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Foliage here is beautiful Gideon. 1/2 stud offset for the 2nd story window adds a ton of character too. Are those rounded 1x2 plates in the soil/base?

Heh, the disarray here looks like a few real-life wood shops I've been in!

Really awesome interior stuff here! The round table dinner scene is particularly well done.

Took me a minute to catch on, but this MOC gave me a pretty good chuckle. I totally agree with soccerkid6, great use of those printed panels.

Beautiful work with these. Always love your fig combos.

Incredible textural work here!

My Category A entry:

I built!

Deep in a Dwarven city.... All across Historica there was suspicion and rumor while confidence in Queen Ylspeth reached new lows. In Mitgardia, the dwarves were arming themselves as their underground war industry restarted anew years after a failed invasion of Avalonia. The dwarven dissatisfaction with the humans and other races above ground had reached a critical point and the small, individual kingdoms were discussing banding together for raids against the sun-washed world above. But, at some point prior to anything regrettable transpiring, a Mitgardian lumber merchant stumbled upon a group of dwarves training in axe throwing. After turning to a dwarf leaning against a stone-carved door jam and instructing, "here, hold my beer!", the merchant--who was an experienced lumberjack and thus well acquainted with axes--started up an informal competition. Unknown to the merchant, the dwarf holding his beer was the lord of the dwarves in the area and after watching his warriors and the lumber merchant battle all night to a tie (while drinking a refreshingly strong Mitgardian beer), he came to see greater opportunity for his people through peace than through war. Before the merchant left that dwarven conclave, deals had been struck for the exchange of lumber, fish, and bread from the surface for axe heads from below and rules had been drafted for the first open axe throwing tournament to be held in the dwarven cities. Thus began the warming of relations between humans and dwarves during the reign of Queen Ylspeth. As other dwarven cities and human settlements heard of the tournaments and the profits in terms of gold, goodwill, merriment, and further trade agreements, both sides realized there was more to be gained with unity than with discord. After endorsement from both the Jarl in Vaholl and the various dwarven lords, many communities created their own axe throwing leagues along with increased human-dwarf trade agreements. My entry for Category A, long live the Queen!

Lighting + color choices = very nice.

Sweet MOC. Your minifig posing and head selection really brings it to life.

NPU with the energy effect part.

I don't think it has an end date, and hope it doesn't. I'm hoping to get a build out in the next month or so that would fit its intent.

Great use of one of the harder pieces to use as not intended! Also, sweet color scheme; we definitely don't see much tan in space vehicles.

Nice vignette! Solid NPU for the wand elements as knitting needles, that technique for flooring ALWAYS looks good--nice variation on it with the unevenness, and the collection of thread/yarn spools in the corner is a nice detail. 2 things I think that could be improved are filling the technic pin with something (ex: either the wavy flame or the new candle flame are most obvious, but there's some good examples of other solutions for candle flame out there as well: black bar/cut tubing/string coming out of cut white tubing/screwdriver for a wick) and covering up the anti-studs in the chair back with something/flipping the structure around somehow. Overall, very nice bit of backstory for your character.

Excellent use of the patronus deer. The pine tree is great too, loving the pine cones.

Really awesome work again Ecc!

I agree with kahir88 that a few more pales on the left side being a plate higher/lower than the rest would have added some additional visual interest. Also, some more variation in the ground cross-section itself such that the dark tan isn't a constant 2 plate thick barrier at a constant height would lend some realism perhaps. I do think that the minifig choices and posing is perfect however.

Beautiful all LEGO ally scene!

The pavilion in the background is really awesome, but for me those tents steal the show; they're perfectly executed.

This is great Josh. Round is hard enough, but you also built in a lovely subtle taper to the structure--really nice. Many thanks for the how-to picture of the roof!

Colors are lovely here, especially with those light blue arms on the minifigs.

Nice landscaping SK. The pond is my favorite part and I'll echo Kai's comment about the lily pad. Seeing the grey horse reminds me how nice it would be to have more than 3 colors of the modern horses!

Saw this on flickr the other day and spent some time looking over all the details. Awesome MOC!

The scaffolding stands out quite well here (well built too) and yet doesn't take away from your excellent wall. Texture looks nice in the wall at this scale, though I KNOW I don't have the patience to do something this big using mostly plates!