Since I didn’t have one of these in my collection, I had to make an alternate bumper and grille.
Notice how the back of this piece has a slight curve so the wheels don’t hit it? That made my first prototype not work at all, and it took a couple tries to get a design that really worked. When I made this model, I tried different bumper styles in the front and back, but this one worked better.
Here’s a design I made up for a lego armchair:
Last post about bunkbeds for a while, I promise ;-). I really love this proposal from Lego Cuusoo:
Aside from being bright and colorful, there are some clever things they do here to make it look realistic, like using 1×1 headlight bricks for the ladder, and using bars/poles for the ladder rungs instead of a flat brick. And the desk lamp using two antennas? clever again.
From set 298, “Nursery” from 1978:
Even though this bed is scaled for a child maxifigure, it doesn’t look too out of proportion for a mini-figure, unless you try to squish it in a house ;-). Continue reading Maxifigure Bunkbed
Today’s building inspiration is from a 1980 Lego set, “Bedroom” (Set 5233).
Before the mini-figure came the maxi-figure, and a much larger scale for building stuff, almost dollhouse scale. It’s kind of an interesting scale in the level of detail it allows using non-specialized lego bricks. The modern mini-figure was introduced in 1978. Over the next few years, they continued to release maxi-figure scale sets, and in a few cases they included mini-figures to use as babies in the maxi-figure sets. So today we’re building baby-furniture that is scaled appropriately for a mini-figure. Continue reading Maxifigure Baby Furniture
Today’s model is a shell gas station truck from set 6394 “Metro Park & Service Tower” from 1988:
Today’s build is LEGO set 376, “Town House with Garden”, from 1978: (229 pieces)
This house in particularly interesting because it’s hinged, so it can be closed up like a real house, or open to play with the inside like a dollhouse. Aside from requiring 2 hinge bricks, the important parts can all be made from basic building bucket pieces.
Through Steve’s Lego Blog I came across Lego item 6000, an “Idea Book” from 1980. The horse-drawn cart jumped out at me as being both interesting and something we might have enough of the proper pieces to build.
Today’s building idea is instructions for building a Minion, from the movie Despicable Me.
The design and instructions were created by LEGO MOC creator Tony Sava.
Instructions (2 jpg’s) and parts list for the minion (1 jpg) on the left are on Brick Fanatic’s blog post about this or Tony’s flickr page.
