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    The Rock of Cashel, a heart-shaped carving appears on a rock outcrop
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    It appeared some time during the night. Horatio Jefferson, a root vegetable farmer, spotted it when he stepped out the front door of his house the next morning. He couldn't believe he had slept through the sound of steel on rock, but he must have. He couldn't prove it, but he knew the heart-shaped carving in the rock outcrop was for his daughter Bethel. The peat-cutter Cashel Macklin had made it quite evident that he had his eye on her. As Jefferson explained all this to the gathered townspeople, Bethel began to blush. She thought it was beautiful. To be licensed as a small cultural attraction in Wullham OOC: Had to use the Wullham lavender for a Valentine's build!
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    Thanks @NOD @Brickwolf @Kai NRG @Spud The Viking @Fraunces @Garmadon @LM71Blackbird! Was looking back at this thread and realized I hadn't replied! Agreed, the clear tiles on clear plates helped smooth the dark tan wedge transitions and add a "lapping" effect! Will have to try that one again in the future This was the start of the lavender!
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    Here is another snowy imperial build from @Brickwolf
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    Good point, @Faladrin! Lots of good snow pirate builds in there
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    I love the snake as wispy smoke on that one!
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    Good point @rock raider - Whatever the Idea is, it is likely going to come out of the TLG review/design process looking different. Seems like showing support for Pirates ideas would yield good results no matter what! Only potential hiccup there is the BrickLink AFOL program that might turn some non-selected Ideas into sets
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    Thanks @Ayrlego! Thanks! Thanks! It's fun to put soldiers in non-fighting scenes Thanks! I blanket-bombed this scene with like 40 photos and kept the two that looked best Thanks! I lucked out last November when I was buying bulk vegetation on BrickLink - I found a store that was closing and was liquidating their inventory. Got 250 of the tan stems for $0.01 each. BrickLink doesn't know of any sets that include tan stems, so no idea where the seller got them - but a bunch do have LEGO imprints on them. I think you can get comparably-priced knockoff ones on AliExpress. Thanks! Will have to try the ram horns in future builds
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    Yeah LEGOs are expensive! I've rapidly built up a big collection over the past year, but my bank accounts have suffered. Makes sense that your ships are taking priority! One of the biggest "bang for the buck" LEGO purchases I've made in the last 6 months is 1x2 plates in bulk. When it comes to building landscapes, these are key because you can make any of the larger-sized plates with enough of the small 1x2s. AND you can just stick next to or on bigger plates to make them non-rectangular. @Ayrlego had some good tips in this 'Starting from Scratch' thread. I ended up getting all sorts of colors of 1x2 plates, but the green, olive green, dark tan, tan, and medium nougat get used the most. Picking up a few of each of those on each of your next ship-piece orders might allow for little details! Anyway, great concept for this build!
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    Haha Duplo pirates are awesome - no need to lump this monstrosity in with them
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    Haha good question. As @NOD speculated above, there are likely 1000s of sheep on the path ahead. Some back of the napkin math here.... 1234 sheep, 8 flintlock muskets, ~155 each... sounds like some warm gun barrels and slow going!
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    I haven't seen any pirate MOCs in snow climates, but lots of viking ones! Anyway, I think it would be an area ripe for some new MOCs if you wanted to give it a try!
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    Hey @Jack Sassy - I realize this one is Imperials and not pirates per se, but here is a MOC I did last fall: "First Snow in Elizabethville"
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    Thanks @Brickwolf! Unfortunately this is the only lavender visible in the final build photos Sheep got in the way haha
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    Haha thanks guys. I made this while watching a TV show that my wife had put on that I was not digging. Had these extra pirate elements around in little baggies and thought it'd be an unconventional way to make a MOC. Ran it through an Instagram filter after taking the picture which is what gives it its outrageous coloring.
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    "No Need for a Green Thumb In Wullham" (from KPA) - I took that straight out of the 3rd verse. Though, @Captain Dee with my bad rhymes (Thumb and Wullham, and Jam and Wullham) I'm making people second guess how the town name is said! I'm thinking Wool-um? I've gotten stuck behind cattle quite a bit in rural places in Colorado, though growing up in Pennsylvania it was Amish buggies! I was going for "aw come on" faces with the solider heads
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    Thanks! When I was researching wheat techniques I saw some really cool ones with tan technic axle/pin connectors, but went with the flower stem piece because I have a lot of them. Or I thought I had a lot of them... I went through 250 in no time! Was hoping to put them closer together, but ended up spacing them out 2 studs apart in offset rows. Started by putting three stems on top of each other, but eventually started putting 1x1 round and square tan plates on the bottom of two to make them cover more area.
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    Thanks guys! Was fun to get in close for these eye-level immersive shots. The overlapping paper infinity curve background ended up making a cool atmospheric effect that kind of looks like a rainbow - lucked out there. I always think the boring day-to-day minutiae of Enlightenment life is where the gold is Trying to establish Wullham as the premiere livestock / agricultural paradise destination, though @NOD is giving me a run for my money with those Hellion and Poppy Port builds!
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    That is a LARGE plantation I really like the mix of trans blues in the river on top of green, looks cool. The tan path running top to bottom is very straight! Impressively straight! It may be that these Sea Rats are very particular and broke out their surveying tripods, but if not, a few 1x2 plates along the sides to help break up the straight lines might make it look more natural. Nice work with these massive plantations
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    So many maps! I really like that SNOT floor technique - it makes the floorboard wood pieces seem minifig-scale.
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    Cool cross-section idea! Have any photos of what the side looks like (near the row boat)?
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    Fun build, @CapOnBOBS - Really nice fig posing in the one where he is grabbing her arm. "It's not the Le Fougueux, it's the Le Fougueux" lol
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    Sheep cause a traffic jam near wheat fields in Wullham
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    The new fence lining the edges of the wheat fields created a bottleneck when two parties caught up to each other on the path. Shepard Grogson told Lieutenant Bollford that the sheep would be on their way in good time, but Bollford's men were ready to get home to a warm dinner. To be licensed as a small wheat plantation in Wullham BTS:
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    Good call - I've been eyeing that as well. Something to work through next time! For now in this build it can be thought of as an architectural feature
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