Anyone ever built a successful LEGO campfire?

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Anyone ever built a successful LEGO campfire?

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Hey all,

I'm trying to build a campfire. And failing miserably. This being the least offensive attempt I have ever made:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3157/5860 ... 51bcf9.jpg

I've searched. I find nothing like what I want it to be. Which is something like this:

http://cdn.graphicsfactory.com/clip-art ... 07-096.gif

So I"m asking for some help from my epically talented castle men and women. Do any of you know of or have successfully built a LEGO campfire? Links would be very very very helpful. Thanks ever so much.

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This is one I made, it doesn't seem to be exactly what you want, but here it is.
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I also made one awhile ago... Campfire pic

I'm still pretty new to the community, So I don't know any really awesome examples. Eklund's fire being the only one I've seen in awhile.
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I can't for the life of me remember who it was, but somebody had made a campfire MOC with a few Robin Hood/Peter pan/Forestman-esque kids sitting around it, looking scared at their surroundings.

The campfire in that was excellently pulled off, and their image was great. I'll look around a bit, i'd like to think it's exactly what you are looking for.
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OverLoad wrote:I can't for the life of me remember who it was, but somebody had made a campfire MOC with a few Robin Hood/Peter pan/Forestman-esque kids sitting around it, looking scared at their surroundings.

The campfire in that was excellently pulled off, and their image was great. I'll look around a bit, i'd like to think it's exactly what you are looking for.
That...Was Siercon and Coral. I think their campfire is just what you need, Lady Blue.

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I to have been trying to make a good camp fire, this is the best I've come up with(sorry about the bad pic, my good cameras on the blink and this is the best I can get)
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My basic technique is to start with about four or five jumper plates on the ground, in either black or dark gray (to be the ashes), and put old-style flames sticking up out of the open studs. Then I kind of randomly pile logs made either of 2 or 3 1x1 round bricks, or just brown lightsaber blades, in between the flames. For a larger fire connect more flames via the notch technique. Examples are here and here. You could get more shape by alternating in some of the new plume/flame pieces.
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Blake built a really good one here.
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Thanks everyone. Those are some good fires and gave me some great ideas.
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While this is not a campfire I made a beacon (http://www.flickr.com/photos/legomoreph ... hotostream ) which could be made smaller if you used this piece-http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?col ... itemID=763 Upside down. and use brown axe handles a fuel.
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