Weekly Challenge Builds weeks 2 and 3

Well, the whole posting each week thing sort of fell apart didn't it...
Anyway, here are the builds for weeks two and three of the daily challenge build:

Day Eight: The Boat that Floats. Well, long enough for the photo anyway. I didn't leave it long enough, but I think it would've sunk eventually.

Day Nine: A castle. Not having enough parts for a castle, and it being a Saturday I decided to build a watch tower instead.

Here we see Balthazar the Spiffy, master of the magic arts visiting his chum Sir Gui De Somgui.

Day nine was a horse. I used slightly modified instructions from the original 1978 castle which I found online.

Day ten: build a maze.

Day Eleven: Build a picture frame. Since I don't have any hard copy photos and all my art is best displayed without a frame, I decided to build.a minifig scale picture frame.

Day twelve: build a train. I don't have enough train wheels, so I used wagon wheels instead. I liked the design, so this was photographed, uploaded and quickly rebuilt into a space train.

Day eleven: a venus fly trap. Thanks to a luck op-shop find some months ago, I happened to have way more bright green thn I thought, including exactly the right parts for the 'jaws'. 

Day Twelve: Unicorn. I was working from school this time, so I just quickly added a horn to the horse from day nine.

Day Thirteen: Pirate ship. I'm particularly happy with the broadside being fired.

Day Fourteen: Build a scene from a favourite book. Here we see the heroes of the picture book Trumpets in Grumpetland by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas-Smith in their bunny buggy pulled by the noble Hercules.

Day Fifteen: Build an ice cream truck. I'd like to revist this one with a slightly better roof to allow more space for a server.

Day Sixteen: Build a dog house. The mighty and mightily flamboyant Hercules is seen here pondering the great questions of his life - is he a good boy and when will his master realise he's a bulldog, not a pug and build him a bigger house?

Day Seventeen: Build a flying saucer. Parts availability played a major part int he design, but I knew I wanted it hovering over the microscale town.

Day eighteen: Build a sports arena. I'd just demolished some creator sets which used lots of dark blue, so I decided to use that colour for the stadium.

Day Nineteen: Waterpark. Not something I would choose to build, and not something I would choose to keep around once build. Pretty quickly stripped for parts.

Day Twenty: Build a shark. Or in my case, build a set of power armour for a shark. I do want to revisit this one and update the arms a little, I ran out of time on the day.

Day Twenty-One: Build a bridge.

On Monday Victorian schools are starting to transition back to on-site learning, meaning that I won't be able to build Lego during recess like I have been during the remote learning we've been doing. I still hope to complete the daily challenges (there's only a week left) but the builds are likely to get smaller.

Snotblox in isolation: A week of Daily Challenge Builds (week 1)

I've become involved with my school's Lego Club (which is a new, virtual club we're running while in remote-learning mode. One of the main things we have been doing is a daily challenge build. I found a calendar online with 30 challenges on it, and we've been working our way through. I tend to build during what would normally be recess if I was not working from home. Anyway, I thought I'd post the daily challenge builds in weekly batches. Of course, I did not think of this until Day 10... The cycle actually starts and ends on Thursdays, so the next batch will go up on Thursday.

Day One: Build a Roller Coaster - most of the rock work comes from another project, so I did not need to build it all for this one.

Day two: build a town. I went microscale here due to lack of time and parts. Note the light house - those are white bricks! They're just so old and discoloured they almost match the tan ones.

Day three was Rocketship. I did start out trying to build something a bit more rocket shaped, but it ended up as another space pirate ship. It's okay, the kids in the club all went with more spaceship shaped builds than rocket ship shaped builds anyway.

Day four was The World's Tallest Tower. I know it meant to try to build the tallest tower you could, but that's really a build to do with kids, and since I have none, I decided to build a vignette showing two kids building the world's tallest tower.

Day Five was Aeroplane (spelled wrong as the calendar is American). I decided to rebuild a kit from childhood, but could not find all the parts (they're probably at my brother's place) and ended up using different colours. There's also some slight redesign as I couldn't find the engines or the vital 4x4 hinge plate used in the middle of the wings.

Day Six was The Perfect Pizza. I was working from School that day, supervising the handful of children of vital service workers who are coming in every day, so I took some parts with me. I knew I did not have parts to make anything like a Pizza itself, so I made another vignette. Here, Dad uses his shovel to pull the perfect pizza from the new pizza oven he's just built.

Day Seven was Robot, so I build this Mk.Ib Light Maintenane Trundler. It was also Wednesday, which is virtual online AFOL play date day, so I built a vignette to go with him later on.

Well, that's the first week's worth of challenge builds. I'll be back on Thursday to post the next batch, including Castle, Horse, and Boat That Floats!

Snotblox in isolation

Snotblox is still here. Sort of. We have not shot any video in ages (actually, Owen has the files for two shows somewhere, but right when he was gearing up to edit them, the education department decided he needed a new laptop, which turned out to be a downgrade from the old one, and that sort of killed his mojo...) but we're still active despite the current trying times.

• We've both joined the MUGs (Melbourne Lego User Group) on Facebook and will be posting stuff there.
• Owen's helping to run a Lego Club at his school which currently mostly means posting a daily build challenge and then going and building it while working from home.
• Greg's notorious Hogwarts has actually been fully assembled, transported and displayed (only once, and at a private function) so we finally know how big it is when it's all together.
• Owen's been indulging in virtual play dates with other local AFOLs and their CFOLs.
• Greg's house is having some renovations done which get in the way of the build area.
• Owen built this vignette showing what a normal Saturday night used to look like and has become all nostalgic. (That's Elliot on the couch with the Pizza and Greg's wife doing yoga. More importantly, Gracie the cat is supervising our shenanigans...)