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I have edited one of the pictures to make it look like a scene from the movie: (Click for big) You might be able to buy all the parts to build this on bricklink, excluding the minifigs, for £500, but if lego were to sell this as a set it would cost many times that. I used many thousands of bricks to build it. I mean ten whole days of consecutive building. It took two months from start to finish to build this.

Thanks for all the nice comments! deskp, 1. august according to the store i made this for. I'm not sure about other stores. vlai23, that's awesome! and congrats on winning. Brinstar: quite a while. About ten days of building i guess.

I built this model as a promotional display for a store in Oslo. If you live nearby or visit Oslo you should check it out! The store is called outland and is located next to the main street of Oslo. This is also probably the last MOC you'll see from me the coming months. I will have little time to build and no access to my bricks.

As you may have noticed i haven't built anything for a while, but now I have finally made a new MOC, the Irruini Manor: More and bigger pictures here, or click the pictures to go to flickr.

I used almost all my castle bricks for my medieval city, so i decided to build something futuristic. BC-EC-019 Brain controlled industrial machine by Daniel Z "DNL", on Flickr "In the near future brain controlled machines will become normal. These machines are more agile and practical than their predecessors because they don't need a cabin and special safety features for their operator." (Click picture for more)

It has been a while since i posted (and build) my last MOC, but i have finally taken pictures of my medieval city that was part of the Lowlug castle layout at Fanwelt in germany a few months ago. Prhean by Daniel Z "DNL", on Flickr Prhean by Daniel Z "DNL", on Flickr More pics

It has been a while since i posted my last MOC. Thats because i'm working on a large medieval city with surrounding landscape that will be shown at Fanwelt in Cologne, Germany the November. In the mean time i have also built this MOC: A New Life by Daniel Z 'DNL', on Flickr After the world oil production reached it's peak because no profitable new oil fields were found the entirely oil dependent global economy collapsed. Few of the world's billions of people survived the following famine caused by the shortage of fuel for agricultural machines, pesticides and transport, and the resource based wars that ravaged the planet. The survivors now live in small societies and groups, and their way of life has changed drastically. This particular group of survivors has changed a rural house into a self sufficient farm growing everything they need. More photos

Captain Green Hair and me built this tractor at the eurobricks event in Billund using only pieces of 8958 granite grinder and 7684 Pig Farm & Tractor When the pig farmer found out zombies are horrified of fresh greens he built an all terrain tractor with a carrot canon to keep his farm and pigs from being destroyed and eaten. More pictures on flickr

I think i will be entering this contest. I have been wanting to make a LEGO set MOC for a while now, and since I won't need to use that many pieces i can easily build something without sorting all my unsorted mocs and loose pieces, which currently cover my whole building table and part of my floor... It's a pity there weren't any of the PoP sets in Billund while I was at the event, but it will also be fun to improvise with the parts that i have. At least i do have some new half-arches and tan bricks from the grand emporium.

I had a really great time at the event, it was very nice to meet the people from the forum in real life, and the presentations and tour at the lego group were very interesting. Fortunately there weren't too many people at the park, so there was hardly any waiting time at the attractions, and it wasn't crowded. I will definitely try to come again next year, and if if anyone considers going next time you definitely should, you won't regret it! I didn't take any photos because i couldn't find my compact camera, but it looks like there are plenty of photos by other attendees.

In a few hours I'll be taking the bus to the train station from where i will take a train to Oslo. We expect to leave Oslo 12.00, and if the vulcano didn't increase traffic too much I'll meet you all this evening

I'm going to fanwelt and i will take a medieval city with surrounding landscape with me, which will be added to Lowlug's collaborative castle layout. My part will be around 200x150 studs. I can't wait

I would like one of those badges, the color doesn't really matter. If you want me to send some 1x8 bricks to you they will probably be gray, i'm not sure if i have three good looking 1x8 bricks in any other color i like

Thanks! I first tought of using dark blue, but i don't ave any dark blue 1x1 round bricks. The sand green pieces were laying on my desk (i used them as cucombers in a previous MOC) so i just grabbed those. The slopes are simply attached sideways to the main 1 brick broad middle spine using technic bricks with pins, and each new layer of slopes is one plate furter away from the middle than the one underneath it.

Norway's LUG, Brikkelauget, will have a layout at the largest boat show of Norway in a few weeks , so i'm building a few harbor themed buildings and some boats. I'm still working on the buildings, but I have already finished two types of boats: Sailing yacht: More pics Cabin cruiser: More pics The whole fleet this far:

It's actually a greek, not a roman. At least the helmet and shield are greek. It seems like the second wave will be even better then the first one

I guess i'm fairly sure i can come now. I will stay from wednesday evening until sunday (like quarryman and freddie), so four nights. I would like to spend as little money as possible on accomodations, so please put me in the cheapest room (sorry abuot the late reply, i didn't notice this thread earlier.)

Very nice port I love the messy and busy medieval look of the city. Are you going to Fanwelt in Köln in November? Maybe we could make a big combined castle themed layout together if you are coming? I plan to attend fanwelt with a medieval layout that will be around 200x150 studs, but i haven't started building or planned anything yet so the size could be a little smaller or even larger. Our landscape styles fit quete well together, so we should be able to make a pretty impressive layout. My layout will look a bit like this one i built last summer, but wil be bigger. Send me a PM if you're interested

Thanks everyone!! It think it took about two and a half days and nights to build it, but i worked on it for two weeks, so i'm not really sure. The mill is the building close to the waterfall, but the waterwheel is actually a reverse mill, the cow pulls up water that will then flow through the fields to water the crops. Its just a normal saddle with two 1x2 plates and one 1x2 tile in it. I have uploaded more photos to my flickr account (link in my signature)

The CCCVII is now over, and here are my two last entries: More and bigger pictures I will take more pictures and upload them later.

Thanks for telling me, i didn't know that Thanks!

Thanks for the comments Yes, that was intentional. Feel free to use the glass windows, make sure you attach the trans-clear pieces to a black plate, otherwise it won't look like like small glass windows this much. I first used brown as clay-fired bricks in a dutch canalhouse, and i thought it looked very dutch, those old brickss often look more brown than red. I have uploaded more pictures to my brickshelf gallery (link in the first post).

Castle Weienaard is a dutch style castle for the CCCVII 'brick castle' category. bigger pics more pictures will be here once i have uploaded them

And one isn't a real Norwegian either (I'm Dutch)