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Not My Theme. Still Won Me Over: Lumibricks Dutch Windmill Millhouse

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Not My Theme. Still Won Me Over.  Lumibricks Dutch Windmill Millhouse 16012 Review I'll start here: Windmills aren't really my thing.  Get yours here Give me a dirty city modular, a record store, a barber shop, something packed with signs, clutter and city detail, and I'm happy. That's normally where my interest is when it comes to buildings. I like that tight modular footprint and the feeling of something that could sit naturally in the middle of a busy street. Windmills and lighthouses don't usually grab me in the same way. Looking at this one before I started, I wasn't expecting it to be a set I'd get particularly excited about. I was wrong . The Dutch Windmill Millhouse is one of those builds that just gets better as it comes together. It's tight, clean and far more sophisticated than I expected. There's a great mechanism at the heart of it, loads of little details throughout and a colour palette that absolutely nails the Dutch theme....

A truly beautiful modular: Pantasy Bavarian Tavern 85049 ReviewI

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Pantasy Bavarian Tavern 85049 Review Amazon UK link here Pantasy link here Upto 35% off at bottom of review for Pantasy Anniversary event. I was really looking forward to this one. Pantasy have produced some excellent modular-style buildings, and the Bavarian Tavern immediately looked like exactly the sort of set I enjoy. I'm a huge fan of detail in my builds, and from the first images it was obvious there was going to be plenty going on here. This one was also a little different for me because I built it with my son. He is a big fan of LEGO modulars but had never built a Pantasy set before. I thought this would be a great introduction to the brand, and it would also be his first experience of building a set with integrated lighting. The instructions are split across three books, which worked really well for us. He took the first book and built the entire ground floor while I started the second book and worked on the first floor. I then moved onto the third book, comple...

IAmBrick Wrecked Plane Pharmacy (30902) Review – A Unique Take on the Post-Apocalypse

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IAmBrick Wrecked Plane Pharmacy (30902) Review – A Unique Take on the Post-Apocalypse Discount link! There are some themes that almost guarantee they'll catch my attention, and post-apocalyptic worlds have always been one of them. Whether it's the desolate highways of the original Mad Max trilogy, the relentless action of Fury Road, the world-building of Furiosa or, more recently, Amazon's Fallout series, I've always been fascinated by the idea of people rebuilding their lives amongst the ruins of civilisation. There's something strangely satisfying about seeing familiar places and everyday objects given a completely new purpose once the world has fallen apart. It's also a theme that translates incredibly well into brick-built models. Over the last year I've reviewed both the Youmko Red Rocket Café and IAmBrick's Doomsday Gas Station, and both managed to capture that feeling brilliantly. They weren't simply buildings with broken walls and...