by Bill | Jan 6, 2024 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
This is the second in a series of posts sharing instructions to build the MOCs (My Own Creations) that I built on December 8th through 24th (starting in the second week of the Friends and Marvel Advent calendar sets). For the first week (Days 1-7) I felt that I hadn’t...
by Bill | Jan 5, 2024 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
In my Advent calendar posts from last month, after the first week of Advent I built an original model of my own design using the parts from the Friends and Marvel sets. Now, I’m sharing the instructions to build these models. For the first week (Days 1-7) I felt that...
by Bill | Dec 24, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
The end has come at last to our Advent journey. Day 24 brings us our final two models in the Friends and Marvel calendars, respectively a wheelie weiener dog and a Christmas tree. I used the parts from this tree and many earlier days’ parts to build an original model,...
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...