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, [...]
I decided to put together some instructions for the panelled doors in my yellow castle build. The door itself uses two 2x2x2 box pieces for the panel detail, and is inset half a stud from the frame meaning that two 1x3x3 arches can be used at the top sitting proud of the frame by [...]
My current Yellow Castle build, is well underway, so I thought it was time to put some progress photos up here. So far I have roughed out the layout, built the terrain and water around the castle walls, and almost completed the water entrance, the outer curtain walls and gatehouse in tan. [...]
Will I see you at Brixpo 2023? Tonight I received notification that my application to exhibit Ice Station Icarus at Brixpo 2023 has been accepted. Brixpo 2023 runs from the 15th to the 16th of July at the St Clair Recreation Centre, Woodville in Adelaide. I've had a great time exhibiting at Brixpo the past [...]
About a billion years ago (well, the 19th of November last year actually) I was contacted by Graham from Blocks Magazine to let me know that my build Boris' Post Office would be featured in their upcoming 100 Incredible LEGO Builds publication. In case you don't know, I live in Australia, which is quite [...]
In my current Yellow Castle inspired build I am currently working on sections of the castle which are made of sandstone and I am employing two distinct textures to hopefully suggest this material to the observer. To come up with these textures I have looked at various reference images of stone walls and stone [...]
