I am a slow-meticulous builder and tinker and procrastinate on final solutions to a building problem for days and weeks at a time. In addition, I need visual inspiration and deadlines in order to complete anything!

Learning of a local Lego building competition in January 2007, I entered a model of a deserted two-story house from an American ghost town. I won first prize in the structures category in the adult class.

The annual competiton format has provided me with the incentive and appropriate time frame to become busy with my LEGO hobby again!

In 2008 I entered with a more ambitious recreation of a ruined bank building from Rhyolite, Nevada and, again, won first place in the structures category in the adult class.

In 2009 I completed a 1:10 scale 1974 Ford F100 pickup truck in two-tone red and dark gray. It also won first prize in it's category.

For the 2010 competition I submitted a scale model of a functional oil pump jack with cut-away terrain showing the piston rod. I won first prize in the structures category in the adult class.

I have also made a sushi board. I won third prize in the structures category in the adult class.
And a railroad bridge with two kinds of trucks which did not place.

Also, in 2009, I was invited to join a local AFOL group - Southern Alberta LEGO Users Group - (SALUG) and I participated in two local exhibitions of our work.

In January 2010, I left SALUG to concentrate on my personal projects.

For the 2011 competition, I entered two models: a recreation of a local residential house in the Kensington neghbourhood; and my twin CPR diesel engines on a section of straight track passing through Airdrie. Both models won first place in their respective categories.

Onwards!