Hi guys, just wondering if there is a Lego piece similar to this picture. I’m thinking about the white jungle helmets but they don’t have the shiny part on top.

I’m a former US Submariner and would love to build a Lego submarine design based on a US Submariner.

Was curious if anyone has or knows someone that has done one and has a design?

I really treasured looking through Brickshelf and am sad to hear the news...

I hope someone can still purchase the domain.

https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-brickshelf-shut-down-founders-passing/

https://www.bzpower.com/topic/36650-brickshelf-to-shut-down/

If you're someone who loves old lego sets, old pieces, and minifigs, it's a great place to find them. Also mocs made with old pieces.

Something extremely cool from Brickshelf is that there were lego star wars builds online, made before 1999, that go as far back in time as the late 70s!

The Brothers'-Brick had a cool article highlighting builds made before Lego officially launched the lego star wars theme.

https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/05/04/lego-star-wars-before-the-first-lego-star-wars-sets-feature/

Most if not all of those can be found on brickshelf. Also more recent star wars stuff with 80s and 90s lego pieces. People even built some star wars Expanded universe legends mocs.

Using pieces from old themes like classic town, Aquazone, Paradisa, classic Pirates, Castle themes, Adventurers, Blacktron, classic space, Insectoids, Space police, Spyrius, Time cruisers, X-treme team, Rock Raiders, Alpha team, Agents, Studios, Dino 2010, the 1998 ninja theme, Exo-force, Power Miners, Indiana Jones (2005) Bionicle etc..

Lego had a decent selection, but people sometimes had to get creative with specific stuff.

I even also saw two harry potter castles built with old pieces.

I also found Halo mocs with 90s and 2000s pieces, which is like finding the holy grail of lego...

Gundam, Tanks and fighter jets, Battleships with interiors, Mechwarrior mocs, giant passenger planes, brick-built cars... etc! There's practically everything you could hope to find.

There's also newer stuff, of course. I'm just not as interested in them, but you can find them.

Even with lego's large selection, people still had limited choice of pieces to imitate specific designs, so its' also an insight into the early beginnings of lego minifig and parts customization. Custom superhero characters, hand-painted stuff...

i saw custom xmen minifigs with yellow faces.

There's a certain charm to all of this.

**The reason I'm sharing this, is because I don't want what happened to Mocpages to happen to brickshelf users as well. The owner of Mocpages just one day, decided to pull the plug with no explanation... no warning... not cool.

Many people's mocs are now lost completely, because there was no warning. I've tried using a web archives for Mocpages with... mixed results.

One particular mecha moc I loved is gone forever... I managed to save the pictures of it, but when I tried doing a reverse image search? Nada. The links it did link to were broken.

Maybe I'm just old and this doesn't strike a chord...

But you owe it to yourself to browse through at something you'd be interested in.

Even I haven't explored the whole site... but I'm not losing sleep over it. You win some, you lose some...

I have a folder of saved images of different mocs from Brickshelf..

Please spread the word. And back up your files before March 1st!!

Sorry to hear about the Brickshelf founder. RIP. I got this message today :(

Hello! Hopefully this is not the wrong place to ask this. I am collecting several of the Lego Animal Crossing sets, but I'm not very happy with how they look on my showcase, so I am building some terrain to 1) make better use of the available space and 2) improve the aesthetic of the sets. My idea was to make some supports using the color palette of the sets and place them staggered so that you can see everything from the front. So, as a complete noob, I started drafting some designs in mecabricks:

Overview of the current designs

Bear in mind that these supports have to be quite big. For example, Isabelle's house is 12 dots of width and 16 of length, so it would fit a bit tightly in the third one. But I suppose I could put it in more, smaller supports.

I'm not particularly unhappy with the results because these are just a palette that will get filled with details, but my main concern is not using an optimal number of plates, unstable builds, and wasting money. I just threw what I thought would fill the space in the most efficient way, but my experience in the topic is quite lacking. Let me show you the distribution that I went for (I changed the colors for visual clarity):

https://preview.redd.it/chqs1fzqgrfe1.png?width=976&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f5850881269156c190d2dd2da49784addfbe42f

So, my questions are: How would you improve the designs? Do you think they could be made bigger? Smaller? Do you think they need some supports inside? How do you approach minimizing the number of bricks/plates used to fill areas? Any other improvements/ideas I should not miss?

My idea is to have several sizes, so that the terrain is more natural, as being perfectly regular would look awkward. I won't make everything out of Lego pieces, but I want the visible parts to be Lego parts.

Thanks in advance!