Hobbes

You need a digicam...

Yes.

From mowing lawns I supposed. But it looks like you do it for free - not at all pirate-like ;)

By saving the money you get, for example...

I dunno, maybe your grannies are a bit adamant about their lawns...

Your grannies' lawn - and that every day. That should earn you a digicam within a month.

Sounded like it, though...

Huh... guess my grandchildren will have the honor to see your photo review... With all the lawnmowing you do you should have 10 digicams by now ;)

What might add to the "boringness" might be the walls behind/around the display. It looks like a cabin, so there's lots of brown on the pictures. The village itself, I'm afraid, looks pretty realistic. And I've seen shores that grey or black. I don't know if they exist in the north but they do exist. Nevertheless, MOCs don't have to be that realistic, I guess, a few colors couldn't have hurt ;)

The first link works now (for me at least)...

Oh... seems the site is down at the moment, it did work when I posted it ;) Here's a different link: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000370068224/

Those would even fit in a town as sort of an "old city center" :oD Great find, thx!

that's how it looked back then... I think... I can imagine, at least... maybe...

Emphasis on "all", and "all" meaning "all 24"... I like it. I like that it looks like a real ship color-wise. Reminds me of the small-scale plastic models I built as a kid. I never painted them cos I thought they looked better unpainted. Although the colors were one of the aspects that made the BSB so "attractive" here it's the lack of. I like the way he used the 1x2 handles as a rail. The sails look good, too, although you're right when you say those at the stern crumble too much, and in general they could use more rigging. But that's a pain to do so and can be forgiven. I can't make out too many more details, but overall I think it's a very nice MOC.

Considering the time at which you post I'm not surprised. Or is this a game of "Which statement(s) is/are wrong?"...

Where do you live? When are you gone for a few days so I can break in? ;)

I bought a few custom track from the guy in the link from my previous post. Am very satisfied, saved me lots of work. What I like about his work is that he does it all without solder (execpt for 1/4 straights). Today I found he just finished a new - IMHO awesome - custom track: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery....y.cgi?i=1496374 :oo

Proves that vikings did live peaceful: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery....y.cgi?i=1495691 Enjoy :)

For above mentioned reasons. But I'm flattered that you noticed, busy person that you are ;)

Anybody seen this already? I'll have at least one :oD

You kidding?! I haven't posted that much on any other message board I'm registered with. No, I was busy, came home late, had to a lot of home improvement (which I hate), and if I was on I had so many threads/posts to catch up with that by the time I was done I didn't wanna post anymore. And there were maaaaaany SW-and-other-theater-stuff related threads/posts which I'm not that interested in. Then the City sets came out which caught my attention, of course, and the pirates/castle gang talked about stuff I couldn't add much to. Oh yeah, and I did go on vacation :)

Don't make me blush :$

Translating via german it should be something like "United East Indian Company".

Can't be BrickLink, they start at $15 there...

Thanks, that's encouraging :)