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Introducing: Buildarmy®
After a lot of market research (and quite a bit of building!) we're so excited to announce that we're expanding our offering to include new brands of brick military sets. The first being Buildarmy®!
All Buildarmy® products are hand-designed by Dr. Ruibin Zhang, who is a huge Lego and Military history buff who wanted to bring an option to the market of a detailed and realistic military vehicle model that was Lego-compatible.
"As a LEGO® and WW2 fan, I used to search for bricks on BrickLink all over the world to build my MOC. However, I found it difficult to build an army from LEGO® bricks since some parts are rare and expensive. I have even bought the red motorcycle tops and painted them to grey in order to build the German motorcycle.
All Buildarmy® products are hand-designed by Dr. Ruibin Zhang, who is a huge Lego and Military history buff who wanted to bring an option to the market of a detailed and realistic military vehicle model that was Lego-compatible.
"As a LEGO® and WW2 fan, I used to search for bricks on BrickLink all over the world to build my MOC. However, I found it difficult to build an army from LEGO® bricks since some parts are rare and expensive. I have even bought the red motorcycle tops and painted them to grey in order to build the German motorcycle.
Once when I was travelling in China, I occasionally saw my nephew playing some Chinese brand bricks, which look similar to LEGO®. However I realized that most of them are copying the sets of Lego, which I personally quite despise. I bought some sets only to recycle their bricks for MOC. I found some of them have surprisingly good quality and totally compatible with LEGO®. Then I read that the patent of LEGO® has long expired and the manufacturing of basic bricks is legal. Thus I located the top quality brick brand in China and started to order more.
My aim is to build all the famous vehicles that have seen actions in WW2. I started from German vehicles as most of our stock bricks are grey." - Dr. Ruibin Zhang
If you have any questions about the Buildarmy® sets or any recommendations for what other brands you'd like to see on BrickTanks, let us know!
If you have any questions about the Buildarmy® sets or any recommendations for what other brands you'd like to see on BrickTanks, let us know!
A few reminders:
- PRICE-MATCHING: If you find a Cobi set we stock cheaper and available elsewhere including the equivalent next day P&P, please email us and we'll do our best to price match for you: admin@bricktanks.co.uk
- DISCOUNT CODES: When you sign up to a free BrickTanks account you automatically earn Panzer Points which eventually add up to discount codes which you can redeem against future orders. There is also an automatic 10% gift bundle discount applied when you purchase 5 or more smaller sets at less than £15 each.
- MISSING PIECES? No problem, we can help!
- SALES: Check out our latest SALES!
- DISCONTINUED SETS: Don't miss out: double check which sets COBI has informed us they are discontinuing HERE.
- EARLY BIRD PRE-ORDERS: Place your super early PRE-ORDERS HERE.
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