Beat: First of all I would like to thank you for the opportunity to share some of my thoughts with other LEGO fans out there. Rather than being a top MOC'er, I consider myself to be an avid scale modeller. My name is Beat Felber and I live in the northernmost part of Switzerland, close to the border with Germany. I am aged 40 and work as an engineer at an electric power plant.When not building LEGO models, I tinker with and drive a 1984 Land Rover 110, do some photography and I am also a firefighter with the local volunteer fire department. Back in 2001 I decided to share my LEGO creations with other like-minded people on the internet. It was the birth of my homepage www.engineeringwithabs.ch. I called this site Engineering with ABS because I thought it describes what I am doing: building models of technical stuff using LEGO bricks made of Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). In the meantime, I switched over to Flickr. The original homepage is still online but not maintained any more.

K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?

B: The first sets must have been Duplo sets. Of course, I don’t remember them exactly any more. But I do have fond memories of my very first Technic Set: Technic Universal Building Set 8030. I got it as a gift from my late granddad when he was celebrating his 60th birthday. I just turned four years old that day! My first City set was the Shell ServiceStation 377.

LEGO fan and flickr.com member Toltomeja who is also inspired by best selling PC game Anno 1404, created his own biggest MOC, Toltobury Wharf. MOC was built on 3x4BP's which includes  a castle region, a village region and a harbor in one diorama. I have played Anno 1404 for a long time and this creation is very successful to remind me of the game. I especially liked the wooden cranes and the buildings on the harbor.

This amazingly realistic and huge mobile crane model is shared by model master-builder and flickr.com user Huib van der Hart a.k.a. LiftingBricks. The model is a real life replica of Liebherr LTM 1750 9.1 NORTHWEST. The model is also fully functional and equipped with 6 XL motors to drive and six servo motors to control the nine axes. Custom stickers makes the mode even more realistic.
 

The builder also shared this photo of the real vehicle. As you can see the LEGO model resembles the real vehicle amazingly well.

LEGO Fan and flickr.com pro member Arjan Oude Kotte has recently build a vintage harbour crane. I really liked to floow Arjan's builds as a Naval Architect. He has been creating a huge ship models from LEGO pieces. I mostly liked the color scheme of the crane and custom LED lightning pieces.