In undertaking my current build, which is inspired by the famous set 375 Castle - commonly known as The Yellow Castle - I will be using a lot of yellow. However let me say that it will not all be the same yellow, I am going to broaden the palette. I am going to [...]
In my current build I am creating a combined Crown Knights faction called the Knights of the Crown & Pennant. In this post I am going to be showing the livery designs for their units. I have only created three units so far, musketeers, cavaliers and pikemen. I will in future be creating some [...]
So here is the shield design for my new combined 375 Castle Crown Knights and 2007 Castle Theme Crown Knights faction, which I am calling the Knights of the Crown & Pennant. It features a new combined crown emblem which includes elements of both previous factions, the rounded points of [...]
The next event on my calendar is Bendigo Bricks 2023. Being on the Bendigo LEGO User Group committee means that I am one of the people currently hard at work behind the scenes organising Bendigo Bricks 2023, and I am pleased to say that tickets for the event are now on sale! Bendigo Bricks [...]
One of the aims for my current build is to create my own new crown knights faction by combining the crown knight faction featured in the original Yellow Castle set, 375 Castle and the crown knight faction featured in the 2007 Castle theme. The first thing I decided to do was to take a [...]
I have just found out that my Ice Station Icarus build has been featured on Beyond the Brick's Facebook, in fact they featured my A-83 Exploration Base yesterday too! Thank you to the Beyond the Brick team for featuring my builds.
Over the next year I am going to embark on a build that looks back at the golden years of LEGO Castle, and I mean literally, I am going to build an homage to set 375 Castle, commonly referred to as The Yellow Castle. I am not sure if you [...]
I have just found out that my Ice Station Icarus build has been featured on The Brothers Brick. Thank you to The Brothers Brick team and especially Norm Harper for featuring my build. You can read what was said here.
This week I added a new product to my store, a new Fabuland inspired enamel pin featuring Chester Chimp, and suffice to say it has been a very popular product so far! I have had the idea of illustrating my own Fabuland pins for a while, and this is the first of many, but [...]
A few people have asked about the technique I haved used in my wrecked domes in my Ice Planet Badlands build, so I have just put together some instructions. These instructions are for one panel of the dome, with the idea being that you would build as many as you need and join the [...]
