London Underground Station, ref C66008W - Part 1 Hello and welcome to my first blog about the hobby of building models from plastic bricks. The first name that comes to mind for most people is Lego™, which until recently I thought was the only serious name in the game. How wrong I was. I have recently returned to building with Lego™ and other similar bricks. Unlike some I am not precious about only using the brand leader, but am willing to try some of the others on the market to compare their quality. In the 1960s and early 70s I had what seemed like a lot of Lego bricks, but looking back it was probably only 2 or 3 pounds in weight. At that time there were none of the special pieces that make up so much of today’s hobby. Most were basic rectangular bricks with a few round and curved pieces, and the roof slopes. My particular favourite was building ships: liners, cargo ships, tugboats, warships. With a little imagination anything could be built, providing you could i...