Book II - Kaliphlin: Guild sign-up and Discussion

[NiceMarmot]

Yeah, a lot of my unsorted bricks are from stuff I built a year or two ago. I still haven't fully taken apart the Kaliphlin embassy in Valholl from early 2012 I think. There's still one of the floors left; my son complains every time I threaten to tear it apart. He likes to play with minifigs in all the little rooms.

I also just bought some bricks on BrickLink, so I'll have to sort them too. I haven't bought anything on BL for about a year, but prices seemed fairly good right now. Can't wait to use some of the new pieces.

[SarahJoy]

Kinda quiet in the guild last few days... Everyone must be at the Qarkyr Rocktoberfest!

Actually, I was at a local Oktoberfest recently!

I've been a busy little bee, but with little to show at this point. Three or four builds are at the "rough draft" stages, and all of them require that I order more bricks. The apron's coming along nicely, but I'm out of colored printer ink, which makes it harder to test progress, so it's a project that's sort of simmering on the back burner right now. I have a feeling I'm getting too detailed for minifig scale. Here's where we're at thus far:

I'm going to end up adding a lot more paint smears, and then end up taking half of them off, and then recoloring them to best match actual LEGO colors, but, it's coming along nicely, I think.

Edited October 7, 2014 by SarahJoy

[Gideon]

I've started to recover from the LFW trip and begun to sort through the fallout. Some MOCs were quite unkindly packed and will never be repaired, but I've decided to keep the Streets of Barqa in displayable condition a while longer even though I'm missing our annual LUG exhibition in November. I've also dug out one of my Nordana Castle modules which was buried in 15 kg of lego from the random "mystery box" I bought there. A lot of completely useless parts (for example technic and weird minifig torsos) but some nice stuff as well. A highlight was 41 bags of 1x1 light bley tiles, I'm guessing about 100 in each bag so about 4k such tiles Most of the lego is not so well segregated and will take forever to sort though...

With all the other sorting of half-dismantled MOCs and other stuff I'm not expecting to be building very much for a while, but I hope of course to have some time to build for Challenge 3!

Edited October 7, 2014 by Gideon

[NiceMarmot]

A highlight was 41 bags of 1x1 light bley tiles, I'm guessing about 100 in each bag so about 4k such tiles

Wow, that's a haul! Are they the square tiles or the round ones? I've seen the round ones in the PAB wall at the store, but never the square ones.

And a 15kg mystery box! That's a lot of LEGO. How much did it cost?

[Gideon]

Wow, that's a haul! Are they the square tiles or the round ones? I've seen the round ones in the PAB wall at the store, but never the square ones.

Square ones. Hopefully goes well with my round PaB ones

Not sure if the prize of the box should be public...

[robuko]

Woah, impressive loot! But, there are no useless bricks you know, just some bricks have to be used differently

I have just had to change the scale of my WIP to bigger because the proportions didn't work for the pomp and grandiosity I had in mind. Wish Lego did bigger arches.... I think I have a solution now but it's really using a lot of bricks. Making slow progress.

[Gideon]

Wish Lego did bigger arches.... I think I have a solution now but it's really using a lot of bricks.

If you go big enough inverted slopes may be a good approximation?

[NiceMarmot]

New build up! I'm on fire! More builds in the past two weeks than in the twelve previous months probably. I'm loving the new building space, and loving my new focus on small vignettes.

[BrickCurve]

For those wondering where I've been for the last week.

[Kai NRG]

@SarahJoy, I'd suggest making the paint splotches thicker and less detailed... the kind of splotches I'd make if I had a brush proportionally as big as the LEGO brushes (well not quite, but larger than a pencil line brush, more like a good size marker). (More like what you'd make in MS Paint, than what you've got now.)

[kabel]

Except for my embassy I've never really build much in Kaliphlin, but I thought you guys would deserve an hommage:

[robuko]

This just about makes up for trying to start a war with us

[kabel]

Nah, you guys are just lucky you have so many female members ...

[Yzalirk]

I just found another armor piece I could use with my project! It looks awesome and it would go well, in my opinion, so please don't tempt me into spoiling it.

On the other hand, is anything like Heroica allowed with quests, in which I add people to a "party" to complete certain story tasks? I just thought of it now and how it would make for some cool builds and stories.

[Lord Vladivus]

I just found another armor piece I could use with my project! It looks awesome and it would go well, in my opinion, so please don't tempt me into spoiling it.

On the other hand, is anything like Heroica allowed with quests, in which I add people to a "party" to complete certain story tasks? I just thought of it now and how it would make for some cool builds and stories.

So like collabs? Where you use others sig-figs? That would be ok, so long as you check and get permission!

[Yzalirk]

So like collabs? Where you use others sig-figs? That would be ok, so long as you check and get permission!

Kind of, in the sense they'll be there spiritually, just not in the actual build itself.

[TheUtilityBelt]

I hate reality. It's football season right now and life hates me at this time of year so I might be popping in and out. But I'm back!

[BrickCurve]

Does anyone have any idea how many trans 1 x 1 round plates it would take to achieve a similar effect to this (https://www.flickr.c...-127022024@N08/) on my W.I.P. below.

[Gideon]

Does anyone have any idea how many trans 1 x 1 round plates it would take to achieve a similar effect to this (https://www.flickr.c...-127022024@N08/) on my W.I.P. below.

I tried the technique a while ago and I was surprised that literally all my (what I thought at the time was more than I ever will need) trans-clear, trans-light blue and trans-blue 1x1 round plates was needed.

So for your build about half to two-thirds of a PaB mug maybe?

In numbers that is quite a lot... But if you have an entirely blue layer underneath it probably takes less, I had to cover up all the gray area of the baseplate.

[BrickCurve]

@Gideon, Sadly there are no official Lego stores in Australia so I'd be buying them of Bricklink unless I wait a few years for the rumored discovery centre in Melbourne to open, or wishing I knew someone in the same country as a Lego store that would send my the parts.

Edited October 14, 2014 by BrickCurve

[Gideon]

@Gideon, Sadly there are no official Lego stores in Australia so I'd be buying them of Bricklink unless I wait a few years for the rumored discovery centre in Melbourne to open, or wish I knew someone in the same country as a Lego store that would send my the parts.

I know how it is... We don't have any PaB wall in Sweden either, I just try to pick up a few cups whenever I'm travelling (especially if it's to the US where it's like 50% off!)

If you have some round plates I would advice you to try to fill at least a part of the water and then count them and multiply by the total area.

Otherwise, a great water part that has started to appear on PaB walls (and therefore very cheap on BL) recently is the jewel 30153 in trans-light blue which I think looks even better for water. I've picked up something like a cup and a half in total this summer when visiting a couple of Lego Stores So far I've not managed to build something to include them in however...

Edited October 14, 2014 by Gideon

[robuko]

Wow, lots of Kali is going with the dwarves. It was nice in the last challenge that so many of us were on the hospital side. I don't have many dwarves of much bley

[Kai NRG]

@Brick Curve, I would guess, roughly speaking ~1000, to get it really well covered (that's probably a bit high). You could probably reduce that to ~500 or less if you tiled the blue instead of using plates with studs.

[Gideon]

Wow, lots of Kali is going with the dwarves. It was nice in the last challenge that so many of us were on the hospital side. I don't have many dwarves of much bley

I havn't had any use of most of my Gimlis or Hobbit dwarves, so I figured I should try something new. And last challenge was way to peaceful

Still have most of my bley tied into my castle which turned out to be way more long lived than I thought, but I guess I will have to open my last Helm's Deep and Kingdoms Joust if I come up with something slightly more parts consuming. Right now I'm probably going to focus on the two smaller categories and maybe (but only if time with two kids permits) do something for the last category.

@Brick Curve, I would guess, roughly speaking ~1000, to get it really well covered (that's probably a bit high). You could probably reduce that to ~500 or less if you tiled the blue instead of using plates with studs.

It all depends on how deep the water should be, but for just some random texture on top of a blue plate maybe that would do...otherwise I think a couple of thousands at least.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Gideon

[Kai NRG]

It all depends on how deep the water should be, but for just some random texture on top of a blue plate maybe that would do...otherwise I think a couple of thousands at least.

Really? (not sarcasm) I was figuring something like 100 1x1 rounds to every 6x6, which in my experience has been plenty (though I haven't counted, but I know 100 is a small handful). I'm assuming, too, that only the parts with blue plates are going to be covered.