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.
Today’s lego inspiration is a mini-typewriter from Bricks Ben:
It is made from 73 tiny and often uncommon pieces.
Although a parts list and instruction-set is not provided for this model, it makes a great illustration of a “studs not on top” master builder technique. Notice how the side of the keyboard is a 1x2x3 roof tile laying on its side? The keyboard also uses studs not on top techniques to get that gentle slope between rows. Take a look at the inside:
There are additional photos on Bricks Ben’s Website that may help with re-creating this fabulous construction
This one is from a McDonald’s Promotional Set: Sea Eagle (1642) from 1989:
I admit, I was skeptical that yellow faded legos could even be “cleaned” to look like new again until I saw some posts online about it.
But it turns out all it takes is three things you probably already have around your house Continue reading Cleaning Yellowed Legos
Today’s model is a biplane, set 613 from 1974:
Today’s lego inspiration is a “submarine” my husband created from our parts collection:
Today we are building the train engine from Lego set 181:
You will need one 6×12 baseplate and car or train wheels if you don’t have ready-made train parts. We built our baseplate out of two 6×6 plates with another plate under to hold it together.
From set 6608, “Tractor” (1982):
Today’s model is a minifig compatible helicopter from “Basic Building Set 1879” from 1992:
