Entries in MOCs (2)
Varick
Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 17:28 I posted a while back about my recent Lego purchase, 10190 Market Street . The set quickly became a surprise favourite, and before long my thoughts turned to expansion, and how I could develop or build upon the idea further. It's something The Lego Group continue to do themselves, and since the release of the set and it's thematic brothers, it's a building style and idea that's quickly developing it's own community, that thankfully provides a continuous stream of new MOCs.
Varick is my first attempt at this new way of building, and my first foray into town/city building since, well...a long time ago. Being different from something medieval historical or fantasy-based, the end result is a MOC that uses different brick types and colours to what i'm normally used to. Nonetheless, it's an interesting diversion, and a sub-theme i'm interested in continuing with at a further date, perhaps with a Varick 2.0? Already i'm seeing things that i'm not happy with the current model, while, inevitably, new ideas are a recurring distraction. I've included both 10190 and 10185 in the MOC, but i've changed them a little- adding floors, changing the roof and adding smaller details to help it fit in with what I have built. The backs of these models have also been added to, but i've restrained myself from adding interiors. As always it's the little things that excite me- populating the MOC is always my favourite part, no matter what i'm building.
Varick will remain built for a few days. The actual sets that i've spliced into it i'll try and keep built for as long as possible, but as for the rest, it doesn't matter too much- I need my bricks back! As ever, deconstruction and the tedious sorting that will follow, are two things i'm not looking forward to. Planning ahead for the next project, thankfully, is the opposite.
CC Battles Contest : Widmore and Mortia
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 16:39 
I mentioned a while ago my intent on entering the CC Battles Contest. i've had my entries completed for over a week now, but I finally got to photographing them today. It's my first year entering the annual contest, but it was exciting (and difficult) trying to build something more focussed towards action rather than structure. As such structures kinda feature heavily as backdrops in both the entries, but I like how the battles turned out, and they're both completely different from each other.
Attack on Widmore is a purely a classic-castle battle with Forestmen attacking a Crusader fort, separated only by a river. The idea originally was to have trees bridging across the river and the actual fort a lot more crumbled and overgrown, in a state of neglect, but now it kind of contrasts with the greenery across the river, which I like. The fort has a small interior too. It's completely unnecessary given the criteria of the contest, but i'm weird like that. The river is SNOT too which I think is a first for me, but I like the smoothness of how it turned out- it's something i'll be doing again.
The Battle of Mortia on the other hand is a lot more in keeping with that of the current Lego Castle line, with necromancers and skeletons- it's also got a lot of the newer colours too such as the dark-green. Generally i'm a fan of neither, but it was fun building in a new style and colour-way to what I usually do. Originally the battle was going to be below and over a bridge (again with dark green), but I needed somewhere for the Necromancer mastermind, so the tower was included. It wasn't going to be as high either, but, well...I got carried away.
At this stage i'm not sure if there will be a third entry or not. A lot of my bricks have been used and the thought of de-assembling and sorting those two entries frightens me completely. The contest ends on the 5th of April though, so I may build a smaller entry yet. It depends how forthcoming new ideas are.
CC Battles Contest, MOCs, Classic-Castle in Lego, General 