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Looks great!

Haha in my earlier post I forgot to mention: You mixed yellow heads with fleshies! The ultimate faux pas!

Looks great! I like the cannon design a bunch as well as the unique uniforms (all officer torsos!). The wall textures are great, and I like the mix of civilian torsos in the first pic. Good work with the Ayrlego base

Nice work @Mesabi! Like you mentioned, this build is looking much more polished than some earlier efforts! I like the SNOT techniques on the two rightmost buildings. The roof textures are also fun to look at, and the mix of facade colors are interesting. Like Ayrlego said, just building a flat/straight back wall on the buildings can keep it dark inside, which gives it the illusion of more depth. Also agree on his point re: the flawless roadway - they must have some good road crews! I really like the photo-framing of the middle picture with the bluecoats rushing in - good atmosphere. I've noticed in your builds that you often use bricks for the upright walls as opposed to bricks mixed with plates. I'd love to see future builds experiment a little with using plates in walls, as it can add some additional texture by reducing the size of the wall elements. Nothing wrong with using just bricks, but it's evident that you're builds are getting better and better and I think that's a place where you could play around with a fun technique. I like how you tracked the family's history along with the Count's story - it's fun to tie multiple builds together like that, especially because these types of builds with hyperlinks to others can help new BoBS players get up-to-speed more quickly with past events (I know they helped me for sure!) A for GoC from me!

Looks great! Those masonry bricks in yellow are obtainable as physical bricks, though they seem to be missing the LEGO imprint... (see here: Smuggling Tower) Love how you've pulled some of the arched roofline Port Woodhouse styles into the yellow/ light bley color scheme. It works! The little 5-petal flowers add some nice ornamentation to the build. Also love the trapdoor on the roof of the right building

Nice work! I especially like the dark tan wedges on the reg tan for the road outside. The tiled ground area looks good and because it's raised above the studded ground next to it it's plausible. I wonder about the dark bley color of the studded ground, though. Lovely minifigs and action shots! Good to see red and blue coexisting

Looks great! I like the light/dark bley simplicity of the walls and the brown ground color works well as dirt/pine needles on a pine island. Any idea how many 3741 are in the build? 894983498? Looking forward to working alongside the blueys

Looks awesome! As others have mentioned, I love the brickbuilt sky and the dust clouds. I've been eyeing that coach - it's really period appropriate

Nice-looking little churches! I like the added texture the light bley ingots add to the base of the right church. The fig in the top picture looks like Kurt Russell

Thanks! I thought that one was by @Justsomebrix

Congrats to the winners! Which build is @lmcpicture 's Eslandola entry? Would love to check it out!

Thanks! I'm happy with how the grass around the outside helps hide the big baseplate in the build a little better. With those 1x1 axle bricks, I ordered 10 from BnP as part of the order to get those double-convex white 75deg slopes used in the corner of the fort here (they are super expensive on BrickLink, but cheap on BnP). Whoever was packing the order must have been trying to save some time and just threw a handful of the axle bricks in! Ended up with 21, which allowed for more rows I think they would look cool alternating with rows of 1x2 axle bricks to create a kind of star pattern. Will have to try that out soon.

Good job patching the hole I attempted to exploit in: Attack was called off here: Lovely flagpole, wall, and water! I like the mortars and that round blue hat the guy has in the last pic! Interested to hear what @Faladrin makes of this new fortification

Thanks @blackdeathgr! Thanks @Captain Braunsfeld!

Thanks! I took inspiration on using a raised baseplate from @Captain Braunsfeld Harbor Town. You can see some of the gate is similar to his bridge! Thanks! Yeah when new parts come out I try to get 10 of them so I can try to find fun ways to incorporate them into things. Those 1x1 technic bricks are fun, and the cat tails are goofy in a "why not" way The sloped walls are satisfying, though it's a shame they aren't very visible in the main pic. As you can see in this photo, it's a front facade only. Wanted to bust it out in one 3-hour sitting, so didn't spend the time to make it real four-walled fort. Side view: Thanks! Yeah they definitely have many artillery pieces - made sure to mention the batteries in the story See above for a side view pic Thanks! The build took 3 hours to build, and the stonework was the hardest part - it just takes a long time to put lots of small pieces together (especially at a sloped angle!). Thanks! Yes the cat tail piece! It is such a strange piece that it caught my imagination as soon as I saw it. I considered using them as stone hooks to hang lanterns from, but unfortunately the little notch in the middle is too small for a 3mm bar. It does kind of fit a narrow antenna/zipline. I have it in some other colors too and am planning to use it in some upcoming builds. Thanks! As mentioned above, your Harbor Town was the inspiration. Included a side view pic above, but a view from atop the bastion might be a nice way to make a public-ready additional photo...

What a dignified Marquis!

Like the others have mentioned, the light brick really adds a bunch to the atmosphere here. Good job!

Great-looking building! Nice work

Great bar and kitchen scenes - the posing looks super organic. The cloth roof technique is really cool too

Fort Princeton, a medium fort licensed by Corrington, evancelt

Brickford Landing was both growing and at risk from the Lotii threat. Earlier that season they had captured a Lotii scout who had been scoping out their position. With Major Brickford away on the Island of Terraversa, Captain Keats decided the small island battery that protected the settlement was not enough security. He instructed his small group of soldiers to build a medium-sized fort a small way inland. The fort featured a tall tower from which a sentry could keep an eye on sea traffic. The fort also included a number of batteries that could support the small island battery if the need arose. Once the basic fort had been constructed, Keats was ashamed of how ugly it was. His men had quickly thrown it together and it served its utilitarian purpose: keeping the settlement safe. However, he wanted to impress Brickford when he returned to the island. So, Keats asked his men if any of them knew how to carve rock. Private Beesley spoke up - his father was a master carver in Belson and Beesley had grown up learning the trade in his father's shop. With no better option available, Keats decided to trust Beesley and excused him from his normal duties for a few weeks so he could work on improving the look of the fort. Keats was pleasantly surprised by the results. Now if only he could figure out how to keep the whitewash they were applying to the sloped walls from washing off following a heavy rain... -------------- OOC: Just an excuse to build a fort on a raised baseplate. Tried out sloped walls like @CapOnBOBS, but you can't really tell from this angle To be licensed as a medium fort by Corrington

The greenery really helps tie it together (and those green 1x2 round plates!). Those windows are pretty cool - where are they from?

Like I said on Instagram, I love the color palette and olive green tree! The building itself is understated but has complex architecture. The headlight bricks work really well for the decking on the dock. Great job

Thanks! It took about 2 hours to build, though I'd been thinking about how to do it for the past week. Thanks! The little backdrop island was a bunch of fun to make. I like using those round 1x2 plates as they help little things look less blocky - less minecrafty Thanks! I used a musket for the stern mast as well - I liked that the grip of the musket allowed for an angled sail. High praise! Thanks. The colors in the water are medium blue/medium azure/dark azure/white Thanks!