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  1. MECHALEX
    They're great. I get them from Viking Direct in the UK but the product may be available elsewhere too: Link Thanks for all the replies. I'll look into those really useful boxes. With so many new faces, all subtly different, it's becoming hard to make things identifiable at a glance rather than having to sift through.
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    I've searched both online and throughout the forum and couldn't find a satisfactory answer. How do you store your dozens or hundreds of minifig heads so that you can reasonably quickly identify the one you're looking for? I've sorted mine into rough categories (Angry-looking! Unshaved! Non-human! Freckled!) through columns of individual heads but does anyone have any suggestions on how to store them for easy identification?
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    Nice flashback! I remember my brother and I poring over the details of the TV truck when it came out. I think we were struck by the narrow headlights, and what a difference it made. Funny to compare to the bristling details of modern 6-wide vehicles with their contours and curves. I'm not complaining - just nice to be reminded how much Lego has evolved!
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    Brilliant!
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    If you have some sort of mat with good friction, I find tipping batches of pieces onto that and then tackle with a large, clean paintbrush for bulk cleaning. A 1 or 1/2 inch paintbrush is great for keeping displayed models dust-free as well. No water necessary!
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    Gorgeous work. I love the detail you're packed in and good to see a female lawyer too!
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    Hi Eldiano. I found myself in the same situation. Over 30, lots of Lego and a handful of MOCs I'd started but not finished. Usually, those ideas were too ambitious - a giant space castle, a full-sized Eagle etc. Lord of Dragons idea about taking a handful of pieces and just getting started is great. Or you could try this, which worked for me: Ask a loved one, friend or family member for some ideas. Not too ambitious, maybe a statue, cartoon character, building or distinctive vehicle. Jump on Lego Digital Designer and have a play with some shapes and different parts to practice the more tricky areas. Build those sections with your own Lego (don't worry about colour at this stage, colour is easy but the shape and form is important) Once it starts to come together and you gain confidence, start converting your model to the correct colours by buying bricks. Here's my MOC journey so far: Much of the credit is due to other Eurobricks members and Lego builders worldwide who inspire me and my partner who suggested Ganesh would make a good subject. Good luck!
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    Anyone here read Danish thriller Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow? The translucent meteors reminded me of that. Unintentionally, I've no doubt - the book isn't especially child-friendly! As for the sets themselves, I've a deep love of the colour orange. I sometimes buy random pieces on Bricklink simply because they're orange, with no thought of where I can use them, so I may have to forego Ninja City for these... but it's a hard choice. I also love ninjas.
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    Wonderful review. I can't afford all of the modular buildings so the reviews help me choose - and your review has convinced me to choose this set over the theatre or town hall. Can I offer one suggestion? Perhaps it's not the same for other readers, but while the photo lighting and quality are great, I don't find the face-on photos very appealing, they compress the depth and prevent appreciation of the space within the model. I understand that the angled views are very typical and you've done something different, but I feel the technique is more suited to street scenes or low-relief tableaux than interiors with lots of depth, although it's perfect for those top-down shots.
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    These are brilliant. They manage to be stylistically eclectic without losing a cohesive form like Time Twisters did (and Monster Fighters to some extent, even though I love that theme) My childhood MOCs were all about theme cross-pollination so these sets (and the film too) sound they really recapture that.
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    I recommend you adapt your scripts to your resources. It seems like anything is possible with Lego, but stop motion is time-consuming and, as you say, expensive. Instead of emulating huge adventure films, watch small, low-budget films for ideas.
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    These are glorious. I'd love to see an aerial view of dozens of them.
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    Well, you need a mummy minifig and a daddy minifig who love each other very much and...
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    I think it's lovely. The density of detail is great. Someone can hit me with a pedant stick for this but... where's the crossroads of the title?
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    I was interested in picking up a few of the bigger Monster Fighter sets but my finances won't allow it for a while so I rang customer service and asked. I think they're happy to talk about stock for a few sets and will let you know if they're likely to be re-stocked or whether their current batch are probably the final one. However I guess it depends on sales, they may re-press (not sure of the apt term for Lego sets!) sets if they're selling in a particularly active way. As always, there's no harm in asking!
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    Lovely bit of Discworld!
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    Great review, really thorough. Like you, this is the first set that has really grabbed me from the Chima range. I love the minifigs, but have a terror of sinking yet more cash into a range which has the potential to snatch my wallet, eat it, and spit the small change back through my letterbox. However I'll definitely be picking this up, just as the samurai mech from Ninjago was my first brush with that range - a hulking great mech will always turn my head. I think it only needs a minor mod to get the arms to alternate in their swinging movement too.
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    As someone who spends far too much time thinking about how to fend off dinosaurs, zombies and giant spiders, I love this. The really bold lines and exaggerated detail gives it a cartoon quality with good dose of dieselpunk. Nice work!
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    That is lovely. :)
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    I had to try and explain to my partner why I exclaimed out loud too! I'm not sure she was quite as excited as me about that one piece but like you, I'm as excited about the possibilities of that as I was by the arabic arch that arrived with Prince of Persia.
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    Thanks so much for the frontpage! It's a photograph, but my day job is graphics and illustration with a little bit of photography so I put it on a backdrop and sharpened the photos a little. I will take some photos as you suggest to show the back and some close-ups of the dome. I'll also add some reference of the actual building for comparison.
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    Thanks, I really appreciate it! :)
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    Hi all, long time lurker here but I keep plugging away with my own creations while being inspired by all of yours. This is the first one I've felt comfortable unleashing on the forum. There are aspects of it I'd like to improve, but it's my first big MOC so I committed to finishing it first, and refining it later. Any suggestions regarding the circular stacked roof on the transept portico would be welcome. I deliberated over a brick-built dome versus a hinged, petal affair and went for the latter because I felt it better suited the other techniques on display. Let me know what you think! Oh and because it all got a bit serious. Here's the Cathedral with the Occupy London protest camp for a little colour. Please forgive the banners, I cheated them in photoshop! As per Rufus's suggestion: here's an aerial reference photo for comparison: And this is the book that helped enormously in deciphering the overall structure:
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    Thanks Arnold! That means a lot. I know of you both as author and poster on various Who forums so I'm most flattered!
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    Thanks for the kind words! I'll put together some instructions as soon as I can. I did steal a trick or two along the way from past Dalek builders but I can't remember who to thank. I do know that using a spanner to create the eye-stalk featured previously on brickshelf so can't claim the credit for that.
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