Captain Braunsfeld

I am an AFOL from Cologne, Germany and have joined here as "Captain Braunsfeld".

When the first pirate series appeared in the 90s I was fascinated. There was actually a brief interlude in my "dark ages" when I bought three of the sets (including the Armada Flagship - I really liked the Spanish Guys a lot).

Then other things were more important. After the birth of my sons the Star Wars series got me into Lego again.

2005 saw the final break-through as my wife and I realized that building with Lego would make a great hobby - and (also important) being adults we could afford much more sets and bricks as compared to ourselves as children.

I am building MOCs in several topic areas which makes it more difficult for me to specialise.

Castles are great, spaceships and houses too, the dwarves are fabulous - and I like Napoleonic soldiers and "pirate ships" (redcoats, bluecoats, etc.).

Historic accuracy is not the key focus. Playability is more important - and an element of fun, whenever possible.

What surprises me is the difference in "attraction" that a certain MOC is drawing. This is definitely not related to the hours invested into the MOC.

Here are my "top three" MOCS.

1) Lake Town House

http://www.eurobrick...topic=90468&hl=

2) British Mortars

http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=93276

3) HMS Lion

http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=89555

So these were very popular.

However, there are some MOCs, which I myself like very much and which also cost a lot of time to build:

a) Palace "Jaune Banane"

http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=92916

b) Fortress in the Snow (This had got some followers)

http://www.eurobrick...topic=88177&hl=

c) The "Prince Ian-Lucas"

http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=95714

Ok, some more recent "nonsense":

The cookie monster family