Today we hear from guest contributor and military-history builder, João Eínon. He takes us through his own LEGO journey as well as a tour of a fan event in Portugal. Hi! My name is João Eínon, I'm 35 years old and I'm from Portugal. LEGO has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. One thing that I'm very proud of is the fact that I never really liked to build the sets in the boxes; instead, I always wanted to build my own things. Believe it or not, when I was very young, I used to make Churches and Cathedrals all the time! But then my aunt gave me an F-16 model Kit (when I was nine years old), and everything changed for me. I very rapidly noticed that I hated painting and building model kits... so instead I decided to use LEGO! Twice the...






