I have been contemplating what to name my Ice Planet Badlands build for a while and I have decided to post about it today. Named Ice Planet 2002 sets: Ice Planet Scooter Ice Tunnelator Celestial Sled Blizzard Baron Ice-Sat V Deep Freeze Defender Ice Station Odyssey I wanted to give [...]
The current LEGO Ideas' contest is called 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons! where they are asking members to design builds inspired by Dungeons & Dragons with between 100 and 3,000 pieces which could potentially be turned into a LEGO set. I thought I would give it a go! In my build, which I [...]
Thanks to Dave from Bendigo Golden Brick I have just found out that my Surefoot TR3 Rover build has been featured on The Brothers Brick. Thank you to The Brothers Brick team and especially Theo Spencer for featuring my build, and for your kind words about my Ice Planet Badlands setting! You can read [...]
Back to the Bendigo Show! After this weekend's Seymour Show and Albury Brick Muster on the 15th/16th of October, the next event that I will be exhibiting at will be the 2022 Bendigo Agricultural Show from the 21st to the 22nd of October along with my fellow Bendigo LEGO® User Group members. After two years [...]
A few days ago I was notified that my application to exhibit my Ice Planet Badlands build at Brickvention 2023 has been accepted! Brickvention 2023 will run from the 12st to the 22nd of January at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne (that's right, it's coming home after a sojourn to MSAC last year), it [...]
Yesterday I was notified that next event that I will be exhibiting at (after this weekend's Bendi-Con) will be the 2022 Seymour Show as part of the MUGs contingent. Come along to the Seymour Showgrounds on Saturday the 1st of October and see great LEGO creations (not to mention all the other attractions) in a [...]
Some more updates from my current build, now with added structures and vehicles! I am currently in the process of building an Ice Planet 2002 themed display which I aim to show in 2023. Currently I am getting to work on a lot more of the detail beyond just terrain, as well as playing [...]
Together with my fellow Bendigo LEGO User Group (BALD) members, I will be exhibiting at the upcoming Bendi-Con 2022. Come along to Red Energy Arena from 10am to 4pm on Sunday the 18th of September and we'll see you there along with lots of other pop culture goodness. Tickets are available from Ticketek and at [...]
A few people have commented about the technique I am using to build ice crystals in my Ice Planet Badlands build, so I have just put together some instructions. As with any of my instructions, please let me know if they are useful to you. I would love to see what you do with [...]
With the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent cancellation of the majority of LEGO fan events and exhibitions (the primary outlet of my building) I began to look for other reasons to build, and I settled on a plan to 'have a go at LEGO Ideas'. I had a build that a few [...]
