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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lego Sazed and Tindwyl, from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn. Sazed is in the outfit designed by Paladin Creative for the Worldhopper ball, as portrayed by Danor Gerald. Tindwyl is in the Terris outfit shown in the @brotherwisegames.bsky.social Cosmere RPG art by Ivana Abbate.

Lego minifigures of a woman and a man partially facing each other. They are tall and dark skinned, wearing robes with overlapping vee shapes. They have metal bands around their forearms. The woman has her hair in a long braid and the man is bald with multiple earrings. The woman's outfit is orange, purple, and dark red; the man's is red, orange, light blue, and dark blue. Both wear wide belts around their waists.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lego Shan Elariel from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, in the outfit designed by Paladin Creative for the Worldhopper ball, as portrayed by Emily Whitcomb. I'm still working on hiding the seams between the front print and the side prints.

A lego minifigure of a woman in a pale purple and pink ballgown. She has long auburn hair worn down and loosely curled, a necklace of diamonds and amethyst, and white gloves.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl lego minifigs. Carl's legs and Samantha's head are custom prints.

Lego minifigures of four characters from Dungeon Crawler Carl. Carl is clad in heart boxers, a one-sleeved jacket, a cape, and a metal glove. He holds three sticks of dynamite. Princess Donut is wearing a tiara and is sticking her tongue out. Mongo is appalled. Samantha is a floating head with blonde pigtails, tear-stained mascara, fangs, and the words "miss me?" painted in red on her forehead.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The city of T'Telir, from Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, as displayed at JordanCon 2026. #lego #fantasy #fanart

A view from outside the city walls, looking through the main gates. A pair of sea serpents frame the gate. The city walls have colorful mosaics and are topped with gold-edged semicircles like rolling hills. A mesa perches in the background, with palaces and a black stepped pyramid at the summit. Palm trees are scattered across the scene.

A view of the market in the city center. Vendors sell paint, books, art, confections, and dueling blades.

Another view of the market in the city center. Vivenna's party walks through the central street and Vasher stands on a rooftop overhead.

A view of the pyramid's interior. Each room is dyed a different color. In the lowest floor, Bluefingers and two Pahl Kahl maids are at work. In the middle floor, Siri confronts the high priest Treledees. In the top floor, Susebron reads from a storybook.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Veil, Shallan, and Radiant from The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.

Three lego minifigures depicting young women in fantasy attire. One has a white cloak and hat, commoner clothes, and a pair of knives, with dark hair; the next has a fancy dress, a paintbrush, and an artist's satchel, with red hair; and the last has an elegant dress, a sword, and blonde hair pinned up. Text around the image reads "fit check for my nahel era."

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Lego fan art of Cursed Cocktails by S.L. Rowland (a.k.a. "author Steve Rowland"). This is a cozy fantasy about a blood mage who retires from the northern guard to start a cocktail bar in a coastal town.

A small lego scene of a cocktail bar. The walls are partially folded out enabling one to view the entire scene. There is a bar, a fireplace, tables and stools, candles, two men, and an orange cat.

The same build as the previous photo, but folded back up into a cube. The two men and a portion of the bar are visible through the front door. Overhead a sign reads "cursed cocktails" over the silhouette of a cat.

A closeup of the two lego men. Kallum has stylish brown hair, a white beard, and blue eyes. Rhoren has dark skin and hair, red eyes, and elven ears. Both men are wearing upscale yet casual attire.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Book mail! The amazing @travisbaldree.bsky.social sent me a Thimble Plushie and an early copy of Tales from the Territory! It looks like the plush is sold by The Merch Guild if anyone needs one. Thank you Travis!

A plush of Thimble the rattkin. He is a gray mouse-like creature with pink nose, inner ears, tail, and toe beans. He is wearing an apron and holding a cinnamon roll. Next to him is a propped-up paperback book titled "Tales from the Territory" by Travis Baldree. It has a dark green cover with iconography of crossed swords and a coffee mug on a shield.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Lego Elend and Vin, from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, in the costumes designed for the Worldhopper Ball by Paladin Creative, as portrayed by Jackson Brimrose and Ryann Bailey.

Two custom-printed lego minifigures in outfits for a ball. The man is in a rumpled shirt with a dark green jacket and dark pants, and he carries a book. The woman is in a strapless red gown with off-shoulder bell sleeves and a hand fan.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree (@travisbaldree.bsky.social). Zyll, Fern, Bucket, Astryx, and Tullah.

A lego vignette showing a confrontation on a bridge. An orc woman attacks with an axe as a white-haired elf woman defends with a sword. Behind the elf, a horse rears while pulling a two-wheeled wagon. Inside the wagon are a ratkin with a small blade and a goblin holding assorted silverware.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Playing with my new printer. Need ideas for fan art things to print from fantasy and sci-fi books.

A variety of lego minifigure parts with custom printing. The parts include heads, torsos, skirt front and sides, heads, hands, and mugs.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson. Dusk, Vathi, aviar, and a skullsnake around the perpendicularity island; and the crew of the Dynamic. #cosmere #brandonsanderson #lego #islesoftheemberdark

A wide view of a lego island surrounded by fish and a giant blue snake with a bony head. The island has two simple buildings, a pond, and a docked one-man boat.

A lego man in rugged clothing speaks with a woman in a green dress. Three colorful birds circle them. She is holding out a white jar. Butterflies fly over a pond in the background.

There is a simple one-man motorboat in the foreground. A canvas-covered pair of arches provides a cabin. The boat is loaded with harpoons, a compass, an oar, and a barrel.

Seven lego minifigures are displayed on a platform, with three antagonists below them. The central figure on the platform is a young-looking woman with long white hair and metal manacles on her wrists.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Highstorm, in lego (rendered), from The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.

A 3d rendered scene of a plain built of lego bricks, broken by a network of chasms. A cumulonimbus cloud turns overhead, occupying the entire horizon. Rain sheets down under the cloud, and runoff water fills the chasms. Two lightning bolts illuminate the underside of the cloud. A huge lego minifigure head emerges from the center of the cloud to gaze at the viewer.

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Artist Ariel Burgess @artistarielburgess.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

All of my prints are on sale until Monday. Please consider buying small business, especially from artists. We're all super hurting. InPRINT gives 50% to artists. Which is the highest percentage of a print on demand site. 🔗 www.inprnt.com/gallery/arti... #prints #art #smallbusinesslove

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Shallan arrives at Kharbranth. From chapter 3 of The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. #thestormlightarchive #lego #blender

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The White Tower at Tar Valon from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. 1/3 #thewheeloftime #robertjordan #lego

A lego build of a white tower with two wings on opposite sides. There is a bustling street out front.

Closeup of a merchant cart with the sign Ol' Rigney's Pipes and Tabac. The merchant is wearing a dark wide brimmed hat. In the alleyway behind, vendors sell lionfish and ice peppers.

A novice in white is marking a corner of the tower with graffiti that says Elaida is a goat-kissing silverpike. A woman in red with a gold ring is rounding the corner with a scowl on her face.

Nobles, novices, Aes Sedai, and guards mingle in the entryway to the tower.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Kharbranth, the City of Bells, from chapter 3 of The Way of Kings (book one of the Stormlight Archive) by Brandon Sanderson. #thestormlightarchive #brandonsanderson #fanart #lego #blender

A lego scene of a ship sailing on an ocean towards a port in a cliff face. Three lime green skyeels dive in and out of the water near the ship as a smiling young woman with red hair studies them. The port city is build into a notch in the cliff face. There are terraces of houses and towers with ramps zig zagging up between them, climbing to a palace at the top.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Wandersail, from chapter 57 of The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive book 1) by Brandon Sanderson. #thestormlightarchive #brandonsanderson #lego #blender

A lego scene on the edge of a vast, broken plain. Night is falling and the horizon fades from light blue to deep blue, with stars and a purple moon becoming visible. In the foreground, a man in black sits on a boulder playing a flute while a man in ragged clothing watches. A small campfire between them emits smoke in the shape of a sailing ship.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

(The Way of Kings spoilers) The Tower, from chapter 65 of The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive book 1 by Brandon Sanderson. #thestormlightarchive #brandonsanderson #lego #cosmere

A lego scene of a battle. The terrain is an enormous plateau broken by deep chasms, like a mud flat cracked in the sun. On a distant hill, thousands of red and black figures surround a smaller number of warriors in blue. In the foreground, soldiers in green and white trudge away from the battle, surrounding a smirking man in red plate armor.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Aviendha from The Wheel of Time, based on the depiction by Ayoola Smart in the TV show. Season 3 premiers Thursday! #thewheeloftime #robertjordan #lego

A lego minifigure woman with dark red hair in tight braids, medium dark skin, a bow and arrow, a shield, and two spears. She is wearing a black wrap around her lower face, rugged clothes in shades of tan, and brown boots. An inset shows an alternate look with a tan wrap around her head concealing her hair.

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Artist Ariel Burgess @artistarielburgess.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

With season 3 of #TheWheelofTime coming out I made a wallpaper of my Rosamund Moiraine drawing on Patreon. If you're not a patron, you can now buy all of my wallpaper posts individually. Patreon helps me keep my career so any support is appreciated! www.patreon.com/posts/123571... #wallpaper #art

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The chasmfiend hunt, from chapter 13 of The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive book 1) by Brandon Sanderson. A printed version will be on display at JordanCon in April. #thestormlightarchive #brandonsanderson #chasmfiend #lego #blender

A large lego scene showing a region ofmany plateaus with chasms in between. A huge black beast with an exoskeleton, four foreclaws, and many legs is rearing from a chasm facing four men in plate armor. Hundreds of soldiers stand behind, and there are nobles further back. Two large crab beasts are on the periphery. The shadow of the greatshell stretches towards the four men in plate.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Experimenting with cymatics. Glyph from The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Cape/wind physics test. (Also testing the functionality of posting videos here.) Dalinar, from The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Is this how you envision shardblades, or is the material different somehow? #thestormlightarchive #brandonsanderson #lego #blender

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Artist Ariel Burgess @artistarielburgess.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I'm excited to see there's a #booktok #book conversation tab here. Book art is my favorite art to do. I've got #wheeloftime art out the wazoo. Here's Rand being all...Rand. I really don't think he was whiny. I think he was a kid and handed a heavy burden. #sympathyforthedragon

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The Lesson, from chapter 36 of The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. #thestormlightarchive #brandonsanderson #lego #fanart #blender

A lego scene showing a curved alleyway at night. Two women are surrounded by four rough-looking men. To the right, tiers of buildings climb a steep mountainside. Overhead, a field of stars surrounds a pale blue moon. One of the men has been turned to a glassy quartz and another is enveloped by fire. Lightning bolts are emanating from one of the women’s hands and are striking the two remaining men. The other woman appears startled and concerned.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Vin steelpushing through Luthadel, from Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. #lego #mistborn #brandonsanderson #cosmere

3D render of a lego scene in a fantasy city. A dark haired girl with a cape made of many ribbons soars over the rooftops. Swirling mist fills the night air. Three beams of blue light extend from the girl to nearby points of metal, including a coin, a window frame, and a point behind her below the line of sight.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Lego Stormlight chess set, based on The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. This will be on display in the art show at JordanCon 2025. Who would you have cast differently for the pieces? 1/4 #thestormlightarchive #brandonsanderson #fanart #lego #chess

Lego Stormlight chess white pieces. Pawns are Rysn, Teft, Lopen, Rlain, Skar, Sigzil, Renarin, and Rock. Rooks are Shallan's three personas plus Pattern and Jasnah. Knights are Adolin with Maya and Sureblood and Lift with Wyndle. Bishops are Kaladin and Szeth. Queen is Navani in her flying pod and King is Dalinar on Urithiru.

Stormlight chess black pieces. Pawns are Listeners. Rooks are Thunderclasts. Knights are Amaram with Yelig-nar and Lezian the Pursuer. Bishops are a Shanay-im (Heavenly One) and Vyre (Moash). Queen is Rayse and King is Taravangian.

Lego Stormlight chess set, southwest view. The top level is the board and the bottom level is Shadesmar. The top level is held up by four crystal trees in the corners and Lasting Integrity in the center. There are two pairs of Oathgates including spren and there are LEDs in the bead sea.

Top view of the board. A map of Roshar is inset into the middle four rows of the board.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Happy holidays! Here's Brandon Sanderson sporting a Mistborn holiday sweater. The original sweater was designed by Priscilla Spencer (@priscellie.bsky.social) of Dragonsteel, and I modified the proportions slightly to fit on a minifigure. #brandonsanderson #mistborn #lego #fanart

Lego minifigure of Brandon Sanderson wearing glasses, a dark red holiday sweater, and jeans. The sweater has three rows of allomantic symbols interwoven with snowflakes and zig zag lines, matching the design of the sweater sold on Brandon's website.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Working on JordanCon art show builds.

A lego build in progress of The White Tower of Tar Valon, from The Wheel of Time. The building is white marble with detailed ornamentation with ornamental shrubs and flowers along the facade. There is a fountain out front in the shape of the white flame. A peddler has a cart with the sign “Ol’ Rigney’s Pipes & Tabac.”

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

It sounds like @catvalente.bsky.social is going to be around BSky more; in honor of that, here are a few of my favorite lego-built species from Space Opera.

Lego-built paperclip with a face, representing the species "the 3 2 1".

Lego-built blue flamingo crossed with a lantern fish, representing the Esca.

Lego minifigures of Decibel, Mira, and Oort.

Lego-built sentient topiary, representing the Klavaret.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Lego Stormlight chess set! Based on the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. I haven't posted in ages since I've been working on this beast. It has 94 custom prints and 59 minifigures. It will be on display in the JordanCon 2025 art show. More pics on the way!

A lego chess set with two levels. The top level shows a standard chess board with the map of Roshar inset into the checkerboard pattern, and the lower level shows Shadesmar. The black pieces show Parshendi / Listeners / Fused and the white pieces show Bridge Four and several Knights Radiant. The Shadesmar portion has four crystal trees at the cornersand the tower city of Lasting Integrity which serve to support the upper level.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Performances in Samara, from chapter 37 of Fires of Heaven, book 5 of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. 2/2

Roadside in front of Valan Luca's show, showing random travelers including an Ebou Dari woman with an oval cutout and two female Ogier.

Latelle and her bears. A shienaran soldier and Petra the strongman are shown in the background.

Elayne and Juilin perform on the tightrope while Uno watches. Thom and two jugglers perform below.

Valan Luca flourishes to the crowd watching Birgitte and Nynaeve at the archery performance. Clarine and her dogs perform in the background while Aludra prepares three lofting tubes for fireworks.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Performances in Samara, from chapter 37 of Fires of Heaven, book 5 of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. 1/2

Front view of Valan Luca's show in lego.

Close-up of the three s'redit looming over the canvas perimeter of the show.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

More images of lego Urithiru, from The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.

Front view of Urithiru in lego, showing the ten tiers of the tower and the plateau out front.

Close-up of the farm areas on top of the first four tiers of the tower.

Close-up of the Oathgate plateau, showing microscale chulls and figures.

Isometric view of Urithiru in lego, showing the ten tiers of the tower.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Urithiru in lego, from The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Come see it on display at JordanCon this weekend! Based on the official artwork by Ben McSweeney.

A lego build of a ten-tiered tower set on a plateau in the mountains.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Lego build of Bookshops and Bonedust by @travisbaldree.bsky.social. This will be in the art show at JordanCon next week. The custom printing was done by MinifigFX (highly recommended if you need custom lego printing). @leesy45.bsky.social drew the last image so I can make myself a t-shirt for cons.

Lego scene. A young orc woman with a crutch stands on a boardwalk in front of a bookstore. The boardwalk has a newly-repaired plank, and the bookstore sign reads "Thustleburr Booksellers."

Lego scene. The interior of a bookshop. Stacks of books litter the floor and every available flat surface. A small part-dog part-eagle guards the door. A mouse in a red cape and a blue-eyed skeleton stand in the shop.

Lego minifigures of Potroast the Gryphet, Viv the Orc, Fern the Rattkin, and Satchel the skeleton.

A hand-drawn line art image showing lego versions of Viv the orc with a biscuit and a saber, and Satchel the skeleton with a black book. The title reads "Brickshops & Bonedust".

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards. Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3

The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

I just reworked this piece for display at JordanCon. Based on the Navani's Notebook sketch by Kelley Harris (krhart) in Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. This scene never took place as such, it is just an imaging of a potential Stormlight Archive scene involving the airship in the sketch.

A photograph of a lego airship with ventral sails flying over a backdrop of clouds. Three black and red figures are flying around the ship and three more have boarded, while defenders in blue fight them off. A nameplate says "The Queen Jasnah" on the side.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Any fans of Legends and Lattes on this app? I enjoyed Bookshops and Bonedust too but I haven't had parts for that build printed yet. Soon!

A small lego scene showing a coffee shop. A female orc stands in front of the counter with an espresso cup, a pink-skinned succubus stands behind the counter, and a grey ratkin stands off to the side. The sign above the doorway reads "Legends and Lattes". A menu and a large sword hang on the back wall.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Lego Bridge Four training in spear forms in the chasms. From The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive book 1) by Brandon Sanderson. This scene was rendered using Blender.

A lego scene of a group of ragged men with spears deep in a chasm. They are being trained in spear forms while several other men scavenge for gems among the bones and debris on the chams floor. Shadows dapple the abundant plant life on the chasm walls.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

I hope everyone is having fun at Dragonsteel con today! Here's a frame from my lego animation of Kaladin arriving at the Shattered Plains, from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive book 1) by Brandon Sanderson.

A computer-rendered scene made from lego. In the foreground, a large red crab-like beast pulls a wooden wagon filled with slaves, and a small blue figure floats alongside. In the midground, a war camp of plain buildings, portable bridges, and carpentry supplies is next to a large open field where dozens of soldiers march in formation. In the background, a warren of canyons weave through a series of plateaus that extend to the horizon.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Lego Chasmfiend, from the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Free building instructions for this beastie on my site.

Three poses of a large black creature built from lego. It has an exoskeleton, four large foreclaws, fourteen smaller back legs, a mouth with mandibles and a pharyngeal jaw, and a long tail.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Shallan visits Shadesmar, from The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive book 1) by Brandon Sanderson. This is a still frame from a lego animation I rendered using Blender.

A woman with red hair and a blue dress bobs in a rolling sea of mostly black and some dark blue translucent lego studs. Small flames dance above the waves of beads. Clouds stream towards a pale sun across a deep black sky.

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Rick Martin @fastlindyrick.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

The assassin in white attacking Kholin guards. From the prologue to The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.

Computer-rendered scene made of lego. A glowing man in white falls lengthwise down a hallway towards two guards in blue armor. Blue lamps glow along one wall casting a multitude of reflections. The opposite wall shows ten statues of men and women, one of which has been destroyed.

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