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Sigfig Habitats #10

Monday, 23rd November 2020 By Caz

This quartet of Sigfig Habitats shows off Robin Hood Bricks, King Louie, Shannon and Bricks McGee.

The first habitat is for one of my favourite YouTubers, Robin Hood Bricks. I’ve enjoyed watching his city, Brick Nottingham, and channel grown massively from small begnnings. He loves pug dogs, and his SigFig is the CMF Series 1 Forestman, who is tempting his dog with a steak in front of a little section of Brick Nottingham Castle.

Twitter friend Jonas, aka King Louise Bricks lives in Belgium and works as a Medical Laboratory Technician in research when he is not developing his custom LEGO City, Louietown. I decided to picture him in his lab doing some science!

Another Twitter friend is Shannon, who loves to keep fit at the gym, look after his cats, and build LEGO in what little spare time he has left. One of his cat brood is watching him do some bicep curls after a quick session on the treadmill.

Richard, aka The Bricks McGee is the final member of this AFOL quartet. He is chairman of Brick Alley LUG in the North East of England, is mad on trains but not on spaceships, helps organise several LEGO shows around the area and has a very daft black lurcher called Diesel who is always getting into various scrapes. While Santa’s Little Helper is the wrong colour, I felt he perfectly embodies Diesel’s persona, seen here trying to scam a saussie from Dogdad in his LEGO room.

Haul #1: WordCamp Manchester

Saturday, 28th October 2017 By Caz

I’ve been attending WordCamp Manchester today, and one of the event sponsors was giving away pseudo-LEGO mugs with a little bag full of real LEGO plates and tiles to play with. I managed to snag one which now holds pens and other bits in my LEGO den.

One of the event’s speakers, Richard Carter has another persona as Brick McGee. He was giving out a few custom Minifigures after his talk, and I managed to get hold of one for my collection. Yay!

Exhibition: Little Landmarks

Wednesday, 18th October 2017 By Caz

I’m visiting the North East for a few days, staying with Alistair, a friend of Richard Carter, aka Bricks McGee, who currently has an exhibition in South Shields Museum & Art Gallery called Little Landmarks. He has built 10 local buildings in Minifig scale, which are on display in one of the galleries until the end of October.

Today we decided to go along for a look. There were some great builds, here are some of my favourites. I loved the curved corner and wall textures on this model of the Haven Point swimming pool:

Little Landmarks - Haven Point — Little Landmarks – Haven Point

Minifigs add some scale and life to the scenes. This time the lifeguard is outside The Word.

Little Landmarks - The Word — Little Landmarks – The Word

We were amused that each build had a perch for at least one seagull somewhere along the roof. Then we started playing “spot the seagull”.

Little Landmarks - Town Hall Roof — Little Landmarks – Town Hall Roof

Little Landmarks - Herd Groyne lighthouse — Little Landmarks – Herd Groyne lighthouse

Little Landmarks - Town Hall Tower — Little Landmarks – Town Hall Tower

The Town Hall had an impressive tower rising above the street level, the perfect place for a gull. Another landmark which is very iconic of South Shields is Herd Groyne Lighthouse, painted its distinctive red colour.

I loved the old salty sea dog doing a spot of fishing from the pier, of course accompanied by several thieving gulls, and some little breakers just washing in against the walls.

Richard has built many custom LEGO models and is always available for commissions if you have the need for something for a friend, loved one or perhaps your workplace.

All in all it was a fun exhibition which we topped off with a fine cup of tea a slice of cake in the Museum Café. Perfect.