jimmynick
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Michigan is a lovely place - I'd like to visit there again. Welcome to Eurobricks and enjoy your stay!
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Yeah, I love the old 90s feel as well. One comment: perhaps you could make the head of the boom mike out of a clip like this and a 1x1 round brick? What you use at the moment looks a little unwieldy.
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I like the creative use of radar dishes as craters! Good luck in the contest.
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An interesting build - I like the border made from CMF stands, as well as the rock and the monster. What I'm not so keen on is the water - it's made out of loosely arranged bricks, so it has a very similar texture to the monster's, so in that respect the build is a little bland. Maybe you could put the bricks together and keep the sprinkled-on-top 1x1 round plates where the water churns?
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Often, building great MOCs is to some extent a function of how many bricks you have, but making small things with few pieces requires you to be very crafty. This post on The Brothers Brick highlights such creative uses of parts to make a good MOC. The LEGO Techniques pool on Flickr is a good place to browse and learn novel ways of putting your bricks together to achieve different effects. A very basic concept is the idea that two studs have the same width as the height of five plates. Combining that knowledge with brackets and hinges, etc., lets you build interesting shapes. If you want to read some tutorials, take a look at Venunder's guide to trees and Derfel Cadarn's guide to building a medieval village - you can learn interesting techniques to augment your builds in there. I'm sure I've missed some great resources for learning LEGO building techniques, but I hope what I've included helps you. Happy building! Also, in my experience, the LEGO Architecture line contains interesting techniques that you pick up just by following the instructions.
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Nice scene! The build definitely gives off a Bespin feel. On the other hand, the photoshopped edges are a bit pixelated.
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It's the internet, and some people can get agitated easily. It's definitely not the users' responsibility to punish you for putting an evolution section in your Natural History Museum. It's LEGO's job to determine if that is PC enough to fit into their goals and image, etc. Agreed.
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Great little set you built for the photographs. I really like the work you're doing based on Aliens.
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This looks exciting! Aperture, Mafia Mafia, Silver City and the recent Collectible Minifiguress Mafia. I think I'm OK. I'd like to centre my playing as a pro-townie style, because scum caught me as a PR in Silver City and I felt I flailed in a way in CMF Mafia. An interesting mechanic. We'll see how it goes. Good luck in your second mafia!
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I don't pretend to know anything about Bionicle / Hero Factory building, but I like these figures! They all look very strong and solid. I like the brown colour scheme on Grokk, as well as his hip-mounted ball launcher. I think Uhuraz is very impressive - there are lots of things to like about it, especially the cool silver-and-dark-blue colour scheme. The bleeding skull in his hand is cool as well. When you say his cape is from a Darth Vader figurine, do you mean the Darth Vader Technic set that came out years and years ago?
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"They must have found another way in. Something we missed"
jimmynick replied to Missing Brick's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Great photograph! I look forward to seeing what else you build based on this film. Is it me, or is Hicks's hair not all the way on? -
It looks like some of the animals have Fabuland heads! From what I can tell, Tomy (a Japanese company) released a product called "Busy Bears of Hippity Hollow" which was released in America. Gulliverlândia was the Brazilian version which substituted various animals for bears. The site I linked to says that there was a Spanish version called "Geyperland" which had dolls modeled after little girls instead of bears or animals. The products seem to crop up on eBay every now and again. I hope this helps.
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The graffiti seems to cast a shadow on the wall. What caused that?
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I like the hole in the facade - you filled it up nicely! It's a good building and it looks very nice together with the bar.
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Nice build; it's a little bland but certainly looks like the real Wall.
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It looks very bulky and threatening in the 3/4 views. I like the use of a dark red stripe to separate dark bley from light bley. There are some areas were I think the ship would look better without studs, and there are places where the studs look really nice - I'll comment more on Flickr. Great job!
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Looks better than it did in the preview pictures, I think. I really like the flex-tube railing around the front of the deck, as well as the hinged plates that Max Rebo's organ is built upon. I don't so much like how jammed-together the rear panels look on this Sail Barge - they fit together very smoothly on the old one. I suppose if I decided to splurge on one of these summer sets, it would probably be on the Gunship because I don't have one yet. Thanks for the great review; it was very informative!
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Looks like a good start. I look forward to seeing your Hermes shop when it's finished. In the source photo, I rather like the yellow window shade - are you going to include that in your model?
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Do you happen to live in Settle, then? I love all those little towns you drive through on the way from Kendal to York.
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Nice modifications to your building, castor-troy! It's almost a bustling downtown by now. Is the awning on the antiques shop made from garage door pieces?
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[MOD] My first mod posting, 60016 Octan tanker with 3180 trailer
jimmynick replied to canuckster's topic in LEGO Town
This looks cool - perhaps you could raise the trailer or lower the truck to make the two containers at the same height. -
Well, you could always make a classic-town sort of airport. Try using 6 or so straight road plates as a runway, with some baseplates decorated with the runway thresholds. You could always build a small terminal and use little planes, not the rather large ones TLG have been producing in the last few years. At least that's what I'd do if I built an airport.
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Thanks! Don't worry at all.
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No feedback for me?
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To me, it seemed no different than (hypothetically) receiving messages from two people claiming to be the protector or vig or whatever. The next step is to find out which one is scum. But asking for CMF avatars just made the process a little more proactive than reactive. And the CMF avatar is hardly a password that the scum don't know - all a scum needed to do was to choose a "townie-type" CMF avatar and hope is wasn't actually in play.