Bill Ward’s Brickpile

This little café showed off some rare printed bricks and was good at filling small spaces on the BayLTC layouts.

This simple café kiosk has an espresso machine and cash register, and two tables to enjoy your coffee at.

Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or you can view a slideshow of the photos.

Another repost from bill.wards.net. This playground was a regular feature in the BayLTC train shows for years.

This playground is complete with all the equipment needed to keep your kids entertained for hours.

Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or you can view a slideshow of the photos.

This building was one of my first contributions to the BayLTC train layout, and the first one that I posted pictures of online.

This bus station has a waiting room and two lanes for buses to stop. There is also a traffic signal and cellular telephone relay tower included. Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or click on an individual photo. Or, you can view a slideshow of the photos.

On my old site, these were four separate entries, but in reposting them I have combined them into one.

In August 2001, Paul Hartzog announced he was sponsoring a “HoverThing” contest. The Contest announcement and rules were posted on LUGNET and many people submitted entries, including myself. I didn’t win, but here are the models I built for the contest. The official contest website shows all the entries, including the winning one. Pocket Rocket Shown in both blue and black versions. Hover Patrol A simple police cruiser Astro-Pumpkin A very silly entry for the contest. The main point was to employ an unusual color scheme and to find a use for the angled part in the nose. Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or click on an individual photo. Or, you can view a slideshow of the photos.

Another repost.

A fighter spacecraft. Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or click on an individual photo. Or, you can view a slideshow of the photos.

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. Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or click on an individual photo. Or, you can view a slideshow of the photos.

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 on display at his memorial service.

I brought this model to the October 2001 and January 2002 BayLUG meetings. I took pictures from those meetings, which can be seen on my site. Also, the the BayLUG website features pictures taken by others (October 2001 and January 2002) Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or click on an individual photo. Or, you can view a slideshow of the photos.

Another repost from 2001.

Models built for display in my front window for Halloween. Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or click on an individual photo. Or, you can view a slideshow of the photos.

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. Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or click on an individual photo. Or, you can view a slideshow of the photos.

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 (edit: it came back, but I still prefer Flickr), however, I need to do that. And rather than update them on the old site, I have decided to move them to Brickpile instead. This is the oldest LEGO posting on that site:

Unlike the rest of my models, this was not built using my own LEGO collection. During a trip to Germany in August 2001, I visited with some German LEGO fans and we built some accessories for their train layout.

• More pictures from my trip to Germany can be found on my website in the travel section.
• Pictures posted by Holger were on Brickshelf - not sure where to link to them now. But I have saved a copy of them, and may post them somewhere if he doesn’t.
• LEGO’s official home page.
• The international LEGO Users Group Network.
• I met these German LEGO fans on the 1000steine.de website (steiene means “bricks”). There is a discussion forum, where I posted: “any German LEGO fans want to meet me?”.

Click the big picture to go to the set page on Flickr, or you can view a slideshow of the photos.