Lego Project 2 - Ghost Stories for Christmas

 Monday, February 05, 2024

As I have already noted, my Lego Guy N Smith dioramas have now reached an end. But I'm still having fun with the hobby. It's a very meditative activity and continues to really help in taking my mind off my illness as I await the start of my fortnightly jabs. And so I have given myself a second Lego challenge, which is: Scenes from BBC2's Ghost Stories for Christmas. Despite waiting for a crucial part of my next diorama, I have already made a start with its construction:

The Signalman by Charles Dickens

Guy N Smith Lego Photography Update

Sunday, February 04, 2024

Photography on the Lego section of my Gun N Smith fanzine is now complete, with 25 of his books receiving a Lego makeover. These are: 

Werewolf by Moonlight

The Sucking Pit 

The Slime Beast 

Night of the Crabs 

The Truckers 1 & 2 

Thirst 

Satan's Snowdrop 

Caracal 

Doomflight 

Wolfcurse 

The Pluto Pact 

Crabs’ Moon 

The Walking Dead 

Throwback 

The Wood 

Alligators 

The Camp 

The Black Fedora 

The Dark One (Alternative Cover) 

The Pony Riders 

Deadbeat 

The Cadaver 

Nightspawn (Alternative Cover) 

The Reaper 

Lookout for your copy of the book during Summer 2024. Though, as I'm writing this, I've just thought of another interesting chapter that might well be interesting to include in the zine. This would throw the publication date back a little though. Hmmmmm..?

Guy N Smith - Throwback, Thirst & Wolfcurse (Lego Cover Versions)

Saturday, February 03, 2024 

Working on these Lego versions of Guy N Smith bookcovers is proving to be far more fun than grafing on the final draft of Cold Comfort. Luckily for my next novel, I should finish these GNS covers over the weekend. Then it's back to wordsmith...

Guy N Smith - The Trucker & Truckers 2 (Lego Cover Versions)

Friday, February 02, 2024

Well, Evri finally delivered by Lego lorry. Several happy hours later I had added two new Lego book reproductions for my upcoming new zine The Imaginarium, the first issue of which will concentrate on Guy N Smith:

 

Sorting ut My Folk Horror Shelf

A few more folk horror DVDs I've dug out from the attic to add to my f.h. shelf. Pyewacket is a great tale of a teenage girl who regrets practising magic in the woods. Puffball is a strange tale of pregnancy by no other than Nic Roeg himself. And The Shout is about, well, a shout that kills.

Waiting on Evri...

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

I was hoping for a lorry Lego kit I managed to pick up for a fiver on eBay to arrive today, but Evri let me down. So my Lego version of Guy N Smith at his computer and cover for Trucker and Truckers 2 will have to wait until at least tomorrow. What did I do instead? Well, I did a Lego version of the Great Scribbler himself, an explosion scene from Doomflight and a Lego cover version of Crabs' Moon:

 

Guy N Smith - Satan's Snowdrop (Lego Version)

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 

My GNS Lego project for my upcoming Guy N Smith fanzine is progressing nicely. Working at these set-ups has helped take my mind off my health woes this last week or so, and I have a few more to keep me busy. My novel, Cold Comfort, is also progressing nicely and is ahead of schedule. Expect the latter to be published at the end of March 2024 and the former to be available by the close of June... In the meantime, here is my completed Lego version of Guy's Satan's Snowdrop:

Blood on Satan's Claw

 Monday, January 29, 2024

The next movie in my personal collection of folk horror films is the classic 70s flick - Blood on Satan's Claw. My DVD copy has this nice info leaflet enclosed with it: #folkhorror

A Change of Meds

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Time for another health update. I am now on sick leave from work, enforced by my consultant, who said, "Health is more important than work", which, when it comes to the crunch, it surely is. Anyway, it has now been nine days since my last dosage of Methotrexate, which strangely stopped working for me this past month or so. I now have to have a flu and covid jab and await a home visit from "the Biologics Team", who will give me my first of forever-more fortnightly injections of the expensive and, apparently, miracle drug Dupilumab. After being instructed in its storage and use, future injections will be administered by myself (or, more probably, my wife, lol). If this medication is as fantastic as all the consultants and nurses say it is, the future looks 🌞...

Ramshorn Water Snails Nano Tank

I recently set up a nano rams-horn snail aquarium from an old jar, a couple of moss balls and some green sea glass I have gathered over the years during my numerous beachcombs. The snails seem to have settled in well, and they have been feeding off the debris among the old moss, and the tank should become a self-care environment. They self-regulate their egg-laying depending on how well they are dining, so it should be easy to tell whether I need to add a few flakes of fish food to the jar...

 

Guy N Smith - The Cadaver (Lego Book Cover Version

 Saturday, January 27, 2024

Kleenex was used for the ground mist, whilst incense smoke provided the air fog.

Guy N Smith - The Wood Book Cover (Lego Version)

 Friday, January 27, 2024

Today's Lego diorama attempt. Tried a few different heads and had to make do, as Lego just doesn't get that pulp horror look right, lol.

 

Guy N Smith - A Trio of Lego Book Cover Versions

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Alligators, Werewolf by Moonlight and Doomflight by Guy N Smith (lego versions). These are coming together fast and furious now...

        

       

        

Guy N Smith -The Pony Riders (Lego Version)

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

"They ride like the wind... and shoot like the devil."

Guy N Smith - The Puto Pact (Lego Cover Version)

Tuesday, 23 January, 2024

This was one of my more difficult book covers to recreate using lego:

The Pluto Pact by Guy N Smith

Lego mini-plates with lego chains

 I used the Grunge feature on my mobile phone
camera to grittify the cube

 

The finalised image