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 [...]
In my previous post I mentioned that this year the Brixpo Committee had encouraged exhibitors to give small tokens to builds that they thought had merit and discussed the builds that I chose to give tokens to myself, but in this post I want to thank the exhibitors who gave my build a token. [...]
This year for Brixpo, Southern Bricks LEGO User Group's annual brick show in Adelaide, the organisers decided that they would reduce the number of awards and instead encourage exhibitors to give tokens to builds that they thought had merit. I thought this was a great idea and decided that for my tokens I would [...]
I'm going to Albury Brick Muster 2023 in October, hopefully for real this time! Today I received notification that my application to exhibit Ice Station Icarus at Albury Brick Muster 2023 has been accepted. Albury Brick Muster 2023 will run from the 21st to the 22nd of October in Albury NSW. This will be [...]
My current Yellow Castle build, is now quite a bit further along, so I thought it was time to post more progress photos. I have been building a lot of the first floor level of the internal buildings and fleshing out some of the architectural details in terms of columns, doors, windows and stairs. [...]
I decided to make some instructions for another feature of my castle that I have been asked about, and this one was created before the doors and window designs, this time it is the arrowslits in the outer curtain walls. These ones really take advantage of the shape created by the profile of ingot [...]
Today a few people let me know that my Dragonkeep Postcard that I built for last month's Bendigo LEGO® User Group monthly build competition has been featured on The Brothers Brick. Thank you to The Brothers Brick team and especially Daniel for featuring my build, I particularly liked how he specifically mentioned the snout [...]
I have just finished working out how my castle windows will be built and decided to create some instructions. As with my panelled castle doors, I have inset the window frames by half a stud allowing for a 1x4x2 arch to sit proud of the wall by half a stud at the top. The [...]
After my panelled castle doors, the thing I have been asked about the most in my yellow castle build are the segmented arches. They are actually pretty simply achieved, but I have created some instructions. I have been trying to find a way to create a nice arch with visible voussoirs and a keystone, [...]
