Brickworld - Kansas City

We spent some time at a local Brickworld event last weekend and it was awesome. If you want to see some creative and impressive Lego builds you should scroll down for photos.

As we walked in we were greeted by a massive Castle/ Town display.

There is so much going on in this build, you spend forever looking around and still miss fun details. 

There were also a number of ninjas hidden throughout.

There were several large city displays.

One of the coolest things was seeing some local landmarks re-created in Lego.

Motorcycle Daredevil atop the Western Auto Building

Lego Movie at the Alamo Draft House

Typical line at Joe's Kc

There was also a ton of cool space displays and really interesting Lego plant life.

There was so much to see it's hard to choose what to share.

If you have a chance to attend an event in your area I would definitely check it out.

Miniature Building and Painting

At the beginning of the year, I started a new job. It is a job that I love and it's closer to home so things have been great. We got a new tiny kitten at Thanksgiving and he has already gotten so big. His name is Shiro, after the Black Paladin of Voltron, and he is the paladin of snuggles.

My husband and I have also started experimenting with new crafts. We've started playing around with resin. Right now, we are mostly just trying things out but eventually, I want to make dice and jewels to use for decorating book covers. Here are some things we've made while working on ways to get different colors.

We also took a painting class at our local gaming store and have started painting miniatures. 

Here's the mini's from our class:

Myself

Husband

Currently, I am painting this wagon for my husband to use while running Curse of Strahd.

Work in Progress

Finally, I am almost done building my own beholder miniature. I used the tutorial from this video for the basics but decided to try a different idea for creating skin texture. I wanted something that looked lizardy and wart-like so I covered the body with googly eyes. It was particularly bizarre-looking before adding paint. Currently, it is almost complete, only needing teeth and paint.