
A fraction of my army from 2004. There are 1,236 minifigs divided into several nations, but grouped together to make a nice pic.
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I do the same thing with these factions, especially the forestmen and the pack. I try to give them enough similar items and colors to make them cohesive, but mix up stuff to give them that ragtag appearance, as you can see in these two pics.lord_of_orks wrote:With orks,forest men,or wolf pack I give them all kinds of shields,weapons,and armor it makes them look more like a band of out laws that have stolen there gear from lots of other places
Posts like these never get old, LOL, ...and are commonplacely predictable.Athos wrote:I keep my post-KK2 figures separate from my pre-KK2 figures. I don't think the styles match. I'm working on a story to explain the difference. As for the KK2, I keep them in a ziplock baggie and rarely do anything with them. Makes me wish I'd saved my money and not bought those sets.
Steve
Sort of like an "Order of the Wolf"? Make Wolf shields and banners etc?Velliscig wrote:One thing I've been thinking of doing, is taking the Wolf Pack torsos I've been hoarding and making them into an organized faction - meaning, not a mercenary/outlaw horde, but using their parts as part of an new order I've been creating... not sure yet, though.
Hmmm. You haven't met my younger sibling, or you might reconsider whether that's an absolute truth....Karalora wrote:Well, force-feeding the bricks to your younger sibling is wrong. But apart from that, you're golden.
Haha, this immediately made me think of little green men running around with flowers!Thoriun wrote:Florestmen
I don't think you're necessarily an anomaly in that regard. Personally I have built MOCs or scenes or dioramas with very distinct faction lines, and I've done others that were more like you're describing, with one clearly identifiable side representing law and order being attacked by a ragtag bunch of mixed rabble.CVfan13 wrote: Anyway, I'm kind of an anomaly here (apparently) in that apart from my complete classic sets, I don't actually create real "factions" for my MOCs. The way I used to create things and play with them was through creating several individual, personalized characters.
Okay, with my admonition that there is no "right" or "wrong" answer to this question firmly in mind, I will say that I see some conventions, and that those conventions can be useful when builders want to collaborate for big, multi-MOC displays like BrickCon. That is, if you and I link our MOCs together, I think to a viewer it's nice if that implies a little bit of implied continuity. If your castle knights are the defenders of the realm and then on the very next baseplate my castle knights are rampaging and pillaging, I think that reinforces the idea that these are separate things that have just been glued together by happenstance.AK_Brickster wrote: If I'm making "good" and "evil" armies, any Dragons, Fright Knights, etc are combined vs. Falcons, "Lion"-factions, etc. Trolls/Orcs, Forestmen, and Wolfpack don't have allegiance to any side, and stay out of organized conflicts, although I guess the Wolfpack's loyalty is always for sale to the highest bidder. (Don't expect them to lead the charge or stick around when the going gets tough, though!)