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Posted it up!

Trading places w/ @KotZ - he'll do Dec 12 now! 10th of December

@Darnok - Hoping to see Kotz's creation. Was planning to post my Dec 12 tomorrow, but can do it today if you'd like to move it up. Conversely, excited to see your emergency builds too!

@Brickwolf - Cool build! I like the slanted edges of the vignette and reappearance of the brick-built boots! Glad the 26th Foot and militia are getting on so well

Hey @Brickwolf - Your Dec 11 image on the Advent calendar is broken for me. Looking forward to seeing it when it's fixed!

While General Brickleton (Captain Brickleton's father) has been retired from the Corrington Armed Forces for a few years, he still reports for duty every December. After getting set up on the 3rd floor of the northeast tower of the Headquarters of the Armed Forces in the Corlander capital of Belson, he opens and responds to Merrymas letters from the children of servicemen and women currently abroad. Lieutenant Steeling brings in bags of letters the children have sent to the powers that be, and Brickleton does his best to grant their Merrymas wishes. With a sizeable fortune at his disposal, the retired general often sends attendants off on errands to purchase gifts. Process Photos OOC: Curved wall technique from Isaac. Thanks to @CapOnBOBS for the idea for dark brown / reddish brown furniture. Reposted a few days after first posting in The BotBS Advent Calendar 2020 thread as I wanted to submit it as a free build as well.

After learning of the Onondaga's myths and constellations, Captain Brickleton wrote a note to Elsabeth Stockton detailing the encounter with the medicine man. He arranged for his father, retired General Brickleton, to purchase and deliver a telescope and bottle of port to her family's country retreat outside of Belson. Elsabeth's servant helped her set up the telescope on one of the 7th floor balconies high above the estate's tree tops. From there, she followed Captain Brickleton's notes to find the Onondaga constellations. She enjoyed some port in the night air, and then retired indoors to begin a long letter in reply. OOC: I wanted to try a vignette build where there was a rooftop high up above some trees, and you could only see the treetops. Not sure I pulled it off, but was fun to build.

Love it! I especially like the inset arched windows and woodwork built into the facade at various points. The color nods to the previous builds help cement the picture of the landscape. Hussar's Isle population just tripled

Thanks! The wall technique idea is from Isaac. Green 1x1 tiles were sort of by necessity - I didn't have enough 1x1 white or gold tiles, and tan/bley looked bland... the green was festive at least! Wanted some green/red accents to make it Merrymas-ful. Gave the redcoat green epaulettes

Posted my build up! Once again went with an uppity Belson build, this time featuring part of the headquarters of the armed forces. Excited to see what you guys come up with next - lots of good ideas so far!

5. December Looking great everyone!

Geoffrey "Fiddlesticks" Cooper was born to be a drummer. As a three year old, he banged wooden porridge spoons on his mother's hearth kettle until she felt she would go mad. As a six year old, he tap-tap-tapped on the neighbor's fence until it fell over. At age 13, his mother sent him to join the Corlander army as a drummer boy. By age 16, he could make his drumroll so smooth he could fool the uninitiated into thinking there was a wasp about. Now at age 22, Fiddlesticks is the best drummer in the 26th Foot and can keep a tempo during the fiercest fighting.

Would definitely get used! Thx!

Would the emoticons created here carry over into the BoBs sub-forum? If so, having bluecoat and redcoat specific ones like @Brickander Brickumnus suggested would be rad! Would be used for friendly taunting out the wazoo I imagine Otherwise, how about a crocodile or imperial flag (similar in size to the skull and crossbones one)? Thanks @Mister Phes

Thanks @Ayrlego - Would be fun to have Captain Brickleton appear as well! If you don't have the toy soldier arms handy, normal red ones are of course fine and Brickwolf did a great job building brick-built boot pants in our recent collab if you don't have the boot pants. The head is the hard part, though - it's from the Series 5 detective minifig. The Merrymas builds are looking good so far! Good work guys!

Thanks @Vilhelm22! The image above is one where I added 2 or 3 more tiles to the grass plates following JintaiZ's feedback - originally it had been a little too bland

It's huge! I love the sloped walls - they'll make it hard for our righteous Corlander forces to breech... but nothing is impossible! It does look like if we can get close enough to shore and scale the rock face, we can just climb in the cannon hatches That's a lot of cannon to get past though. The half-roof/half-deck with cannons toward the rear is fun too Impressive build

Simply spectacular! So cool to see so much vertical build on a regular-ish sized base - gorgeous tree and house facade. The 1x1 round plates on the roofline add some fun ornamentation

Cool - got any pics @Brickander Brickumnus? In the picture you shared it looks like both bluecoats and redcoats are fighting some pirates on board. Who'd you crew her with?

Thanks all! Was fun to bust out the white tiles and curved slopes for a snow build. While I don't have many tan tiles (as evidenced from my dirt builds), I have a whole ton of the white ones! Because the classic LEGO Pirates focus on the Caribbean there isn't often a chance to mix w/ snow!

Haha thanks @CapOnBOBS! I feel a little weird posting it myself as I'm pretty new to BOBS and so many others have been doing this much longer than me, but yes the Amazing Brick Network asked me to do an interview with them a few weeks ago and I definitely gave BOBS a shoutout as the Brick Seas definitely are an inspiration to keep making new builds! Thanks all

A MOC where soldiers uncover mysterious bones while digging a latrine pit Mysterious Bones

Cool build @Brickwolf! Thanks for the collab! I love Allister's legs - good work! I forgot to add the COR-FB tags to my snow build, so just added them - which changed the URL! Would you mind updating your link above when you have a chance? Thx!

Nice! My redcoats want that fiddle

A MOC where soldiers stationed at Elizabethville collect firewood First Snow in Elizabethville