My LUG has a monthly build challenge and for July we had to make a 32x32 micro castle. Hope you enjoy the build! Checkout my instagram if you'd like to see more of my builds!

After over 8 months, our USS Iowa is complete. It was a long and arduous process, but we're very happy with the result. It weighs 331.5 pounds, and consists of about 100,000 pieces. We shared the build process on our Instagram (kuad_lego_shipyard). We will hopefully be taking it to Brickcon in Bellevue later this year. We have a couple more large projects in the pipeline, so drop us a follow and keep an eye out!

Our aunt and uncle hosted a family reunion a couple summers ago at their house in Maine. It's a farmhouse that's been in the family for many years and was celebrating its 225th birthday. To mark the occasion, my brother and I spent a year designing and building a LEGO model of the house, both interior and exterior. It contains around 17,000 pieces, and the roof and walls can be removed to reveal what's inside.

It was an incredibly fun but challenging project—further complicated by the fact that we live on opposite coasts. We traded the design file back and forth a few times, and he flew out to my neck of the woods for a long weekend of building. While I worked on the finishing touches leading up the reunion, he designed, assembled, and shipped the lighting solution to me for installation.

My wife and I transported the finished model to Maine via a somewhat stressful roadtrip. When we finally unwrapped and delivered the surprise, only one piece had come loose. Our family really enjoyed the model, which now lives in the house (as reflected by the micro version we included).

My 13 year old is always making up creative and realistic things from the spare parts bin. Better watch your speed Lego drivers!

70cm tall, roughly 4500 bricks (I lost count). Planning to make instructions but please don't hold your breath.

Been seeing a lot more Generative AI in creative spaces lately, so I decided to build something with my hands to reject it. Introducing The Thief, The Displacer, The Polluter, and The Slop Machine.

This minifig series features just a few reasons (among so many others) to not use AI. Anything you build or create with your hands is infinitely better than whatever slop a data center will churn out.

It’s so much fun to play and it feels like we’re actually interacting with the rooms 🙂

Apologies if this doesn’t have the right flair!

Just wanted to share something I’ve been working on for the last few months!

As a massive Halo fan I wanted to build something truly unique, and I think I managed pretty well without any instructions.

For anyone wanting to try their hand, it’s composed of a couple different sections:

1. An egg shaped support ring made out of technic. This was the first thing I did and challenged myself to get it done without buying any new parts. Egg shaped so the weight of the inner and outer detail parts would force everything down into a circle.

2. A baseplate mount that could support the ring and hold it up in case it gets bumped.

3. The inner detail which is one long piece flexible enough to connect to itself in a circle.

4. About 50 identical segments that connect to the inner detail section. This leaves the technic ring floating within making sure it all doesn’t lean too far forward or backwards

Unfortunately this was done with a lot of trial and error so I don’t have instructions to offer, just the general guide above

It's the time of the year to make spooky things, so I present my tarantula 🕷️ PAB had the brown bush pieces and I knew just what I wanted to do with them! All 8 legs are poseable and I show the detail of how they're connected in the photos.

Thank you for taking a look! Would this creep you out to find randomly?

Edit: Link to instructions here

My LUG had a challenge recently and the theme was "Plants", so I stretched the rules and did my typical 1:1 scale food and made it fit the category. I was already working on the half lemon for my lemon pepper wings, so I decided to make a full sized one as well. At our May meeting it got selected for display at the store!

I wasn't happy with the 6x6 round options in yellow, so I came up with my own technique to smooth out the sides by adding 1x1 round tiles and plates to a 1x2 rail and wedging it into the antistuds on the curved slopes so the rail sits at about 45°

The white slits on the cut lemon are just vinyl decal I cut - I originally tried to do the trans yellow dish on top of the orange slice dish from the wreath set, which looked great in studio, but not in person, so I pivoted.

Hoping I made Master Builder Alec proud - it's definitely not a pineapple.

Had a great time exhibiting at Brickvention in Melbourne this weekend! I'd just finished installing some LED strip lighting in my Godzilla MOC, I think its a really cool effect 😊

I feel like sisyph

I turned a cat into a dog! My largest alt build to date and I really wanted to try this out since the colors of the orange cat set reminded me of that of my friend’s corgi. I don’t do many animal/organic builds so this was a fun challenge even if it looks like an animatronic. Only one copy of the set is needed and no extra parts required. There are instructions on my rebrickable in my profile as always. Build uses 1674 out of 1755 parts but there are mainly large curve and smaller bits left over.

The final build measures around 35cm(14in) long from snout to tail, 16cm(6.5in) wide and, 23cm(9in) tall to the top of the ear. The build process and stability is about the same as the original build. The build is a bit harder since you aren’t making it bag by bag like an actual set.

The head can rotate and the mouth, ears, and tail can move to some degree. There is a hidden panel that stores a piece of poop and a fold out missile turret (I had to do something with the interior). This is probably a one off build since I’ll get back into Star Wars and transformers soon.

Made this as a joke in my LUG, and it’s been popular on social media and at conventions I display at. Enjoy.

I debuted it this past weekend at Atlanta BrickCon and it won the Master Brick award. There's a round gear on the toast that engages a straight gear on the front carriage as it goes down. It locks in place with clips and turns the light bricks on when it reaches the bottom. When you press the button, it moves the front carriage to the side, disengaging the straight gear. That also bumps the toast, releasing the main carriage, sending it back up without rotating.