Cecilie

My attempt at building a Tokyo skyline in the architecture style. Tokyo is such a city of contrasts. From skyscrapers and neon lights to old temples and shrines. From busy streets full of cars and people, to forests and serene gardens right in the middle of the city. For my build I selected the 5 most famous landmarks in Tokyo, from left to right: Meiji Jingu, Tokyo Tower, the Imperial palace, Tokyo Skytree and Senso-ji. Tokyo skyline by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr I had to make some compromises on what parts of the buildings to include, to keep it within the slim format, so Meiji Jingu is represented by only a part of the shrine as well as one of the characteristic trees in the main yard. The actual Imperial Palace is hidden from public view unless on special occasions and for guided tours, and isn't that interesting of a building anyway, but it's surrounded by the imperial gardens which are open to the public, and the most iconic part of the grounds is the encircling moat with a view of the Seimon Ishibashi bridge which leads to the main gate of the palace, and Fushimi-yagura keep which can be seen behind it. So that is what I built. For Senso-ji I also added the Hozomon gate, which is quite substantial and stands at the entrance to the temple grounds.

This is absolutely amazing, and so true to the original! As a fan of Gundam Seed, I am loving this :wub:

Built for the third round of the Imperium der Steine MOC Olympics. The theme for this round was to build something from the upcoming Rogue One movie. My most anticipated character in Rogue One is Chirrut Îmwe. A blind dude beating up Stormtroopers with nothing but a stick, what's not to like? I also really like his costume, so I thought it would be cool to try and build him. He's only featured in one scene in the first trailer, so I decided to also build some Stormtroopers at the same scale, and build that scene. I actually built the Stormtroopers first, as I thought they would be the hardest to pull off. But I am quite pleased with how both they and Chirrut turned out. Once again, I have tried to use some forced perspective to give the scene depth, and make it look like a screenshot from the movie. It was a bit hard to figure out all the scenery from the little material that is available, so some artistic freedom has been taken One of the hardest parts was creating that crashed X-wing, that is hardly even visible in the picture. Rogue One: Chirrut Îmwe by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr Close-up of Chirrut: Chirrut Îmwe by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr

Thank you everyone Wow, thank you! Haha, I don't have any immediate plans for a full race, but I do like this enough that I will probably keep it around for a while, so who knows if I suddenly get the urge to flesh out a bigger scene and add another pod or two I know it's not within Lego's usual Microfighter size, but given the nature of a pod's shape, I think this is the best way to represent it in a chibi way. I'd be interested to see Lego tackle the podracers in their Microfighter series to see how they would do it, but I am personally happy with this, and do not intend to try and shrink it any further. Haha, thank you! Pineapple heads is totally my new favourite piece

Thank you everyone for all the nice comments It does, yes, but Gandalf was the best substitute I could find for my lack of the correct Palpatine face (I only have his later versions, with the super-wrinkle face). They are indeed clikits, yes You mean Saruman? Even funnier is that I couldn't find my movie-version Dooku, so I took my Clone Wars Dooku and put on the head from my Saruman minifig He's so not hiding his Sith-ness with that line Uhm, by buliding them? The tri-fighters were the most difficult, I really wanted to include some, but I had almost given up on thinking I could represent them at that scale when I noticed some of those axe pieces on my desk and thought their arched shape looked like a good fit. Thank you I really wish I had the correct Palpatine, but sadly I never got my hands on him, and didn't have time to order him for this contest...

Built for the Imperium der Steine MOC Olympics, round 2. My theme for this round was "dark side of the force". This is one of the pivotal moments in Anakin crossing over to the dark side. He doesn't know it at the time, but in this scene he is killing Darth Sidious' apprentice, making way for him to take his place, exactly like the Emperor is trying to get Luke to do in the OT. Palpatine is not doing a very good job camouflaging his dark intentions in this scene, but Obi-Wan is conveniently knocked out and thus unable to notice and stop Anakin. I initially tried to include a larger area of the room in my build, as I wanted to include at least the bottom part of the stairs they walk down, and leave some more space for Obi-Wan, but I had to cut it down a bit as I couldn't fit it all on 32x32. It was also very important to me from the start to be able to show the battle going on outside with the use of some micro spaceships, so I had to leave some room for those behind the windows. I'm very happy about how my micro spaceships turned out (can you recognize them all?) and also the curved floor leading up to where Palpatine is sitting. Kill him. Kill him now. by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr

Thank you! It could be a perfect scale for a "toy podracing for kids" maybe Thanks! Haha, yeah the 2011 set cockpit is rather strange looking . I don't think shortening the cockpit by 1 stud would have made it more proportionate, given that the size of the entire cockpit is already on the large size compared to the engines, which I guess is in the spirit of the Microfighters' somewhat deformed look Thanks Sadly my model is not very suitable as a set, given my use of some rather unstable techniques . I did not count the pieces, but I'd estimate there to be between 100 and 150 parts in there, probably closer to 150.

Built for the first round of the Imperium der Steine MOC Olympics, which tasks us to build a vehicle in the style of Lego's Microfighter series. I like to build in strong colors, so I picked Sebulba's podracer. This also provided a lot of challenges because of the format of a podracer being quite different than what exists in the Microfighter series, but I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Sebulba does not look too comfortable in his cockpit though! Microfighter: Sebulba's podracer by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr Microfighter: Sebulba's podracer (details) by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr

In April I built Mario in a Kart and Yoshi on a bike to place on a 16x16 street vignette for a collaborative street display and contest. But the small format was a bit too crowded to make a proper scene out of it, so for displaying at Paredes de Coura in Portugal and Brickworld in Chicago in June, I decided to build a larger scene for them, including my Lakitu as well (with a camera this time) and a Piranha Plant built for the occasion. This also scored a nomination for "best vignette" at Brickworld! The Piranha plant especially was quite challenging, as I needed it to scale with my other characters, and be in the same style. Mario Kart: Mario Circuit by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr

Thank you The head might make more sense if you knew what it looked like with an open mouth but I didn't take a picture of that Thanks! LDD is not very compatible with my building style . The shape of the body is achieved with flextube that is held together in the right curvature by some plates clipped to it on the top. The neck is just constructed with a series of plates with clip clipped to plates with a handle. The legs are attached with mixel hinges.

That could work.

I find that the banners just distract from the layout...

You forgot Ace!

This is something that has been on my to-build list for a long time, a dragon. For some reason it has felt like a very daunting task, and it took me quite a while from deciding to build an ice dragon to actually getting anything done on it. And after building the head it sat on my desk for what felt like ages before I was able to get into making the rest of it. It finally came together for the Paredes de Coura Fan Weekend in Portugal, and then made its way to Brickworld the weekend after. Elemental Ice Dragon by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr My original intention was to build an environment for the dragon to be in as well, but as I ran short on time, that came down to me just building it a white base, which, due to unforeseen circumstances, got stuck in Germany on my way home from Portugal, and thus never made it to Chicago. In the end, I chose to publish the picture without the base, as it felt more like a distraction than adding to the creation. In the end, I'm really happy with how the dragon turned out, and that I was able to overcome this kind of barrier of building something like this. The legs aren't the most stable around, but once it's posed correctly, the dragon does stand up on its own with no added supports, which I'm very happy with. Hope you like it

Interesting to see this thread get a revival! Thanks for the nice comments guys I've actually thought about redoing my Ultralisk at some point, there are some things with this I'm not too happy about.

Can't say I really enjoyed meeting this guy when playing Mario back in the day! Usually meant running through the level at full speed with the adrenaline pumping. Obviously this meant learning to navigate those levels by pure reflex... Nowadays Lakitu is usually more peaceful, hovering around with his camera in Mario Kart, but here he is in his former glory days! Lakitu by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr Hope you like my latest addition to my growing collection of Mario characters

Thank you everyone for the nice comments I'm going to have to disagree with you on that . A minifig Mario would be too small compared to my Yoshi, and it would have required a custom minifig to represent him well, which isn't something I care about doing. I find brick building figs to be more interesting.

We were just in the zone! I have the remainder of those, I'm sure we can work something out

I built these for a vignette contest at an event last weekend, where we had to build a scene on a 16x16 section of road. The design of the kart and bike is based on Mario Kart 8 (ok, the bike is only loosely based on an actual bike from the game). Yoshi is the same design as I did before, just recoloured in yellow. My favourite detail here though is undoubtedly the green Koopa shell Mario Kart by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr Mario Kart: Yoshi by Cecilie Fritzvold, on Flickr

Got home yesterday evening after a long detour to Trondheim to pick up my car so I could get that home as well... That was a long drive for a tired me after an awesome event. But I made it home in one piece! It was so great seeing everyone again, and I hope to see you all in Günzburg next year

Oh, yeah, totally, it's... going to blow your mind

Be nice to Ace! (He hasn't even built anything yet )

Cecilie: 114 Ace: 114

Thank you I think they are happier in the company of other ghosts, but I might build a Goomba and/or Bob-omb at one stage too, you never know Thanks