Lego Catapult

I went to the Powerhouse Narnia exhibition last week and saw a cool catapult that you could fire. I made this one from checking out the design they had. My one has a locking gear and clicks into place. It only fires when you release the leaver. Pretty cool!

Here is a close-up of the mechanisms.

This is the release leaver.

Nerd Helmet

NERD HELMET

I made this helmet completely out of Lego. It was a challenge to get it to fit my head. 

It has a blue Mohawk and green spikes at the back. 

Here is the back view. If I had more Lego, I'd make a Lego suit of armour. Imagine that! 

While I was making this, I really freaked my mom out by staring at her through the helmet. She would turn around and there I would be.... Nerd Terror! 

Aaaaahhhhhh! I'm being Lego-morphed!!!......

Lego Australian Birds

I love the Australian birds. The rainbow lorikeet, little penguin, black swan, pelican and the melodious magpie and some of my favourites. 

Here is my lego collection of them. In this collection, I've tried to make them as small as possible, which was a challenge. 

Here are some close

up of them....

There's almost always a pelican at North Harbour, they love it there, there's always lots of fish for breakfast.

Manly Cove has a Little Penguin breeding site. It's really cool to see these little guys out and about. I think it's great that people spend their time guarding them when they have a chick in their nest.

 Here is a close up of the black swan.

The magpies are amazing with their songs. My sister Tara can whistle like them, that's pretty impressive. They also swoop at you if they are nesting, you should see my dad's bike helmet, he's put spikes on it to stop them.

And last is the rainbow lorikeet, my favourite. These little colourful birds come into my garden, I've even fed them by hand, they are really beautiful.