evancelt

Haha thought about including my pirate coins, but I could only find 3 lying around and the symmetry didn't work out... I think I gave the rest to my kids for their treasure chests

Thanks @Captain Dee!

Thanks for the positive feedback, @Capt Wolf @Bodi @Mesabi @Kai NRG! Thanks @Mesabi! The fortunate/unfortunate (and obvious) lesson I have learned is that the longer I spend on a MOC the better it turns out. The ones I create in a single sitting don't have as many details and aren't as well thought out, and the ones that take 3 - 4 sittings leave me time to think about layout and new techniques. For the longer ones I can take pictures as I go and think about ways to improve it from those pictures before it's done. Probably a place for both approaches (especially because the longer approach takes more time to finish = less output) moving forward Thanks - yeah I experimented with using wedge plates there and it helped wrap around the corner. There are two layers of wedges under the angled corner so light doesn't come through I really like those new leaf pieces! So far I've picked some up in lime green, bright green, green, orange, and yellow. They seem super versatile for ground veg, wall vines, trees, etc

I really like the colors, @Capt Wolf! Nice job at this scale - looks real! Cool stained glass. The window panel for the door looks great! Like @Captain Dee said, the studsy roof is the only part that doesn't look polished, but I do think if you'd gone two plates thick (or plate + tile) without hiding the lip it would have looked too bulky.

Sorry for the clickbait title Not a LEGO MOC in the normal sense, but a MOC nonetheless Made from extras I had lying around in baggies

Thanks @Captain Braunsfeld! I used this build-style as inspiration for the new Mayor's House in Wullham.

@Count Vroskri @NOD @Khorne @Professor Thaum @Captain Dee Thanks for all the positive feedback! I'm happy with how this one turned out. I used the Naval Intelligence Office in Port Woodhouse build as inspiration and it was fun to experiment with the stream in the base as well as adding things at non-grid angles (the bridge, house). I tried adding a white Harry Potter owl in the oak tree, but you can't see it in the final pictures I reached the end of my light bley supply of cheese slopes when I was 3/4 of the way through making the roof, so I made the rest olive green and that turned out well, giving it a mossy look. Have some more cheese slopes in the mail for future builds. @NOD - Yes, I'm hoping to create a Wullham aesthetic of whitewashed buildings with light bley and lavender peeking through. Thatched roofs and blockier masonry for regular houses, but stone roofs and smoother walls for more substantial/fancier ones Over on the Pirates Forum I posted a tutorial thread where I stepped through how I made the @Ayrlego-style base.

Nice build, @Count Vroskri! I like the wide varieties of textures you use on the building walls/foundation, and the dark tan wedges make for a fun roof. Like @NOD said, that's a lot to fit on a 16x16!

Posted up the completed build in Brethren of the Brick Seas

The Mayor's House, medium residence

After Captain Brickleton's horse lost a shoe, Lieutenant Tennyson gave him a ride home. Brickleton was glad to see that his attendant had the fires going inside - there was a chill in the air. Brickleton had chosen the spot for his home during an early scouting survey. When he saw the magnificent oak next to a small stream, he knew he would build his house next to it. With so few trees on the island of Panarium, a mature oak was to be treasured. Licensed as a medium residence in Wullham

Would be pretty sweet to set up a massive lightbox with diffuse light and a leveled camera on a tripod to make the perfect overhead I'll let you try it first Oh, and our our ships will come to you when needed

Those real brick pictures from above are cool, too, @NOD, but they always have some slight imperfection. Examples might be light reflecting off the bricks or not being totally orthorectified/squared at 90 degrees with the border. I'm sure it's possible to do with real bricks, but just not as easy to make "perfect" ones

Another massive build, @NOD! Those Sea Rats are getting pretty domestic Though I'd hate to harvest corn with a machete! Nice corn technique - I'm working on some wheat now that uses a similar technique. The picture with the view from above is super cool. Looks like an in-game minimap. Creating that sort of perfect overhead view is something you can do with a virtual build that would be pretty impossible with real bricks.

Made some more progress on the edges of the base, adding more plates, tiles, and slopes. Not sure how much more I’ll end up adding to the edges at this point. Time to start focusing on the top! Probably the last update until I post the finished thing in the Brethren of the Brickseas subforum later this month!

I really like the upside down brick/plate usage! It leads to the little lip on the bottom edges looking like a small railing on the edge of the ship's decks - super cool. Like @Capt Wolf, I think the technic brick for the main hull is inspired - it successfully presents to me the illusion that there is open space belowdecks!

Good luck with the roll! Nice SNOT-rock edge

Great brick-built skies in those recent vignettes, @Niku!

Thanks for all the hard work putting this together, @Ayrlego and GMs! Seems like a monumental task! One thing I noticed in the spreadsheet is that @Count Vroskri, @evancelt, and @Puvel are missing a formula in Column M (Build Submittals: FIPS/PIPS) to copy Column K (Build Submittals: Free Builds) value over to that second column. Is this an artifact of inserting new rows? Most other Citizen rows have a simple formula in Column M copying the value of Column K over. I realize FIPS/PIPS are not really in use at the moment, but would be good to accumulate them in case they come into use in the future! -------- UPDATE: Looks like someone fixed this in the spreadsheet. Thanks! This missing formula might be present in earlier spreadsheets as well, but likely not worth going back to fix!

I got started on a new pirate/imperial MOC yesterday evening and thought I’d make a little tutorial as I went about how to make a SNOT (Studs Not On Top) base. This is how far I got in about 90 minutes, will post again when I make more progress. First off, credits to @Ayrlego for showing me how to make this sort of base originally with his Watermill WIP thread. ------------------- STEPS: 1. Make the shape of the base with plates. You want to end up with a 2-layer thick shape made of plates. I think it looks most natural if you only ever shift the edge border by 1 stud at a time ------------------- 2. Once you have a 2-layer plate, add a layer of bricks on top, but leave a 1 stud empty space around the edge. That’s where SNOT bricks are going to go ------------------- 3. Place SNOT bricks around the outside. On the corners, use SNOT bricks with 2 studs on adjacent sides. If you need to buy SNOT bricks in bulk, yellow ones are pretty cheap on BrickLink. When done, you’ll have a base that is 5 plates tall (2 plates + 1 brick). That 5-plate height is important, because 5 plate height is exactly the height of a 2x plate on its side ------------------- 4. Attach 1x and 2x plates to the SNOT sides. You’ll need to build up the sides with more plates to make the border transitions smoother. ------------------- 5. Place plates on top of the base, covering the SNOT bricks. This will start the visible part of your building base and also make the SNOT bricks secure. ------------------- That’s as far as I got in one 90-min sitting! I love that this SNOT base is super sturdy, which comes in handy when I'm moving it back and forth from my building area to a kid-proof storage area. I also love that imagination is the only limit when it comes to shape! Hopefully this little tutorial helps others get started with it.

Agreed - cool fort! Great job guys. I was just discussing the single-stud-thick walls with some sappers and artillerymen and they pointed out these joints as good targets Overlap overshmap

Fun to see all of the minifigs/builds you guys have posted! Seems to be some serious love for the 1500s/1600s! Personally I'm a fan of 1700s era. I grew up in Pennsylvania in the USA and it was steeped in Colonial history. There was a Revolutionary War battlefield down the street from me and they would do reenactments a few times a year - fun to see all of the uniforms, etc. It's stuck with me, and I like reading/watching shows about the era (Hornblower/Sharpe/Outlander/etc). Now I live in Colorado, USA and the oldest non-Native American history around is mid-1800s. Not as fun! If LEGO ends up bringing Imperials back in 2021, I'm interested to see what era they return with. I'm hoping for Colonial!

Thanks @Count Vroskri! I've seen this sort of SNOT base around before, so I can't claim any sort of ownership of it. Thanks! Yeah with like 75 - 100 people total on the island, these guys should be chipping in to build some stuff! I don't always do a good job with it, but I'm trying to string some sort of a rough narrative together with all of my builds. I happened to find those round 2x2 dome pieces in this mixed tupperware last month and tried to think what I could do with them... melons! Thanks! I've been featuring the 26th Foot in recent builds and wanted to give the Hussars some love

The multi-part masts look great! Wonderful shape. I agree with @Bodi that maybe at this scale the single plate thickness drop/sag in the middle might be unrealistic, but it does look cool!

A small wool factory built by @Mesabi