Inside the Brick Club library: how the collection grew to 90+ kits
The library did not start with 90 kits. It started with about a dozen sets that had been built and were sitting in storage with nowhere useful to go. The idea was simple: there must be other people who want to build these and do not want to own them.
Every kit went through the same starting process: bought new, built at least once, inspected, bagged by numbered bag, and checked against the parts list. Sets that had loose connections, faded parts, or missing elements got repaired before entering circulation.
The collection grew in batches. Early years were mostly large sets: the Bugatti Chiron, the Liebherr Crane, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Then the F1 sets. Then the motorcycles. Then construction and engineering sets, for members less interested in supercars and more in mechanisms.
The 2026 additions have been the most anticipated since the library started. The Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear at 4,104 pieces is the largest kit ever added. New additions are partly picked by member demand. If there is a set you want to see, email garreth@brickclub.uk and make the case.
Every kit currently available to rent is listed at brickclub.uk. New arrivals are added as they land.
Solid builds, every rotation
Up to six kits a year. Postage both ways covered. Brick separator and instructions included. Good for building at your own pace.
Twice as many builds a year
Up to twelve kits a year. The same random library as Technic Fan, arriving twice as often. Same postage-included deal.
The library is open. Pick your subscription.
Technic Fan gets you up to six kits a year from £17 a month, Master Builder twelve. Every box is picked at random from the library, always a set worth over £100, and you never get the same kit twice. Both plans include postage both ways, a pre-paid return label, a brick separator and the original instructions.
What earns a place in the library
I do not add a kit because it is new or because the box is large. It needs a clear reason to come off the shelf: a gearbox worth understanding, a dependable powered function, an unusual piece of suspension or a build size that fills a gap between the weekend sets and the flagships. Two cars at the same scale can still be poor companions if they ask the builder to do the same job.
Rotation changes the judgement. A mechanism that works once on my bench must still work after it has been packed, posted, built and returned several times. I look at cable routes, exposed axles, easy-to-lose body panels and whether the model divides into sensible sections for repacking. I keep photographs of the completed modules and give the parts that control a function a separate check before the next dispatch.
Member questions shape the collection too. If several builders ask for a shorter gearbox project or something mechanical to build with a child, that is more useful than chasing another huge display car. The library passed 90 kits by adding different kinds of build, not by filling a shelf with every colour of the same idea.