I have just found out that my castle build, The Fortress of Falkenholt was featured on The Brothers Brick. Thank you to The Brothers Brick team for featuring my build, it really means a lot to see my build being shared far and wide! I would especially like to take the time to thank [...]
I have been mulling over the idea of what to name my castle build for a while and today I have finally made up my mind. I wanted to give it a name that referred to the two main elements of the build, the castle and the forest and if I could, the two factions [...]
Recently I have been posting some progress photos of my current build - a large scale castle/landscape build which I hope to show at Brickvention 2022 - and this has drawn some great feedback as well as a few questions, so I thought I might go into detail on a few of the choices [...]
Some of you may have seen some sneak peeks of my current build on my Instagram or in some of the LEGO Castle groups on Facebook but I have decided to post regular updates here too. I am currently in the process of building a large Castle themed display pitting my two favourite Castle [...]
This year I started collaborating with NiceBricks in Monaco on some new products based on my Knights of the Black Falcon designs and you can now purchase the first product from this collab, New Falcons Custom Shield directly from the NiceBricks website. Daniele at NiceBricks specialises in high-quality custom printed minifigs [...]
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 [...]
