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Evcellent, looking forward to seeing them.

Well, Mantis is an Apokolips baddie... Big Barda could be built with the CMF Cleopatra hair or a black nemes to attach the maedate to the hollow stud, while the torso should be somewhere between the dark blue exo-force and the dark blue castle maiden. I wonder whether this one on a yellow muscle torso would give a good enough impression of the red half for Mister Miracle. The head would need to the Spiderman balaclava though. I'm also guessing Kalibak - Rascus and Parademon - Twitch. It is an eclectic (expensive) assortment of parts.

Thanks! I will assume you mean Black Manta. Good luck with those other Fourth World characters, I image they'd be pretty tricky to do well.

Edit - to provide my own contribution to this admirable ongoing body of work, I will link to a previous topic of mine: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=72533&hl= Is that the Judge from "Judgment Day"? It sure looks more like him than any Marvel character I can compare. First thing I thought when I saw the Balin the Dwarf figure was High Father. I considered how one might contruct Orion but remorsefully concluded the potential of approaching maximum recognizability to be rather low. You have proved to the contrary that a very close likeness can be made with some newer, though simple, parts choices. Well done.

Thanks to all for the superb compliments and support! I do recall there was an entry sort of like a hardware store in a previous year's Winter Village competition. I think you'd be none the less justified in something similar and I'd certainly be interested in seeing your idea in brick! I indeed liked the concept for being unique, even if it didn't fit in as well with the line as a whole (particularly the first three sets). I think it fair to say that conformity is the greatest enemy of innovation! Judging from images on Brickshelf I'd say it's similar to Mike's (my source of inspiration as I was first able to place it, but it's likely that I saw the Green Grocer model without it making as large of an impression) on the account of the technic liftarms and in turn to mine by the bushes, but I find the choice of the antenna and clip plate somewhat infelicitous. The worm screw is on a 3L bar held on either end by a modified plate with the vertical clip which are in turn attached to two with the thick ring clip light. I may be able to get you a deconstruction image if you're really curious. Thanks; I did want it to stand out (see comment to L@go). I felt that the cottage likewise deviated from it predessors, being private/residential instead of public/commercial. With those two big categories covered, I had to do something more specific, and the [ar]boreal craftsman theme - subtlely introduced by the cottage - was it!

The excellent recent entries to the Winter Village competition have motivated me to finish up my own submission before having to leave my Lego behind me for some weeks. As for my original inspiration, I really liked that this year’s cottage set strayed further from the main street and into the back roads of the Winter Village. My entry expands upon on the handicraft theme of its wood shed and small workshop, embracing a "rural industry" motif for which I have everlasting affection! Now since the winter cottage residents seem to cut their own timber, this lumber yard doesn’t sell firewood or Christmas trees like some do, but it does supply the local toymaker with materials for assembling those model planes and boats as well as contractors with construction supplies for building new Winter Village establishments. I based the specifications and basic characteristics of this model primarily on the cottage, including minifigure count/demographics (I have an 8:3 male to female ratio and a 1:4 child to adult ratio) and layout (the shop stands in for the cottage itself, the covered cantilever rack for the shed, and the radial saw with the generator for the igloo while the forklift stands in for the plow truck and the snow blower for the sled). As a pleasing seasonal element included in all four Winter Village sets to date, I decided to build the holiday lamppost in a style mimicking the prefab part which I don't own in black. While the earlier two of the four models opted for a less complex, brick-built solution for the bottom of the post instead of the prefab part, the very first went for a contrastingly more inventive upside-down construction for the lanterns which I have attempted to parallel. Beneath the lamppost, two kinds of propane tank are stored in a cabinet cage under international hazardous substance labeling. One is a utility variety used for the forklift, and the other is a consumer variety like those used for barbecue grills, which are not as popular in the winter, but also for portable heaters, stoves and generators like the one powering the saw (with the "gas tank" colored green to symbolize that it runs on cleaner burning propane). Two gas cylinders containing less flammable carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas are chained upright to the facade (the red hand truck stands by for their transport) and a garland of holly crowns the window with a custom decal that reads “HARDWARE” and dipicts a menorah popularly displayed from behind the glass for the larger holiday season. Inside the shop, snow shovels are stocked in a bin at the entrance due to popular demand. Bags and buckets of salt and sand are also available behind the counter, along with typical hardware store items. The counter’s glass display case houses a cordless drill and carrying case, the perfect holiday gift for any handyman or -woman! I decided against using a light brick here as I thought the shop should be heated by an old radiator rather than an open hearth, and I didn’t want to install one under the roof like in the Winter Village Post Office due to the awkwardness of holding the switch in to keep it lit. I have however incorporated great playability potential into the lumber yard provided by the adjustable height feature of the cantilever shelf which elevates lumber underneath the roof (and locks in place by the action of the elastic band pin system) for its protection from winter precipitation and allows the forklift to access a supply pallet nested underneath. Finally, once the lumber pallet is taken down, individual boards can also be fed into the lumber saw vise using the spinning rollers as gramps here demonstrates. Closing remarks: credit to MOCpages user A Taylor for the gas cylinder design and acknowledgements to Mike "Count Blockula" Crowley for radiator inspiration. That's all folks, thanks for looking!

"Eat here, get gas!" No way has this fallen short of my expectations following your posting of WIP elements online (as you had warned). You've very nicely echoed the curves between the corners of the rooves and the slabs below. Odd however that you've attached the overhang of the gas station with hinge bricks. It might actually look nicely Googie to keep them on an upward angle. Nice job on that small napkin dispenser - it's using the old style clip light with the thinner ring, right? Gotta get me some of those. I also noticed that like me you're attentive to the details on the underside of the roof. The lamps are nice, if a little low, and I think I spot a hidden ceiling fan too! The sign of course still looks great and yet all the better when set behind the rest in that big planter box. The palm tree looks a little lopsided though. Will version 2.0 be a revision taking into account small details like these or an expansion with a garage or a more authenically automotive area?

Wow is right, two studs deep means you can use the five plate ratio to attach the tiles, but it is much more parts intensive. I wonder if your source was in turn inspired by mine (I've used this technique, but for a winerack, never having to tile it flush). His flickr was deleted long ago for whatever reason, but his work is still on Brickshelf. Here you can see he was going two studs high using bricks instead of the two plate and one tile combination: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2337598 P.S. - I'd forgotten that the European first storey is the North American second story!

Agreed, some of the best parts you've engineered right there. Since you exlude them from the list, are the tiled floors on the first story inspired by EofAlshire? It's general enough that it may not be, and different in that yours looks set in place but not all attached, which is of course necessary for the studless look. Anyhow I've added you as a contact on Flickr!

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Yep, it'd be colorful post-enlightment Pleasantville and vintage Hill Valley circa 1955. I also ask because neither are strongly geographically tied but rather represent a stereotyped amalgam of classic American suburbia with a generic name that could be used in any state, which seems to be true for Kingstown as well. Yeah, I was referring to the train as justifiable because it's from the same year as the Batmobile, which also enforces the futuristic look you desired (on the basis of the original car). The Cadillac Ecto-1 (blame the earlier error on spellcheck) seems less deliberately speculative in design, but the Delorean isn't an anachronism! Yes, I can see that the window is not directly connected to the walls, but I also assume that the bottom is not flush against the wall below but only touches it by the corner of the 1x1 to maintain the slant.

Holy retro futurism Batman! Is Kingstown the Hill Valley or Pleasantville of the classic SYSTEM universe? The same can be said on both accounts for the batmobile (but no dark blue cape?)! Echo 1, on the other hand, has no excuse. Excellent choice of green shingles on Al's little shack (makes the operation appear all the more dubious in perfect contradiction of its name). Did you struggle at all with keeping the tilt underneath the window?

It's really flattering to know one of my models has inspired your film set, thanks for indicating it in your video description (and thanks to Hinckley for bringing it into my purview by frontpaging). What might have prompted the Japanese themes from the story perspective, may I ask? Oh, and I love the choice of music too!

Thanks you two. I listed the names for the heroes and villains respectively in comments on each flickr page. I haven't yet for the third and newest in case someone might want to play the guessing game, which brings me to the exclusion of Nightwing from that image; although I considered digitally duplicating my one Nightwing torso so that I could use it for Grayson in addition to Reyes (similar to how I duplicated my one muscular flesh torso for Aquaman and Hawkman) or even Chase/Vigilante who I also ruled out for the following reasons, I felt that they would look odd together for they had no elastic bands to mix it up unlike the torso-sharing JLA members, and although I could present a unique interpretation of the stock Nightwing minifigure by switching out the exo-force hair I always felt a weird choice, I don't have black Dastan, Dumbledore, or Anakin hair and didn't feel like editing color like I've done for past minifig shots, meaning I'd have to give a third figure Mutt hair, and in the same color as Drake/Robin's. I hope that answers it!

B-OV-37D Hello fellow townspeople, I think the last topic I posted to this forum was to say something somewhat similar to that I'd like to here declare. Much like last summer, I have posted a macroscale model I have built during the year past in what I suppose is the second in a series of early 20th century American architectures which I will display at BrickFair this coming weekend! Fishery Cannery by Ɲ., on Flickr Fishery Cannery by Ɲ., on Flickr Thanks for looking, Nathan

Greetings minifig customizers, I present for your consideration my collections of DC minifigues, mostly purist customs (that is, mostly custom) and all appearing in animation. Justice League of America by Ɲ., on Flickr DC rogues gallery by Ɲ., on Flickr Teen Titans/Young Justice by Ɲ., on Flickr Cheers, Nathan

Thank you, I'm glad you appreciate it. Ah, I'm happy someone picked up on the griddle and its ventilation. It's one of my favorite additions not often noted. Thank you! Yes, I hoped the mix would be entertaining and the typeface suitably stylized. Thanks! Thank you sir, its very liberating to build in superscale. Unlikely, but to see another do it would be divine. Thanks for commenting mate. Heh, thanks. Yes, thank you for adding! I guess I am, thank you.

I've posted several interior shots to my flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/72543544@N00/ Thanks again, sir; it means a lot coming from you. Thank you! Yes, I try to economize with a concentration of detail and a conservation of space. Thanks! Order up! Thanks for your compliments. Definitely try to be there for at least two or three of the public hours. It could even inspire you to become an exhibitor in the future - you have some really nice iconic fast food establishments in a more compatible scale! Thanks. Yes, several flickrites agree with you. Thank you! Excellent, thank you. I'm not sure of to what you refer as the tent, but I'm glad you appreciate the little details.

I like the colors and the shutters - in fact, I think the lower windows would be better with shutters than the transparent bricks. I also think you should top the columns with capitals. At the moment, they end a little awkwardly. Flickr member d-higdon has some nice examples of the sort of door you need on the bottom of this page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/buildingsblockd/sets/

This is my latest large scale creation (in fact, it's a bit over minifig scale). I'll be displaying at BrickFair in Chantilly VA next weekend. clickr fer flickr.

I love the color schemes on the temples. The white, tan, and medium blue combination creates a wonderful Aegean/Hellenistic look. Thanks so much for posting these close-up shots yesterday. I can now clearly see most of the buildings that I could only roughly admire when you first posted, but certain smaller details are still difficult to observe acutely due to the size of the images.

Ah, there's the cropped version, and I see it has your signature on it too. Indeed a testament to the quality of your craftsmanship is that I now see details that I didn't spot the first time when admiring the same photos on flickr, even on secondary, tertiary examination and so on.

I'm happy to see that you found what you needed, Mister Gorilla. If you seek further inspirational material, heed the following: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31191557@N08/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostcarpark/tags/roman/ --- http://www.flickr.com/photos/disley/tags/roman/ --- http://mocpages.com/home.php/221 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Lavrra