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LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 3:29 pm
by Eklund
Out alone whaling in the northernmost regions of Garheim, Leif Thorstein saw that a massive blizzard was brewing up quick. Leif knew he was too far away from any towns to be able to escape the storm, so he decided to skirt the coastal glaciers hoping to find some sort of refuge. Luckily, he was quickly able to find an ice cave, and after securing his vessel to the glacier, he went in the cave and made a campfire…

The storm has now been raging for hours and Leif’s vessel is on the verge of sinking. He can only pray that the storm will stop soon, or it will be a long hike home.


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Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:16 pm
by soccerkid6
Nice job! I like your boat and water especially, the campfire also looks nice.

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:39 pm
by Mark of Falworth
Brilliant scene!! I love the snow effects! Your water looks awesome with some blue and light blue mixed in. :wink:

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:23 pm
by Brother Steven
Sweet! :D really like the boat!

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:21 pm
by Bentoft
I love it ... good job.

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:34 pm
by mencot
Cool, really great job. :D

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:19 pm
by Medieval Guy
The listing ship is great, and I love the snowscape.

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:25 am
by Sir Bragallot
Ah, the Garhims, men more busy with braving storms than they are fit to honourably face a foe on the battlefield :mrgreen:

j/k, this is really well done and I like how Garhim lends itself to more unconventional scenes like this.

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:47 pm
by Blego7
Really digging that water!

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:54 pm
by AK_Brickster
Nice job, Eklund. Nice story also. We definitely have some great entries for this first Local Challenge! :mrgreen:

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:08 pm
by Athalus
I like the scene. The ship with the torn sails looks great, and the snow-cave looks, well, snowy :)

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:21 pm
by gurusql
Great job all around. I really enjoyed the detail on the snow cave, the icicles and the rough water. :D

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:04 am
by soccerkid6
Quick question: how many 1x1 rounds do you think you used? Do you think 100 would be enough to do something of similar size?

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:41 pm
by AK_Brickster
Obviously, Eklund can answer that better than I, but I'd guess 100 is probably about what he used in this MOC, since he also mixed in some standard blue bits and some clear cheese slopes.
Keep in mind that 1x1's are usually pretty inexpensive though, so if you're going to order them from BL, it might be best to double or even triple the quantity, since a large percentage of the cost is going to be for shipping anyway :)

Congrats to Eklund on winning Garheim's LC1. There were a couple of others that we were considering, but the way you captured the feel of a boat tossing in rough seas helped to tip the scales in your favor. Nice job.

Re: LCC - Garheim LC1- Toughing Out the Storm

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:23 pm
by Eklund
soccerkid6 wrote:Quick question: how many 1x1 rounds do you think you used? Do you think 100 would be enough to do something of similar size?
Luckily, I still had this together and was able to count the small rounds. I used 96 trans-light blue round plates and 98 trans clear cheese slopes. However, in builds like this and this, I used significantly more. 100 hundred should be fine for this size of this moc though.