A couple of days ago I found out that Ben Cossy has reviewed another one of my builds, this time it is my Gyldenspir Castle build from Brickvention 2024. Thanks once again Ben for your kind words, I really appreciate you taking the time to take such an in depth look at my build! If [...]
The next event on my calendar is Bendigo Bricks 2024. 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 2024, and I am pleased to say that tickets for the event are now on sale! Bendigo Bricks 2024 [...]
This time I have made some instructions for the panelled walls that form a lot of the interior details in my Gyldenspir Castle build. The panels in this build are achieved by offsetting the middle of the walls with 1x2 jumper plates and using 1x1 modified bricks with a stud on the side to [...]
The time has come to chose a name for my yellow castle build, though I have been thinking about what to name it for quite some time. When I embarked on this castle build I decided that I wanted it to be more like a 1650 era palace than a defensive fortification, or at [...]
Today I was notified that my application to exhibit my Yellow Castle build at Brickvention 2024 has been accepted! Brickvention 2024 will run from the 20th to the 21st of January at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, it is Australia’s premier LEGO fan convention and the biggest show I have ever exhibited at (this [...]
One of the goals that I set for myself in my current Yellow Castle inspired build was to build in a different time period than my previous castle build, The Fortress of Falkenholt, I have therefore chosen the year 1650 as a rough time period. The interiors of the Fortress of Falkenholt were mainly [...]
My current Yellow Castle build, is now quite a bit further along, so I thought it was time to post more progress photos. I have been building a lot of the first floor level of the internal buildings and fleshing out some of the architectural details in terms of columns, doors, windows and stairs. [...]
I decided to make some instructions for another feature of my castle that I have been asked about, and this one was created before the doors and window designs, this time it is the arrowslits in the outer curtain walls. These ones really take advantage of the shape created by the profile of ingot [...]
Today a few people let me know that my Dragonkeep Postcard that I built for last month's Bendigo LEGO® User Group monthly build competition has been featured on The Brothers Brick. Thank you to The Brothers Brick team and especially Daniel for featuring my build, I particularly liked how he specifically mentioned the snout [...]
I have just finished working out how my castle windows will be built and decided to create some instructions. As with my panelled castle doors, I have inset the window frames by half a stud allowing for a 1x4x2 arch to sit proud of the wall by half a stud at the top. The [...]
