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Everyone who wasn't part of the previous PM and wants to be included in the current one where all kinds of tactics for the episodes are discussed and feedback on builds is given, just let me know here!

There is one, but it has reached its maximum capacity at the moment. I'll reorganize things and create a new one later today.

Welcome to our community, and thanks for sharing your impressive creation! The size of it is unbelievable, especially when compared to that wonderful little Star Destroyer you built, and I like how it barely fits in your pictures. It's a marvelous bit of engineering how you keep it all together without it bending too much. I'm a big fan of that little double rim in the hull plates where they meet the city, so that there's no gap there and everything looks very solid, so well done there! The details in the city could be a bit more, covering more studs, but that's only when you start to look closely. It's still a great achievemen, and I can't wait to see it finished. As for your English, please use it, even though you might think it's not good. This is an international forum, so we should all try that everybody can understand each other. That's why we always use English. I translated your little text (modify it if you like), but please use English in the future, it doesn't matter how good it is. Thank you for trying!

Welcome to SoNE, you both! It has been a bit quiet of late here since real life is getting in the way, but we're still working on the next episode. In the meantime you can already start to build, even though you haven't been added to the Player Index yet. That's just a formality. Right now, you can read the Core Rules and take your time to come up with interesting builds and stories. We can't wait to see what you have in store! As for pictures, you can always edit your images in an image editor such as GIMP. That's a free open source alternative to photoshop in which you can resize images, adjust the colors, add special effects... The internet is full of handy tutorials. The signature isn't mandatory, but it is a fun thing to let people see who you are in our game and where you stand. Again, don't be afraid to use it even though you haven't been added to the index yet.

Thanks to this Christmas comes twice a year, so thank you very much. Coincidentally, I saw a wonderful documentary which featured manatees. It turns out they're incredibly gentle creatures, so I'm very excited. I'll be stocking up on warm water and 50kg of seaweed a day!

Welcome to SoNE, 8-Bit Ramen! Always interesting when people choose the side they know is wrong to make it interesting The standard free photo editing software is GIMP. I use it all the time and it's quite easy to work with and pretty performant, even though I can't really compare it to professional software. If you need help with something, I'm happy to help.

10183 - Hobby Train (K model) – Factory 2007 - German Standard Electric Locomotive Download 10183 - Hobby Train - 11.mpd (OMR compliant), built with LDCad 1.5 Known errors: None 10183 - Hobby Train (L model) – Factory 2007 - Diesel-electric American locomotive 3 Download 10183 - Hobby Train - 12.mpd (OMR compliant), built with LDCad 1.5 Known errors: None 10183 - Hobby Train (M model) – Factory 2007 - Small steam locomotive Download 10183 - Hobby Train - 13.mpd (OMR compliant), built with LDCad 1.5 Known errors: None 10183 - Hobby Train (N model) – Factory 2007 - Tram Download 10183 - Hobby Train - 14.mpd (OMR compliant), built with LDCad 1.5 Known errors: None 10183 - Hobby Train (O model) – Factory 2007 - Tank car Download 10183 - Hobby Train - 15.mpd (OMR compliant), built with LDCad 1.5 Known errors: None _______________________ It took me a bit longer this time, with builds scattered here and there whenever I needed a break, but here are five more models that can be made out of the wonderful 10183 set. With 15 models I'm halfway by now, and I still like discovering all of the neat techniques and types of trains, even though it gets harder and harder to name each model adequately. And it's always a surprise to see a part pop up that hasn't appeared in previous models, like the macaroni bricks in the O model. I'm curious to see what surprises this set still has in store for me!

Snow makes you think about the Christmas period, with you in your cozy interior, surrounded by family, all gathered for a nice meal. It makes you long for those things when you're not that lucky too. Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl is one of my favorite fairy tales. It's one of the few fairy tales that truly touch me and one of the few that doesn't have a Hollywood ending in my head. It's so full of emotion it's hard to capture it with a build. But that shouldn't prevent you from thinking about the little match girl and everyone that can't have a cozy Christmas family party and wishing them love. Thanks again CopMike for organizing this raffle and everyone for filling my day with lovely little builds.

Imagine you walk in a gorge with steep cliffs of orangy rock towering above you. You can't see that far ahead of you, until suddenly the gorge widens and you're bemused by a cliff that looks a bit different. It's the same rock as everywhere else, but it is smooth, shaped into a beautiful composition of columns, frontons, statues. Petra is an amazing place. I have yet to see it with my own eyes, but just reading about fills you with wonder. Even a walk on Street View is an awesome experience. It's no wonder that Petra belongs to the seven modern wonders of the world. It houses many extraordinary buildings dating back almost two millennia ago. The most famous and one of the best conserved of all of these buildings is Al-Khazneh, the Treasury. It's monumental yet elegant, beautifully refined between the rough rocks. A true gem, especially when lit by candles at night. Recreating a wonder of the world with bricks definitely is no easy feat. Capturing it on a 8x8 footprint is even harder. It gets worse still if you can only use classic bricks, so no Technic or minifig-related parts. The Classic contest on Rebrick definitely pushed me, but I'm happy with the result. On an 8x8 base and with no Technic or minifig pieces in sight I recreated Al-Khazneh, complete with decorated columns, fronton, monumental gate and remnants of statues. The only thing I couldn't quite cram in was the Holy Grail. [MOC] The Treasury of Petra by Bert Van Raemdonck, on Flickr The antenna pieces was what got me started. From there on, it was getting the most out of classic bricks. I recently built the Architecture Brandenburg gate, and that was what really gave me inspiration to participate in this contest. I was intrigued how that set manages to convey all of the necessary detail with just basic bricks, employing them to shape the building rather than to depict anecdotic details. It drove me to work with a lot of offsets to get the most out of the system. It was something completely different than my previous build, in which the objective was to use as many exotic parts as possible to depict details. The result is a seven wide building with a lot of half-stud offsets and trickery to fill the holes in between the sports of the fences on the top. A result with a back that isn't entirely flat because I'm not a magician. But a result which in my opinion really feels like the original. [MOC] The Treasury of Petra - Visitor perspective by Bert Van Raemdonck, on Flickr One of the hard things to get right when depicting anything from Petra, is the color. The color is just so distinct and part of the atmosphere of the place, but not well matched to a LEGO color. I went with the common solution of using tan bricks, but put a orangy/reddish light on it all to give it the sense of desert mystery in the morning. [MOC] The Treasury of Petra - Desk perspective by Bert Van Raemdonck, on Flickr I had a blast building this and learning more about the wonderful place that is Petra. I loved the refreshment of getting everything I could out of the system. It meant not using gears for extra details on the dome or using some minifig accessory as broken statue, but I learned that the coherence of the build only benefits from it, especially at such a scale. I doubt that the creation would be better if I were allowed to use all kinds of bricks. So thanks Rebrick for hosting this contest. And thanks to all of you for taking a look at my 266 part creation! As always, the digital file is available here and you can find it on Rebrickable to make your life easier if you'd like to build it. Thanks again, and have a dreamy day!

Yes, the current episode is over. You can still post freebuilds though. You can create as much freebuilds as you want, but until the next episode ends you can only have 4 ones that will give you XP. See the Core Rules for more information (The section "Building Outside of Episodes (Challenges)"). Of course your builds can always be set in the stories of the past episodes! Great backstory by the way. Nice to see there's another person from Alderaan involved that was part of the Empire. My character will keep an eye peeled for you!