Here’s a design I made up for a lego armchair:
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More Bunkbed Ideas
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.
minifig bunkbed
Maxifigure Bunkbed
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
Maxifigure Baby Furniture
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
Shell Pickup Truck
Today’s model is a shell gas station truck from set 6394 “Metro Park & Service Tower” from 1988:
House with Garden
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.
Medieval Horse-Drawn Cart
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.
Despicable Me Minion
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.
Lego Typewriter
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