Comments on: About Me

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:15:33 +0000

I am an adult builder, but not highly creative. I own a lot of kits, however. One thing I have always wished Lego would come out with is a travel trailer. I just recently bought the motorhome they came out with. I am very impressed with your Shasta trailer, and I seem to remember another one I saw on your site a while back. Do you have the plans for the trailer that you are willing to sell? Thanks :)

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:12:30 +0000

Thanks! That pretty well captures the issues… I think the problem is I’m too much of a perfectionist – if I do something I want to do it “right” the first time.

By: Rich Levier

Rich Levier — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:57:03 +0000

Dear Bill:

In selling Building instructions—the main problem is, Once you sell one copy–it’s out there–and the buyer can tweak it a little and then re-sell it. Or just re-sell it right away…

I’d recommend small simple sales for not a lot of money–to individuals. Sell a copy of “How to Build This Box Car”, for example.
Or a “How to Build Micro Tower of the Empire State Building.” Specialties like those would interest me as a buyer. And especially to me, as someone who doesn’t speak L-draw, or as someone who does NO designing on computer……

If these “sets” were put in a box with bricks, how much would they sell for? As Lego Sets, they’d have one price. As Lego Architecture sets—double it. As Custom Created-by-fans lego sets (Like that guy in the Northwest who created The Blacksmith’s shop) they’d have another price.

Why not put together some instructions for one of your more requested sets and try it out?

Good Luck

And add me to your list of Fans.

Rich Levier
Los Angeles

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:59:06 +0000

See my latest post, http://www.brickpile.com/2010/02/12/how-best-to-share-building-instructions-for-my-creations/ about sharing my creation designs.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:53:15 +0000

I don’t think I have that one, sorry….

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:34:24 +0000

Would it be possible to email me the Transamerica Pyramid LDraw?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:42:16 +0000

Thanks! I do have LDraw files for many of my creations, but I haven’t figured out the best way to make them available…

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:10:32 +0000

Hello Bill,

I’ve been browsing around and love your awesome Lego pictures and creations. I was wondering do you have blue prints of some of your builds that I can have. I am starting to get back into Legos and wanted to imitate some creations that have been made by others first. I totally understand if you don’t want to release the build prints. Thanks for keeping me entertain with the pictures.

Sincerely,
Jimmy

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:52:08 +0000

The picture has a Creative Commons license, so of course you may use it for that if you wish.

By: Stephan Beuting

Stephan Beuting — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:05:03 +0000

Dear Bill,

I very much like one picture of you http://www.flickr.com/photos/billward/3115759256/.

I chosed it as a profile picture on twitter, but don’t know, it it is allowed.

Thanks for your short reply.

Best regards,

Stephan Beuting