Blog of Josh Hall

Fellow Steel City LUG member, Greg, pointed on a contest for classic movie vignettes on a 16 x 16 base plate using a collectible minifig.  He did a great version of Tangled, but realized it wasn’t a classic movie.  I jumped in with E.T., after googling what movies were released in my birth year.  I […]

I saw this set on LEGO.com and I thought the front didn’t look quite right, especially using the white bricks. It’s also less functional since it’s only 1 brick deep. Here’s my modified version with instructions – http://joshuadhall.com/lego/Building%20Instructions%20%5Bheartshapedbox%5D.html those 72 parts will run you less than $3 on bricklink.com. Here’s an inventory file if you’d […]

I’m a part of Steel City LUG, and we’re displaying at LEGO KidsFest this weekend, so I wanted to put together something special for it.  I was imbued by the Batman/Joker of Arthur Gugick, who was inspired by Christopher Doyle’s Dorian Bley.  I originally had a different idea, but it was my wife that came up […]

This was an award for MAN Growth at a gathering of friends to give each other man awards.  The event focused on all of our unique talents; mine being LEGO creations. At first, I wanted to do a bonsai tree, but after seeing that a bunch have been done already, I lost some steam.  I […]

This probably the most impressive LEGO build I’ve ever seen.  Forget the Lord of the Rings tower.  This is just so awesome on so many levels.  I actually think it might be my favorite build I’ve ever seen.  Seriously.  

Welcome to the scotoma of LEGO creations.  Jeff Sanders is doing what everyone should have realized years ago. LEGO bricks have a little give to them, which means, when enough of them are connected in a straight line, you can bend that line.  His work has been featured with Nathan Sawaya’s touring displays.  Great stuff […]