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Super. That's exactly what I was aiming at. In time I'll change the title of it, but the idea is to keep an announcement with speedlinks for important topics. Let me know if anything is missing, but bear in mind that we have to keep it short and with only the top-notch topics.

I've added an announcement topic - which is clearly seperated from the rest of the topics. In there you'll find speedlinks to your favorite topics. And since everything opens in the same window, then your favorite topics are no more than 2 clicks away instead of 1. How's that?

Which is exactly the point. A news topic without all the chit-chat. I suggest you "subscribe" to said topic - that way it'll never be "lost".

Thanks. When I made the Forum Index I decided to have the most important topics in the first post. Perhaps people should have a look in the Forum Index before asking where did the news topic go for example. We're all thrown off guard by the new forum look and changes. But it had to happen - now let's make the most of it

What I've done is I've changed the forum settings in my profile so that I now have 40 topics per page. That ensures that nothing important gets outpaged. But if you guys think that having a bunch of pinned topics is the way, then that's what we do.

No, it's still there. I just unpinned it - but that's a whole different discussion within the Star Wars Forum. Check the "Talk to Your Moderator" topic with the Star Wars Forum for more info on that.

Mkay. So what are you asking? The repinning of the 2010 News And Rumor topic? What banner? Where? On your phone?

So since everything automatically opens in the same window as you're browsing ,we've decided to unpin a lot of topics. Meaning that the topics previously pinned can now be found via the pinned "Star Wars Forum Index" and you wont have to bother with multiple browser windows. Smart, eh?

Indeed. The swords are pretty cool. I can easily imagine the trolls of Fantasy Era handling those in a diorama And the halberd in trans is also quite scary in the hands of a wizard. Crystal staff of Magi anyone?

I like it It looks much better than the old one. Hopefully I am not stepping on someone's toes here Nicely done

When this review has been outpaged, I'll move it from here and into the MCW Forum. I just thought you guys wanted a look at some historical customs

With my order came a very nice collection of capes: Luckily the figs were happy to get out of the heavu armors and put on these sophisticated neck-wears The Leather Cape: A great use of an ornamented piece of thin leather. But as much as I like it, it's kinda too not LEGO-ish for me to use. The Silver Cape: Very good use of cloth and colour. The only downside is that it's a little fragile and it took me half a second to make a bend in the back of it. Dammit! The Trans-Red Cape: Now this one I can see loads of uses for. The transparent look adds a very wizardly look to it and together with the ornamental printing, it's just great. Again this is a little fragile as milky white bends easily appear - but then again, this isn't a toy. The Trans-Blue Cape: Same as with the red one. The Yellow Cape: Now this is more classic and more to my liking. Add the Asian head from Indiana Jones and you've got a real deal Asian Wizard. Again we have some ornamental printing The Red Cape: Straight up LEGO look. Will do in almost any medieval MOC. The Black Cape: Meow! Not much to add that hasn't been said with the other colours. All capes: All capes are cut perfectly and they look and feel equal to TLG's quality wise. If you're dropping an order with BrickTW you even get some of these for free - depending on the size of your order. Business link: Bricklink Store BrickTW's smiley: BrickTW made this smiley of some of the available colours. Right now I can't think of any that are missing - but I'm sure you guys can. Drop your thoughts on these products and which colours and stuff you'd like to see and I am sure BrickTW will either read this or be informed about it.

Are you watching that specific topic? If so, then it's probably your settings that sends you an email with every reply. Check your profile settings - I think the default for watching a topic is now to recieve emails when there's a reply.

Yeah I know. A great guy got them for me and I am really thankful. Those minifigs are awesome in my opinion.

The whole profile/comments/about me stuff is soooo Facebook Perhaps we should rename ourselves to EuroFace or BrickBook?

Pretty awesome close-ups Burman. You're getting really good at this

Click "Mark Board as Read" and you're good to go. This is almost like christmas. A brand new board to learn how to play with

A while ago I noticed the 2012 plan posted by BrickTW and I knew I instantly had to get me some of his customs. And they're great - the quality is very high and the lead-in marks from the molding are very discrete. The overall look and feel of these customs is highly proffessional and I'd recommend them to anyone who'd like to spiff up their Eastern Armies. As soon as the order arrived I started putting together a few minifig mannequins. What better way to present and review these parts? I also did a little photobox to do the pic in, otherwise Sir Dillon would have another go at me like he did in the "Show Your Army"-topic and I'd rather not go there again So without further ado, I present a little sample of all the parts I got. The lot: So many colours and designs (Notice how I managed not to get photographed in the shiny chrome parts - the table did though ) And now to do a more simple overview of the colours available through BrickTW. Blue: Milky White: Chrome Silver: Yellow: Trans-Clear: Pink: Chrome Gold: Trans-Blue: Dark Grey: Red: Trans-Red: Black: Tan: White: Trans-Green (Jade): Trans-Light-Blue: As I said, great colours. I actually think my favorites are pink and tan. But don't tell anyone that I liked the girly-colour. There's only a few spots were you can see the molding process and everything fits together very well. Except the chrome headgear-feathers. They don't fit in the chrome helmets, but the do fit in the regular colour helmets and vice versa. Still that is a minor detail and one that I'm sure a little careful pushing and twisting can fix. Shield assembly: Now this is genious. The little handle fits perfectly in the rear side of the shield and allows more several different poses to be used. See the proffessional BTW mark? - That's dedication if I ever saw it Shield Types: Rectangle Shield for Spear Soldier - Round Fighting Shield - Rectangle Shield Another look at the shields in non-chrome non-transparent colours. I think the shields are great. So much detail and perfect molding. What's not to like? Now let's explore just how "insane" this customizer is. All armors and helmets are (claimed to be) historically correct. Now I am not an expert of Eastern armors and helmets, but I'll take his word for it anytime. Armors: Ching Dynasty Armor - Armor Clothing of Ching Dynasty - Zhao Yun's Clothing - The Armor of Zhao Yun See? Headgears: A little look at the different ones. And now to break them down into pairs: Army Helmet of Kin Dynasty & Steel Helmet of Kin Dynasty Army Cap of Ching Dynasty & Army Helmet of Ching Dynasty Zhao Yun's hairstyle. Great helmets - again with much detail and the little holes on top allow the different head-feathers to be applied to any helmet, so you wont have to be historically correct. Headgear ornaments: Ching Dynasty Feather Ornament - Ching Dynasty Feather Ornament - Ornament of Ching's Helmet. And I've actually forgotten one Ornament of Kin's Helmet Swords: Revolution Broadsword - Slaughter Broadsword - Saint Sword - Broadsword with Seven Stars - Combat-style Bloody Broadsword A nice selection of swords to pick from. The do seem a little too big to be "real" weapons - not that it matters at all. Bow & Spears: Cross Dragon Spear - Dark Hell Halberd - Flame-style Bow (From the top and down) I prefer the Cross Dragon Spear. It's simple and yet very effective.