by Bill | Dec 17, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Day 17 is PARTS. Friends gives us dog foot and related items, and a slew of bonus parts. Marvel gives us a cape. Just the cape, not even in a little plastic bag! So I put the cape on the dog and a sausage into the hole in his head, and the results are the newest...
by Bill | Dec 16, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Day 16 gives us a bunch of festive furniture: table and chairs in Friends and a rocking throne in Marvel, and I designed a weird dog+cat sled for Spider-Man. Our Friends figures get a table and a pair of chairs, with a candle. Marvel’s model is a dark green and gold...
by Bill | Dec 15, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Day 15 gives us an oven for baking dog biscuits (Friends) and an arc reactor (Marvel). My original model is a helicopter. Friends gives us this cute oven to bake pizza or bread or … dog biscuits? Here it is with one in the oven. And this is what the biscuits look...
by Bill | Dec 14, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Day 14! Two whole weeks down, 10 days to go. We get a kitty in Friends and some hockey equipment and gifts in Marvel. Friends gives us another cute animal, this time another kitten. Looks like a Siamese cat with its eyes closed???!!! The face is printed as is a...
by Bill | Dec 13, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
We’re now into the second half of Advent. My how time flies. Today we get some dots (I like to call them “cookies”) from Friends and a Okoye minifigure from Marvel. Friends gives us a little box of dots, or as I prefer to call them, cookies. Remember the Detective...
by Bill | Dec 12, 2023 | Bill Ward's Brickpile
Can you believe we’re already at the halfway point? Yup, it’s 12 days down, 12 to go. Here we get an undecorated Christmas tree from Friends and a workbench from Marvel. And I built a wreath. No Advent calendar is complete without a Christmas tree. But this time it’s...