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Very nicely done! Great shaping throughout, and the eyes and nose work especially well. I think the blocky body but still incorporating some smooth curves and slopes, plates, and a little bit of SNOT where appropriate really adds something nice to the overall feel. It feels both very "Lego" but also very finished/detailed at the same time. Great build!

That looks great to me. You've captured all the essential elements at that scale, and NPU with the hood scoop and tooth piece at the window/roof line.

Looks nice, and it does the job as intended so I'd say that's a successful build! Have you considered adding wheels? That would both add some weight to the base, and also aid in the efficiency of energy transfer to the projectile increasing range and getting rid of the jumping bas you mentioned. I assume you're familiar with that concept already, but google "wheeled trebuchet" if not. Thanks for sharing the build!

I can certainly understand your frustration, and it's not an unreasonably reaction. I do agree with others, though, that there's simply a lot less community discussion on "average" builds in general than there used to be in the past and especially for builders just starting out, and I think the macro effect of that is less commentary even for great builds that don't quite make it to the level of front page feature or general virality. There was another long thread that touched on this (I think it was about board activity in general) that I'm not finding at the moment, but my point there was that while there are still a lot of well-meaning folks here, it almost feels like we've got amazing-MOC fatigue or something so when something is presented that is very basic or someone's first attempt, etc., they don't get beat up for it not being amazing, but they also don't get the simple polite and encouraging responses that used to be more prevalent so we end up with a bunch of empty threads. And posts with nice builds like yours end up with just a few comments when they might have had 20 before, even if 10 of them would have just been "Cool! Thanks for sharing." type comments. To Aanchir's point, beyond the lack of activity in general on more basic builds, I've absolutely noticed that regardless of physical build vs digital, overall build quality, scale of the MOC, etc., it is very clear that posts with good photography get far more interaction. You've created some great stuff, and I do wonder if your response rate would shoot way up if you put some time into having a couple of outstanding images of the MOC to start off the thread and then supplemental images that were more basic renders, LDD screenshots, etc.. Now, is that fair when, as you noted, the artistry and skill that went into the design is the same either way? No. But is that reality in what catches folks eyes around here these days? I think it's a big part, yes.

That looks great all-around! I especially like the shaping around the main body at the droid/engine area. Very nicely integrated with an appropriate amount of greebling. My favorite element, however, may be the little HUD-type display at the front of the cockpit; such a nice subtle little detail! Great build!

Love everything about this build! I especially like the detail on the wall paneling and shelves, and those draped flags are great! Wonderful build!

Welcome to EB, Franz! No Dark Ages for you, eh? Well done - happy building!

Welcome to EB, yorkc1215. Looking forward to seeing some awesome space MOCs. Happy building!

Welcome to EB, Lufobrick! You've got lots of good company in Classic Space enthusiasts here - looking forward to seeing some of your MOCs. Happy building!

Wecome to EB (kinda), Black-Brick/MuscoviteSandwich! Glad to have you here and de-lurked. Happy building!

Welcome to EB, zeeverse! Thanks for sharing, and happy building!

Welcome to EB, howitzer! That's some lovely jewelry work, and I can't wait to see what you create from Lego. Happy building!

That looks great! I would consider using another roof piece for the back rather than the cheese slopes just to have a softer transition (looks a little sharp right there at the end of the rear wheel well and body in the side view). Very nice rendition and easy to recognize at first glance. Nice build!

That's basically my take as well- if you're trying to stick with official sets, the newer Creator stuff just isn't in scale with City and probably shouldn't be used (without modification). Depending on the goal of your display, you could do something like grouping the sets by year so the appropriately sized vehicles are with the older matching scale sets, and there's a visual progression of style over time as you look across the display. If you're not stuck with keeping the sets as-is, then it's a matter of looking at how much modification things would take in both directions, then pick one. That is, if there are only a couple buildings that needs adjustment to accommodate bigger vehicles, change those. If you've got a ton of structures that you don't want to touch, modify the vehicles to be smaller or just leave out the ones that are particularly large and place them strategically.

That's a lot of fun! NPU on the ears and eyebrows, and the "cloud" CMF bases for the cheeks. The jumper/overalls with the lighter trim at the bottom look nice as well. I agree that the yellow egg is a little intense, but that's only a potential improvement, not a real criticism. Great build!

It is deep blue. Exposure and color balance on photos are all over the place to try to capture the scene and foliage, etc., but if you look at candid photos or video it's dark blue that shifts to slate grey depending on lighting, etc.. Also, if you read accounts of visitors to the castle people most frequently describe it as dark or deep blue.

The paperclip/upload option on Eurobricks that you're talking about is only for very small images to be used in your signature line here on the board. You only get 100K total, so even 1 regular image probably pushed you to the limit of available space. For sharing photos of MOCs, etc., you'll want to use a 3rd party service and I think most folks would recommend Flickr, if not using a Lego-focussed image hosting service. Here's a tutorial on linking/embedding Flickr images in your posts: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/97921-flickr-tutorial/

Welcome to EB, Tommy! Looking forward to hearing your story and seeing you MOCs!

Right- and that's basically putting together people like MAB and Mylenium so they're both happy. I'm middle of the road on this since I'm not a completionist; I like minifigs just fine, but I don't buy a (higher-priced) set just for a particular minifig nor will I purchase them individually for a crazy mark-up, but there are a few that I've purchased and I do pick up a good portion of the CMF line. My kids are far more into minifigs, though. The problem they have is that they're pretty willing to buy a set (or ask me for it, obviously!) to get a specific minifig they want, but then they are annoyed with the huge number of duplicates of common figs they end up with which have basically no resale value themselves. An example would be Minecraft- they have 20 Steve and Alex figs, because at least one of those is always included with every set. Tough for Lego, though, since they'd get beat up on the other side of this discussion if they didn't include the main characters in the various themes in enough sets.

Hi BeyrouthLego! There's an awful lot of chatter out there about various China topics- what myths & rumors are you looking at in particular? I think starting there might spark more discussion and ideas here.

Haha! Yes, I've been visited by those fairies before. I think it may have been the doing of my cat, but I found a brick inside a shoe (I "found" it when I put the shoe on, of course). Another interesting one was, I think, a 4x4 plate that somehow had enough momentum to bounce back up off the floor and ended up on the underside of a kitchen chair. What I mean is, the structure of the bottom of the chair has some 45° braces at the corners of the chair seat box that have a little space above them, so almost like tiny little shelves but invisible at the underside corners of the chair seat. Somehow the plate bounced up and landed there. One of my kids saw it a couple days later when searching for something they dropped under the table!

Welcome to EB, Thunderwingds! Looking forward to seeing your steam train. Happy building!

Nice - love the Shell colors and the chrome is a nice touch. I think the tractor/cab is a bit long for classic 4-wide style in comparison to the tank trailer, but just personal opinion on that; looks great overall and all these "classics" have been fun to see!

Great story and the build compliments it very well - even the photography as W Navarre said! Nice choice of colors, and I think the ruin is just ruined enough. Nice build!

Pretty mundane, but I've used Lego for supports and shims for various items around the house. Nothing that requires critical structural stability or anything, but out-of-site places that need a semi-permanent solution to stabilize or align a fixture- that kind of thing. I've also done a few utilitarian items like kolbjha's stand to use for an iPad, and for properly aiming a projector that didn't have quite enough adjustability with its standard mount. Lego is definitely useful stuff.