Big Sal

Haha, the posing and expression of the fig is perfect!

Yeah, very effective use of the crystals

Nice build - the ship is very interesting in style "Almost a year has passed since the three corporations arrived in the Andromeda Galaxy. They have encountered many hardships but endured. Thanks to their tireless efforts and the GATEs connecting so many rich planets the colonies are growing at an astonishing rate. Nowhere is it more true than the home worlds. Farmolis, Orinshi and Torresta are the hubs of their respective corporations and where all trade with the Milky Way passes through. Each home world is now starting to rival small colonies in the Milky Way in size and wealth. And nothing indicates they will stop growing anytime soon." That's from the intro to Challenge 4, so to answer your question: closer to a colony than to a second Earth, but there are probably already small cities and towns. Things can be built quicker in 3816

Yeah, clever use of the teeth pieces. I like the engines on the ship too.

Location: E01, Donwarr Tags: Land Vehicle, Spying Hawk to Sal. I've located our guy in an Octan truck headed north. Good work Hawk. Stay on them, but keep out of sight. Got it. Excellent. The fools will lead us straight to their base! Hey, Sal? Yeah? Couldn't we have just followed this clearly marked road to their base? ... ... ... .... --- Thanks for reading! C&C welcome! More pics in the spoiler.

Please buy a Domination for dummies for Mr Greeble.

Yeah, that Octan ship is really imaginative, and looks great!

Very nice - especially the drop ship function - I love that! The Bushpig is really nice too - it's got great shaping

Nice idea with the map! It's a shame the photos are a bit grainy.

Cool build! Don't know anything about SFTP and FTP, but I do like how you used the trans pieces

Awesome dino king! I love the crown Nice dust demons base too - I really like the fence for some reason

Great build! That spy suit is formidable! I like that you can see the corridor going off at an angle through the door, is there some lighting in there? It looks like maybe the doors close too? Don't be afraid to point stuff like that out - otherwise the judges might not notice it

Not familiar with the inspiration material, but the mech and spaceship are great! Nice use of technic panels on the ship

Haha, the easter security system is great! Nice speeder too

Yeah, it's great to see the builds combined I like the shape of the ship too - good use of the new pyramid slopes!

Nice build. I like the industrial size coffee machine

I like the speeder - you can see the resemblance to the anomalocaris (I just spent a pleasant five minutes reading the wikipedia entry, so thanks for that ). The base and robot are densely packed with detail To improve, you could take a bit more care with the photography. In particular, try to avoid getting the join lines between pieces of paper in the shot. Even cropping a bit closer could help with this: And if you'd taken the photo with the model a bit more to the left you could have cropped out the big join line on the right hand side. In general, placing the model right in the corner isn't the best idea. You did better with the shots of the speeder at the end of the post, but even there you have the join between the two pieces of paper on the ground that could have been avoided with better placement of the model. Just something to think about next time if you want

I like it! The purple stripes that go up the wall and continue on the ceiling are a nice detail, as well as the lights in the ceiling

Nice foliage. I like the scorpions and the big bushy tree I wonder if Raven will ever start to enjoy being CEO?

Great idea, and nice clean execution You did a good job with the tiling and photos

Really atmospheric builds! There are so many great details to spot, especially in the building and surroundings. I like how one of the white flowers is firing a seed pod or something? I feel like I could spends ages looking at this and still be seeing cool new stuff

Location: F03, Forring Tags: Land Vehicle, Spying If our intelligence is right, the aliens should be arriving to meet the Octan delegation any minute now. Yeah. Y’know, I have this horrible feeling I’ve forgotten something… This is so exciting! A new intelligent alien species! Yeah! Alright nerds, don’t get too excited. You’re here to learn quietly – when the aliens get here, let me do the talking. You scientists aren’t properly trained in PR. But how are we supposed to study the aliens without talking to them? I don’t care. Octan needs new allies – I don’t want you offending them by asking how many kidneys they have, or whatever. AHHHH! What the-? Where did that come from?! <Do not be alarmed, humans.> That voice… it’s in my head! <Yes. We speak directly by thought.> Uh, Sal, do you think it can read our minds? Probably not… still, better keep your mind blank. That should be easy for you. Hey! Heh heh heh. Greetings from Octan Corporation! We hope to begin a profitable relationship with your race. May we ask what you call yourself? <Our name is a concept that your minds cannot understand. From your limited perspective, ‘the Five’ would be an appropriate approximation.> Hahaha, it thinks Octan are too stupid to understand numbers! ‘The Five’. My apologies, but is that the name of your race, or the name of you the individual? <It is… challenging… to explain in a way you can understand. Let us tell you the story of our race.> Ugh, I can tell this is going to take a while. <This planet was not always the toxic wasteland that you see around you.> Wait, what? <In ancient times it was a simpler place. Five species lived here peacefully. Over the millennia we grew advanced. But then a cataclysmic event occurred and the atmosphere changed. Dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of new species arose. The ground itself was colonised by these messy, primitive lifeforms that you see around you.> The… plants? <Despite our advanced minds we were unable to compete with the wildly proliferating life. Everything changed too quickly. We had evolved slowly. We were not able to adapt. As our cities crumbled, the last remnants of our races built this vehicle to house the survivors.> So… you are the survivors of all five species? In this one… machine? <As far as it is possible for you to understand, yes.> Uh… right. So anyway, Octan Corporation would be happy to trade or- <We have no interest in trade. We seek to warn you. There is one among the leaders of your Clan of Eight whose mind is more powerful than any other. More powerful even than ours.> I knew it! What? Don’t you see? They’re talking about me! Uh… but they said the Clan of Eight. Yes, clearly they mean the Council of Five, plus the current and past CEOs of M.A.N.T.I.S. I kinda figured they meant Octan… <Already this mind is starting to warp the very fabric of space and time. It must be stopped before irreparable damage is done.> Yeah, I really don’t think this is about you Sal… Nonsense! I always suspected I was special! <Humans! We told you to send three!> We did! There are three of us here. <No. We sense others. From the Clan of Six.> The Clan of Six? <Yes. The ones who take the image of the six-legged creatures.> Uh oh. MANTIS! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Thanks for reading! Sorry it was a bit text heavy - there were supposed to be a few more photos but they didn't come out right and I didn't have time to retake them. C&C welcome

Since we have a few new players, a reminder that AG has a flickr group here

All my credits to Dave Daring please.

Awesome build! Everything about this is great - it's completely recognisable as the joust set, but also works perfectly as a sci-fi court [Judge mode] Um, what's the justification for calling a courtroom a military building? [/Judge mode] Great work on the logos too!