Swift Justice (Avalonian Challenge 1)

[HammerBro]

Drow soldiers taking two Avalonian prisoners through the woods after attacking a small and ill-protected settlement. Before being captured, the Avalonian soldiers sent a messenger bird to reinforcements not far off. Soon, the reinforcements attack to free the prisoners.

The enemies engage the rescuers, but were taken off guard.

Heads begin to roll and one of the prisoners aids his rescuers.

The Drow captain lay motionless and the group of soldiers thank each other as the start to make their way back to the settlement. Upon hearing the news, the Council of Vanhorn orders to double the soldiers in small villages and settlements.

Some fig less and detail shots -

And a Stormtropper easter egg that was requested by my girlfriend. The tree is hallow which allows for him to be there among the supports for the heartwood above.

Thanks for viewing!

[Infernum]

Oh no! The Gundabad orcs have come to Historica! . Nice build! Love the tree! Nice groundwork!

[The Yeti]

I really like how you've managed to represent all of the colors found in the figs again in the landscape, and the overall design of the tree is stunning. Your technique for showing the exposed heartwood is great too, although it would be nice to have an explanation of what could fell such a mighty tree; will we be seeing 300 foot tall mega orcs in the future?

[Lord Vladivus]

Great build! Nice figs, and cool story!

[HammerBro]

I really like how you've managed to represent all of the colors found in the figs again in the landscape, and the overall design of the tree is stunning. Your technique for showing the exposed heartwood is great too, although it would be nice to have an explanation of what could fell such a mighty tree; will we be seeing 300 foot tall mega orcs in the future?

Thanks, I really tried to diversify the colors with forest and fall colors. The idea was to make a bigger version of the tree Digger1221 made shown here, but I also wanted to explore more with slopes for trees. The tree was broken off in a storm, after it was weakened by the effects of the elements over countless years. I have a LDD file that contains plans for a tree that is bigger still, but I'm sure that I probably won't be able to build at all because of the shear number of pieces it would contain. The build shown above contains about 80-100 1x2x3 slopes and has roughly a 17x17 footprint. The LDD tree has a 48x48 footprint and 400 1x2x3 slopes in just the first 15 bricks of height. This is the size of tree that I envision for the heart of the Enchanted Forest of Avalonia and the trees grow smaller as the distance from the center of the forest grows.

Thank you for your comments!

[-Carson Haupt-]

Cool! I like the exposed center, and your ideas about the trees getting smaller and smaller is great too!

[soccerkid6]

The busted off section of the trunk works nicely and I like the selection of leaves you used

[Gideon]

That's the kind of trees that fits the deep Avalonian forests, how many leaf pieces would it require to make the branches with leaves of that one?

I like the color mix a lot as well, need to get more LotR leaves! (And the new Hobbit figs)

[Gunman]

nice colour palette there... earth colours.. sweet work

[HammerBro]

That's the kind of trees that fits the deep Avalonian forests, how many leaf pieces would it require to make the branches with leaves of that one?

I like the color mix a lot as well, need to get more LotR leaves! (And the new Hobbit figs)

The leaves for the big trees are giving me some pause. I modeled them after the redwoods of California, which have small needle leaves. Thus, the lego version would need many small bits of leaf here and there to give the needle effect. I think adding a tree like the one shown here would be suit be a branch coming off the big trunk. It takes about 30 - 40 of the small leaves and I plan to use it by itself in my category b challenge entry.

Thanks, soccer kid and Gunman, I'm glad you all like the colors.

[Rogue Angel]

I really like the tree in the center of the build, as well as the depiction of the inner trunk. Good job with all the color on the forest floor, and I assume that is a hawk perched on the top of the tree stump? Very nice.