A TEN-year-old boy from Bere Alston won a Lego building competition as part of a museum exhibition.

Tristan Piper won the competition to build a Lego model to celebrate Torquay Museum’s summer blockbuster exhibition of Lego models, Brick Built, which runs until September 8.

Tristan, with the help of five-year-old Flynn Boynson, made an amazing Lego model of a prehistoric cave scene, complete with sabre-toothed tiger, cave paintings, cave man, skeletons of long-extinct animals, a fire and flint tools.

Carl Smith, from Torquay Museum, said: ‘The detail of Tristan’s model was amazing.

‘He had clearly put hours of research and work into his creation and is a worthy winner.

‘His prize is a year’s free entry for him and his family and his model displayed in the museum’s blockbuster exhibition of Lego models.’

Children were challenged to build a Lego model, using plenty of imagination; it must be no bigger than a 30cm cube, relating in some way to Torquay Museum’s numerous collections and displays.