About Us

THE builder

JUSTIN CHUA

Since a very young age, I’ve always loved playing with Lego. It was my favorite toy growing up and helped to shape my building skills and creativity during my early years. I must have spent thousands of hours recreating everything from cartoons to movie scenes and vehicles of all sorts, anything my younger brother and I could dream up.

Then during my teenage years, I stopped playing. I went through my “dark ages” as AFOL’s call it. Fast-forward to my mid twenties and a camper van from the City line caught my attention; I had to have it. I always loved camper vans because I like the idea of being free and living on the road. That first purchase after so many years reignited my passion for the building block and one thing led to another. It has spiralled into an obsession and I haven’t stopped building since.

I’ve been building consistently with Lego since 2014 and have experimented with different styles and scales over the years, creating MOCs(My Own Creations) from popular culture like this mini Thor’s Hammer or Hellboy’s Samaritan. Or from Anime, Spike’s Swordfish spacecraft from Cowboy Bebop, AGL .45 Long Colt from Trigun, a bunch of vehicles from the arcade game Metal Slug, and various other things from real life and fiction.

A Minifigure Life(my Instagram account) was born when I decided I wanted to do something with my hobby and share that passion. I love making things from pop culture, like guns, knives, relics and all sorts of memorabilia. Cult films, anime, comics and cartoons are a big influence on my work. There is no limit to what you can make with this toy. If you can imagine it, you can build it.

our story

LIONCITY MOCS

In 2017, I started a small business called Lioncity MOCs, a place to sell my creations as kits or instructions and also offer my services as a freelance brick artist. Since I started making models of military vehicles, aircraft and ships, I’ve opened up a world of opportunity and have delivered many commissioned models for happy customers.

I also had the opportunity to do two big scale projects for the RSAF(in 2018 when the Republic of Singapore Air Force turned 50 years old) and the SAF(in 2022 to celebrate 55 years of the Singapore Armed Forces). That was an incredibly stressful undertaking but also an eye opener and wonderful experience.

I’ve also had the chance to build many of Singapore’s Navy ships, and one of my proudest was the 1:100 scale Littoral Mission Vessel that took me a month of refining and customisation. It is, to date, the biggest custom model I’ve ever delivered and another milestone in the bag.

The name “LIONCITY” is an ode to the country of Singapore, where the business originates from.

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