The Confederation.

  Here is my personal favorite government in the galaxy. They control about a sixth of the colonies in the galaxy and do not have the technology that the Guardians or the Coalition have. That being said they are still dangerous since they have the largest stash of nuclear weaponry.

Here's the leader of the Confederation, the leader of the army and his second in command, Milduu. My brother made up the name.                                                                                                             

And here's the grunts, the groundpounders, the infantry, the dogfaces, the cannonfodder, whatever you want to call them. Even though their armor is nowhere near as sophisticated as the Guardians or the Coalition they have the best guns in the galaxy.                                                                            

These guys are the pilots and drivers.

And this guys the maintenance worker.

The Confederations main jeep. It can hold several different weapon systems including...

The Viking Long Range Nuclear Missile Launcher! Overkill I know but it's weapons like this that keep the Guardians at bay.                                                                                                                 

And the all-suffering transport.  

And this beast is their pillbox of a APC.

And here it is with the turret removed for low profile on stealth missions.

The Coalition.

  The Coalition is part of a sci-fi universe me and my brother set up. A while into the future (naturally) earth started colonizing other planets in the solar system. Foreseeing problems they created The Guardians of Earth's Colonies or the Guardians for short. These guys quickly took control of Earth and changed their name to The Guardians of Earth and Her Colonies. They put up new laws that restricted yellow skinned minifigs privileges and made flesh colored minifigs the elite of the galaxy, in fact no yellow skinned minifig can be a Guardian. Anyhow, several of the colonies quickly revolted and formed the Confederation, another major power in the galaxy. Soon after, a large number of the outer colonies also revolted, with the help of the Confederation, and became the largest and poorest power in the galaxy. Worried by this the Guardians formed the Coalition, a peacekeeper government that is separate from the Guardians officially, but is really controlled by the Guardians. Their function is as researchers and as a government that loos like it's allowing the colonies more power than they actually have. They are one of the most technologically advanced governments but they wield the least power in the galaxy.

Here you see the leader of the Coalition with one of his bodyguards and the Captain of the Guard. Behind you can just see his adviser. The leader is a yellowy to fit in with the Coalition's image as being for the common man.                                                                                                              

A group of technicians and a scientist plus a service droid.  

A squad of troops. The normal soldier is trained as a pilot, driver, mechanic and medic. They normally carry the most widely used SMG in the galaxy, a type 3, but all squads have a type 2 flamethrower/LMG. With a flick of a switch this weapon can go from a flamethrower to a 50. cal. machine gun although the ammo supply for either is limited due to the size. Commanders usually carry some form of machine pistol.                                                                                              

Here you can see their main vehicles, two Rhino's and a motorcycle. They're the only Coalition vehicles we have. I was photographing these against a white background and I was like, "How come none of the details are showing up?" I'm slightly stupid as you can tell.                                    

And here's the redesign of the Rhino that allowed me and my brother to build two of them.

Pick a Brick.

  My brick collection isn't what anyone would call large. I get about 35% of my bricks from sets and the rest I get from our local flea market. Theirs a guy there who sells Lego. He's got a lot of selection. He has a page on Facebook that wold be worth checking just to see what he has, it's CopiousCollectibles. Anyhow, because my brick collection doesn't ever get a bulk order I was excited on Saturday to be able to go to a Lego store and get some Pick a Brick. I got a large and a small bucket and here's what I got in each.

           Large Bucket                                                                                   Small bucket
3 horses                                                                                       11 1x4 white fences
1 4x4 light green plate                                                                113 grass pieces
19 4x2 beige bricks                                                                     13 1x4 beige bricks
4 4x1 white fences                                                                      4 red petal wheels
4 4x2 light grey bricks                                                                73 1x2 light blue bricks
4 4x2 dark grey bricks                                                                19 1x2 printed tiles
4 4x2 brown bricks                                                                     52 clear 1x1 studs
37 1x2 brown palisade bricks                                                     120 1x1 light green sutds
19 1x2 light blue bricks.
14 1x1 trans red cones
1 black headlight brick
48 1x2 black railings
70 1x1 dark grey bricks
12 red petal wheels
39 1x2 printed tiles
48 1x2 light blue plates
1 1x2 light green jumper plate
166 1x1 trans red tiles
220 grass pieces
235 1x1 light green studs
  So that is a total of 1357 bricks give or take. Pretty good haul if I do say so myself.

And that's what a few hundred grass pieces look like. My nutty brother spent an hour and a half doing this once I got home.

LAV III V.2

  This is version two of my LAV III. I had to get this done since I was planning to wreck it up to build other stuff. The obvious changes are, a turret redesign, lengthening of the entire thing by about four studs and shortening by at least a plate.

Retired WIP

  This was a WIP of a two seat heavy fighter built in gray and light green. Since I was only using the new light grey it was very difficult and took me about two hours to build this. Then I scrapped it for another build. Luckily I had taken a couple of pictures for my records.

Coalition Rhino

  This is a special post since it was actually built by my younger brother. It may seem small but it's actually a huge thing for him since he keeps telling me that he can't build good looking vehicles. Anyhow, it's a simple four man APC with no armament. It doesn't need any since it has the latest in defensive technology. Nothing other than a cruise missile will take it out.

One small shovel for getting them out of the mud.

Pretty cramped, but who's complaining?

The driver is also the squad commander. My brother said it's because he doesn't want to sit in the back. 

And the team, deployed around their Rhino. I will explain later why there are peachys and yellow minifigs mixed together.                                                                                                                                         

Katniss and Lizard Mutt.

  Introducing Katniss, the mentally unstable heroine of the Hunger Games and the Lizard Mutt, the creepiest thing this side of reality. The lizard mutt was super hard to build and Katniss is about as generic as you can get. Enjoy!