Simon_S

nice - congrats to the winners! It was a cool and inspiring contest and it was a lot of fun to build for it :-). Thank you so much for organizing it!

Nice one! I wanted to use that floor technique for a long time but never did it. It works so well here. Where is that printed/stickered part on the left from? This is really cool!

This is so Mitgardian! This is awesome! I love how you used the old vikings shields. They work great for that purpose! And after the interior pictures it was a nice surprise to see that the outside of the building is beautiful as well. Great job!

So cool! I really like how much structure you could bring in the walls. Some clever details and techniques! Also, the round floor on which the bard stands works very well and gives such a good focus on the minifigure! Great job! I for myself would like some more colours in there… lbg is very dominant in this build and breaking it up with some spashes of colour could be nice.

Haha I love that you already renamed the tiles . They look great and you put them to such a good use. They reslly make this build beautiful!

Thank you! I actually even put a small lamp behind the window so the light shines through it and this made it much „greener“ on the pictures. thank you! Well it was a lot of time in one day… I left the office early and finished writing the story at midnight, so it took me maybe around 8 hours for everything together. Thank you!

Thank you for the kind words Gideon! Means a lot to hear from such a talented builder :-) Thank you. The floor took quite a while, especially filling the gaps in the end so that it couldn't move anymore. Haha and the cat just laid on my desk because I didn't sort it yet and I thought it would be a fun detail if she plays with the music notes which fell down. Thank you :-). I actually used this wall technique in my first GoH build and also my first post in this forum back in 2012 . Hehe yeah I had to use some real life influence here. I know some people who play the alpine horn a lot and they will always bring them to birthdays and festivals and stuff like that. So I guess that's where my inspiration came from. Thank you! I think it might actually be the same in real life and this kind of flooring is also difficult / exhausting to do with real wood

Nice one! I really like the facial expressions - they are so simple but it looks like they're having so much fun. Great job! Why did you choose transparent eyes instead of printed ones? I also like the different NPUs in there. Using the chain as a belt is clever. As is using the minifigure fur piece for a large figure shoe fur thing (no idea how this is called hehe). The color scheme of the figures also works great. As advice I would say: The base feels really rushed. I think the figures are really good - and the base kinda is way too bad for them. Give them a nice irregular ground to stand on! The photography feels overexposed. Try taking pictures not in direct sunlight. And I took a Quick Look at your camera settings on flickr. I'd open the aperture way more (yours is almost completely closed), which means you should get down the number next to the f. and when you open it it allows for a much shorter exposure time.

Here's my entry for Category B: Thanks a lot for organizing! That challenge was a lot of fun to build for!

Far in the frozen north of Mitgardia, the people once lived in constant danger. They never knew what to expect next. Danger was never far. Raiding Orc parties. Wild animals. Ice cold storms suddenly appearing out of nowhere. So the hunters who lived in the harsh wilderness came up with an idea. They took a mammoth tusk and carved a beautiful ivory horn out of it. At first, it was blown only as an alarm to warn the folk of danger. But with the time, people began to play the horn because they liked the sound. Soon, its deep tones made everyone feel at home, from the poorest farmer to the riches noble. That's how the Old Tusk Horn became a symbol of Mitgardia. Today, the richest parents send their children to music school. There the old Bard Runar - with small braids in his beard - shows the children how to play the Old Tusk Horn. Carefully they carry the heavy instruments into the music room. White a lot of patience, the bard teaches them and keeps this old tradition alive. And here some flooring because it took so long Looks like I'm the first for this category, but somebody had to open it hehe . I actually didn't expect to have any time to build for this contest. But today afternoon and evening were still free and so I found some time to spontaneously build this one. It was such a cool challenge and building for the guilds again felt great. Thank you for the challenge! Now I'm really looking forward to Book 4 . Thank you for looking! Simon_S

Welcome to Mitgardia! Let's make this the best guild (again, as in the first three books )!

I was also absent a long time from the forum and didn't see that coming. What a nice surprise! I saidly won't find any time to build something for that prelude contest but I really like what your doing here. For Book 4 I like to stay in Mitgardia.

Thank you for the kind comment :-). Yeah the mountain took a lot of time and patience. And it was kinda repetitive to build but it was totally worth it. And literally all my black, dbg and lbg bins were empty after this build. We actually took the picture at night. This whole thing was mainly built for the convention Bricking Bavaria 2023. I just finished it two days before the event and assembled it for the first time all togehter and was thinking like: yeah maybe it would be cool to have some nice pictures of it. So I called a friend who brought a light and we took the pictures late at night and the next morning I put everything in the car and went to the convention.

this is really cool - I love the castle. And the moving parts are so impressive. Cool to see them integrated to a castle build :-). I feel like the pictures will never do justice to this amazing build and I wish I could have seen it in person. So many details to spot! Nice work :-)

what a cool build! The light works so well and adds a lot to it. did you just put a lamp behind it when you took pictures? oh and just looking at the windows one could easily miss the nice mosaics on the floor. great job on this scene!