Kai NRG

This is the kind of MOC you have to spend some time with to soak in all the details. Really good work, love the birdhouse, net wall, and the stand out front.

Lovely creation, it's not too often that you see a pure landscape MOC. Impressive job achieving such accuracy!

This is a really cool army! I hope we see them in action soon!

The color combination here is little short of beautiful. You make me want to invest in some olive leaves! Great texture on the wall with the reverse profile bricks and really neat "window" on the bottom story. I love the climbing yellow leaves too. Just wish there were a little something in that empty front corner - a touch of olive or maybe another barrel...

Those are some neat floor tiles! Nice chair design too.

Thought I had commented on this already but I guess that was on Flickr. Awesome fall coloring here, and a very cool layout with the A roof coming over the balcony.

Nice job on the facade and the alternating dark blue and grey for the interior floor. I'm only a little bit curious as to where you got so many dark blue 2x2 jumpers.

Chapter IChapter IIChapter IIIChapter IVChapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV (you are here) Chapter XV Captain Argentum, having ruthlessly plucked the image of Lady Cora from his heart, ground his teeth and turned to set himself to his new task: ridding the brick seas of their greatest plague. Catching sight of a bit of a rag flapping on the horizon, he shouted for his spyglass. “Aye, aye, Cap’n,” the cabin boy sputtered, hoping the Captain wouldn’t notice that he’d been using the spyglass to stir the galley fire. Sure enough, Captain Argentum swung the glass to his eye without blinking, and he shouted in eager excitement when he saw the far-off flag. “Hoist the sails,” he bellowed. “Full chase! With this wind, we’ll bear down on ‘em in no time! Ho, lubbers! Shake a leg!” He clapped the first mate on the back in excitement and left a smear of charcoal all over that officer’s immaculate uniform. The Lady Cora, followed by the other ships in the squadron, bore heavily down on the chased vessels. Only minutes later, the first broadsides thundered over the water. Captain Argentum’s delight knew no bounds when a flutter of white ran to the mastheads of the enemy ships. He ordered out the dingy and rowed speedily over to take control and see what kind of a prize he’d caught. The first mate stood on the decks of the Lady Cora, stroking his chin. “It beats all!” he muttered. “What’s that?” the cabin boy asked, inquisitively. “Why, boy, we’ve made the biggest pirate catch in years. I declare, if we haven’t captured the Cannonball, the Clearance, and the Swift – and run the Red Dragon to the bottom. But it does beat all—how’d the Cap’n knew them was pirates, even though they was flying the Corry flag?” A strange cry wafted to them over the waters. It was Commodore Argentum bellowing in disgust at the dirty trick he’d been played. This is a MRCA result from several turns ago. Before the Commodore was lost at sea. I'm getting to that, I promise! C&C welcome! Hopefully I'll be back with my bricks for the next chapter!

Great idea for the fence!

What a nice big bright red target... Seriously though, quite cool, a great little army...

These brown uniforms are quite cool. Great house design too, though that tree seems a bit chaotic. I really like the story you've told with the minifigure posing!

Ah to be with the bricks again... I should do a whole row of palm tree hangings when I get back. Hmm, that really sounds fun! P.S. Anyone who is 3000+ in the red should probably be hung a couple of times...

Great job on the rubble look, really nice cannon too!

Welcome to BoBS @evancelt! Great autumn feel to your introduction build. I don't think I've ever seen orange used on the ground quite like that before but it's very warm and fall-like.

Really cool thing you've got going with the arches here! Plus nice job with the gap left behind by the cannonball.

Definitely just an opinion. Use whichever you prefer! Sometimes people are a little tongue in cheek when they criticize fleshies. It's like purist vs. non-purist... there's no right choice, but of course my choice is always better.

Love that rack of rifles we get a glimpse of through the doors. A really cool depot, great texture on the wall and nice colors too (and the shutters are awesome!). By the way, a bit of post-processing on a render can help just like it helps on a real picture. Your colors in real bricks pop nicely; I think a bit more exposure/contrast, maybe some color tone adjustment, would help with that on the render as well. Sometimes you can make it look real (haven't figured out the exact formula, some colors seem easier than others). I would say a lightly grey background helps with the realism too, but you get such perfectly white backgrounds on your real ones - I don't know how you manage!

Smooth transition from tiles to bricks on the chimney! And that is definitely quite the breakfast!

Lovely little vig, nice angles on the leaves and the ground too as The Stad pointed out. Speaking of the ground, the lime looks really good, perfect complement to the orange fall tones.

You really put some love into this and it shows, beautiful ship! Fantastic rigging, great colors, and an interior on top of that, wow! The way you integrated stuff into the base is super cool too. Great job!

I love the blue! It's a little overly textured but the color is a nice change to your usual presentation (not that your usual is bad, it's really good, but nice to see it spiced up!) Even if they are Corries, that column looks sharp. Great style on that building too!

But they're so cute... how can they be pests? Clever play on words with the title! Fun bit of lore and good job on the figure posing.

Double checked the math - that looks right, unless we missed an update somewhere (last one was January this year far as I can see).

Thanks for the links! I was leaning towards an Intel processor anyways and those made it sound even more complicated with ARM than I had thought, so...

I know, it's kind of important to me that it does run, which is part of why I was asking before I bought the Chromebook and got stuck with one it wouldn't work with. Okay, I didn't realize that about the Intel version. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind as I shop.