Golowood now has a facebook group!:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137004406334195&v=info

Just a quick episode - picture was taken at Alresford, the display that we did last weekend.

The pirates will hopefully be appearing in future episodes as well!

Although it's the 27th of June today, some of the people at our exibition in Alresford yesterday also saw this episode.

The episode was originally planned for May, but due to being busy with other things, as well as mislaying my bag of comic bits with Acrilon and Ketloft in, it was delayed a bit!

There are nine kings in Golowood partly because I originally brought eight castle chess sets to create the Golowood army and had a king from another castle set, and also nine is my favourite number. Three is my second favourite number due to it being the square root of nine!

Pictures from the exhibition that we did at Merrist Wood on Sunday are now uploaded to the gallery - despite forgetting the army, dragons, and skeletons my layout still worked out quite well in the end (ended up creating a riot out of minifigs from a box with police and soldiers to control them!).

Managed to get a few pictures of the rest of the show as well as of the other Lego layouts.

Following on from the events of episode 21.

I've tried to include various different jroom types in the background in this episode. Grey is just the standard military jroom, red is ABSAR (Air Broom Search And Rescue), and the black ones are the SBF (Special Broom Force), including the special heavy duty SBF jroom seen in episode 7 (used to get the armless robber off the mountain in this episode).

This is the first time I've used my green hills/blue sky scenery since episode 14 - mainly because it had fallen into disrepair and ended up getting covered with dust. I've now cleaned it/rebuilt it though, and it's a lot more solid than before so should last a bit longer this time!

I've now uploaded pictures/videos from Petersfield 2010 that I was at yesterday to the gallery.

I had a Golowood display at the event, including my large dark red viaduct, as well as a large train layout covering the stage.

A small vignette that I built for mother's day - it's now turning into a sort of tradition that I build a Lego vignette each year for mother's day! (Pictures of previous ones that I've built are here.)

I was quite tempted to build more of them and join them all together to make a full backdrop for this episode, but I decided I would probably run out of time to finish it so it would be best left for another time.

The swans at the front are my first go at making/designing my own birds - I decided to try swans as they're white and I still have a lot of white bits leftover from building my 6x skeleton model.

You may recognise the policeman in this episode as the ones from episode #017.

I'm seriously wondering about setting up some sort of wiki so that I don't have to keep referring back to previous episodes so much - or do people think that the references are useful anyway?

Took the pictures for this episode back in January when we had a lot of snow. Almost ran out of snow due to my camera failing, but managed to borrow someone else's camera instead.

Slightly late due to the harddrive failing on my laptop, but I've now managed to recover most things from my backup.

First of a two or three part episode - I decided it was to long for one episode, so split off this bit. It also gave me an opportunity to get a good picture of my double-seater jroom in an episode as well.

Next episode in the saga - took a while to do, but I finally got around to introducing the red dragons! Special thanks to Emma from Simply Bricks for lending me one of the red dragons.

Next episode in this storyline, 'Uninvited stranger' is now uploaded.

This episode took quite a while to get right because of getting the pictures to fit the tv screen, but after spending ages messing about with drawplus and publisher amongst other things, I asked on a forum to see if anyone had any ideas. Someone suggested that the perspective tool in GIMP might help, which let me drag the corners of the picture to the corners of the tv screen which was exactly what I was looking for!

Back to a more normal storyline (if anything in Golowood can be called normal!), Deeper Golowood episode 19, 'Rogue dragon', is now uploaded to the comics page.

This is the start of a series of episodes that I've had in mind for a while - more to be revealed later!

The pictures used in this episode were taken at a layout I did back in July for an exhibition at Twyford.

The police station was originally built by my brother - he then redesigned/rebuilt it to be Cafe Corner compatible, but it wasn't very structurally stable and collapsed - hence why we put the dragon there at Twyford to make it look like the dragon had caused the damage.

Bit of a cliffhanger episode - but you only have to wait until next Christmas to find out what happens...!

Had the idea of this episode following on from what the Jack in the box said at the end of episode 16 (it was meant to be just something to finish off the episode with, but I decided to make it a bit more sinister than originally intended).

Almost ran out of snow to take the pictures for this episode, but managed to find a small patch at the bottom of the road (there is a picture here if you want a look.

Followup episode 'Santa in trouble...again.' (17th) now uploaded to the comics page!

Took me a while to get the picture right for the first frame as the camera kept auto-focusing on the darkness - first time I've found a good use for the manual setting on my camera!

Hope you enjoy, and merry christmas!! :-)

P.s. Had the idea for this episode after my brother showed me this article in the Metro newspaper.

More snow! - 16th episode of Deeper Golowood, 'Upset Santa' now uploaded.

Watch out for the followup episode!

Deeper Golowood episode 15 is now uploaded to the comics page.

Been taking advantage of the snow whilst it lasts...

The navigation for Deeper Golowood on the comics page has been updated. Hope you like the new interface!

Golowood website was down for 2-3 days last week due to part of the server failing, however it's now back up again.

Deeper Golowood episode 14 is now on the comics page.

This episode was mainly a way of getting the tomb that I built for St Francis school fayre into an episode before I demolish it, however it also introduces the scimage historical department and Dr Ketloft which will be appearing in future episodes.

'What The' episode 5 is now available on the comic pages.

Although we didn't finish the mosaic on the day I decided to finish the mosaic at home instead to see how it should have looked. It's now finished, and pictures of it are in the mosaic folder in the St Francis event gallery.

The first four episodes of 'What The', a comic created by Christopher, my brother, have been added to the recently added comics page. 'What The' is based around the various antics of the workmen in Golowood Construction Incorporated - further info and the episodes themselves can be found on the 'What The' page in the menu on the left.

I did a exhibition for the summer fayre of a local school, St Francis, at the weekend. Despite the nice sunny weather the display (which was indoors just off the playground) still seemed very popular.

Had several activities to help raise money for the school - had building a wagon to run on the layout for 50p, the children could drive a train for 20p, people could pay 20p to put tiles on a mosaic (although unfortunately we didn't manage to finish the mosaic), and people could pay 20p to guess the number of bricks in a model (with the closest guess winning a small prize). There was also a Lego activity table as well which was free to build at.

Finally found the time and parts to finish this episode after getting behind a bit due to being busy exhibiting.

13th episode of Deeper Golowood, 'Unlucky thirteen' is now uploaded and on the comics page.

See how many superstitions you can spot :).

We had a successful day at Twyford waterworks yesterday. Everyone was very friendly, aside from a couple of showers the weather was marvellous - sunny most of the time, but enough of a breeze that it didn't get to hot and to blow away the traction engine smoke - over all it was a really nice day.

Pictures are in the gallery - there was plenty to see, several traction engines and other steam powered models, I also had a look around the lime kiln part of the waterworks as well.

Pictures of our exhibition at Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester last weekend are now uploaded in the gallery.

There were all sorts of displays there, from a 24 feet train layout which I was involved with, to a 6x scale version of the original lego castle set, a detailed plane timeline, plus much more.

Despite the weather it all went really well, and people seemed to enjoy themselves.

I've just got round to uploading pictures from Petersfield 2009 on the 30th of May as well.

I had a small display of Golowood at Petersfield, as well as being part of a larger train layout.

There were many other Lego displays and sellers there as well, and everything seemed to go smoothly and people appeared to have a good time.

Pictures from our exhibition at Alresford last weekend have now been added to the picture gallery - the exhibition went really well and there were lots of people there. I've got some videos to add as well, so those will be up at some point.

18/06/2009, 06:52:
Videos are now uploaded as well.

12th episode of Deeper Golowood, 'On patrol' is now on the comics page.

11th episode of Deeper Golowood, 'Skeleton attack' is now on the comics page.

Bit more of a wordy episode this time - it's based on my brother (General Ghisto) forgetting to bring the box with the army in at Merrist Wood. Can't complain to much though since I forgot to bring enough curves for the railway - maybe I'll do that in another episode!

The upgrades have now been completed, so everything should be back online.

The webserver that the Golowood website is hosted on will be undergoing upgrades for part of the afternoon/evening tomorrow (Sunday 24th), so the site will be unavailable during the upgrades and could be intermittent afterwards whilst things are checked over.

Pictures from our exhibition at Merrist Wood on Sunday have now been added to the gallery in the events section.

Despite the weather, not bringing enough curved track, and forgetting the soldiers to defend Golowood from the skeleton attacks it all turned out very well (the weather probably actually drove more people inside to see our layouts, and the skeletons mysteriously withdrew from Golowood at the end of the day!).

Deeper Golowood Episode 10 is now also uploaded as well. This episode would have been done a few weeks ago, however it got delayed as I couldn't find where I'd put the phones that I needed for the first panel!

Deeper Golowood Episode 9 is now on the comics page.

A little something for St George's day: Episode 8, Trouble with dragons.

Look at the comics page to view it!

An Easter special of Deeper Golowood, episode 7, has now been uploaded - see the comic page to view it!

A forum has now been setup on the site.

Things still need tweaking on it so its a bit of a work in progress, but the layout is there and it's working.

News section now added to frontpage.

Will post developments to the website here as I add them.