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My GBC In Virtual Brickworld’s International Loop

Saturday, 31st October 2020 By Caz

Brickworld held another virtual con over Halloween weekend, and I was invited to be part of the international Great Ball Contraption loop. The original first presenter was a bit late, so I went on as the first guest – but after a couple of modules, one of mine broke! There was a handover to Derek while the errant machine got fixed. Hence, my contribution starts at 3’55” and again at 31’20”.

Filed Under: Events, Exhibitions, Great Ball Contraption, Interviews With Caz Tagged With: gbc, virtual brickworld

London Adult Fans Of LEGO – Train Night, June 2019

Wednesday, 12th June 2019 By Caz

Every month, my local LEGO User Group, the London Adult Fans of LEGO, meet in a pub near Euston to chat about LEGO, have fun and drink a beer or two. The theme of the latest meetup was LEGO Trains, so lots of members brought along tracks and laid them out in a huge winding layout on the floor. It was a bit dark for videos of that, but I took along a small loop of classic Monorail track and my custom orange train MOC. I set it up along with member Tim’s layout. He brought along lots more track and all three official LEGO Monorail trains: the grey and black Unitron train from the Monorail Transport Base (1994); the red Airport Shuttle, (6399 from 1990) and the white Futuron-era Monorail Transport System train (6990 from 1987).

Filed Under: Events, Monorail Layouts Tagged With: 6399, 6990, Airport Shuttle, london afols, monorail, Monorail Transport Base, Monorail Transport System, train night, Unitron

Caterham Festival LEGO Shop Window Models

Wednesday, 5th December 2018 By Caz

Back in June 2018, my LEGO User Group the London AFOLs put on a display as part of the Caterham Festival. We made various life-sized objects from LEGO to put into local shop windows. The models stayed there for a month for a competition where local kids were encouraged to see if they could find them all to win a prize. I contributed four builds, three of which I still have made up. There was some jewellery (which got taken apart soon after the event), a light switch, a framed picture and my favourite – a tray of delicious-looking petits-fours which were placed in the window of the local bakery.

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: cakes, Caterham Festival, food, jewellery, life sized model, light switch, london afols

Meetup: Brick Alley March 2018

Saturday, 10th March 2018 By Caz

Today I had the pleasure of visiting Brick Alley – the RLUG for North East England. They hold their meetings at the Head of Steam Railyway Museum in Darlington on the second Sunday of each month. I had engineered my trip up north such that I could pop in to the meeting on my way home driving south.

The members were encouraged to bring some of their MOCs to the event (I had packed a couple of Micropolis modules to show off too). Star Wars WIP:

Brick Alley - March 2018 - Star Wars MOCs
Brick Alley – March 2018 – Star Wars MOCs

Some interesting military builds…

Brick Alley - March 2018 - Military MOCs
Brick Alley – March 2018 – Military MOCs

Classic Space collection:

Brick Alley - March 2018 - Classic Space Collection
Brick Alley – March 2018 – Classic Space Collection

More spacey stuff

Brick Alley - March 2018 - Classic Space Collection
Brick Alley – March 2018 – Classic Space Collection

Soyuz capsule by Andrew “Jack” Horner.

Brick Alley - March 2018 - Soyuz MOC
Brick Alley – March 2018 – Soyuz MOC

Mim’s vintage restaurant…

Brick Alley - March 2018 - Vintage Restaurant Set
Brick Alley – March 2018 – Vintage Restaurant Set

A build in progress for charity.

Brick Alley - March 2018 - MOC In Progress
Brick Alley – March 2018 – MOC In Progress

Steve Meyes gives the members some practical tips on photographing your MOCs.

Brick Alley - March 2018 - Photography Session
Brick Alley – March 2018 – Photography Session

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: BrickAlley, Darlington, LUG, newcastle, NorthEast

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