I was one of the early pioneers in creating and selling custom LEGO model kits. In March of 2000 I released my first kit: a medieval "castle" theme Blacksmith Shop. Much to my surprise this set was a hit and sold quickly. Unfortunately I was forced to retired it after only 23 examples due to a lack of available parts. Shortly thereafter I was approached by LEGO with an offer to license this kit for official production. In 2002 it was released as 3739 Blacksmith Shop and became the first ever fan-created set to be released by the company.

After selling more than 350 kits of nearly two-dozen original designs, I decided to cease Brickmania's kit production in the fall of 2003 in order to pursue other projects. Interest in my kits continued well after production ceased and I attempted to satiate that thirst with the release of a CD-ROM containing all of my building instruction in PDF format. Again to my surprise the one an only planned pressing of 500 copies sold out much faster than I expected. For the past couple years it has been available as a low-priced DVD from from A&M Productions.

In fall of 2007 I was approached by a prominent publisher to author a military modeling guide for military modeling with LEGO bricks. Work on this book project rekindled my enthusiasm for making custom kits, but I remained unsure whether or not there was enough customer interest to warrant the effort. In fall 2008 I tested the waters by introducing the Brickmania Instructions Club, which offered custom kit instructions rather than complete models.The new models' instructions generated a lot of feedback and huge quantiy of encouragement to start selling kits once again.

In March 2009 I caved into pressure from my "fans" and my own longing to get back into custom kit building. In rapid succession I released two new kits: the Fokker Dr.1 Triplane - my first World War I kit - and the Panzer IV Ausf G. tan. Response to these kits was overwhelming and both quickly sold more copies than anything I had ever released in the past. Riding high on my early success I quickly coverted my recent instruction sets into new kits, which have also been received with great enthusiasm. As of June 2009 I have decided to pick up the reigns of Brickmania as a full-time pursuit and am working on a rapid expansion of my line of custom kits and updating / re-issuing the old ones. Check the web site often becuase it will certainly be updated regularly!

This section if an overview of most kits I have offered to date. I have broken it down by theme and privided a quick menu at the left hand side of the page. You can access the appropriate information page in my web store by clicking on the image of items mareked "AVAILABLE." You can also jump to my web store here.