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  • brick projects – in progress – lego himeji castle (#21060)

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    mom really wanted to do a castle and this was the first one i found for sale that was an actual castle shape and not just a building facade. although, lego does have a new one for sale coming out soon in august that i might pick up that’s more of the medieval castle style she wanted to build — lego neuschwanstein castle #21063 — but we haven’t really made much progress on this one lately

    Himeji Castle … or at least that’s what the frame says. There’s a neat Japanese nameplate you can use here as well

    more today after mom’s physical therapy

    More front wall and garden today
    Itty bitty little steps

    update: saturday, july 26th: a few wall details in. we’re done with bag 5 of 17

    Exterior wall part one
    Exterior wall part two
    I think it’s a little guard house. It looks like a little guard house.

    more stuff done this week

    Some mini roof details
    Side entrance
    More front walls?
    Main castle flooring
    Looks like a little bit of plumbing here
    Finished up for the day with a couple interior walls

    more progress, still have bags 11-17 left to do after these:

    Another tiny little guard house?
    Arch support
    Smaller detail and front walling
    Porthole windows? (It wasn’t, it was a connector) but the other spaces are intentional windowing detail I thought was neat
    More of the windowing detail
    Curious what these interior wall details are (long slits)
    Third level of building — fourth overall if you include the platform I guess
    Here’s where we finished for the day after bag #10

    mom had real physical therapy today (august 12th, 2025) so she wanted to read/rest a little after, but an hour later we got in two bags — more than normal lately — so i’ve got some new pictures to show off

    Tiling to give the castle that iconic Japanese look
    Another floor of structures (and what will be windows)
    Close-up (ish) of additional construction
    Adding neat little roofing details
    Mustachioed building #1
    Mustachioed buildings #2 and #3 also have mustaches on the other side. So I suppose they’re Double Mustachioed ™

  • brick projects – lego milky way (#31212)

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    ooh this one was a good time and i really liked how it all came together. enough to hang up on my wall, as a matter of fact… unfortunately, this set was short a brick that went under other bricks so we had to wait a while for a replacement to get mailed in from denmark. lego is super cool that way though and is eager to fix any missing pieces!

    How it started
    2nd set of panels coming in
    2nd column in place
    Column 3 placed in
    Almost all there! (notes in post)
    Everything’s in place
    Up on the wall today!

  • brick projects – lego coral reef (#40783)

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    got this one as a gift with purchase of some of the other sets i picked up, figured it would also be a nice little milky way project intermission. it was.

    Front side
    Back side

  • brick projects – lego cats (#31163 playful cat, #40813, lucky cat)

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    these two were pretty quick and we did them during intermissions of the next post (above this one) which was a nice little break from how detailed that one was. these were building up instead of specific placing on a grid idk they required different skillsets

    Maneki-neko halfway
    Maneki-neko complete
    Playful cat and gubbins
    Cat collection!

  • brick projects – lego tuxedo cat (#21349)

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    mom had a couple strokes, so we figured we build some lego projects together to help with her dexterity. i had a good time so i picked up some other brick projects with lights and have been really enthralled with those too.

    The box that everything came in
    Starting out…
    In progress…
    Getting there…
    Coming together…
    Almost done…
    Heterochromia!