Playing with Lego again after a couple of years "growing up"

[Paul F]

Hi I'm Paul from England, I love a good forum (I'm admin at PlayStationAge.com, my other passion of RPGs) and looking at the posts here it looks like a good home for me.

I was bought Lego before I was born and was my first toy when I arrived in 1981 (not duplo!). Growing up I would constantly cause the stthhhhhhhhsssss noise of pouring the bricks out to my parents sighs (who puts Lego away I believe should be determined by hand size, I'm much better at it now I have man spades to scoop the bricks up). I loved every style, Police, Castle and M Tron especially and would mainly do my own creations after quickly completing the instructions then pulling it apart and assimulating it into the Lego box. I would tell everyone that I was going to work in Legoland in Denmark when I grew up building new sets for Lego.

I probably stopped around the time the Star Wars sets arrived, I was a big star wars fan but spent my time being a ninteen year old in England in pubs and clubs "growing up", chasing girls and listening to Nirvana . At the age of around 27 I took a small Lego Cookie Tin full of Lego from my parents to my house and had a play around. I was really pleased I still had the building skills and created a transforming robot truck with the limited prices I had, it was fairly large, looked great in either mode and was enough to make me go out and buy a couple more sets.

This coincides with me meeting my (now) wife who is fine with my addictions (I have a room especially for Lego and Videogames, I'm very lucky!). The Lego side of me has grown to the point I've done what many of you have and sorted the bricks into draws (although I'm not 100% sure I like it for building, sometimes I see pieces in a pile that give me ideas).

I recently watched the inside Lego programme on how a guy from London applied to become a Lego designer by submitting his portfolio and then going to a build off and then was successfully assimilated into the Lego (box) family which provoked my wife into encouraging me to do the same which has bought me to today. I know the chances of being successful are slim, they may not even do it anymore or may stop it soon, but the thought of spending time building up a quality Lego portfolio sounded like too much fun even without a move to Denmark at the end. Plus I'm actually following my dream, not many people can say that! I already have a job as a casino manager to fund my portfolio plus I used to be a professional photographer in my twenties so am happy with a camera and Photoshop. All I need now is the builds!

My first build is a large Star Wars Imperial ship, it's currently about three foot long and completely built from scratch, I designed a smaller mock up and used that as a guide. The front and body is complete just the rear engine section needs finishing but I'm really happy with how it's looking. I took on a smaller project to go with it which is ready to be photographed and uploaded here, a smaller ship, I wanted to try "no studs on show" (what's the acronym?) which has worked well. I was hoping by contributing here I could also get some feedback on my portfolio builds as I'm always learning, and the members here seem extremely talented. I'll be making sure the portfolio is diverse but mainly (say 80%) mini figure scale (can't wait to start hunting down M Tron bits on eBay!) some will also be original lines.

Ha never thought I'd write that much as a hello, sorry! Really looking forward to chatting and getting to know you all!

Cheers!

Paul

[KamalMYafi]

Welcome to Eurobricks!

[Tezclatipoca]

Welcome to Eurobricks Paul !

If your looking for inspiration to do some medieval builds don't hesitate to take a look at the Guilds of Historica !

[Paul F]

Thanks chaps! Yes there will definitely be some medievel work going on :-) I still have a lot of my Robin Hood sets

[Rider Raider]

Likewise, if you want an RPG, go to Heroica!

Welcome Paul F!