Mike S

Excellent job on the first pic! Very eye catching!

As seems to be the new trend for me, I had some great ideas for this but ended up not having the time to access my main brick collection so was limited to using the contents of a small box of bricks I had sitting in my bedroom. Merry Christmas!

Love it! Excellent idea for the challenge and wonderfully executed!

The only reason why I miss the Castle, Pirate, and Space themes is because of the lack of new minifig prints for these themes. Collectible Minifigs helped supplement the void but with all the upcoming Licensed Collectible Minifigs, it looks like that source is about to dry up as well. Ninjago has had some acceptable "castle" minifigs but so far I am unimpressed with its offerings for 2018. Surprisingly, the only sets I'm looking forward to in 2018 are city sets for the new animal molds. I guess it is a good thing for my wallet. So the question for LEGO is, do they really wish to lose the interest of the parents? I don't know if it is the norm, but I've noticed my thoughts about something have an impact on my kids thoughts about it. If I think something is cool, well so do they. If I dislike something, they dislike it as well. And another thought. Why should the parents spend money on more sets that they have no interest in when the kids themselves are just as content to build their own creations in Lego Worlds with practically unlimited bricks? Personally, I think that it is a long term marketing error to neglect keeping the parents engaged with the products and instead relying solely on the changing whims of children.

I’m kind of out of ideas for figure heads. I have two WIP ships that were done like that; the Silver Monkey and the Black Mare. This one being LDD I figured I would do in reverse; name it and then create the figurehead. EDIT: I’m going to trademark the Silver Monkey, Black Mare, and the Masquerade for real brick ships and just name this one the HMS Unnameable.

Not at all. So maybe the HMS Masquerade?

Haha I suppose I will have to think of another name then. How about HMS Paladin?

Governor Coyle has a flagship being built in the Dee Shipyards... HMS Pendragon. Perhaps this could be for the Black squadron?

Nice! Corrington has finally an LDD champion to challenge Oleon’s Kolonialbeamter.

That will never happen. Each faction will continue to create new projects as soon as old ones are complete so if Oleon waited until there were no ongoing projects, they would be waiting for a very long time. It is also a very good thing to have many projects going on at once as Spud said to keep interest in BoBS.

Well that is the headboard shelf of my bed. Now that you mentioned the atmosphere, perhaps I should continue using it as the stage for my interior scenes... just need to build some interior backdrops and floors out of Lego.

Thanks but it isn't a rendering! I do believe the pirates declared war on all player nations.

Governor Coyle gathered his trusted officers around the large stone table in the newly constructed dungeons of Fort Coyle. “Gentlemen, we are at war.” He shifted his gaze around the room stopping only briefly on each face in the room. “When I first heard reports of pirates operating in the waters around Stormhaven, I had suspicions that they were in the employ of Oleon seeking to weaken Corrington’s position in the colonies. As it turns out, I was wrong.” Governor Coyle paused for a moment, giving time for his officers to process his words. “We worked with Oleon to purge the seas of these vermin but to no avail. The question I now keep asking myself is where do all these pirate ships come from? They cannot all be deserters and mutineers. There is something nefarious about this that I cannot place my finger on but I will continue to investigate. In the meantime, these pirate scum made me look weak as the Governor of the Northern Reaches this last month. I must have it be made known that disrupting Corrington trade in the Northern Reaches will not be without repercussions. However I am presented with a slight problem. The cost of building and maintaining a fleet to patrol the seas of the Northern Reaches outweighs the revenue from trade in the Northern Reaches. But I may have a solution.

Ok now where can I find the stats of my ships again? I have them saved in a file on a computer I do not have access to right now.

So here it is! Nicely done! I must say though that I am sad to see all these characters from Meloche's crew killed off as personally, I thought they were some of the most memorable. Looking forward to seeing the introduction of the next crew....

Caught my eye! Very original design well executed!

Interesting technique for the agave.

Nicely done!

Sorry for the late reply. The backstory is a mix of the concepts behind the books, The Mysterious Island and Island of Dr Moreau. Rogue scientist sets up shop on an uncharted island and creates inventions beyond his time, just set in the age of sail instead. I got the idea of the automaton soldiers from the game The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. I have plans to expand on this, but it won't happen until after I have moved and am settled in to the new house. Thank you!

I've had this sitting around for quite a while and when a topic was started in Brethren of the Brick Seas forum about the kinds of builds allowed, I took a photo and did some quick editing for a joke. As my bricks are basically all boxed up preparing for a move, and I most likely will not be making any additions to this any time soon, I thought I might as well post it here although it being a rather unrealistic as a child's toy design, I'm not sure if it even belongs here.

If my bricks weren't practically all boxed up, I had planned on pushing the boundaries a bit.... On an uncharted island somewhere in the Brick Seas there lives a crazed Corrington scientist intent on.... well no one is sure what he is intent on as he is crazed after all. But beware any poor soul who is unfortunate enough to become shipwrecked there....

Welcome back!

I want one... but I'm not sure I would be able to afford that in real bricks...

Epic!

Nicely done with the 4 scenes in 1 challenge! The story surely inspires me to get building once again on the Aslanic Order's stronghold on Gorr which has been dormant for years now. Got so many ideas and so little time... One nitpick though on something I think I keep noticing in your stories... it should be Kaliphlin not Kaliphlim....