Swan Dutchman

Absolutely fabulous! You build a true masterpiece

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Wow, I was totally taken by suprise to see I received the extra prize minifig today (the supergirl). Thank you very much!

What a suprise today at lunchtime... post arrived! Thank you so much for the kitties and minifigs, they will surely find a place in a MOC.

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Hurray! Those kitties look splendid.. it gets me thinking of making a scene with a fantasy carriage the kitties are pulling Thanks again CopMike for the Christmas raffle and thanks too to all participants! I enjoyed watching all the wanted christmas presents!

cat A: # 3 # 5 cat B: # 4 # 5 cat C: # 1 # 2 Best of luck to the contenders!

All I want for Christmas is.... ... a gingerbread house! There are some more pictures on my Flickr. Thanks again CopMike for organizing the raffle. It's a lot of fun to see what people would want for a christmas gift.

Thank you CopMike for organizing the raffle again! My ideal christmas present is almost ready... well the design is anyway. Now it's time to wait for the last few missing parts to arrive (hopefully on time). Good luck building everyone!

hmmm... I too made a LDD file of my ship "De Ruyter"... although it's more of a breakdown (i just wanted to file the techniques I used). But in my opinion there's nothing better than to build a ship yourself. For me it was very relaxing to build 1.5 years till the ship was finished. To build from scratch you can use ship's blue prints available from the web or digitally designed ships (yup, there are digital sailors ). If you want to build a MOC from instructions I remember one eurobrick member that designs big ships digitally and makes instructions for them too. I believe he sells the instructions on bricklink. One problem... I don't remember who it was. I almost forgot: Captain Greenhair made an excellent tutorial (with a lot of pictures and a shopping list of essential parts) to make a frigate: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30622

He's extremely cute! I can see you put in a lot of effort and you've pulled it of perfectly.

Very nice ship indeed! It's very smooth indeed like the other eurobrick peeps said... but maybe because it's a digital build? I would like to see this build in reality and to see how sturdy it would be. But all the same, it's a nice ship. Well done!

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Congratulations to the winners! And thanks to all for organizing and participating... I had a lot of fun watching all the entries.

Building something can take a long while... take my ship for example, it took me 1.5 years to complete it. I think it's natural that you just cant have inspiration for building the whole year through and breaks are needed, especially in big projects. Currently I am making a big MOC again (I began that one in March) and I already build a big part of it, but at the moment I just can't put myself to it to build further on it because there are some difficult issues to be solved. My solution: taking a break by building another MOC that is smaller and easier to design. I am currently re-inventing an official set of the ninetees with 2014 bricks. And it works! After I am finished I am sure that I have the mojo again to build on my big project. I design like this: I have a general idea of what I want to build, the scale and than I just start building in real bricks or LDD. Mostly I come up with ideas for components, instead of the total (for example a western MOC: the mine train, next comes the rails, next there's a cactus, next a water barrel on poles, next comes some sluices... and before you know it there's the mine, the rockwork etc.) I build with the pieces I have... the colours are the biggest limitations, but I just go through. After I build a big part I turn to LDD and mostly come up with slight improvements: new colours, cheaper bricks, sturdier constructions, cost-saving, etc. Than I make a list of the parts I still need and order them on the web. After that it's time to finish the MOC completely.

29. mndgam (1 vote) 72. minifignick (1 vote) 102. yatkuu (1 vote) 136. spacysmoke (3 votes) 180. kritch (1 vote) 235. cara (1 vote) 258. cara (1 vote)

Awesome ship! The shape, sails and rigging are really spot on. I like the touch of gray you put into the black pearl... it emphazises details and gives somehow a variety to the black parts. And your mother did an awesome job on the sails, my compliments to her! And I am glad to see the 'iron wire-technique' put to use in this ship as well!

Yeah! The parts finally arrived today! The design was ready in mere hours after this contest had started, but I just didn't have the right colors. Here is the Blue Bubble Beach Turtle... The Blue Bubble Beach Turtle is a master of survival. It’s shield blends perfectly with surrounding tropical waters making the turtle hard to spot for predators! Do you want to see the turtle in it's natural environment? Than, take a look at my Flickr-page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/66389707@N08/

Great contest! ... and the theme is very interesting too! Well, my turtle design is ready... but why is it that I always miss out 2 or 3 parts in the right colour? Waiting for an order to arrive ... Good luck everyone! Am looking forward to see some nice MOC's!