AFOL that does not care about minifigures at all (although I do make upscaled versions of them... am I weird?). Anyhow, Creator is not for building a model that sits on a shelf for years and years. It’s designed to put in a big pile and start building away! What inspired you to build large sculptures? When I got out of my Dark Ages, I kind of continued where I left off, building cranes, tractors, trucks in a mixed Technic/model-team style—the difference being that I had more parts now, and more access to pictures and blueprints. The interest in sculptures sparked when I stumbled upon the site of Eric Harshbarger. (http://www.ericharshbarger.org/LEGO/) Wow! How did he do that? I was so impressed with his work. It was so different than anything I saw before. So I started to try it myself. First I made an Easter bunny, then a nativity scene. They were nowhere near as good as Eric’s models, but I was hooked. What I also found interesting was that building large sculptures out of basic bricks was something that not a lot of people were doing. When I entered our local LUG (BeLUG) in 2007, I was a bit of an outsider. I didn’t do trains, I didn’t do minifigures, I did sculptures... say what? But I got similar reactions from the public like I had when seeing Eric’s work at first... “Wow! How do you do this?”
Dopey, one of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarves. Garfield.
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