One of the most iconic elements of the classic LEGO castle sets (1978-1997) would have to be the shields with their pad printed coat of arms designs, and whilst they are all pretty iconic designs, my first castle was 6073 Knight's Castle so the original Black Falcons shield design is the OG as far [...]
As mentioned in my previous post, the Black Falcons only currently have one torso print, their original torso from 1984. This makes it incredibly limiting when you want to be able to show a range of different units. I chose to see this as a design problem that would be fun to solve, how [...]
The first faction for my Castle display will be what I am calling the 'Knights of the Black Falcon', my own revised version of what are commonly known as 'Black Falcon Knights' or 'Black Falcons'. So I suppose the first think that people might ask is "why the name change?" and my answer to [...]
I have been in the planning stages of my next major build now for a while, mainly working on design elements and buying a few bits and pieces to get ready to block out the main layout. This build will ideally be for display at Brickvention 2021 in Melbourne and will explore one of my [...]
This month's competition at Bendigo LEGO® User Group was to build something with a 'space' theme. When the theme was first announced I was excited because "who doesn't like building spaceships?" but as the month wore on I realised that I didn't really have the time to build something as all my build time [...]
I decided to start my Neo Fabuland build by building an homage to an original Fabuland set, the set I have chosen is 3660 from 1985, known as Fisherman's Cottage or Fisherman's Wharf. First of all let's take a look at the original set and the key features that I wanted to [...]
In last month's post, Contemplating Neo Fabuland, I set out my idea to apply the design conventions of Fabuland as a visual style in my build for Brickvention next year. I have recently been working on plans exploring the style, starting with the windows. Fabuland has a range of window pieces that have a [...]
So, for just under a month now I have been planning, LDD-ing and purchasing pieces to start building my build for display at next year's Brickvention in Melbourne. I have decided after tackling Neo-Classic Space in last year's display, to this time take on another beloved classic LEGO theme from my childhood, Fabuland. I [...]
When setting out to design and build my Neo-Classic Space build A-83 Exploration Base I decided that I did not want to use the original Classic Space printed computer pieces. This might strike some Classic Space purists as sacrilege but don't get me wrong, I love those Classic Space computers! My reasoning is that [...]
I understand why there are rules for Neo-Classic Space, they exist so that the range of Neo-Classic Space builds out there can be displayed together and look like a cohesive theme, so what do you do when you want to build a Neo-Classic Space build but you disagree with some of the established 'rules'? [...]
