Will I see you at Brixpo 2022? This morning I received notification that my application to exhibit The Fortress of Falkenholt at Brixpo 2022 has been accepted. Brixpo 2022 runs from the 9th to the 10th of July at the St Clair Recreation Centre, Woodville in Adelaide. I had a great time exhibiting at Brixpo [...]
See you at Bendigo Bricks 2022! I have just found out that my application to exhibit at Bendigo Bricks 2022 has been accepted Bendigo Bricks 2022 will run from the 23rd to the 24th of April at the Bendigo Exhibition Centre at the Prince of Wales Showgrounds in Holmes Road, North Bendigo. This will be [...]
I have started posting a few images of the minifig inhabitants of my Ice Planet Badlands build, and I wanted to post about the choices I have made in their design and where they come from. The basis for my Ice Planet Badlands minifigs of course is the original Ice Planet 2002 [...]
I have started working on my major build of the year, which takes place in an Ice Planet 2002 inspired setting that I am calling Ice Planet Badlands. Besides the overall setting for the build (which I have outlined in this post) the first thing I want to explore is the colour scheme. [...]
I have just found out that my castle build, The Fortress of Falkenholt was featured on The Brothers Brick. Thank you to The Brothers Brick team for featuring my build, it really means a lot to see my build being shared far and wide! I would especially like to take the time to thank [...]
With Brickvention 2022 out of the way now I am setting my sights on my major build for the year (which I aim to show in 2023), I have told a few people about it, and it is once again a revisit of a beloved theme from my childhood (when I was 13 to [...]
Over the last few years people have at various times asked me for instructions for the round Neo Fabuland trees on Edward's Island, the tree beside Downtown Records and most recently, the oak trees in The Fortress of Falkenholt, and well, you are in luck, because they all use the exact same technique for [...]
A few people have asked me about the technique used to build the pine trees in my castle build, so I have put together some instructions. I also thought it may come in handy with Christmas on the horizon. As with any of my instructions, please let me know if these are useful to [...]
As of last night (I am not quite sure of the time as I was sound asleep), my modular record store project Downtown Records finally cracked 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. I plan on talking more about the LEGO Ideas process in a later post, but the main thing I want to do at this [...]
I have been mulling over the idea of what to name my castle build for a while and today I have finally made up my mind. I wanted to give it a name that referred to the two main elements of the build, the castle and the forest and if I could, the two factions [...]
