A Brick Too Far: Digital Designer

As I became more and more time poor, I found that I wanted to use the computer to design my Lego buildings. Not only did it mean I could save works in progress without a mess, it also meant that I could have an unlimited supply of bricks. We had a version of Lego Creator, and I started using that to create my designs. I found it slow and lag-y however, and sought another alternative. And then one day, whilst mucking around on the Lego website... I found Digital Designer.

This program has been amazing, and a constant companion over the past few years. In the beginning it was limited with the number and colour of bricks, but with the more recent versions, the ability to change colours of any brick and the sheer variety of bricks has made my life much easier.

These are earlyish. They are modular additions to Cafe Corner. In fact, I think the one with the green shutters is supposed to be replicating what I built physically.

The first images blow are my castle. I have been working on this since about 2010. Wow. One day I will finish it.

Houses have always interested me the most, and I tend to stick with those most often. I entitled the following 'cliff house' for obvious reasons.

Wanted to have a go at creating a haunted mansion... I like it.

Another house.

Slightly different style of house this time. The fireplace took forever (this was before digital designer extended came along!!!)

Small house.

Oh look, another house!!!

Going for English Cottage-y feel here.

This building was for an assignment... it is modelled off a real building, a mosque, on the capitol island Male in the Maldives.

This one is one of the other mosques on the island.

This is a rather enormous mansion that I had the pleasure of putting together, before digital designer extended came along. I think it has about 28 rooms and is fully furnished.

I love this building. I wanted this one for my 21st, but a) it was WAY too complicated, and b) pick-a-brick doesn't have half the pieces :(

I was having an experiment with creating a minifig-scale replica of the Hogwarts Great Hall. I have developed a bit from the early days...

This was a conceptual project for a 'dolls house' out of Lego. It hinges in the centre allowing access to all the rooms in the house... I like it, I think it would certainly be the sort of thing that would have appealed to me as a child.

The next one is a streetscape scene that I put together. All of the buildings I designed myself, but some of the vehicles are pilfered from Indiana Jones sets that we have.