The Battle of Edington

In Which Alfred the Great Forms a Militia, Defeats the Viking Menace, and Preserves a Saxon England for Years to come. 

The vikings are all wearing horned helmets to make them easily identifiable.

 This would have been happening on a slope with the vikings on the top of the hill, but I forgot to put that in.

Actually very little is known about this battle. The formation of the Saxons is completely fabricated

Alfred the great is in the center of the Saxons with a crown.

Battlefleet Gothic

Battlefleet Gothic is a miniature wargame set in the distant future, when a twisted version of the Catholic church rules an empire of the stars. At least, that's the impression I get-- I've never actually played the game, just looked at the spacecraft. They are one part steam locomotive, one part destroyer, one part starship and one part cathedral. You know what all four of those have in common? Awe inspiring power. And greebles. Lots and lots of greebles.

In this Lego version, I've included a few details to make it look more Gothic. There are stained glass windows near the bow and covering the stern-- the engines become three rose windows. There are numerous flying buttresses and pinnacles. Above the poop deck you have an entire cathedral (Daniel built that.) The overall shape is a cross, or rather, two intersecting crosses-- think Corpus Hypercubus. And an enormous bat winged gargoyle scupture that can open its wings to expose the second rotating turret.

It is heavily armed, with two rotating guns up top and innumerable guns on the wings.

Here are a few examples of what this is based on.

Romans vs Celts

This one was Daniel's idea. He made it in the summer. I made a masked druid priest but I'm not sure it made it on here. We don't own any explicitly Roman pieces, so their helmets and armor style require a little imagination. This is part of a series of depictions of English battles Daniel has been working on.

It represents Boudicca's revolt from the ambush on legio IX to the battle of Watling street.

The legion is walking through the forest while the Celts on their chariots lie in wait. 

 Chaos ensues. One Roman is suspended in the air by his spear being stuck in a leaf piece.

The battle of Watling street. Daniel did his best to put the Romans in a wedge formation, but it's hard to see in these photos. He also gave the Romans a scorpio. 

mocking

I just want to complain about something: people using the abbreviation MOC. MOC stands for My Original Creation and comes from the original Lego website which was around in about 1995, I think. It makes sense, I guess, for Lego to separate out people's original creations on their website. But why in the world would anyone else use that term? You took a picture of it and put it up on the web. If it's not your original creation, why would you do that? So people could see you built one of the kits? And even then, if they're enough of a Lego fan to know what MOC means, they're also fan enough to recognize the official kits. So no one is going to be illuminated by your use of the term MOC. All it does is signal that you are part of the community enough to know the slang.

Martin's models

Martin came and visited us. He built a Tattooine style vehicle of some kind and a city carved from a cliff in the style of Dinotopia.