get the grasp of American style. Plenty of photos and Google Street View. Thanks for the comments guys!
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And here it is... Finally! I have the joy and honour to present you my last work. The legendary Route 66 connecting Chocago and Los Angeles, traversing wild deserts of Arizona. I tried to include everything that makes the US American - a bar, gas station, typical truck and Harley motorcyclits. Okay, enough words. Let's watch the pics: Some more photos will come as soon as Brickshelf staff removes all the naked women pics out of my gallery. And just as a fun-fact. It's actually the biggest MOC so far and te first attempt to build cars. So now I can finally get to do something else... Yay! Have a nice journey!
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This creation was built primarily for LugPol's contest - "Building Better Worlds". Challenge two was to depict some mechanism working. Here it is: a medieval water mill building, with the wheel propelled by flowing stream of real water. To see it best, feel free to watch the film: Flickr Gallery Enjoy!
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Hi there! I still don't believe I built a spaceship... ...but I did. It was a pretty quick build, all was ready in no more than one day. The process of building was all an improvisation, just adding each element one after another. Flickr Gallery How do you like it?
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Wow, I haven't ever thought my MOC could be featured at Eurobricks if I don't post it here myself... :) Thank you so much for appreciating my work!
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Architecture Contest: Krakow's Town Hall Tower
Toltomeja replied to Toltomeja's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Yes, I did. And such colours looked a bit weird, even though a bit more realistic. -
It was long ago when I forst tried to build it... Regrettably, the amount of brown and tan parts I had could be estimated as "almost none". I'd like to present you the second (successful) attempt - my latest MOC, which is also my Architecture Contest entry - Krakow's Town Hall Tower, one of the best-known landmarks of my home city. And some history, for those who'd like to know a bit more about the building itself: The Town Hall building was first build about 1300, in the Market Square. Since then, the building was continuously enlarged, and in XIV century the Tower was constructed. In 1680, fire destroyed its gothic-style cupola. Soon it was rebuilt in baroque style, but 100 years later the cupola was replaced again - to the one we can see today. The rest of the building was rearranged again in XIX century. Unfortunately, the tower is the only part of the Town Hall which still exists - the rest of the Town Hall was demolished in 1946. More photos at my Brickshelf gallery The Tower in Google Maps To make it clear: I enter to the contest "Landmark series" category. Enjoy!
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I suppose the photo of the "real" building is to be shown together with the model's pic in the voting thread?
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B-OV-23E The Bookshop. A magic place, where some pieces of paper become people's history or someone's feelings. A book's smell makes people happier, that's true... All the village dwellers know that there can not be a better gift for christmas than a book. Sorry for the photos quality, background etc. I'll upload some better photos tomorrow, I promise. That's what I can present at the moment. Thanks to the contest organisers for postponing the deadline... I've hardly managed to submit it in time anyway.
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Here's my second CCC9 entry in category "Miscellanous". Some of you might have seen this at CC forum. Nothing new here: Frankly, this is the biggest thing my bricks can "afford". So everything had place to be put in: the palace with a courtyard, chapel, moat, and some cottages outside. Making the arcade courtyard, I was inspired by Wawel Castle, and the chapel is a bit like York Cathedral. Most of the details, like the pier, stained windows (lights!), cottages and seagulls were introduced spontaneously, that's why some of them are off-scale. But who cares? ;) Thanks to the moat, I finally made use of "grass-scaping", which turned out to be a great way of enriching the landscape. Enough. Just see the photos! Brickshelf gallery Flickr gallery
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Vote for your favourite Category B entries
Toltomeja replied to WhiteFang's topic in Special LEGO Themes
1) Big Fish scene - Magician, Mime Artist and Circus Clown Entry (Build by lorax) 1 point 3) The Mist scene - Skateboarder and Woodcutter Entry (Build by Yatkuu) 1 point 4) Godzilla vs. King Kong - Gorilla and Godzilla Entry (Build by lisqr) 1 point Good luck to all! -
Vote for your favourite Category A entries
Toltomeja replied to WhiteFang's topic in Special LEGO Themes
7) Godzilla Entry (Build by Yatkuu) 1 point 13) Detective Entry (Build by KristofBD) 1 point 30) Snowboarder Entry (Build by Walt) 1 point Good luck to all!