– ‘I don’t see why we can’t just make camp like usual’, Harlon argued. ‘Never had anything good coming from meddling with the locals.’ – ‘That’s because you treat common people like dirt’, objected Nyle. ‘People don’t generally want to help anyone that thinks of them as a nuisance. If you could just play nice…
Introduced our older kids to the classic video game Tetris a while ago. One question that came up was ‘why doesn’t the blocks fall down when there is nothing under them?’ I explained that video games are not meant to be completely realistic, and if they were it would probably ruin the game completely. This…
I quite often hear my kids mispronounce the names of minifigures they find in our collection. Darth Vader seems especially prone to this phenomenon with multiple alternative pronounciations to his name. One permutation is ‘Darth Waiter’ (with an american accent where the ‘t’ sounds like ‘d’) which I find quite funny, so I went ahead…
It’s been quite a while since I built my first bonsai, so it was time for another try. Though, this build is more the result of testing out two different techniques, rather than an attempt at creating a complete piece. The first technique is the brick pattern of the pot, which is something I’ve been…
2016 is over and it has been a pretty interesting year for me. Halfway through 2016, I had my first real taste of microscale while building Avalonian Countryside for my Guilds of Historica storyline, and it kind of got me hooked. For a builder like me, who loves to build landscapes and nature, I think…
A stone shack that is the home to one of my son’s “flying guys” 🙂 Experimented with greebling and odd shapes and angles on walls and roof.
Guards heading out on patrol, while some stay behind drinking raspberry juice 🙂 The tower is a modified version of Derfel Cadarn’s excellent design; Hangman’s Watch.
Full Plate Builds 