Another great holiday for our Lego collection!
Recent Article on the Chronicles of Prydain
Spotted this on Vox.com today:
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/18/9166631/chronicles-prydain-alexander
Just wanted to share it here!
Building with the 2015 Lego Pirates: Imperial Soldiers’ Bastion
I got pretty excited when I saw the new 2015 Lego Pirates line, and over a couple of weeks I managed to collect all the sets in the line (including the Junior set), except for the new pirate ship, The Brick Bounty. Here’s what they look like together, built as the instructions show:
But I quickly developed ideas for a single, greater bastion to command the coast for the Imperial Soldiers. After a few nights of building, I was pleased with how the build came together. I took quite a few pictures – check them out below:
The pictures above show the bastion in a non-combat setting. The cannon (both large and small), however, are stocked for a battle:
Here are a few views of the minifigs, row boats, and creatures that I included on this build:
And here are a bunch of pictures of the bastion during a battle:
(Meanwhile, two frogs infiltrate the treasure room…)
All in all I really enjoyed the build, and the entire thing is built almost exclusively with the sets from the 2015 Pirates line. I did have a few spare bricks laying around from a trip to the Lego store that did find use in this Bastion, notably the ladders and some dark red bricks. I also had a good number of pieces left over from those Pirates sets, should inspiration strike for connected structures…
This bastion was actually the second I built from the same source material. Before I acquired all of the 2015 line (excepting the Brick Bounty of course) I also built this smaller fort:
For both builds I tried to remain relatively consistent to the aesthetic of the original line, while trying to capture more vertical presence.
One of us wrote a book; you can buy it on Amazon
Keenan recently published his first YA book on Amazon – you can download it there:
It’s good – and if you like Prydain, you should check it out!
Some fun birthday set building
More Mobile Frame Zero
Finding Llyan (in Heroica scale)
Building for Fun: Mobile Frame Zero
It’s been a while since I built free-form just for fun, without a plan. I made these up last night, inspired by the Lego-based tabletop wargame Mobile Frame Zero (check out the link to the right!).
New Year Hobbit Hole
For the holidays this year I received an awesome Hobbit Lego set, Bag End. It is full of a lot of neat features and pieces, and I am quite the fan of the Dwalin and Balin models. And the new brick separator that comes with the kit! Here are some models of it put together:
Enjoy!
Happy Halloween
Lego Prydain 