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"English Cheese"? There is lots, with many diffferent flavours. I like a good mature Cheddar myself. The rest is Welsh cheese, four counties (four types of cheese at once, its stripey) Caerphilly is tasty too. Another thing that makes me happy is when I resist burning a fool on the 'net (another forum, but I was so rAgEd by that post that I needed to leave the window...) Watching DVDs I enjoy makes me happy. Steak, red onion, mushrooms and extra cheese pizza.

Last film I watched properly? (I have a bad habit of flicking over film channels watching a few scenes at a time of each film.) Fifth Element is what I watched last, just after I,Robot. Both are good films and I love me some sf action film. Killed time while I waited for my laptop to get better.

It's fine for me on Firefox (but then I get firefox to remember for me)

The gold on one of my Life on Mars torso's was never printed in the first place (But I thought it was even more awesome, so no problem) Some of my older mf heads are worn (specificaly where the helmets brush the "jaw" line) but none of my new ones. I suppose it depends on how you store them and how you handle them. I have noticed the gold visors can rub streaks on the helmets and lose the gold on the underside in two neat lines where they rub.

A plan coming together successfully. A nice sunny day when I need to go out. The knowledge that I am going to Memrobilia on Saturday.

Well, I will try to get LCAD and LDraw onto my computer. I want to build interior and exterior and make the building modular so I can remove the roof and second story. The internal detail is more important and I really would love to make it. The exterior was just going to be something else to try, but it all looks much harder to create, I might go for indoors, specificaly the back of the building, a bit of the sides (interior) as there are lots and lots of detailed images to use, after all that was my original plan. Thanks again for all the advice and after re-evaluating my finances I think it will be cheaper to build the interior of the back end.

They do have combined models in the back (except in unoriginal sets based on films) but you do need to have bought a second or even a third set from the theme to build them, and get the instructions from the internet. Then again there are alternative model pictures online and kids are very web-savvy these days (my little brother's internet favourites *eight years old* Lego.com, Brickset.com and several lego theme subsites from the official lego website for both games and other models to make) so they prefer to go online. A product needs to relate to something on the internet so that the kids are bothered with them anymore.

Yellow is great and certainly not like megablocs (soo can tell the difference side by side) I have loads of yellow. used to make huge boats in inverted step-pyramid style out of all my yellow.

I'll look around then. Thanks

That is some fantastic work. Killer Moth is fantastic. Have you made a Dr Fate figure yet? Killer Moth's helmet (minus antenna) is perfect for him. (The reason I'm gutted they didn't make an official minifig).

Ok, so bricklink is best for prices and parts. I'm begining to think I should go through with the many-coloured-mock-up MOC (using the parts I have to build "test" segments to see what kind of numbers I'm going to need, what will and won't work, scaling etc) and then rebuild it in the right colour by buying the parts online. Too bad I can't just buy a bulk bag of lego (in one colour) from lego themselves. Ho hum. Thanks for the advice and encouragement.

I don't think he is young per se, just temporaly franged (what with the dungeon dimensions, hell, ancient Tsort the beginning and end of the universe...) in fact Death keeps Rincwinds lifetimer on his desk as a curio.

Super Green! Plus purple and green look good together.

Well, first of all, Thank you for all the advice. Secondly: It is a big Bley building. This is why I want to use LDD and Factory to build sections as I don't have the sheer volume of bley bricks, my time scale is certainly long. Yesterday afternoon I was planning from memories of the building in question how to break it down in sections. Finding pictures was certainly a shock (I didn't know my memory was that bad ). Basicly we could be talking months spreading on to a year or more purely keeping in mind how to break it down into affordable chuncks, let alone construction (digital and IRL) and modification time. To put it into perspective on cost and time, I took four hours in as many days making a poor from memory replica of one barely detailed corner that cost £50... As for exact size, I'm still trying to work it out. My reference pictures are being very useful and two in particular have given me an idea on where to start making it in minifig scale (lots of stonework in blocks that I can translate into one block=2 four by two lego bricks hight and a four stud width) but I need to mock up the floor in lego for a better idea on area (hight will be counted from bricks and there is some awkward unreplicatable detail i need to cut out or figure a method of "hinting" at before I can get a true hight.) There is one of the pictures I am using (of course mine will be complete, not ruined, that is just for a best guess on size and the only image of the exterior I could find)

I'll change it at some point soon and post the new pictures .

Ok, so I have been wanting to work on a large scale project for some time, I have a subject, I have been collecting pictures for refrence and have even been planning for the little issues (like LDD not having parts I need) plus making a realistic plan on how to construct and purchase the segments one at a time through the factory. I want to draw out a floor plan on graph paper and I'm working out which modules I need in which order. One or two issues (like inconsitancies between images and scale= which details to miss) are still a bother but once I draw my floor plan those should be solved. I'm just wondering if there is anything I have missed, has anyone from experiance got any tips for success, any problems to warn about or some tiny seemingly insignificant thing that comes up during construction that they can tell me? I may let on what my project is, but right now its under wraps and secret from the internets so when I finish it (in who knows when, it is a big project) its a big surprise, if you ask nicely .

I apply my stickers then put the spares in a box with other spares. If I ever peel them off (and recently they have become very long lived) if they come off nicely I stick them in a sticker book so I can reuse them.

My sigfig is my avatar. . Here is a better picture (on MOCpages).

Hmm, yes, Rincewind has a straggly beard (and moans he can't get a proper beard) but lego don't make them, plus figures with stubble are all angry/confident/happy not Rincwind's perpetual worry.

Nice and bley. How tall is the base? (cant make out the number of bricks) Looks really cool. I have the reverse problem, I can make up stories and characters for epic space operas and never get around to building the MOCs for it before I think of a new story...

Nice helicopter. I've never been very good at making them. Good choice of soldiers, the faces fit right in.

I'm trying to find a mast I like on it, I've made some and tried the two I do have and they look a bit odd at the moment. I am pleased with the engiens.

Wow, those are good my figures aren't quite working out. I'm trying to make Magrat and I'm just not happy with the end result. Where did you get the red wizard hat?

I like the new dark brown, its a great shade to work with. I do like the orange too. Why all the purple hate?

Why thank you. I really love to work with purple, even when I only had three or four elements.