Beautiful work! The white smoke effect is genius and the destroyed engine looks also amazing, perhaps you can finish the biplane because I think that it would look great! Anyway great work as usual!

AWESOME! I am really liking the smoke design! If you have time check this out http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/258106

Thanks Christopher! There is actually an inner skeleton that supports the tail section. Without that support, it definitely would not be able to support the weight.

This is simply phenomenal. The white squiggles originally made me wonder what they were, but once I realized it was smoke, I noticed the fire and then the whole thing came together for me. Great use of a manufactured LEGO Minifigure to jump-start a whole vignette. This is 5 heads (stars) for sure! What great work! Only one question, how did you managed to get the 1x6(8) flat sticks to hold up at that angle on the tail of the bi-plane?

WHAT!!!! Your the one who stole my book idea about the fish. That was my idea!!!! Gees...

WOW WOW WOW this is ausome!!!!!5/5 !!!!!

Cool

Nice (half) biplane! You could have made a 'Le Petit Prince' vignette.

Nice (half) biplane! You could have made a 'Le Petit Prince' vignette.

Hmmm... what is this now? Like the second or third time we've had the same idea but I've beat you to it? No. That's not ice. Technically the fellow has a white mustache, and the grey is only to accent and represent depth and shadow. Boy... if I could walk away from a burning plane with ice on my face, that'd be amazing! Ha! I forgot about that one! "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, but if you're walking, you probably broke the plane" is how I recall that it goes... Good question. Actually, this kind of simple editing can be done in most basic image editing programs outside of Photoshop. As a Mac user myself, I do most of my basic editing in Apple iPhoto. The effect here is achieved with a bit of edge-blur, a decrease in the saturation, and a simple adjustment of the temperature. iPhoto makes this easy, though, with a simple button that says, "Antique."

Great build nice plane design. Nice smoke and wings. I think the last shot is the best did you use photo-shop to make it look older.

that with the smoke was just awasom

Excellent work Paul, the biplane is very well done. Cheers!~Swift

Fine piece of work here!

very well done...the plain is beautiful and the smoke is the best touch!

Old guys don't look at explosions. The flames are hot, but there 'stache is chilled. Shuffle away from the boring explosion. The more you ignore it, the cooler it is

Great moc, fits the pilot fig very well. He is one of my favourites of the series three figs, I love his sweet face and his jacket.

Nice build indeed! About the series 3.Why don't you guys download the dot code from internet?Then you know what's inside the package!Just google lego series 3 code.Good luck.

Great technique on the smoke!

Well, you know what they say: any landing you walk away from...

Wait a second. Does that guy have ICE on his mustache? In the desert?! Quite odd I say. Mabye he is an older chap. Gosh darn adventurous!

Nice plane! Pity it's had such an end... Good shots and build!

*Add comment* Awesome Paul!!!

Seriously! What kind of pilot would leave such a beautiful plane to spoil in the sand and wind of a desert? A foolish one, that's for darn-sure! (Great build!)

Really good:) Checkout my new MOC:)

I WAS JUST STARTING SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!! Well, good job.

Very nice! Even for a crashed plane, there is some awesome detail in there. I especially like how you managed the tail and aft sections. Great job showing off your fig.

Very awesome Paul! Great little action scene, and perfect for your new minifig. I was hoping to get the pilot too, but unfortunately was not able to. I did get the fisherman though, so no complaints. ;)

Yay! A perfect use for the fig (I got him yesterday and was expecting a fisherman....) Man, he doesn't have a scratch!