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I stumbled upon an interesting variety of MOC building recently, and one that has brought me some excellent warships over the past week or so. For those of you who aren't awesome and don't know, a MOC (acronym for My Own Creation) is a construction made of LEGO briks (yes, without the c. That's just how it goes). The term MOC can apply to any LEGO creation, but in specific is generally used in relation to a creation made for this brilliantly violent LEGO wargame called BrikWars.

In this particular case, my MOCs are made for an offshoot of mine for BrikWars called BrikSpace, which focuses not on land battles like it's not-so-distant cousin, but rather on epic-scale space battles. Instead of controlling individual minifigs and their vehicular creations, you build and control a fleet of warships for battling against another person's fleet.

Now, on to my discovery. A Timed MOC is a simple concept, but one that yields quite awesome results in many cases. There are three simple steps to a Timed MOC:

1. Grab a handful of LEGOs, whether from a "theme box" or not.

2. Set a 5-10 minute time limit on a kitchen timer or on the computer, depending on the size of the handful you grabbed in step 1. I leave it up to you to judge (in my case, I did 5 minutes for one handful, and 10 minutes for two).

3. Build until the time runs out or you use every piece, whichever comes first.

I used theme boxes, which is my little name for small boxes of similarly colored and themed briks. In essence, to build a theme box, pick a color scheme and a design theme. Most of the MOCs you are about to see were made from a box consisting of grey and yellow briks. The theme was, in essence, sloped and spikey (in other words, a fair amount of smooth slope pieces, and lots of extraneous fiddly bits for sticking out at odd angles(minifig hands and clips accomplish this look quite nicely, as long as there's somewhere for you to tack them onto)).

A lot of the MOCs built in this way came out very nicely.