Piko's Diary: Lego story #015: Building the Medieval Blacksmith (Part 1)

Fire up the forge!

If I could own only one Lego set, it would be the 21325 Medieval Blacksmith.

It checks all the boxes: value for money, fantastic display piece, fun build, lots of detail, great "playability", good size. I picked it up on Amazon Japan for slightly under $130, which is $50 off the U.S. retail price.

In this post (the first of four), we'll look at the ground floor of the Blacksmith's home-and-smithy.

Bag 1: Oh, it's the Mandalorian! He must have traveled in from some other dimension. I think we'll be seeing him in future posts, though he won't stick around for the rest of the Blacksmith construction.

It looks as if he's surveying a site of ancient ruins.

I really enjoyed making this base because of the lovely color palette. Big fan of sand green.

The photo above should give you a sense of the set's overall footprint. It's bigger than the official dimensions of 21 x 27 cm, if you count the horse carriage and tree foliage. (The height is 27cm.)

Bag 2: We're already adding furniture and items.

That looks like a grindstone and, in the corner crate, ... bars of metal? Coal?

Neat gimmick: a forge that actually lights up! (battery powered)

It's a medieval set, so firewood's par for the course.

Bag 3: Walls, stair, and smithy.

The blacksmith's working on a job for the Black Falcon faction.

These sand-green corners have studs for holding dark-grey tiles which, as you'll see, make the exterior walls look fantastic.

Bag 4: Smithy finished!

Hanging on the left wall: Broom, shovel, mallet. Nice amount of space for walking around.

We have not one but two anvils (the other outside). But not too many irons in the fire.