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I saw this on Brickshelf this morning...Takeshi Itou is one of my favorite builders, although I'd not place this among his top works (see the Tower and Field series, Drawbridge Castle , and Snow Field Castle ). I like how he has cut right through the surrounding townhouses along the edges of the mod...

Hehe, read the first quote in Bruce's opening post here. That should explain it Smile LOL, definitely not a badge of honour then... how did i miss that? BTW, Aliencat, you have put together some really great MOCs while I was 'hibernating.' Very nice work. I just got it worse since I stood up for my...

Thanks, it's good to be back. One thing I'm wondering though, is why so many established members have become 'junior gong farmers' with poop to match? Is that the new cool?



Brody

I can't help but ask how you did the bridge. It's deceptively simple. Parts: http://media.peeron.com/ldraw/images/47/100/6108.png x2 http://media.peeron.com/ldraw/images/47/100/4477.png x8 Just attach the 1x10 plates to the undersides of the arches and tile the 8 remaining studs on top of each plat...

No, I haven't quit, just very slow, I suppose. Amazing how you can slip into doing other things and wake up after a year of not building–and wondering where all that time went. Wow, thanks for the encouragement. I have to admit that this has been a tough and ambitious build for me. Also, I should sa...

Hello! It's been a long time since I posted anything here, and a long time since I built anything to post. (I've been mired in a second dark ages ). However, an AFOL friend convinced me that I should share some in-progress pics of my new build—jump started, in part, by CCC and the announcement of th...

Hi, This is a very impressive MOC. I think you have done a brilliant job in capturing a specific sense of place and environment–everything feels consistent on a thematic level. The amount of detailing, and scale of the overall composition is just right, I think that LEGO as a medium performs best wh...

It's been a few months since I last posted, but I still lurk around now and again. I was sorry to hear about Eric's death. I've never had any close contact with him, but he is one of a few builders who's work I greatly admire, and his web-site is a great resource of thoughts and ideas about LEGO. Co...

Definitely one of the better castle moc's I've seen in a while. Agreed. Great massing of the center structure. The way it has been broken up gives it a wonderful organic feel, and an engaging profile. I also really like the docks outside the curtain wall. It's something I've not seen before, and a ...

Very interesting. Art can be defined very broadly indeed. There was a full-page article about this today in the Metro (a free London daily). There is some pretty great work here, although it occurs to me that many of these works are not necessarily tied in any integral way to the medium of LEGO. In ...

Hey LEGO-heads, There have recently been a couple of spectacular modernist houses interpreted into LEGO. The first is the Schroder House (constructed 1923-4) by Gerrit Thomas Reitveld. This house is located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This amazing residential structure is the embodiment of the form...

Hey, Really cool. The only things that I don't think work are the lower windows built with transparent 1x2's, and the fact that the color pallette seems to be getting a little bit out of control. The arch though, is amazing. I also see a lot of very interesting and unique piece usages. On a personal...

Please consider shipping to the UK. I'd be willing to pay the extra shipping costs.

Best,
Brody

On one or two occasions I filled the head of a minifig (never a castle one—I always took excellent care of those) with red dye and placed it loosely on the minifig's torso. I would then drop it on the ground from ever-increasing heights until the head popped off and the minifig began to 'bleed.' I'm...

Wow! This ship is extremely cool. I especially like the wooden planking effect (although, as mentioned in the captions, it's not particularly realistic). For some reason when I saw this my mind immediately went to the ship that Indiana Jones traveled aboard in Raiders of the Lost Ark . I also love t...