Hi all, I'm an adult fan of LEGO from quite a bit, but I know the meaning of AFOL since the last week, so I first ask all of you to forgive me:
1) If this topic is posted in the wrong section;
2) If I'm asking trivial questions, or questions that some other people asked two days ago (I tried to check before writing, anyway);
3) For my English.
Let's now come to the questions! I just discovered the amazing community of MOC on the internet, and in this week I've spent a lot of time watching beautiful works made by MOC artists, and now I'm starting to recognize the different styles and the common used techniques.
I was asking myself (and now I'm asking to you!) if there are some general rules to keep in mind creating a MOC with the LEGO bricks. For example:
a) In this works is commonly admitted the use of other objects than LEGO bricks? I suppose yes for the objects commonly used in the original LEGO sets, like string or tissue. And about the use of stickers or paintings, for example with the purpose of modify clothes of the minifigs? Personally I don't like too much this idea but I think I saw some beautiful works use it.
b) About the joining of the pieces, the MOC is intended to be quite stable (I mean, with not too many pieces disjoint one from the others), or in some cases this is intended not to be really playable, but as a scene for a photo? I'm asking this because in some works I saw a very strange arrangement of some group of pieces, but is possible that I do not recognize the technique used to assemble them.
c) Concerning the realization of the first little models, what are the suggestions for making effective the first ideas? Study before the project with the intent of have an estimate of what pieces are needed - maybe with the help of a software -, then buying the necessary, or try to focus the fantasy on the content of a decent LEGO collection?
Thank you for the answers, greetings.
