Medieval Town

On the tabletop from our old LEGO table, my brother built a medieval scene. (His commentary is in blue, mine in purple.)

 First we have the castle I wrote about before.

 A woman sewing up some pants. (He would like to note it took a long time to balance the 'needle' (A lever without the base) in her hand.) You did it wrong!

 Wait, what? What's the arcade machine doing here? There are no video games in the middle ages! Yes there are.

 We have a jester entertaining someone, a catapult, a garden, and a...

 Pirate ship?

 Here's the jail cell (Cool effect with the hinge bricks)

Cool door!Looks like a clip plate built into the wall, then a clip plate with a jumper plate and a wheel to open it.

 The prisoner. (I think that might my half of a microscale Minecraft villager head in the wall. to the left.) Er, hehe...

 Let's check out these two buildings...

 Okay, this looks like a treasury of some sort. (They need better security on that door.) It's just storage!

 And this looks like a... Oh my. It's the outhouse. That's my brother for you. Hehehehe

 Complete with metal beard's beard and a spider. The spider's supposed to be eating the fly!

 

 What on earth is a mermaid doing here?

 Close up of the garden. Hedwig!

Is that a pair of pants in the bottom right? Interesting hedge shape choice... It's just decorative! What's modern art coming to these days?

 Horse! Eating from a pile of hay, and there's a purple water trough on the right.

 Wait, what's this building? It looks more modern than the others.

 What?

 ...

I probably don't want to know why there were bones shoved in a cabinet. I have no idea what's going on here. They're for his dog! Suuurre... For his "dog." *air quotes.*

Pirate Ship

Pirate ship! (The blue is my brothers comments on this post, purple is me.)

 WHAT ON EARTH?!
Is that Yoda's head?!! Don't blame me, my brother built this. I'm just taking pictures. Eh... Why did you add Yoda's head? I don't know.

 The pirate behind the wheel.

 Cannon. (It actually fires!)

 I removed the cannon so you can see the barrel full of cutlasses and a pistol.

 Every pirate worth his salt needs a parrot! Worth his salt? What does that mean?

Microscale Challenge: Pirate Ship

Another microscale challenge between me and my brother. We think of an object, then scour our collection to build a microscale version of it. Microscale is fitting as much detail as you can into the smallest amount of pieces.

His

Mine

Here's comparison of the two. Mine won, since it has less pieces, which is the point of microscale. Ignore the shell logo on the sail, I couldn't find a tile that was plain white. My other options were a car wash, a hammer, and the US flag.

Here's how to built his ship.
You'll need:

• 2 tan 1x4 plates
• 2 tan 1x3 plates
• 1 tan 2x3 plate
• 1 tan 1x2 plate
• 2 brown 1x1 plates
• 2 white 1x3 bricks 
• 1 black telescope
• 1 tan  1x2 grille
• 1 dark tan jumper plate

Place the 1x4 plates on either end of the 2x3 plate.

Place the 1x3 plates on either end of the 1x4 plates.

Place the 1x1 plates on the bottom to fill in the gaps.

Add the grille and 1x2 plate on the sides. I'm not sure if he made it uneven on purpose, or if he couldn't find the right pieces.

The jumper plate goes in the bottom of the boat.

 Now add the telescope to the jumper plate. On top of the telescope, stack the white bricks for the sail.

 Here's how to build mine. You'll need:

• 2 brown 2x2 inverted slanted bricks
• 1 white 2x2 tile
• 1 brown round 2x2 plate
• Ping-pong paddle like white piece found in an 80's police set

Attach the inverted slanted bricks together back to back using the round plate.

Add the mast. If you don't have this piece,  be creative and think of a substitute.

Now add the sail and you're finished. There's a few ways I'd improve it a bit, such as adding two stacks of two 1x2 brown plates on either end to make the ends curve up a bit, but fewest pieces was my priority when building this, so this is how it turned out.