[MOC] Temple of Selune

[Angeli]

I am building a huge AD&D diorama.

As a part of it, I have a Temple of Seluna.



Two towers, connected with a bridge, and in final setup they will be on two diferent sides of a chasam that is leading directly into underdark, and they will be surrounded with water, with waterfalls falling into Underdark. Each tower is around 1.2m tall (the talles tower in diorama will be 3m tall), and the chasam is 0.8m deep. The towers will have surroundings, water gardens and attached buildings.
Temple is work in progress, I am expecting 1000 pearl gold chains to arrive till the end of week (they are around 0.03 eur per piece, so 30 something eur for all)


As a special threat, I really like this torso from Night Protector, CM Series 22, bricklink id  col392 which I am using with elvish hairs and hoods with masks, with spear and trans purple shields. You can also notice bunch of Mindflayers in the background, as they will have their space in the Underdark



Underdark will have huge par devoted to the Drow (my favorite LEGO theme:), one part for the Dwarven stronghold, one part for the Lich with lech dragon and small sceleton army - and the rest will be fungy, Myconids, and the else what can be found in Underdark Above there will be human willage on 4x4 (always 48x48), whan Temple of Selune on 4x4, thank 2m tall dragon with dragonborn castle, and finally lake with elvish ruins, vampire stronghold, forest, and wizard's tower (3m high). The whole diorama will be 16x4 (48x48) with another level below of 16x2 for Underdark, 80 cm high. I already have prepared hundreds of unique AD&D themed minifigs, have a squad of around 100 dragonborn warriors (dragon head from dragonbron paladin, body from that large minifig from NEXO knights, 10 dragons Hungarian thorntails from Harry Potter, just modified with 4 wings and bunch of other things, you can see two of them on a cake in front of my club member in a picture 2m tall dragon will be glued and with metal frame inside, as I would like her wings to go over much of diorama


Underdark is by far part of build I am most looking forward for. I love how Drow look with new heads (I used to post here my old Drow cities, you can find them using search)

[Wardancer]

Great building, very nice Elves!

[GeoBrick]

'Grand' is too short a word to describe this... magnificence...

The construction looks straightforward but the detailing seems to bring just enough variation in the build.

[Doddsino]

Very cool! Super envious.

[Angeli]

thank you, guys :)

 

5 hours ago, Doddsino said:

Very cool! Super envious.

no need to be :) Since I was born and until I was 30 I literary had two buckets of bricks. I discovered bricklink on 01.01. 2008. and needed 4 months to make my first order of 40 eur :) spent so much time in bank trying to send money, and I waited 4 months for someone to come from Germany and bring the package to me :)

When package came, I just gave one of last exams I had, it was super dificult to pass, I had a new girl that I really really liked for two months, both gorgeous and a pall, and she told me she loved me, and I got my package with LEGO bricks, most were minifig accessories.
I felt like on the top of the world
Two weeks later girlfriend left me, I faild next exame and LEGO bricks become old, as I already played with them (initial enthusiasm faded) - than I realized that today you can have everything, and tomorrow nothing, and nothing lasts for ever "famous from coin "this will pass also" :)

until 2012 I thought I was the only adult in my country (Serbia) who plays with LEGO bricks. Imagine that. I realized than there are other adults, and I started socializing, not soon after we made our club, Beokocka
since 2013 to 2024 I have acquired over 6 tons (6000 kg) of LEGO bricks, between 20.000 and 40.000 minifigs, and today I have around 300 diferent size dioramas built, all cruising the world on events. Note that my monthly paycheck until 2018 was 250-350 eur my whole life, and my familly was lower middle class (so no extra money)

And although I do have some skilles or virtues developed, so do you or anyone - meaning, anyone can do what I have done - and I also post A TON of "how to" on Beokocka site (totally nonprofit), with literary just one goal - to help AFOLs to do the same (today I earn one new house every two years from LEGO, and even though it is mostly passive income, I build every day not because I need to, but because I love to build - this build is not for a specific event, I just love the AD&D (fantasy castle) theme in LEGO

I am 46 now, have two kids, happy home, amazing wife, and it didn;t just happen, I worked on it. I wll never EVER play a lottery and win, it is just as it is - when people mention hundreds of girlfriends I had, I note one thing - for every single one I had to sweat to seduce her (I had to put effort, in my country girls value virtue, achivements, looks have zero influence, as well as money, the better looking girl, the smarter and stronger she is, more virtue value she demands from you when you try to seduce - and I love our culture for this:). Same goes with sport, I played in national team of Serbia for more than decade - but when I started, I was the worst :) the slowest. So I went to proffesionals, modified my technicue and went every day on training - and I salowly came to be one fo the fastest in team, if not the fastes tone.

Same with faculty, same with business, same with friends and social circles, same as publishing books that have 1500 and more pages - you just sit and write few pages today. Do that every day, after a year you have a 1000 page book. Our house was so dirty in one moment, I lost desire to clean, because it would take days. So what I did? I made a list of everything that needed to be cleaned, moved and fixed, and went, one thing on list, one day.

Everything was fixed within just few days, as some tasks only took miutes and I had energy to go on

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Regarding quantity of bricks - I would suggest you play with what you have. Set aside 50 eur and buy something from bricklink to refresh what you have, minifig accessories and some makeup bricks, and start building (castle, pirate ship, spaceship, city diorama, what ever is you choosing) and just enjoy the process, and play with it :) like a kid :)

I think you will love it :)

And if you are in EU, we could meet on some event, and I will bring few special bricks as a present :D

[Feuer Zug]

Seriously wicked build. Love the Forgotten Realms vibes and the architecture is perfect. Great story of persevering and keeping up with your hobby as things went sour around you.

[Thomas_w]

Oh you are the DnD guy who made everything in red and black! Super cool. I can't wait to see the progress on this one. Did you play Baldurs Gate 3? 

[Angeli]

7 hours ago, Thomas_w said:

Oh you are the DnD guy who made everything in red and black! Super cool. I can't wait to see the progress on this one. Did you play Baldurs Gate 3? 

oh, you remember :) it was more than 10 years ago :)

Although Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are my most favorite games (I consider Icewind Dale 1 and 2 part of Baldur's Gate), I must say Baldur's Gate 3 really pleasantly suprised me with quality of content - I really enjoyed myself playing it. In this very moment I am playing my third run (first was normal, and I;ve missed many things, made some bad choices without knowing it:), second I went trough tactician and it was great, but still mad emistakes (don;t allow Lae'Zel sit in that contraption in her creshe, ie allow her to sit but force dice (of 30) to force her to get out before it damages her permanently (-2 to stats, each save is another -2, Con, Wis and Int, if I remember correctly, and only cure is for her to eat tadpol, and I never go that route:) and now I am playing on Honor and I am cruising :)

I am building now a large AD&D diorama that isa 16x4 in size (48x48), plus 2x4 Underdark under the main table, 40-60cm high, will have 2m tall dragon - I will make 3 special parties that roam, and only true fans will reckognize it - in first it will be same party I play, more or less:
Jaheira, Khalid, Minsc, Imoen, Dynaheir, Edwin (In reality I play me, Viconia, Kivan, Imoen, Minsc, Dynaheir)
in second, I will have Keldorn, Viconia, Aerie, Nalia, Jan, Korgan (I play me, Keldorn, Viconia, Aerie, Imoen)
in third, Shadowharth, Gale, Lae'Zel, Astarion, Karlach, Minthara (I play me, Lae'Zel, Shadowharth, Gale:)

I am already loving the idea, for example, for Edwin there is a new hood in red from red ridinghood, now I have a hamster for Minsc (asll those things didn;t exist 10 years ago), I have a face and hair for Drow - just yesterday I was preparing 60 Drow warriros as new faces arrived - and I will use the chrome dragon helmet and breastplate for Keldorn, for example, I have nice hoods for imoen - and so on

This isa a first time after years I don;t have a deadline for building creation, and I want to enjoy myself, take it slow, built with love and dedication - you should see my work table, it is filled with love :)

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btw, I calcualted, if I took all of my fantasy castle creations from all events and connected them in one, it would have been world record largest castle diorama in the world :) 40.000 minifigs :)1000 48x48 baseplates :) 3m tall towers :)

To add, I have two kids now, 5 and 2 years old - they practicaly live in my LEGO studio :) build non stop, and we have so much fun. I promised my son that this AD&D diorama will not go to events until he has as much time as he wants to play on it :)

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Amazing architecture for a beautiful masterpiece!