Book II - Mitgardia: Guild sign-up and Discussion

[dathil]

I just bought for around twice of what I could afford :P a few hundred transyellow and -red round plates, some greenery, some streamers, 15 new wolfpacks and 35 more bulls (somebody did them away for little, couldnt resist)

[Pvt13]

What do you use the trans yellow and red for? And I know what you mean by overextending your monetary capabilities ;) I would've liked to order lots more as well. Oh the troubles of starting a new collection...

P.s. by bulls you mean cows?

Edited May 19, 2016 by Pvt13

[soccerkid6]

Barracks Phase 3:

[TitusV]

What do you use the trans yellow and red for? And I know what you mean by overextending your monetary capabilities ;) I would've liked to order lots more as well. Oh the troubles of starting a new collection...

P.s. by bulls you mean cows?

I think he uses them for stained-glass windows, but correct me if I'm wrong

[dathil]

I use them for stained windows indeed, although I didnt see much chance to use them yet. Also to create blood-stained water (the red ones), and the yellow ones for... well... They weren't THAT clean, in those times.

By bulls, I mean the faction from Knights Kingdom, which has become my signature. I have around 50 of them,shields inclusive.

2016-05-19_05-35-54 by David de Rijke, on Flickr

Edited May 19, 2016 by dathil

[TitusV]

That's a pretty collection of figs!

[Alfadas]

That's some nice figs! Also nice amount of Peasant Caps!

[soccerkid6]

@dathil: That is a lot of Bull warriors for sure!

Here's another freebuild:

[Pvt13]

Just received my bricklink order:) I didn't know those Viking boat pieces would be so big haha, just need the middle sections and I can build the boat I wanted to build since I saw Vikings on TV and found out Lego had a Viking theme in my dark ages

[VK-318]

My second build is up!

http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=133103

I have named two common types of plant life in the Orcish Marshes: fenweed (at some point to be represented with dark sand yellow 3x and 4x axles standing on their studded or flat end) and orcfang frond (depicted with the large palm-leaf parts, can be any reasonable color).

Edited May 23, 2016 by VK-318

[soccerkid6]

For my 8000th post, i thought it'd be fitting to look back over my time in Guilds of Historica.

I joined Mitgardia on November 12th, 2011, so going on 5 years in the guilds

Challenge 1 got me to make my first Mitgardian MOC:

Though I didn't know enough to post it as a separate topic, so it likely wasn't counted as an entry.

My enthusiasm for the guilds waned some for a time, but late in Challenge 2 I decided to make an entry:

Even back then my builds had interiors

After challenge 2 I became much more involved in Mitgardia and entered lots of minichallenges and kept busy making freebuilds too.

My first castle for the guilds (pictures are improving somewhat anyways ):

My challenge 3 entry pictures seem to have been lost, but here is a WIP shot of it:

And a build that I think marked quite a turning point in my MOCing career, and was also my first grey castle:

Before Challenge 4, I hosted a small mini-challenge and was amazed by the entries, Commerce Challenge.

My Ch. 4 entry was my biggest build at that point:

My Challenge V entry was even bigger, though probably too big for my collection and skills at the time:

Varlyrio Challenge entry:

I made 2 full castles for Challenge 6, the second of which was my first build to ever be blogged on The Brothers Brick.

I had the pleasure of working with Ecc and Kabel in making "The Blizzard"

One of the first builds I ever photographed on a white background:

My second minichallenge: Master Architect Challenge

One of my favorite builds from Book 1:

And my last build from Book 1

The first book in GoH made a huge difference in my photography and building skills

And Book 2 saw even more improvement. My main build for Challenge I:

Some free build highlights from around that time:

Challenge 2, the Avalonian Civil War, led to my creating one of my best landscapes, and receiving an honorable mention :

Then Challenge 3, Mitgardian's civil war, pushed me to make quite a lot of builds.

Which earned me my first ever win in a GoH challenge Only took me 3 and a half years, and 9 challenges to get there

More freebuild favorites, and much better pictures now.

Working with other Mitgardians on the Frozen Beyond collab was tons of fun.

I only made a few MOCs for the Kali civil war.

But kept busy with more freebuilds and the Historica Husbandry contest.

Then The Frozen Beyond contest started and I made a few entries.

And a few more freebuilds brings it back to the present.

Hopefully you enjoyed seeing this brief (but still really long ) overview of my time in GoH, and I'd like to thank all the guild members who have made this such an amazing project, and even those who just spectate.

GoH has been my favorite part of the online LEGO community, and I hope it continues for some time

Edited June 4, 2016 by soccerkid6

[Gunman]

GoH ftw... Great profile SK... :) Its amazing how you evolved through ages...

[Alfadas]

Wow, nice summary, SK! You really improved a lot during those 5 years, to make you one of the best (to me, the best) MOCers out there. Keep up the great work! So far, my favourite MOC you made, is the Avalonian Civil War landscape. It's so beautiful!

Just look at the details. The ruins on top of the hill, the hill itself, just Wow.

anyway, I just received a nice amount of bricks, so MOCs are incoming. First the Flickr challenge/contest/thingamacbobber and then some more AoM.

[soccerkid6]

GoH ftw... Great profile SK... :) Its amazing how you evolved through ages...

Thanks Gunman, it is kind of crazy to look back and see how I used to build and the horrible picture quality

Wow, nice summary, SK! You really improved a lot during those 5 years, to make you one of the best (to me, the best) MOCers out there. Keep up the great work! So far, my favourite MOC you made, is the Avalonian Civil War landscape. It's so beautiful!

Just look at the details. The ruins on top of the hill, the hill itself, just Wow.

anyway, I just received a nice amount of bricks, so MOCs are incoming. First the Flickr challenge/contest/thingamacbobber and then some more AoM.

Thanks Alfadas, and I'm glad to hear you have some more builds coming!

[TitusV]

Oh. Just... Oh.

[Kai NRG]

You've really improved. Congrats on 8000 posts, and thanks for the walk back through time. I kept thinking - "Oh, hey! I remember that one! Boy, I wouldn't recognize it as SK's now!"

[soccerkid6]

Oh. Just... Oh.

Thanks Titus, you're always too kind

You've really improved. Congrats on 8000 posts, and thanks for the walk back through time. I kept thinking - "Oh, hey! I remember that one! Boy, I wouldn't recognize it as SK's now!"

Thanks Kai! It's kind of crazy to think that Ive made 8000 posts here

[Wedge09]

So looong post.... Quite an improvement Soccerkid from the start and congrats for 8000 posts

[Ecclesiastes]

Nice too see all off those again sk! You surely have improved and turned into one of the most well known castle builders, so have many others!

[ixypixy]

Congrats SK on reaching 8000 posts! It's amazing to see how your work has developed. I've always found your builds very inspiring

[dathil]

SK you are the example to many of us. Seeing that even you grew even better through the years, gives me hope :P

[soccerkid6]

So looong post.... Quite an improvement Soccerkid from the start and congrats for 8000 posts

Thanks Wedge, if you think reading through the post is long, you should have seen how long it took me to write it

Nice too see all off those again sk! You surely have improved and turned into one of the most well known castle builders, so have many others!

Thanks Ecc, and yeah, GoH has had the majority of castle builders at one time or another

Congrats SK on reaching 8000 posts! It's amazing to see how your work has developed. I've always found your builds very inspiring

Thanks ixypixy

SK you are the example to many of us. Seeing that even you grew even better through the years, gives me hope :P

Thanks dathil, it definitely took some time to improve

[Garmadon]

Congrats, SK, and great overview of your time in Mitgardia! Like Kai, I kept recognizing builds and then thinking, whoa, that actually was quite a long time ago! Keep it up!

[DwalinF]

Dwarves- are my mostly longlife creations, Ussualy I break my MOCs after photoset, but not theese.

Gyrocopter

Organ Gun

10 Thunderrers

10 Ironbreakers

6 Longbeards

2 Gunners

1 Gyrocopter Pilot

1 Runepriest Dwalin Forkbeard

1 King Fundi Grudgebearer

Edited June 8, 2016 by DwalinF

[soccerkid6]

Impressive group of dwarves there, Dwalin!