Bruce's contest thoughts - CCCVIII

[Derfel Cadarn]

Thankyou for taking the time for doing this as it was very interesting to hear how the judges go about judging these and what they look for. There were lots of interesting entries with some great ideas. I couldn't agree more with your comment on my Troll Baiting entry, when it was finished I could see straight away that the 1x1 rounds were very overwhelming on this moc. It was a gamble, as I wanted to do an entry without greenery, but I should have added more woodwork instead of stone. Thanks for your kind words on my entries and its nice to see you picked up on some of the small details as sometimes its the little things that can bring a moc to life. As for the subject of me keeping my mocs assembled, unfortunatly I stopped doing that a while ago as I just dont have the space to keep them all set up anymore. Each entry was taken apart soon after photographing. However, I have rough sketches of how I built some of them, including the Forge(which was my fav of my entries), so I might try to build large village seen in the near future.
Thanks once again, the contest was great fun and full of fantastic entries, and Im honored to be a winner of the Master Builder.