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Today's addition to my 2018 Christmas Collection is the Blizzard! This icy ornament is a tweak of classic design, and a building guide is available now at chrismcveigh.com

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Here’s the final Star Wars sculpture I did for LEGO in 2015, appropriately titled AT-ST on Endor. As you can guess, the legs shuffle back and forth when you turn the crank. The mechanism in both the AT-AT and the AT-ST models is deceptively simple – the legs are pushed outward and return to position through the magic of gravity.

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Note: In 2017, builder Carl Greatrix tackled the same concept, motorized, at a much larger scale. The walking motion in his model is phenomenal - check out his work in progress at www.flickr.com/photos/bricktrix/

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Although I started tweaking my original two-door fridge design, eventually I decided I wanted something different; something even more retro. Going to a single-door design let me migrate to a much more functional hinge system; this in turn led to retro design elements like the integrated ice box and the "chin" at the bottom of the fridge.

The single door design also let me expand the the sizes of the shelves, both in the main cavity and on the inside of the door. And most of the food items in the fridge are brick-built, too!

A building guide is now available at chrismcveigh.com

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I've been wanted to do a coniferous tree with traditional limb elements for a very long time, but as many of you know, it's a challenge to create a classic tree shape with those parts at a relatively small size. However, new elements 26047 and 32828 opened a few doors. Placement of the Voodoo balls towards the top of the tree conveniently fill in unwanted gaps, but in the future, those could be filled by 35480 in tree-appropriate colors for use in a non-Christmas context.

Anyhoo, guides for regular green, olive green, and white variants of this build are now available at chrismcveigh.com!

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Building guide available now at chrismcveigh.com

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The LX Edition is one of my most detailed computer builds to date. It has a fully modelled CRT as well hard drive, floppy drive, and power unit subassemblies. However, the real star of this build is the removable card cage that houses the motherboard and memory boards!

A building guide for My First Computer: LX Edition is now available at chrismcveigh.com

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Here’s another Star Wars vehicle sculpture I created for LEGO in 2015. It's titled Falcon Over Jakku and it swings side to side when you twist the gear at the back. I had a prototype with a TIE, too; the two modules could be connected and they'd crisscross when the gear was turned.

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Here's another retro desk setup that's firmly rooted in the '90s. It's got a tanker-style desk with three working drawers and a tweaked chair design with rounded cushioning. Building guides are available at chrismcveigh.com!

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About four years ago I build a bright red fridge with retro styling. Always meant to go back and build a matching range, and I finally got the chance to do so. And I decided to rebuild the fridge from the ground up, too!

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Mrs. Claus originally had a much more youthful, elven face. It was the wrong look for her, of course, so I gave her a different nose and distinguishing glasses. But the basics of her original design live on in this Platecraft Elf. :)

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One of the fun things about the Retro Range is that it's properly sized for the LEGO turkey. :)

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