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The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Siercon and Coral » Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:08 am

Here is the joyful beekeeper of the Faerie Forest. As the tamer of bears and harvester of honey he does all he can to make the lives of the forestmen on the Mystic Isles just a little bit sweeter :)

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Take care though, in war he can be a terror. He's been known to catapult hives during sieges, smoke out spies, and charge with bears into combat!

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P.S. Sean's actually been learning to be a bee keeper for more than a year now, and we bought our first personal hive more than a week ago :) Yay us. Swing by some time for some honey!

The Faerie Forest is nearing it's completion stay tuned! :D
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Athalus » Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:19 am

Smart use of those tire pieces, they work well as beehives. I'm surprised thet the gladiator helmet works so well as a beekeepers hat. Great job!
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby gurusql » Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:37 am

Like Athulus I really liked the hives. The entire scene is very playful, especially with the bears going for the honey. :P Great job.
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby AK_Brickster » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:44 am

My favorite part is the yellow shutters being used as honeycomb frames. Very nice part usage!
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby theboywarrior » Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:45 pm

Ah, just seeing this has brightened my day! Well done, I love it! Very reminiscent of Beorn from The Hobbit, one of my favorite moments. :D
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby mencot » Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:29 am

nice job. So awesome Moc :D. My favorite parts are the yellow honey bottles, they look great. also the windows shutter and the oilcan are nice NPU as been keepers accessories. this is again one of those mocs that gets one in a happy mood :D
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Eklund » Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:06 pm

Very cool, Sean and Steph! You seem to like to use parts from the lego pens in your builds.
You would rather be building right now.
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby ELMAS » Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:15 am

Nice use of the helmet!! Very inventive.
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Jesperallen » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:46 pm

What a wonderful build! Really nice to see something different. Many clever piece usages, specially the beehives. As already said, this made my day :)
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Highwayman » Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:28 pm

I love this build. C: I am a beekeeper too so I may be a bit biased!

Like Elmas, I love the use of the helmet as a veil. And I think my favorite aspect of the entire build are the little yellow shutters used as frames. Brilliant!
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Athos » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:47 pm

What are the hives made out of?

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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby rogue27 » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:50 pm

Athos wrote:What are the hives made out of?

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They look like tire hubs and small radar dishes.

I'm thinking it is this:

Wheel 2994

and this:

Dish 2 x 2

Extremely clever.
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Siercon and Coral » Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:37 pm

Athos wrote:What are the hives made out of?

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Rogue27 is correct :) But here is a close up picture of the components in case you were wondering
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Highwayman wrote:I love this build. C: I am a beekeeper too so I may be a bit biased!

Like Elmas, I love the use of the helmet as a veil. And I think my favorite aspect of the entire build are the little yellow shutters used as frames. Brilliant!
Awesome! That's cool to hear :D Hopefully our hive will survive this year as it was kinda established late.

Eklund wrote:Very cool, Sean and Steph! You seem to like to use parts from the lego pens in your builds.
Yes indeed, not so much just the Lego 'pen' but anything with Lego on it that we can take apart and use that people might have overlooked. :) Like the Gentle Blue Giant and the stop motion camera. :P But yeah pens are a great source of forgotten pieces! :) Thanks!

Thanks everyone for your comments!
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Lawkeeper » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:13 am

I'm really digging that Hagrid/gladiator combo!
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Re: The Honey Bee Tree

Postby Brother Steven » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:46 am

That's Just plain AWESOME!!! :D Everything is so awesome! great job!
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