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Following on from a theme a recent blog post, here we are again with a new (and odd) source of inspiration. An ad for Cadre began appearing in several of my feeds – Facebook, Twitter, etc. Apparently Cadre is a sort of cloud-sourcing real estate investment group. Sounds interesting, kinda makes me wish I had…
Inspiration comes from odd places at times. A couple of weeks ago as I was watching #BreakingNews about a horrible police situation in Philadelphia (in which 6 brave officers were wounded) I noticed the interesting architecture in the affected neighborhood. I managed to take a screen shot on my phone from the live local broadcast…
20August 2019
So I was making good progress on the Tower Plaza (see previous posts) and then wham! Ran out of parts. Not all the parts, just a couple critical plates necessary to continue with the low rise masonry structure. I did what any AFOL would do in this situation – went to Bricklink and ordered the…
7August 2019
Continuing on with my Tower Plaza build, I had to address one of the issues lurking in the back of my mind since I completed the initial design in Studio. With both of the buildings in this model being variations of my Skinny MOD theme (8 – brick wide structures), neither were intended to have…
4August 2019
Finally started the “real” build of my Inverted Corner MOC. Thanks to a pretty solid LUG-Bulk haul and my effort actually order much of what I need from BrickLink, I making solid progress. Since I am hoping to publish instructions for this model – and especially since my design process for the initial Studio model…
19June 2019
The newest addition to my LEGO TIE Fighter collection is Major Vonreg’s TIE Fighter (Lego #75240). To note, at the writing of this blog, it was 20% off on Amazon – we bought it a few weeks ago and paid full price, oh well. So from what I can tell, my TIE Fighter collection (minifig…
I like to think of myself as a pretty advanced LEGO builder. Not saying MasterBuilder, but definitely not a beginner by any standard. I say this to emphasize my joy and excitement for a couple of the “Perfect Start” Star Wars sets produced this year LEGO Star Wars – X-Wing Trench Run and LEGO Star…
Looks pretty simple, right? Just an inverted 33 degree slope 1×3. I have used dozens of these before. Turns out I never built with a Tan one before. So my plan was set and it was an elegant solution. I need a way to have a rectangular hip roof smoothly transition into a square cupola….
6February 2019
When the LEGO Group announces the new/re-release Vestas Wind Turbine (LEGO 10268) set, I was excited and I knew I would have too add this to the Belmont Bricks collection. And I did. I commend LEGO for making the scale of a wind turbine the defining factor of this set. The finished size is impressive…
4February 2019
If you have seen my MOC page, you have seen an example of what I have termed – the Skinny Mod or skinny modular. The concept is simple, a modular building which is only 8 bricks wide. It connects with other standard size modulars and can be in-line or a corner structure. I first experimented…
