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  1. evancelt
    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?
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    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!
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    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
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    A MOC where soldiers uncover mysterious bones while digging a latrine pit Mysterious Bones
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    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!
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    Nice! My redcoats want that fiddle
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    A MOC where soldiers stationed at Elizabethville collect firewood First Snow in Elizabethville
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    The first snow of the season has arrived in Elizabethville. The soldiers of the 26th Foot take turns between standing watch with the militia at Fort di Legno and gathering firewood from the nearby forests. Lance Corporal Dryer has found a dry tree well where he sets up a chopping station on a stump. As he chops larger branches to manageable lengths, his comrades bring the wood back to camp to have close at hand. That night at camp, they stay warm around a half-dozen fires and speculate as to their role in the coming war with Oleon. OOC: Back in 2012 I got my PhD in forest snow hydrology studying how snow gets intercepted in tree canopies. I wanted to try out a snow build with a tree that intercepted some of the snow to create a well.
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    Awesome job @CapOnBOBS! In the last week I was thinking about making a logging operation that specialized in pines for masts - crazy! I love the hillslope and the understory veg. The building design is fun too
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    Thanks all! I thought some dino bones would be a fun twist As @Puvel suggested, I don't have many tan tiles at all, and my dark tan tiles are mostly 1x4 and 1x6. When I tried the longer dark tan tiles, it looked pretty unnatural. Aiming to pick up more 1x2 plates and tiles in the next few months. I'll play around with your base suggestions just to try it out. Thanks!
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    Lance Corporal Dryer didn't mind digging latrine pits all that much - the new latrine pits were usually far enough away from the old latrine pits that there wasn't much smell and he enjoyed the rhythm of digging. He was in for some excitement when his shovel hit something hard; as he dug around the hard object, he began to uncover what looked to be a large spine. He couldn't imagine what the animal would have looked like that had such a giant spine. With the help of Corporal Griffith, they pulled the spine out of the half-dug latrine pit. Below where the spine had lain, they uncovered large six-inch teeth. When the teeth were presented to Captain Brickleton, he was taken aback. Thinking of a large alligator, the beast that owned the large teeth must have been huge! He would write to Colonel Dirk Allcock (@Ayrlego) and request he send a note on to the Parliament of Science suggesting further investigation. OOC: I wanted to try out an @Ayrlego-style baseplate and some new tree styles that are thinner than the birches in the bridge MOC.
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    Thanks! I have a bunch of light pink, bright pink, magenta, and purple Duplos from the princess sets (they have some cool elements for my family's mega Duplo castle builds) and figured they'd look cool to add some depth to the night sky. Yeah, on 2nd take that camp fire looks primed to turn into a bonfire! Thanks! Yeah, I really like the yellow plus-sign shape on the black axle bricks - good contrast. Tried both axle bricks and pin bricks in the dark bley area, but I still like the axle bricks better. Haha. Thanks!
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    Not finding the specific one I'm looking for, but there are a few giant ones out there at minifig scale. I'll keep looking. I think it was a comment reply to a post about something a few months ago. Poseidon is one: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondtheBrickTV/posts/massive-lego-uss-poseidon-ship-by-john-morris-162-cannons-600-minifigures-more-t/3142133222507760/ This is another custom hull one: This is one built directly on a 32 stud baseplate: This is one made wider by adding tiles and plates to sides
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    I feel like Jack is in danger of rockin' the boat
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    I've seen some cool builds on the Facebook groups where folks use double hulls (two hulls next to each other) and then also extend with inverted slopes - it allows for a 32-stud wide area on the ship for plenty of detail and playability. Like all of the other techniques, you'd still have to build in supports to make it sturdy! I am building a redcoat La Grenouille now and it is pretty sturdy with the inverted slopes added - only adds two studs of width, though.
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    You can put me down for a 2nd one on Dec 12th too.
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    Agreed! Good choice with the goofy smile on the sergeant. I like the two-tone tables
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    A MOC showing Captain Brickleton stargazing with the medicine man of the Onondaga Same Stars, Different Names
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    As a child growing up in Corrington, Captain Brickleton would gaze out his bedroom window at Orion's Belt and the Big Dipper. Now a grown man and leading the Corlander military contingent in Elizabethville, Brickleton would still gaze up at those same stars. On the return leg of his trip to the interior looking for a waterfall that rained gold, the captain encountered the medicine man of the Onondaga and invited him back to visit the military camp outside Fort di Legno. The medicine man told the captain some of the tribe's histories. He showed Captain Brickleton the stars he had always known, but explained them in a new way: Orion's Belt was the Goose Foot and the Bigger Dipper was the Wolf Brothers. Same stars, but different names. ------------- OOC: I wanted to a try a night scene with muted nighttime colors and use technic axles as stars! Went with yellow axles for the dark sky, and dark tan axles for the darkening sky. I don't have that many dark bricks but I scrounged up all the ones I could find. The picture was shot in low light.
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    Thanks! I was going for a quartz vein or something like that in the rocks. Agreed re: tree trunk thickness - think 1x1 round white/gray bricks and plates would look better? Went with the columnar rounds instead of smooth ones simply because I have more of the striped ones from the Diagon Alley set I parted out a while ago... smooth would have been better. Thanks! Yeah, risky business taking a horse across a slat bridge. Yikes! I keep coming back to the bright orange color on the ground because I don't have any dark orange plates I normally rush through these builds in a single sitting so that I can put my LEGOs away before 9MO is on the prowl in the morning. She especially loves the taste of round plates! Some other tweaks I think would make this build better are thinner/more stylized tree trunks and leaves in the water and on the rocks. May revisit if I have a chance over the next few days
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    A MOC showing the bridge at the edge of Elizabethville that indicates the end of the settled road and the beginning of the Onondaga interior A Day Trip to the Interior
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    Based on a tip from his new Onondaga friends, Captain Brickleton and a squad of the 18th Hussars head inland into the interior of Lacryma in search of a waterfall that rains gold. At least that's how the Onondaga describe it. Deciding that if the waterfall really rained gold the riches would be too good to pass up, Captain Brickleton plans a day trip on horseback. As the group passes over a rickety bridge on foot, they reach the end of the Elizabethville road and the beginning of the Onondaga single-track that preceded it.
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    I looked more closely and this particular wig looks to be the 1746 version with Velcro® hat attachment feature. I looked on Wikipedia and they invented that technology in response to Jacobite uprising.
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    The torso sure does. Could be! Gold epaulettes and boots, though, never can tell Think the powdered wigs would hold up at sea?
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    The bicornes and shako are from BrickWarriors
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