A billion years ago (well six months in reality, but it seems like a very long time ago) I was one of two builders - the other builder being Marco Meini from Italy - approached by the LEGO Insiders team to build an unreleased (at the time anyway) set (10320 Eldorado Fortress) and do a [...]
Yesterday I found out that incredibly talented builder Ben Cossy has reviewed my Ice Station Icarus build on his YouTube channel! Thank you Ben for your kind words, I does mean a lot to get this kind of recognition and feedback from a builder whose work I admire. If you are interested in checking [...]
This time I have made some instructions for the panelled walls that form a lot of the interior details in my Gyldenspir Castle build. The panels in this build are achieved by offsetting the middle of the walls with 1x2 jumper plates and using 1x1 modified bricks with a stud on the side to [...]
The time has come to chose a name for my yellow castle build, though I have been thinking about what to name it for quite some time. When I embarked on this castle build I decided that I wanted it to be more like a 1650 era palace than a defensive fortification, or at [...]
Over last weekend I exhibited at Bricks on the Border 2023 in Albury, New South Wales and here are my high five builds from the show in no particular order. The Quest for Shangri-La by Owen O'Brien This build is the handiwork of a fellow member of [...]
Over the weekend my wife Kara and I went and checked out the Relics: A New World Rises Exhibition at Melbourne Museum. I want to start by talking a little about what Relics is, the press release sets the scene: Set in a future long after humanity’s reign, RELICS tells the story of a [...]
Today I was notified that my application to exhibit my Yellow Castle build at Brickvention 2024 has been accepted! Brickvention 2024 will run from the 20th to the 21st of January at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, it is Australia’s premier LEGO fan convention and the biggest show I have ever exhibited at (this [...]
Back to the Bendigo Show! I will be exhibiting at will be the 2023 Bendigo Agricultural Show from the 27th to the 28th of October along with my fellow Bendigo LEGO® User Group members. After three years of no Bendigo Show it will be great to back again, this year I am bringing my Ice [...]
In my 9-5 Monday-Friday life I am a graphic designer and art director so I guess it was only natural that the toolset of a designer would find its way into my LEGO hobby as well. Not only does my experience and appreciation for design inform what and how I like to build, but [...]
One of the goals that I set for myself in my current Yellow Castle inspired build was to build in a different time period than my previous castle build, The Fortress of Falkenholt, I have therefore chosen the year 1650 as a rough time period. The interiors of the Fortress of Falkenholt were mainly [...]
