Hello everyone! I am MovieMocs and I am new to the forums but I would like to share some of my favourite mocs I've created and I'd love some feedback to help make me a better builder. The first moc I will be posting is this one. A 3-D map of middle earth.

It features these famous landmarks:

Barad Dur

Mt. Doom

Minas Tirith

Helm’s Deep

The Iron Hills

The Lonely Mountain/Smaug

Laketown

Mirkwood/Spiders

High Pass

Rivendell

Weathertop

Gandalf’s Fireworks

Hobbit Hole

Dol Guldur

Please leave as much feedback as possible. Thanks so much!

 

Edited July 23, 20177 yr by MovieMocs

Wow! So well done!

I really like the way you designed and built each individual place, and the compass and title are great.

Constructive Criticism: Looking and the model as a map, I find the majority of the landmarks are in good positions by themselves, but as a whole and relative to each other, the landmarks are rather monospaced and may need to be placed in some places farther from other landmarks and in some places closer. Also, I found the yellow land was not very accurate nor matching with any real maps because none of them are yellow. But I also understand you may not have enough brown or beige pieces. That's just fine.

Edited July 24, 20177 yr by J P
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16 minutes ago, J P said:

Wow! So well done!

I really like the way you designed and built each individual place, and the compass and title are great.

Constructive Criticism: Looking and the model as a map, I find the majority of the landmarks are in good positions by themselves, but as a whole and relative to each other, the landmarks are rather monospaced and may need to be placed in some places farther from other landmarks and in some places closer. Also, I found the yellow land was not very accurate nor matching with any real maps because none of them are yellow. But I also understand you may not have enough brown or beige pieces. That's just fine.

Thanks so much! and thanks for the criticism. You were right to assume that I didn't have enough pieces to build it light brown (I have like 30 light brown pieces) compared to my 1500+ yellow parts. The scaling was very tricky for this build because I didn't want to make it too big that is was awkward to carry/move, I also didn't want too much empty land space so the ratio was tricky and thinking back there are defiantly some changes I could make. I also had to make it big enough that I could fit all the structures that I wanted could fit without being too cluttered. Thank you so much for the detailed response and feedback. This will totally help me in my building :) Thanks, MovieMocs 

Great map i like the iconic places you chose to represent just change the yellow to brown if you can but otherwise great work!

On 9/4/2017 at 6:56 AM, Ancalagon the black said:

Great map i like the iconic places you chose to represent just change the yellow to brown if you can but otherwise great work!

Thanks so much! I don't have any brown parts (or anywhere close to enough) and I didn't wanna buy them. Maybe I'll rebuild it this winter and order some more parts :)

I love the idea and great work presenting each place. Agree with the yellow to brown issue but I understand completely.

8 hours ago, ramar said:

 

I love the idea and great work presenting each place. Agree with the yellow to brown issue but I understand completely.

Thanks! I'm glad you understand my conundrum :) I'll probably re-do this moc before christmas with the updated coloring :)