Posted by Cavorter on April 6, 2009
I scored big at a garage sale yesterday. Matt, a fellow TwinLUG member, had mentioned there was a huge number of sets available at a garage sale in New Brighton and that there had still been many left when he went back on Sunday. Since it was pretty close to J’s house I figured I’d [...]
Posted by Cavorter on January 26, 2009
I’m playing around with the recently massively upgraded MOCPages site and with the exception of the total lack of RSS or Atom support have found it relatively useful. This past weekend I re-photographed a number of my Micropolis modules and posted them. If you want to see more, take a look at: Micropolis Construction Site [...]
Posted by Cavorter on December 21, 2008
I saw a post on The Brothers Brick the other day with a new vehicle meme that looked pretty interesting and today I finally got the chance to sit down and build something and came up with “Pug”. The cockpit for Pug is where my design diverges from the meme spec which calls for it [...]
Posted by Cavorter on September 23, 2008
It is quite the coincidence that over the last week two of my creative projects have appeared in large public spaces. It’s a little weird honestly since unlike some of my friends pretty much I do almost nothing with the express purpose of getting broad public exposure and by and large it all hides in [...]
Posted by Cavorter on April 26, 2008
I have finished the first attempt at redesigning the cockpit of the tank vehicle of the LEGO Exo-Force 8118 Hybrid Rescue Tank. As I mentioned the other day, the existing cockpit design seemed pretty badly done and so I went ahead and tried to improve it. I’m still not entirely happy with the results yet, [...]
Posted by Cavorter on April 24, 2008
This past weekend I splurged and got two new LEGO model kits. The first kit is the Technic 8272 Snow Mobile and is a really fantastic little model. There are only a few really interesting pieces, two spring shocks and a really cool 28 piece track, but the thing I like most about Technic models [...]
Posted by Cavorter on March 9, 2008
So I was inspired to build a fairly neat looking bike this morning while playing with LEGOs with my girlfriend’s kids. There was a set of interesting balloon tires (43.2 x 28 Balloon Small according to the LDRAW parts list) near the top of the bin and they obviously needed to be put onto a [...]