2016 Monthly Building Contest - August: Everyday Life

MattDawson

This month's theme is everyday life. Many of us are always busy with the hustle and bustle of everyday life, but did you notice the policeman helping the old lady cross the road? The flat tenant getting the mail for the ill neighbour? The late-running school student (still with breakfast in their mouths)? The park attendant taking a sneaky few minutes away from their work to play with a dog visiting the park? The storm trooper picking flowers for their bunk buddy? The Yorkshire men reminiscing about their childhoods?

The list is endless and neither is Brickset members creativity. While there's no parts number or usage limitations, for fairness may I ask for no sprawling displays and to keep your entries to a maximum of a 48 by 48 stud base plate, with the exception of backgrounds. 

The Rules:

- your model must be built for the contest, not an existing MOC.

- two photographs per entry only - it helps the thread load better/at all! However feel free to upload any extra images to Flickr etc. that aren't for your entry.

- you can enter as many different models as you like so long as you make a separate post for each

- the contest closes at midnight, UK time, on 31 August, with the winner to be announced by the 4th September.

The Prize:

A poly bag from the mysterious box of blue: collected over many years, this box contains many poly bags both old and new, so you're in for a surprise no matter what is collected by 'the claw'!

Feel free to message me if there's any questions or concerns!

(If you'd like to volunteer to run a future monthly building contest or see what other themes are coming up, we've got a thread for that too!)

snowhitie

Great plan, should give some fun builds.

The link for the volunteers doesn't work though, it just brings you back to the july one, strange. You can find it here: http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/23887/ongoing-monthly-building-contests#latest

MattDawson

Thanks for picking that up, @snowhitie . I presume that's because I just copied the OP without checking the link... whoops. :P

masterX244

@Matt to get the OP fixed flag your post and add a note that a link needs to get fixed so the moderators see what to do and edit the post

Bricklover18

Just a friendly bump

TheOriginalSimonB

I have now worked out what I'm going to build, just need to find the time to actually bash the bricks together...

rdflego

Similarly I have some ideas but I just need to find the correct minifigs for the picture I want to take.

catwrangler

I've had an idea and I'm going to start putting it together tomorrow!

snowhitie

Still at the coast so no access to a lot of pieces, but planning to do it when I get back. Good to see it bumped though!

rdflego

I think it's time we start bumping this thread up the lists

Fauch

the new technic tractor was too expensive? :-)

MattDawson

^ Probably a Lepin imitation... :P

catwrangler

Oh wow, I love it @rdflego! Nice photography too!

Mynatt

I figured that one part of everyday life is what we do after a long day. If it is from sitting down and watching some TV to perhaps playing some games, what ever you do just to take a step back and take a breath from everything else that has gone on in your day. Well for me, and what I am sure is to many other people, is building, and here is my model for that. 

Wasent really sure sure how to represent carpet but I took a shot at it with the 4 long bars.

snowhitie

Two great builds already.

The photography is really well done @rdflego and I like your way of representing trees/woodland.

Love the vignette too @myanatt and like the detail of the little white cloud out of the window.

catwrangler

That actually is very reminiscent of our attic ("Lego room", sort of) carpet, @Mynatt! Nice texture effect!

MattDawson

Bricksetters, this is your one week warning!

With only two entries so far, I'm waiting in anticipation to see what people can come up with...

snowhitie

I'm still busy on mine but my son (6) wanted to enter too. His vignette for an 'everyday situation' is a pilot going to the IKEA.



He left one and a half side open since that's where the rest of the shop is ;) oh and two doors off course!

Bumblepants

Raking the leaves. I ran out of leaf color parts so took all the azari hairs from my girls and left the sack empty.

snowhitie

^she's not very happy doing that job! Clever to use the azari-hair as a substitute.

catwrangler

I love the colour effect with the azari hair! 

TheOriginalSimonB

Thought long and hard about which part of my everyday life to represent, and came up wit my favourite part of my job.  Getting out and about in my van, surveying bus stops...

SprinkleOtter

TheOriginalSimonB said:

Thought long and hard about which part of my everyday life to represent, and came up wit my favourite part of my job.  Getting out and about in my van, surveying bus stops...

Umm... What?

plasmodium

SprinkleOtter said:

TheOriginalSimonB said:

Thought long and hard about which part of my everyday life to represent, and came up wit my favourite part of my job.  Getting out and about in my van, surveying bus stops...

Umm... What?

The man's got a right to enjoy his job, for goodness' sake... Unless you're expressing incredulity at the existence of bus stop surveyors. In which case, well, if @TheOriginalSimonB doesn't do it, who will? Bus stops must be surveyed. @TheOriginalSimonB isn't the hero Felixstowe deserves, but the hero it needs.

SprinkleOtter

plasmodium said:

SprinkleOtter said:

TheOriginalSimonB said:

Thought long and hard about which part of my everyday life to represent, and came up wit my favourite part of my job.  Getting out and about in my van, surveying bus stops...

Umm... What?

The man's got a right to enjoy his job, for goodness' sake... Unless you're expressing incredulity at the existence of bus stop surveyors. In which case, well, if @TheOriginalSimonB doesn't do it, who will? Bus stops must be surveyed. @TheOriginalSimonB isn't the hero Felixstowe deserves, but the hero it needs.

The latter. ;)

MattDawson

After today, 3 days left in UK time. 

Countown here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20160901T00&p0=297&msg=End+of+August+competition&font=cursive&csz=1

snowhitie

Here is my entry. I've never just made a 'facade' from a building before, so wasn't sure how I should get rid of the empty windows, if I should build a black wall or something behind it. Anyway, that's not the main thing of the build. An everyday scene in my life at the moment.






Found this an exciting challenge, thanks @MattDawson, next month it's my turn, got the idea lined up...

Fauch

I guess our bus company is too afraid of what consumers think to send bus stop surveyors. or maybe they are on strike, as usual.

snowhitie

@TheOriginalSimonB we could join our scenes together actually, only just realised that ;)

TheOriginalSimonB

@snowhitie good call. Now, how can I add your stop to my database?


I'm responsible for 6,500 bus stops across Suffolk including everything from a corner of a field to multi-stand bus stations. So have to go check things are still ok, which means lots of driving around this beautiful county.

rdflego

TheOriginalSimonB said

I'm responsible for 6,500 bus stops across Suffolk including everything from a corner of a field to multi-stand bus stations. So have to go check things are still ok, which means lots of driving around this beautiful county.

Small world, I work for a bus company in Norfolk but I work in both Norfolk and Suffolk.

rdflego

I've been thinking about good examples of glimpses into a small, unseen moments, especially ones that I could represent or remake for this. I think that Nighthawks by Edward Hooper captures the essence of a forgettable, small moment of everyday life so I had a go. The original is here and mine is below.

MattDawson

I had to count the studs then to make sure both @snowhitie and @rdflego kept to the "no bigger than a 48 x 48 stud baseplate" rule. Shows how much perspective can trick the eye, even on this small scale!

Why snow decided to use 3 16 x 32 and not 1 32 x 32 and a 16 x 32 I don't know! Also I'm loving rdf's 'no-glass glass' technique! 

plasmodium

Man, I was wondering how he got such a big, clear, seamless window pane. Only now do I see there is no window at all... Well played, well played...

catwrangler

Whoa, I didn't even realise there was no glass... but right enough; I can't think of a glass pane big enough... 

AllBrick

snowhitie said:

Here is my entry. I've never just made a 'facade' from a building before, so wasn't sure how I should get rid of the empty windows, if I should build a black wall or something behind it. Anyway, that's not the main thing of the build. An everyday scene in my life at the moment.






Found this an exciting challenge, thanks @MattDawson, next month it's my turn, got the idea lined up...

Either your husband is really short or, he didn't escort you to the hospital. Sad either way.

TheOriginalSimonB

@rdflego well do say hi if you ever spot me in the borderlands!

snowhitie

@AllBrick , is nice if you to notice but don't worry, he's in the picture, just obscured in the photograph (I wanted to have to many 'everyday things' in there)


He's been lovely and taking good care of me (not only pushing me around but helping out at home too) so thought he deserved his own picture. The short one is my son;)

AllBrick

Phew!

TheOriginalSimonB

26 hours left to get your entry in...

BillyBricks84

My plan was to make this contest the first one that I build a MOC for, but time and life didn't allow it. I had a Mixel-scale (not sure that's a thing but I don't know how else to describe the size) dog in mind that would be hanging out of a car window. I even started setting aside parts mid-month but got sidetracked with sorting parts instead. How about everyone just imagines how awesome my entry would have been and allow that to count...?

Rebelego

Selling real estate at work!

MattDawson

16 hours remaining!

bobabricks

MattDawson said:

16 hours remaining!

My timezone is -8. I still have 23 hours...

MattDawson

bobabricks said:

MattDawson said:

16 hours remaining!

My timezone is -8. I still have 23 hours...

 
The rules state "- the contest closes at midnight, UK time, on 31 August, with the winner to be announced by the 4th September."

So the 16 (and now just over 14) still stands.

Salamalex

I'm building now. Hopefully I'll make the deadline.

Salamalex

 Spending the month decorating my new LEGO room has left little time for building and thus, all of my clever ideas came to nought. Checking the forum today to find I still had 16 hours galvanised me into action and this has been my recent 'everyday'. The first image is me at the beginning of August, surrounded by boxes, splashing paint with things shoved on shelves. The second is me today, still surrounded by LEGO with some display, a desk and new shelves mostly untidy and on the floor because I have, of course been usurped by one of the many cats. 

LostInTranslation

So many cool entries! I ran out of time again :-(

MattDawson

4 hours, 8 minutes left!

catwrangler

Phew, just under the wire! I made life difficult for myself by scrapping my original idea and starting again. Anyhow, this is why I don't worry about Lego storage too much - the REAL storage problem in our house is with books! Here's me and my partner, home from another visit to a charity shop, contemplating where we can possibly put them all...

(We really do have a Frankenstein's Creature bust, too!)

TheOriginalSimonB

@Salamalex I'd love the luxury of a lego room.

@catwrangler that's such a familiar feeling.