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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
