Cara

I love how ornate the building is.

It's 45 degrees but it doesn't quite look like it because the roll cage's side lean vertically inwards. Then the exterior panels that are mounted on them are 8 studs wide on the horizontals and 6 studs wide on the diagonal placing to give the dirigible and plumper look.

This is my entry for the Bricklink Designer Program Series 1. https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/309/The-Cloud-Chaser-Fantasy-Airship It had to be created from bricks within a set palette. So after looking at the bricks available I was inspired towards the idea of a fantasy/adventure airship/blimp. I started with the challenge of the blimp and how to create the correct shape (the easy part) while making it stable and without making it too heavy to be supported by two masts (the hard part!). To stay away from the weight of too many technics and plates as support structure I went with the roll cage (windscreen 64450). And a structure that I think is quite a pretty geometry. I liked it so much I wanted it to be a feature rather than an interior support, so this changed the blimp to a dirigible. The ship body has an interior cabin with Murphy bed and kitchenette, front wheelhouse and back luggage compartment as part of the build. It can sit on the table both on or off the stand. The bricks used in the built model are accurate to the Studio design however the colours of them are about 95% there. Mostly due to inability to source them (rare or above budget). And of that 5% the majority of it is in the interior. In the final design you will not be able to see colours peeking through from lower levels. The most noticeable exterior colour difference is that the 64727 spike around the ship body is light blue grey here but navy in the studio design. Not included in the rendered pictures are 12 stickered pieces (7 unique). Including the title sticker on the 4x4 tile at the base, and stickers upon the 2x4 white oval tiles at the center of each area of the dirigible. There are flexible hoses (part no. 27965) on the brick-built model of which only one is in the Studio model, in an approximate position along the panels of the dirigible. This is due to the part stretching in Studio. For more photos and renders of The Cloud Chaser please visit my Flickr stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brick_art/ Recreating something built in real life in Studio was a learning challenge! But this has now been built, taken apart and rebuilt so many times to condense the steps and little submodels that I really hope other people will have the chance to build it.

I'm entering, its a vehicle but not a train. The palette looks great until you start building to a specific idea, then you realise its got breadth but not depth. There have already been guidelines that the five models they pick with be from a variety of themes so at most you will get one train or train related, if lucky.

Thank you for the great photos. I was looking for that trans-clear panel 24116, I find it a shame it's frosted instead of clear.

Good take on the theme. I both laughed and cringed.

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Great details and wonderful to see a big Elves build. Especially one that is recognisably Elves and also smoothly incorporates fastasy/historical style MOCing.

Thank you for the report . I was there for three of the days and have to say its fun, more so if you meet people you know! Our very own A.C. Pin was displaying his flower MOCs prior to transporting them for display in the yellow zone at the LEGO house.

+1 to adoring that stern! The curves of the fish work so well to make it feel non-brick shaped.

A very interesting read! Thank you. It is great that the prize went to someone fully able to appreciate it. Congratulations.

Congratulations! Those 30 seconds go by really quickly and make it really hard.

Its enormous! This is fabulous, I love the wip pictures on your Flickr. Great to see it has an interior hold.

This is adorable. Great subject matter. I too like the truck.

That's great! I hope you had them printed as a calendar for her?

Maybe we can find enough people for an EB meeting there next year?

Congratulations! I hope it goes well.

That absolute quiet of a new blanketing of snow.

Built for the Rebrick Best Friends contest. Best Friends on Vacation Whether those friends are two-legged or four-legged, everyone is having fun. Go out on the water or enjoy the beach, horseback riding along the sand and shopping on the promenade. A few more on my Flickr Album.

Ad issue or first item in the frontpage pushing wide? On an ipad mini. Cant insert the screenshot because its bigger than 0.1MB Currently the green fort item at the start of the body of the front page pushes all the way over the right menu, outside the page and across the grey border to the edge of the screen. There is a floating ad on top of the article around the location of the right column, however the ad has no x to close it so it covers the article.

In case this hasn't been mentioned: When your window width is narrower than a certain value which happens to be about half of my screen width, so not small, (in safari 9.1.3 on a mac) then the activity and browse menu bar and the search is not shown in the portal screen. So there are no links , only the articles, and a visitor is left wondering where to go. Then if you are in the forums you do not see the directory structure Home > Forums > Frontpage... so again hard to navigate. Overall I do not like the upgrade, the paragraph breaks instead of carriage returns, lots of plain white background, big font, I would hope its some settings I could change but it just doesn't display well for me and it makes it unpleasant to read. Edit: So the board looks nice on an ipad mini, guess its just my mac settings.

Back when it was out the pyramid was still on my too expensive list, so I bought about 8 of the Anubis guards keychains and took the figures off the chain. If you are not going to take the pieces apart you might be able to find alternatives to the expensive mini figure.

I am populating a Friends MOC and Im looking for beach, horse riding and adventure minidoll theme pieces. Such as halter tops, bikinis, shorts, horseriding hats and one fig to use as a waiter, so the white shirt and either the tie or the bandana. Then I need male minidoll heads. I am hoping to find someone that has bought the sets for parts but doesnt want the dolls. If that sounds like something you have for sale or trade, send me a message with a picture of what you have and a list of what you are looking for, or a price. I would prefer someone in North America so we can keep the postage down. Thank you! Cara.

Way to go =) I like the film references. As someone who finished Gold, I hope you can use that for your Skills section!

This is so true to life its funny =)