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Sushi Bar
My latest building is a sushi bar. It is part vignette and part town building. I built the interior first, starting with a bare baseplate. Only when that was completely finished, I built a basic box...
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Snow Sports Minifigs
These minifigs were a part of BayLUG‘s store display at the Hillsdale Mall this summer. Included are four skiers, two snowshoers, and a snowmobiler. This was my first attempt at a snowmobile and I’m...
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Lunar School Bus
The other day I was thinking I’d build another hovercar, like my 2059 Cadillac or my remake of Justin’s red aircar. But as I was sifting through a bin of curved parts, the idea came to me to build a...
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Wheeled School Bus
Hot on the heels of my fantastical Lunar School Bus, here’s a much more mundane version. This is the first time I’ve ever encountered a need to specify “wheeled” with reference to a school bus – how...
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Gondola
This is my first ever train car MOC, would you believe? I’d done locomotives before, but never a car, at least that I can think of… This gondola car first appeared at the November 2008 Great Train Expo...
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Gondola Car II
When I first saw the new bracket parts found in the LEGO Tipper Truck #4434, I realized I needed to use them to make a train car. I used parts from 2 of those sets to make this, along with a few parts...
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Four-Track Signal Gantry
A signal gantry I built over four tracks at Bay Area LEGO Train Club exhibit at the Train Collectors’ Association Cal-Stewart Spring Meet, Santa Clara, California, March 2-4, 2012. I built it Friday...
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Octan Gas Station
My LEGO gas station is now on display at the LEGO store in Pleasanton, California at the Stoneridge Mall. I built it in 2012 and first showed it at Bricks by the Bay, but never posted a blog entry...
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Desktop LEGO: Easter Bunny and Trees
I won this bulk bricks box (#6177 Builders of Tomorrow) at the annual BayLUG raffle, and took it to work, where I built a couple things: Easter Bunny with two eggs, and a couple trees (not to scale)....
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Easter Bunny
Spring is here and with it come two ages-old symbols of fertility – the rabbit and the egg. But since Easter comes in the springtime, these symbols are part of the Christian tradition of Easter. Either...
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Pokémon, my first LEGO sculptures
With the Pokémon Go game being such a huge hit at the moment, I thought I’d post about some old MOCs that I built 15 years ago. Sorry about the photo quality – this was the early days of digital...
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Teddy Bear (2015)
I’m afraid I haven’t built much in a while – this is my latest major model, and it is over a year old! But I never posted about it here until now. It’s a teddy bear. I built my first teddy bear out of...
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Flat Santa
Inspired by the adorable Platecraft Snowman by Chris McVeigh I came up with this design for Santa Claus in a similar style. Here’s a photo of Santa lying on a table. The arms are adjustable, using a...
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Santa and Reindeer
So after building the Day 24 models from Advent and Christmas Build-Up I was disappointed that my sleigh only had one reindeer…. so I dug parts out of my collection and built eight more, and devised a...
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Instructions for Christmas Build-Up Models
Throughout the first 24 days of December I had been posting about the Advent Calendar and Christmas Build-Up models. Each day I designed and built a MOC (My Own Creation) using the parts leftover after...
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Galo de Barcelos
This little relief mosaic was made in honor of my trip to Portugal this past June, where I attended the Paredes de Coura Fan Weekend. The Galo de Barcelos is a traditional icon of Portuguese culture,...
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California Republic Flag
For this year’s Bricks by the Bay LEGO convention, which had the theme “California Dreamin’,” I built a model of the California state flag. The flag of California consists of a white background with...
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Flat Rudolph
Last year I built a Christmas ornament Flat Santa inspired by the amazing platecraft ornaments designed by Chris McVeigh. This year I’m following that up with another platecraft ornament, Flat Rudolph:...
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Christmas Build-Up 2017 MOC Instructions
For the first 24 days of this month, I posted my Advent 2017 posts with images of the three Advent Calendar models as well as that day’s Christmas Build-Up model. Also each day I built a MOC (My Own...
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Happy New Year 2018
I came up with this little sign to commemorate the new year, and made instructions for it. I designed this entirely on the computer, as I don’t have enough of the curved tiles in my collection yet. But...
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