by Bill | Dec 23, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Just one more day left in these LEGO Advent Calendars! Our penultimate entries in the Friends and Marvel calendars are a 3rd piece of our train, and a target. I built a Santa Claus. Friends adds another link in the train we started on the 21st. Here is the whole...
by Bill | Dec 22, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Our 22nd models are a car for the train locomotive we built yesterday in Friends and a new minifigure named Wong from Marvel. For my original model, I built a farm tractor with a disc plow using the train wheels as the discs. Here’s the Friends model, a simple train...
by Bill | Dec 21, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Happy solstice! Just 4 days left to Xmas, my how time flies. Today in our Friends and Marvel Advent calendars, we get a cute little locomotive and a table with some festive food and drink. I built a twin-engine propeller plane using the parts I’ve got thus far. This...
by Bill | Dec 20, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
It’s day 20, and we get a bunny and a train from the 2023 Friends and Marvel Advent calendars. This is an adorable little bunny from Friends. It doesn’t seem to have holiday-specific printing, but just a regular face on the front, and no print on back as usual....
by Bill | Dec 19, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Today our Advent calendars for Friends and Marvel give us a couple of gift boxes and a desk, and I built a birbd. Today’s Friends model is simple – two boxes and some cookies. Not terribly exciting. The Marvel model is not that marvelous either. It’s a simple desk...
by Bill | Dec 18, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Only one week left until Christmas? Yikes. In Friends we get the owner of yesterday’s dog treats, and in Marvel we get the owner of yesterday’s cape, Doctor Strange. For an original creation I built a tuk-tuk. Our Friends model for today is a cute puppy. What breed?...