Blog of Josh Hall

I’ve seen the app come up in my social media feed and I was strongly pessimistic. After a few people sent me the link, I figured I should do a first hand testimonial and send them that for when people send me it in the future but also if anyone else is curious about it. […]

It’s been a minute since I did any LEGO creations for myself.  Usually my time, energy, and abilities are spent towards something with the girls or with the LUG.  This isn’t an exception, but it was a good break to show that I can still bust out a project in a few hours of dedicated […]

Necessity breeds creativity.  That is what happened here.  When we moved into this house, the lamppost never worked.  I couldn’t figure it out.  I also had a dislike for the original lamppost that was there since it didn’t have a switch to turn it on or off and it didn’t have an outlet at its […]

This is my first foray into the minifig scale/town buildings.  This was inspired by Nooroyd‘s use of the whips to spell “Cafe”, but I didn’t quite like how the ‘f’ turned out, and it kept on coming back in my mind how to do it differently.  Not that I ended up improving on it, but […]

I love Mister Rogers.  I loved his show, but I loved his work and his demeanor.  He cared and he truly had a mysterious way of calming you.  I won’t go on about him, plenty of others already aggregated lists for that. To show my appreciation, I wanted my next Pittsburgh build to be Mister […]

For the 75th anniversary of Batman, LEGO announced a contest at the major conventions for the best batman build.  There wasn’t much in the way of official rules and regulations or criteria on how people would be judged, but I knew I wanted to take a shot.  The announcement came a few weeks before I […]