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Modular Western Town

gsantos81 — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:53:26 +0000

Modular Western Town project has been live on LEGO Cuusoo since October 2011. The Brothers Brick, Eurobricks, Brickset, Toys N Bricks and others have been supporting this project for a while. I would like to join them supporting too this great idea of extending the modular building concept to the old West!
Let’s take one step further to bring this idea to reality by supporting the project here.

Lisbon tram

gsantos81 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:53:11 +0000

Till.Uwe.Marwede managed to capture really well the essence of the old Carris Tourist Tram. The chosen scale let him to share incredible details.

I always got fascinated with these means of transportation. In fact, I’m the author of another version of the Carris trams at a smaller scale, as you can see in the next picture

The Pillar of Flesh

gsantos81 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:56:02 +0000

I was astonish with Nannan’s tower. The creativity is great, however the building techniques based on John Boozer’s round towers tutorial are definitely what caught my attention. This tutorial would be very handy when I built Bugio’s tower back in 2007.

Russian trenches

gsantos81 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:44:48 +0000

Cool representation of the Russian trenches, this MOC made by =DoNe=.

Brick Warriors – Parts reviews (1 of 4)

gsantos81 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:55:34 +0000

It was a nice surprise for me when I first read the invitation from Brick Warriors to write a review about their custom parts. They would send me a sample of their parts that I could analyse and write down the review.

I must confess that at the beginning I was a bit skeptical about what could I get. But all the doubts flew away after I opened the small bag with the pieces.

The quality of the plastic was near excellent, even better than many official LEGO parts (I’m not a great fan of the soft plastic used in many recent parts made by LEGO) and the overall design of the parts were also rather good.

I decided to divide this review into four parts (counting with this introduction) so I could get into details in each part. Without more delays, here’s the picture of all parts kindly offered by Brick Warriors.

I wish you all a happy and prosper new year!!!

Story of Moses

gsantos81 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:11:49 +0000

In a few years from now we’ll see him opening the sea of bricks

Eurobricks CMF 5 Contest Category A, originally uploaded by DR.Church.

Black Falcon Siege Tower

gsantos81 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:23:18 +0000

This Siege Tower built by Knight Eklund is a very interesting entry for the CCC IX Siege Weapon. The archers tower are in fact my favorite detail about the whole construction.

CCCIX – “Life on Lake Obscurus Aqua”

gsantos81 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:49:33 +0000

Two words only: “Just awesome”!

CCCIX – “Life on Lake Obscurus Aqua”, originally uploaded by busboy489.

Guide to building a detailed medieval village

gsantos81 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:05:23 +0000

Derfel Cadarn is one of my favorite MOC builders. He is known for highly detailed MOCs with rather unusual techniques.In this photostream, he presented in detail some suggestions to build a detailed medieval village.I hope you liked it as mush as I do

Guide to building a detailed medieval village 242, originally uploaded by - Derfel Cadarn -.

Fort Legoredo

gsantos81 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:35:28 +0000

Fort Legoredo was one of my favorite LEGO sets during my childhood and was a pleasant surprise when I discovered this wonderful tribute from Franko Komljenovic and Matija Grguric to this set from the year 1996.

Fort Legoredo, originally uploaded by Matija Grguric.