The Brickset Builders Guild - share your MOCs here!

CapnRex101

Although Brickset is primarily a website concerning collecting, there are plenty of talented builders on the Brickset forum, who often post MOCs on the 'what are you building right now' thread. Therefore, after consulting with Huw, he and the other moderators have kindly allowed me to set up a new thread solely for presenting your MOCs.

So without further ado, I would like to introduce 'The Brickset Builders Guild.'

There are no limitations on what you can post, including models of any theme or size, in real bricks or in LDD. As long as it is all your own creation, just about anything goes!

As well as simply demonstrating your building skills, a weekly contest will also be held. There are a few details I should give about how I envisage these contests running, although there is every chance that this will change with time as we discover what works and what does not. Anyway, this is how (at least) the first contest will work:

The contest each week will run from one Wednesday to the next, starting and ending at 00:00 GMT.
Naturally, if you miss the deadline for one week, your MOC will be entered for the next week.
All of the MOCs posted each week will be eligible for judging.
In each week, the models will be judged by two judges.
Each of these judges will be nominated by the judges of the previous week.
The judging will not be based on size or theme, only skills and building techniques demonstrated will be taken into account.

There is no prize for this weekly contest beyond the acknowledgement and glory of being Brickset's builder of the week! However, there may be larger contests held which will have prizes every so often.

The judges for this week will be posted later.

I look forward to seeing plenty of outstanding MOCs!

rancorbait

We really needed a thread like this :o)

carlq

This is a terrific idea, @CapnRex101‌ - I love seeing the imagination and artistry that people put into their MOCs.

Poisso3

Yeah, this will become my most visited thread. :)

GothamConstructionCo

Great idea @CapnRex101.
Now I just need to get around to finishing some of the many MOCs I start but never finish ;-)

TheOneVeyronian

Yes, with this thread, Bricksetters can now show their creativity (and being good friends with @CapnRex101, I knew about this thread before it was posted. There's a detail we've been working on together but I think I'll keep it secret until CapnRex wants to reveal it ;-) ). Therefore I shall get the ball of creativity rolling and post up pics of an LDD creation of mine I've had on my computer for a while but never got round to showcasing it. Here's my Architecture-style dream mansion:




Enjoy, and I look forward to seeing other Bricksetter's creations!

LostInTranslation

This is great! I'm in the same boat as @GothamConstructionCo though :-S

Would you consider using the 'Brickset Builders Guild' as a means for encouraging people to work together on collaborative projects for shows?

adventure_al

I'm not exactly super proud of this or anything. It's far from a master piece but here is my first MOC in OVER 10 YEARS! So I'm pleased I manage to stick something together. Admitadly struggling with a roof. I guess we all have to start somewhere, right?

CapnRex101

@LostInTranslation‌ - Absolutely, whatever use people have for it is welcome, as long as it is MOC related.

drdavewatford

Thanks for taking the initiative, @CapnRex101 - it'll be good to hopefully have MOCs all in one place rather than scattered across various threads as is currently the case.

So as to get into the spirit of things, here's my latest effort :


More details at :

http://gimmelego.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/spook-central.html

It was on display at the Watford LEGO brand store recently, and will hopefully be installed at one of the LEGO brand stores in the North of England at some point over the next couple of months.

LostInTranslation said:

Would you consider using the 'Brickset Builders Guild' as a means for encouraging people to work together on collaborative projects for shows?

Why not ?

rancorbait

LostInTranslation said:

This is great! I'm in the same boat as @GothamConstructionCo though :-S

Would you consider using the 'Brickset Builders Guild' as a means for encouraging people to work together on collaborative projects for shows?

We should have a collaborative building competition sometime. :o)

rancorbait

This is what I've been working on all week. What I was hoping to accomplish was a midi-scale Star destroyer with the accuracy of a UCS model, which I think turned out quite well! :o)

If anyone would like the file I can send it to you :o)

MorkMan

Bravo for this thread!

TechnicNick

Great thread - thanks @CapnRex101. A Technic / UCS Mini:

TheBrickLadd

^ wow, how many parts is this?

CapnRex101

Now is probably a good time to announce that the judges for the first contest are @carlq‌ and I, so keeping posting those MOCs!

GothamConstructionCo

^ in that case I think I'm going to have to revisit my Superheroes MOC and finish things up as I know how partial you both are to a bit of Cape ;-)

binaryeye

CapnRex101 said:

Now is probably a good time to announce that the judges for the first contest are @carlq‌ and I, so keeping posting those MOCs!

Will there be guidelines or a theme for the contest? Or are you simply going to judge what has already been posted to this thread?

CapnRex101

@binaryeye - The intention is to simply judge from what is posted, but this may develop depending on how it works out on this occasion.

oldtodd33

@CapnRex101 Will LDD files be judged along with actual brick built MOC's or just real life MOC's?

CapnRex101

@oldtodd33‌ - LDD and real brick creations will be judged equally.

TechnicNick

teamladd said:

^ wow, how many parts is this?

I didn't count as I built it so I can only estimate - around 6,500.

doomer72

This is a great idea and has finally pushed me to share a MOC that I've been working on for a long time .It is my first build from scratch and it is a Wayne Manor modular playset loosely based on Wollaton Hall that was used for the Dark knight rises.i have furnished most of the rooms so far and I am waiting for another brick order to complete the roof and gardens.
I wasn't sure wether or not to post it unfinished but I have waited long enough to share it and welcome peoples thoughts on it.

doomer72

Apologies for the photo quality and my technical abilities . It's easy to see why I can't even trust myself with Facebook :-)

rancorbait

@doomer72 That, my friend, is a masterpiece!

TheLoneTensor

I'm all dizzy!

CapnRex101

@carlq - This is going to a tricky decision!

carlq

@CapnRex101‌ - I'm with you! We seem to have an embarrassment of riches here! :-)

Chrisbstm

Wow is all I can say, some very talented people here. Here's my contribution, a GS chicken walker style mech.

Dougout

Poisso3 said:

Yeah, this will become my most visited thread. :)

Mine too

CapnRex101

Now that a week has passed, it is time to announce the winner of the first contest, and that person is...

@doomer72‌ for his Wayne Manor!

Both @carlq and I agreed that this MOC was an excellent rendition of the famous Wollaton Hall, and it is certainly a house fit for a billionaire like Bruce Wayne! Carl has given me a few words to post on his behalf:

"It was a tough choice, but my vote is for @doomer72's Wayne Manor. Despite his statement that it is "loosely based" on Wollaton Hall, I think it is an excellent representation given the scale (I've been there several times). What I like most about this is that it works well as both playset and display piece. Congratulations!"

The only prize for victory is of course the recognition, but this badge will also be posted on your wall:



So a final congratulations to @doomer72 and a good luck to all for the weeks to come!

rancorbait

Batman Begins tumbler:


More on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/rancorbait/


Good job @doomer72 :o)

doomer72

Thanks so much for the nice comments and for voting me this weeks winner,it really was totally unexpected and will inspire me to finish it and start the next project I am planning.
I love the Mini ,I would love to own Dr Dave's Ghostbusters set !,and @rancorbait your tumbler looks amazing .
I hope this thread continues to persuade people to show their talent off , I'm already checking daily for new MOCs and would like to be a judge in the future .
Thanks again for making my day guys .

TechnicNick

A worthy winner - well done @doomer72! I hope this carries on, it's a fantastic idea and there's loads of talent here.

And for my next trick, just completed three days ago, a Morris Minor given the technic / UCS treatment in 1:7 scale (the Mini was 1:6)

doomer72

Thanks @TechnicNick‌ ,your vision and talent for recreating those iconic vehicles is fantastic.This thread is going to keep a lot of us very busy :-)

CapnRex101

I am pleased to announce that the judges for this week will be @Pitfall69‌ and @GothamConstructionCo‌.

TheOneVeyronian

Some very high quality MOC's here I must admit!

Well, here's another MOC I've been motivated to actually finish - a 96x96, 9,000 piece LEGO mosaic of the cover art of my absolute favourite album of recent years - The Resistance by Muse (opinions may vary of course)

Oh, and here's the mosaic (it is best viewed at a distance, or really small :-) ):

And another angle so you can see the studs:


This will hopefully be the first of a series of "LEGO album covers" that I hope to do... eventually :-)

It's also only the second mosaic I've ever done, and the first at this size :-)

aimlesspursuits

Started to play with the new ball joint pieces. Had a basic idea in mind when I started. It eventually evolved into this. Definitely like the new joints.

doomer72

Wow @aimlesspursuits‌ ,that looks great.it looks strong to me with near human qualities and a character of its own .

TheOneVeyronian

I've been meaning to post this MOC for a while, but I kept making amendments to it. I didn't like the fact that all LEGO SUV vehicles that were City scale did not actually fit many minifigures. Many SUV's in the real world can carry 7 people, so I had a go at making a City-scale SUV that actually sat 7 minifigures, and had a "proper" opening tailgate. This is what I got (it's loosely based on a Land Rover, and yes there is one painted part on the bonnet which will be replaced as soon as TLG cast that part in black):









Click each picture to make it bigger and view the explanations.

plasmodium

^Nice. I always hated that minifig-scale vehicles could only ever fit one or two figs (even big vehicles). Just out of interest, though, is there no translucent rear windscreen-type piece that would fit?

TheOneVeyronian

@plasmodium I've tried several pieces for the rear tailgate and I couldn't find anything that worked, mainly due to the awkward dimensions that the vehicle is built in. I admit that I'm not exactly happy with the top part of the tailgate as it is (it also breaks a lot!), which I'll probably experiment with more once I get some more time :-)

TheOneVeyronian

Actually, following @plasmodium's question which he asked "out of interest", it actually inspired me to further mod my 7-seater SUV (again). There is now a rear windscreen, not as simple as it could have been as it turned out as it involved a roof redesign for it to maintain functionality:
Closed tailgate

Opened tailgate


(I think Count Dooku's gaudy red wheels are permanent :-P )

rancorbait

@aimlesspursuits I've been playing around with those joints myself, and finally put this together.



Its a vigilance class exploration pod, or 'stickpod'. Built for exploration on alien worlds it is equipped with tools for taking samples, photos, and gathering information. Since it is not a battle mech it is not armed with lethal weapons, but it is installed with a high voltage taser for incapacitating any hostiles it might encounter. It only takes one human pilot to control the machine, but it can also be operated remotely from the cruisers orbiting the planet if necessary.


More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rancorbait/

beegeedee

I've been working on a modular house design in LDD. I say house but it's a book shop, coffee shop and office space all in one inspired by a coffee shop my wife and I used to go to in Scotland. It's digital only at the moment and I've got PDF instructions which fixes a few issues in these photos that you can't see. Not got the parts to build it even though I did the design - never thought that through.

It was originally designed as a 16x16 model but then the eurobricks digital comp came around and I redesigned the whole model for that as a full modular-type house/building.

I need to sort somewhere out to upload the instructions and LDD/MPD files - have both and as soon as I do I'll share them. It's about 2300 pieces give or take and potentially uses some parts that you can't actually get so may need some further adjusting.

GothamConstructionCo

As the end of another week closes upon us it's time to announce this weeks winner.

It's turned out to be a vehicle themed week this week and some very strong offerings from a elite pool of talented builders. Both @Pittfall69 and I enjoyed pouring over the fantastic MOCs. So in a way your all winners. But in another way there can only be one winner.

This week the prestigious award of the Brickset Builders Guild contest ,



Goes to @TechnicNick for his wonderful USC scale Morris Minor.
By no means an easy feat of brick and stud engineering as the Morris Minor is one of the most curviest cars ever put into production. But somehow @TechnicNick has captured the essence if the car and as a set it wouldn't look out of place on the shelves of a Lego Brand retail Store.

As we are now entering a third week of showing off our building skills, I hand over the rains of judging to @TechnicNick who I think is more than qualified for the task.
Co-judge is yet to be announced due to a unexpected hospital visit today.

Thank you everyone and keep your ideas and talent coming.

Pitfall69

Now that a week has passed, it is time to announce the winner of this week's contest, and that person is...

@TechnicNick‌ for his Morris Minor! The details of his 1:7 Scale model were fantastic. He certainly has a gift building Lego Scale Models.

The only prize for victory is of course the recognition, but this badge will also be posted on your wall:



Congratulations to @TechnicNick‌ and good luck to next week's entries.

GothamConstructionCo

News just in,
The immensely talented builder @rancorbait‌ has appointed as Co-judge for this weeks contest.

TechnicNick

Thanks judges! Very happy, there was some strong competition there. I look forward to judging the coming week's entries.

doomer72

Congratulations @TechnicNick‌ ,we'll deserved.

beegeedee

Congrats @TechnicNick‌ nice model.