This site will be transitioning to more of a resource site than a planning tool for specific events. Please bear with us the organization of the pages may be somewhat fluid for the next little while.

To those who may have tried to use the "contact us" form on the main page this summer. This has not been in use and all questions and comments should be done through on the BrickArms Forum created for OpB.

Apologies for forgetting to remove the link to the old form.

-Ted

David is leading the charge for BrickCon 2010.

From the BA Forums announcement:

You have been drafted into the BrickArmed forces of BrickCon 2010’s Operation Bricklord: Europe at War!

Here’s the website for the display - It includes guidelines, examples, and other details that you need to know! Essentially, it is the same standard as last year, and we need the same things to put together an awesome display. We just need more of them!

The setting is a battle-torn town with a canal running through it - much like the fictional town of Ramelle at the end of Saving Private Ryan, for those of you who are familiar with that film - in mid-late 1944, almost immediately post D-Day. Therefore, little details like planes with invasion stripes and such would be extra accurate!

The standard for houses is the modular house standard, but with a layer of one brick between the baseplate and the building itself. Sidewalks will be a grey curb at the very end of the baseplate, with a five to seven wide dark grey sidewalk between that and the building. Rear alleys will be replaced with gardens, patios, yards, etc. All information can be found here.

In general, we ask that contributions to the display be specific to that setting, but if you have something that you want to display that isn’t specific to the setting, rest assured that it will find a place either on the display or on the other military tables. Please try to let us know, to the best of your abilities, what you will be bringing in advance. And remember, any contribution is a good one, no matter the size or skill displayed!

So, sound the alarm and wake the little Lego troops! Last year, Operation Bricklord was a big success thanks to all of you guys, we can’t pull this off without you! Let’s all work to make this bigger and better! Let’s knock their socks off!

At ease!

It's time to decide what to do with this site and the information we have collected.

I think this site should become a resource for WWII-themed MOCs and a place to find contact information for displays of said MOCs.

To that end, there will be changes made over the next little while so please, if you have any good ideas, add a comment below.

Thanks for stopping by.

-Ted

Now that I am finally recovered (caught some sort of bug on the way home) I wanted to take a moment to make a short report on the success of Operation Bricklord.

Overall I was amazed and delighted at what we all accomplished. By the time the first members of the public walked into the hall we had a fantastic scene of WWII carnage that was, IMHO, the BEST single display going. It may not have been the biggest (Castle battle) or the craziest (Zombie Apocafest) but it looked like one continuous action scene all tied together nicely and the details were amazing.
 I took some pictures during set up and the public hours and I wish I could do the display justice. Hopefully those who missed the show will see some better pics to truly appreciate the awesomeness of the final product.

It was a little touch and go on Friday morning. We had only a few buildings, lots of vehicles and the South Essex (Sah!)  As the day progressed more stuff arrived, everybody pitched in to build and it started to really come together nicely. Saturday morning we finished off the right flank with Tom's bomb-damaged farm modules which, in the end gave us a respectable length of eleven baseplates. A little shorter than we had hoped for but after seeing the detail put into that length I don't think anyone was complaining.

My apologies for not naming all the participants but I totally forgot to try to get some sort of sign-in sheet. It also does not help that I am bad with names at the best of times but when you start throwing in both real names and forum aliases... I do need to single out my 2iC, the man who really made OpB the success it was, David (Ranger of Awesomeness). Acting as theme coordinator at Sealug planning meetings, drumming up some fantastic contributions from locals who may not have even heard of Bricklord until he started talking about it, taking the contributions and combining them into fantastic scenes - especially the Spitfire (by Dan Siskind) strafing the bridge (by me) - this young man did a lot of work and deserves a round of applause.

I also wanted to thank the BAF members who came to the public hours. I think I met three of you wandering the convention floor and was very pleased to hear your thoughts and know that we made something worth seeing.

Finally, for a bit of fun, I present the OpB Can Can:


Thank you all again for making this a fun collaboration and thanks to Will for providing this forum space and the fantastic contributor packs full of BAP-y goodness.

It was so much fun we MIGHT just have to do it again next year. :)

[cut and pasted from the BAF - Ted]

The map page is being updated as quickly as we can to reflect what contributions have been confirmed in terms of tactical features (ie; buildings).

We could still use straight road plates with two-plate-high & seven-studs-wide sidewalks if you have any to bring.

-Ted

Apologies to anyone who used the contact form on this site. It was created nearly a year ago when the site was first built then forgotten in the intervening months. If you used the form you should by now have received an email response. If you have not you can email me {ted(dot)godwin(at)gmail(dot)com} or use the form as we are now monitoring it - with only 9 days to go I know that is kinda pathetic but we will read the results now, I promise.

Thanks for your patience, hope to see you soon!

-Ted

Some quick sketches of the layout have now been posted for the OpB: BrickCon layout (see: Buildings).  There is also an attached pdf file which shows a very early draft of how the layout will come together. As we get closer to the event we will start to assign spaces on a tentative basis to allow people to start building with some sense of where their module will be.

With apologies to keeners who have already started building we have had to adjust the Building Guidelines. This has been done to prevent a catastrophic fail as it finally dawned on the planning team just how much brick would be involved in creating the depth specified. This also will make the two OpB projects more compatible as OpB: Brickworld was not going to use the extra depth anyway.

Changes have been made and hopefully sketches and some samples in brick can be photographed soon.

Thanks for your understanding.

After seeing some new guidelines on BrickForge which specified 50 pixels x 600 pixels as a maximum dimension for images I designed another banner: