Posts by McScottyBricks

I'm glad I got to fully participate this year. It was a lot of fun. I'm amazed every week with the cleverness, skill, and presentation on display among the contestants.

I discovered, to my surprise, that I tend toward figures, toward character builds, having a human or humanoid figure in all eight entries. I was very pleased with Rayman, the Blue Man Group, and the hula girl, and pretty happy with the Vitruvian Man too. The others show plenty of room for improvement if I want to break into the top ten.

See you next March!

Congratulations to all of the winners and also to the organizers! The talent is deep in this field of builders. I need to level up to break into the top ten!

Might we 11th and up placers have a way to know our score? I'm interested in whether I won any votes along the way.

Game controller moustache is great. That shirt collar piece is great too and the white fern and frog cravat is too good!. How'd you think of that?

This is really clever!

Great variety in scale and style. The cute construction vehicles are my favorite.

JamesBuildsBrix - That's a good idea. I like it. Even harder to do in 101 parts though.

Lots of nice NPUs here. Pilot helmets, swords, croissant, plant stems, grass...

And the kid is also super well done with just a handful of parts.

I was not satisfied with the final quality of this build. The part limit really squeezed the concept, as I needed to affect the impression of a tower and make the meaning obvious with multiple minifigs. I ended up scrapping it for another, but it's fun, so I share it for your enjoyment.

I wasn't brave enough like Ozz to build a trans parent, and I wasn't satisfied with the build quality of my first idea (breaking the glass ceiling) and decided to do try something new, laying out a character out of exclusively transparent (or at least translucent) elements.

67/101 parts, the least I've used in this competition by far.

Brilliant idea and very successful characters, Ygrek!

I had this idea too but decided not to risk wading into any hot water. You knocked it out of the park, Ozz! The dress is even transparent, the whole body is mostly upside-down... great work, man!

Looks awesome!

This is great! 4 BURPs, five LURPS, LEGO bags, forced perspective... lots to admire.

I did not have to think about the prompt for long until the famously detached protagonist of the first game I ever owned (The Great Escape for PS1) came to mind. Rayman's limbless, neckless body was made for this week's prompt.

I could only manage a minimalist backdrop within the parts limit, but fleshed it out and completed his checks for this non-official, enhanced version:

101 Parts:

Behind the scenes:

Technique inspired by Zachary Steinman's "Bricks Stuck in Time":

Spark... electricity, romance, capacitors, welding, lightning... Pikachu, Electro, Storm, the Flash, Electro, Thor... how about the Disney rendition of Zeus? He was a lightning lance launcher!

Closer look at the subject:

101 parts:

JamesBuildsBrix - NPUs are such a source of satisfaction for me. It's why I so love to follow the Iron Builder matchups.