Bill Ward’s Brickpile

Here’s another old post from my old site.

This scout craft visits asteroids and takes samples for analysis, so that if it should prove suitable, mining craft can come and extract minerals from them.
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Brickshelf.com owner Kevin Loch finally posted about the whole shutdown controversy. It seems that he has had enough people offering to donate that the shutdown of Brickshelf is, for now, not iminent. Still, I think it’s pretty clear that moving one’s pictures to a more stable place like Flickr or MOCpages (which has […]

This model is dedicated to the memory of my father, Robert H. Ward, who flew the PB4Y-2 on flare-dropping missions during the Korean War in the early 1950’s. He passed away on November 9, 2001. I built it in the fall of 2001. He never got to see it, but it was […]

Another repost from my old site…

BayLUG meeting pictures from October, 2001
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Another repost from 2001.

Models built for display in my front window for Halloween.
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More reposting of old entries from bill.wards.net:

These little guys are miniature robots or mecha, made as an experiment in getting new uses from some rather specialized parts.
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On my old Web site/blog, bill.wards.net, I have a lot of LEGO postings which used brickshelf.com for image hosting. Although I copied all the images to Flickr some time back, I never updated the listings to point to the new image location. Now that Brickshelf is going offline, however, I need to do […]

Brickshelf has returned, but with a prominent notice saying “Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31. Please save your files to your computer.”
I copied all my LEGO photos to Flickr some time ago, plus I kept copies on my hard drive, so I think I’m OK for now - though I will take […]

For many years, brickshelf.com has been the primary image hosting site for the LEGO community. But sadly, if you visit it today, you get nothing but this cryptic message:
“Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Now I’m sure it must have been a very expensive site to operate, but its sudden disappearance has […]