About me
Hello.
My mother is Danish and as a young girl she lived in a town next to Billund, the headquarters of the LEGO® company. So it happened that she had contact with the Kirk Kristiansen family, went to school with the youngest daughter and was also in the living room of the "Lion House". This is where she must have caught the LEGO® bug, which was then passed on to me.
My name is Ralf and I 'translate' various things from reality into the LEGO® world.
I still have my first LEGO® kit, the model number 315 known in English as the “European Taxi”. It also kept me entertained during the so-called “Dark Ages” (in LEGO® jargon, the time when you don't deal with LEGO®, i.e. education, job, family ...). This model probably laid the foundation from around 1965 onwards for the steadily increasing number of bricks in my parents' house.
When the large Technic car chassis No. 853 was under the Christmas tree in 1977, I was overjoyed! I remember spending hours on Christmas Eve building the model in the playroom – and then taking it apart again. When I noticed that the model had two major “flaws”, I decided to remedy them. And that was the beginning of the creation of various models, mostly cars without any specific prototypes, in which I incorporated features that were not available by LEGO® itself until years later, such as differential gears, suspension, four-wheel drive and steering.
After the trials and tribulations of life, in 2017 I found myself working as a translator for The Wordworms, got the task to translate the book “How to Build Brick Cars”. The founding of the 2nd company The Brickworms was the 'logical' consequence of which I, together with my wife Gel, initially began to offer the bricks needed to build the models described in them as kits, in addition to books with building instructions.
Short comment: Both The Brickworms as well as The Wordworms we stopped at the end of 2024 because my wife Geraldine and I separated and are now going our separate ways.
And then came the key moment when a cousin from Denmark asked me if I could develop a Jaguar Mk II to match the Jaguar E-type in the car book. Up to that point, I had never built cars based on a prototype, but I took on the exciting task. The result was my first car model based on reality. More models emerged, and more translation jobs on this topic followed.
In 2021, the first book with models I developed, "Building LEGO® locomotives!", was published. Two more books followed in 2023: "Fish from the Seven Seas" and "50 historical LEGO® vehicles – miniaturised", which were created in collaboration with Gel.
I am now receiving more and more requests and orders from customers who want custom-made models. You can find some examples in the “Custom order” category.
Maybe they inspire you? That you too would like to have your dream model created and/or built by me? Just talk to me, send me an email or call me, or personally on Saturdays at the Berlin Winterfeldtmarkt. I'm excited about your project!