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 [...]
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 wanted to write a post about it here and specifically acknowledge it's inspiration. I am currently in the process of building a large Castle themed display [...]
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 [...]
So here are my shield designs for the Forest Guard (my re-imagined update of the Forestmen faction). You will notice there is a lot less variation than with my Knights of the Black Falcon shield designs, this is because unlike with the Black Falcons where I aim to have multiple units and knights with [...]
As with my custom Black Falcons torsos, I wanted to update and create new torso designs for the Forestmen (I am calling my version The Forest Guard for my upcoming build). I started by looking at the existing Forestmen torsos, and there are officially eight versions available, the four original torsos from 1987 (two [...]
The second faction that will feature in my Castle display is what I am calling 'The Forest Guard', my own revised version of the classic castle Forestmen faction. As with my take on the Black Falcons I have given the Forestmen a new slightly revised name, this is because I wanted them to have [...]
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 [...]
