Year of the Dragon: December
The 12th and final build in my Year of the Dragon series!
This month is based on a deer, more specifically takes inspiration from fallow and sika deer with their more reddish nougat coloured fur and white spots/underbellies. My initial idea however was to make a reindeer dragon, but real-life reindeer have very dark and muted colours, so I decided this approach would be more fun.
The actual bodyplan for the moc is very inspired by more eastern dragon interpretations, with a more mamalian face, bird like feet and a long slender body. Which I find lends itself very well to the deer theming.
I'm very happy with how this one turned out, and I adore how fluffy it looks with all these fur parts (quickly becoming a favourite part of mine) I'd also like to point out one of my favourite parts of the moc, the eyes, which use a technic towball inserted into a grey mixel socket, which I think makes for pretty convincing eyelids. I'm also very happy with the ears, which use wing pieces that only ever appeared in one set from the Unikitty line!
I really hope you've all enjoyed this series, as I certainly have. And you can look forward to a recap post and group shot of all 12 coming soon!
Photo edited by the wonderful loafbuilds
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Built for New Elementary Parts Festival featuring the Donkey Kong foot. More on my blog.
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This is my first completed building for the Medina al Musawrah collab at Brickfair NoVA 2025, which depicts a near-future Middle Eastern city. This building was loosely inspired by the Mehmet Agha Mosque on Rhodes, which I saw in 2023, and so I've given it the same name. Many of its namesake's architectural features are visible here, but they've been rearranged and altered to fit the look of collab, and my own whims. While the mosque on Rhodes was my main inspiration, I have seen a great deal of Moorish Architecture in my travels, and drew inspiration from many other places too, especially Morocco and Turkey.
There is an Easter egg hiding in plain sight. While in Morocco, I bought a hand-made carpet, which now lives in our living room. The carpet displayed unfurled in the ground floor carpet shop is a custom sticker that I created from a photo of my own carpet; and the minifig looking at it is my own sigfig.
The namesake has shops on the ground floor, which I replicated; and I added a ramshackle hookah bar on the roof to fit the deliberately chaotic look of the city. The namesake is no longer in use as a mosque at all. This build added several more floors, so there is plenty of space for one to take up part of the building, but I left it to the imagination.
While it has only been three weeks since I posted the Hashimacorp Tower, I have not become miraculously fast at building. I started this build in September, and worked on it at the same time as I was putting the finishing touches on the tower, especially as I neared the end and the tower became more frequently stalled by Bricklink orders.
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Year of the Dragon: October
I had to do a spooky pumpkin dragon for October! This one was definitely a quicker build than most of the others. I spent the majority of October in Japan, so I only had a few days to put this one together, but I'm pretty pleased with the result!
I find pumpkins fun subject matter to build out of lego, and its always interesting to see how many different approaches people can take when making them. These big macaroni parts do a pretty good job if you ask me!
Only two dragons left now, I can't believe it's almost the end of the year! Happy Halloween to everyone and I hope you've all been enjoying this series, I certainly have been 😊
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