Gideon

Nice figs and nice cutaway scene with a lot of details

Nice house and cart! I also love the action effect the upturned mantle creates The lighting of the MOC could however be improved, as some parts are a tad too dark and the picture looks like your camera had to resort to a high ISO number causing some unnessecary graininess.

But didn't that show you getting rid of your beard?

Phew, finally home from a long weekend with our annual LUG (Swebrick) exhibition, where I finalized my castle while setting it up on Friday Swedish television showed up, and you can glimpse my castle (and me behind it at around 0:24 ) in the clip here. Kaliphlin was represented as well as I brought my two latest builds Repairing the Walls of Petraea and Collecting the Pieces - The Venom of a Red Scorpion. Just to mention that I did not let Kaliplin down, the walls of Petraea won second place (and earned me a small Star Wars bley parts-pack set) when the TLG representatives selected their favourite builds. Sad to say that's the last time anyone will se that MOC, since I will be tearing it down very soon to start preparing (dismantling and sorting a lot of stuff) for GoH book II. Another fun thing was that I spotted de Gothia today, even though he was visiting incognito Etzel was also there (you might remember his Mitgardian embassy in Petraea?) and I tried to persuade him to return to building for GoH, keep your fingers crossed!

So much happening on that relatively compact footprint! Nice story and perspective as well

I hope to be back in Kaliphlin build mode by October 25. @NM: Shouldn't there be some kind of military subjects as well, like fortification, siege engineering, tactics etc?

I just bought a cheap white roller curtain from Ikea and made a pair of removeable legs, it worked very well the only time I've tried it so far, except that white background generally tends to add glare on the pieces. I will pick up a grey or black one as well next time I pass the blue and yellow store

Great water technique! The small slope waterfall works very well also

Great idea! Have "normal" Ents figured anything in GoH before?

Lovely garden that feels very believable! A note on the photography: When building a one-sided house like this, I think it would be a good thing to put another layer of bricks/plates behind so that less light would seep through cracks between pieces (especially when taking pictures head on).

Wonderful minifigs and excellent photography! Interesting to get a glimpse of what is hiding below the sea around Historica, I guess there could be a lot of untold stories there as well!

For me it is the opposite way around, when I have time to build I am generally much less active in the online community (GoH or Swebrick). It is when I'm away from my bricks I often end up spending time online looking at or talking about MOCs (or making BL or Amazon orders ) When I was studying I never had enough space in my room to accommodate more than a couple of official sets in my bookshelf. So much better for Kaliphlin that you have better access to your bricks now!

What about interior techniques, should that be part of the Architecture subject as well?

This late fall/early spring style that you Mitgardians are building fits just perfect! It makes me thinking of how I could incorporate some Mitgardian settings in my builds

When I think about it, did you mean 11 studs short vertically? Considering that the proportions of a lego brick is 6:5, 89 bricks vertically actally equals 106.8 studs

Nice vig, especially the ground! I think this AoM project has great potential to spawn many nice builds

I actually think the lighting itself works fine, it looks like a gloomy winter day far north

Nice minimalistic landscaping, I think you've really achieved a realistic snowy landscape feeling The camera angle and depth of field of the first shot is excellent, however I think it would have been improved by removing the shadows on the backdrop.

Interesting story and a nice temple scene, I especially like the tiled floor and the walls with statues.

I like that last pic much better, good job listening and improving! That snow bridge looks dangerous, but I guess it has a core of strong Mitgardian midwinter ice?

Indeed it is, welcome! Looking forward to what you will build here

Nice figs and landscaping, I like the altar design a lot! A philosophical question: how much human do a creature have to have left in it to still be considered a cannibal when eating humans?

I understand, and painting digital bricks is more ok than plastic ones if you ask me

Interesting to build a cave without walls or ceiling, but it really works out well! I guess that the stalagmites help there The minifigs also look great!

Excellent build, that target design was clever! A small comment: it lowers the impression a bit for me when the edges of the table and the floor is visible. Maybe a quick edit to white in those areas would be worth the work also for a small build like this?