Poor Relation?

Poor Relation?

OK, so I don’t need anyone to remind me that I haven’t exactly been prolific over the past few years when it comes to posting on Gimme LEGO…. That having been said, what I have posted provides a big clue to the identity of possibly my greatest...
Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

Back in the summer of 2019 I revealed that I’d be exhibiting my 10224 Town Hall-inspired railway station MOC (below) as part of a collaborative display at the 2019 Great Western Brick Show, but that it’d need some fairly substantial modifications in order...
Taxi!

Taxi!

Given everything that’s going on in the world right now, I’ve felt in desperate need of some light relief to lift the spirits. One thing that works for me is to take solace in an old LEGO set and wallow in some much-needed nostalgia. My latest trip down...
End of the Road?

End of the Road?

As I’ve previously mentioned on these pages, I have LEGO Star Wars to thank for rescuing me from my LEGO Dark Ages. Specifically, it was the arrival of 10188 Death Star in 2008 which started my slide down the slippery slope. My wife bought me the set as a...
Letting Off STEAM

Letting Off STEAM

It feels like a lifetime since I last posted (here). On that occasion I was preparing to finish up my railway station MOC in preparation for its appearance as part of a display of modular buildings at the Great Western Brick Show a.k.a. STEAM in Swindon. I’m...
Modular Row

Modular Row

Remarkably, in November of this year it’ll be fully eight years since I booted up LDD and started to design my own LEGO City. To say that progress has been slow would be an understatement of epic proportions – you could probably have built a real city in...