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The Magazine for LEGO® Enthusiasts of All Ages!

Issue 57 • June 2019

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BUILDING MICROSCALE: Wayne Tyler’s National Mall Rocco Buttliere’s Microscale Skyscrapers

Blake Foster’s Ugly Duckling

Instructions AND MORE!

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Issue 57 • June 2019

Contents From the Editor........................................................2

People Wayne Tyler’s National Mall Project...............3 Lighting the Washington Monument........11 Rocco Buttliere: Building Small Scale on a Large Scale.....14

Building Mike Koppe’s Challenging Build...................24 Blake Foster’s Ugly Duckling............................28 You Can Build It: USCSS Nostromo................................................32 The Justice League’s Hall of Justice..........42 Mini 6930 Space Supply Station................48 Minifigure Customization 101 Usurping a Theme: Evil Soliloquy..............58

Community Dinosaurs and a Coaster: James Burrows’ Jurassic World...................64 You Can Build It: Hot Dog Stand...................................................66 Aaron Fiskum: Launching Brick Formation.........................72 Community Ads...................................................78 Last Word.................................................................79 Bricks in the Middle............................................80

Building

Wayne Tyler’s

National Mall Project Article by Joe Meno Photography by Wayne Tyler and Joe Meno

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I first saw this layout at BrickSlopes 2018, where it had its own display area. Basically an island made up of some tables, this allowed visitors to be able to take a look at the layout from all angles. The layout was of the National Mall in Washington, DC, and its scale let the viewer have a bird’s eye view of the landscape. The builder of this model is Wayne Tyler, and this is his first display.

12th Street, including the 12th Street Expressway.

Making environments is something that Wayne has done for years—he retired from 20+ years of work in the video game industry where he was a 3-D computer artist, creating environments and structures for the games he worked on, which included WWF Wrestling, Tiger Woods Golf, Littlest Pet Shop, and Sims 3. From there it wasn’t much of a jump to start building the same in LEGO, but he didn’t start LEGO building until 2015, and he began with a Star Wars set. While talking to him about his work, he told the story of how he began his LEGO building hobby: “In 2015, my daughter told me about a gift she had gotten her husband for Christmas—the Star Wars Advent Calendar. I was intrigued, but by the time she told me about it, it was early December and the price of the set had skyrocketed to the point where it wasn’t affordable. But I set up a reminder to be on the lookout for the Star Wars Advent Calendar the next year.”

“When I got the 2016 Star Wars Advent Calendar, I had such a great time putting the simple models together every day through December that I thought, ‘I gotta do more of this’ and went looking for LEGO sets. Most of the LEGO line wasn’t of interest, but then I ran across the Architecture series, specifically the Lincoln Memorial. It was a must have

A look at the National Museum of American History, then the National Museum of Natural History.

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Lighting the Washington Monument Article and Photography by Wayne Tyler

In keeping with the scale of the Lincoln, the streetlights presented a problem. There was no lamp post that was anywhere close to being the right size. Using the average tree size as a guide, I put together some thoughts of what pieces would be the right size and submitted them to Rob Klingberg at Brickstuff.

Rob responded that none of them were a good choice because there was no place to run the wires needed to power the lights without them being obvious and looking bad. But... in response, he suggested using a lever with the wires running up the side and shrink-wrapped, to both keep the wires in place and hide the wires at the same time. He sent this photo showing me what he had in mind.

I was delighted because they were the right size and they really did look like streetlights.

The next step was trying to figure out how bright the lights should be. In the same way that all the physical aspects of the MOC (buildings, trees, vehicles, etc.) needed to be scaled to look correct, the light brightness needed to be scaled also. Too bright or too dark, the lights will look wrong. Basically, we needed to scale the illumination area of the lights. You can’t have a streetlight that’s so bright just one illuminates an entire city block.

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People

Rocco Buttliere:

Building Small Scale on a Large Scale!

Article by Joe Meno Photography by Rocco Buttliere

Rocco Buttliere graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture in 2017. Since then, he has been pursuing LEGO work fulltime as a freelance artist. He may have started school with the idea of one day becoming an architect, but he was fortunate to have landed several exhibition opportunities over the years as his body of work grew. These opportunities have allowed for the type of exposure he needed in order to receive commissioned work. There is still quite a lot of work to do in order to make it a truly viable and sustainable option for him, but it’s never lost on him just how lucky he is to have been offered the opportunities that have come his way thus far.

BrickJournal was able to chat with him between displays at BrickUniverse, a traveling brick event.

BrickJournal: When did you start building? Did you have a Dark Age? What got you out of it?

Rocco Buttliere: I have been building with LEGO for as long as I can remember.

I first started building sets back when the original Harry Potter line started in 2001. I also went through a Star Wars phase and eventually became interested in architecture early on during high school, when the modular buildings series started. It was around that time that I first started my current body of work, Landmark | Landscape, which now consists of more than fifty consistently-scaled models of landmarks from around the world. It’s been ten years since I started this body of work, and it’s safe to say that my architectural education and professional relationships with other LEGO artists have helped immensely in refining my skills, both as a builder and as a practicing artist.

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What got you into constructing architectural buildings?

Having grown up in a suburb of Chicago, the years of visiting the city left an impression on me. I wanted to learn more about the variety of distinct architectural styles Chicago boasts. When I began to have the desire to express my fascination, LEGO was the natural medium of choice. Even after ten years of such relatively cohesive subject matter, I have never lost interest in continuing to discover new solutions and parts usage. The great thing about landmarks is that every corner of the world has them, and the potential to continue learning about new places and cultures is boundless!

What’s your favorite theme, if it isn’t Architecture?

I hold the modular series partially responsible for my architecture interests, so naturally, I would say this series has been a steadfast favorite. The only other sets I tend to collect are the skyline sub-theme of the Architecture line. I also have quite a bit of respect for the LEGO Ideas theme. There’s certainly a lot to be said for the value of fan community input on official LEGO sets; and some of the one-offs from Ideas have ended up being all-time favorites of mine.

BUILDING LONDON This layout started with the buildings in the foreground: (front) Westminster Abbey, (white chapel to the left of Westminster Abbey) Saint Margaret’s, and (center) the Palace of Westminster. This section consists of approximately 15,000 pieces.

An expansion including the London Eye (which rotates), County Hall, Westminster Bridge, and the River Thames increased the part count overall to over 50,000 pieces!

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MOUNT RUSHMORE 10-Year Model

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

-Theodore Roosevelt, 1899

More recently, however, I completed a piece which proved to be even more challenging: Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Knowing that March 2019 would mark ten years since I began Landmark | Landscape, I had started to think about a model that could commemorate this milestone quite far in advance.

Around August 2018, I first had the idea of modeling Mount Rushmore. Soon enough, I began to envision the overall extent of the piece and realized that I would need to also include the visitor center complex in the mountain’s preceding foothills. Indeed, this was a place I had been to several times during family vacations over the years, and I knew I needed to capture the place from which everyone experiences the monument. Sculpting faces out of LEGO was something I had never done before, so I knew the most immediate challenge would be to see if I could even remotely do so at my typical 1:650 scale. I started designing each of the presidential likenesses and was able to work out a suitable style so that they appeared consistent. From there, I spent hundreds of hours modeling the surrounding rock and the mountain itself. Starting out, I was essentially designing around the floating heads of the presidents (below left). At no point, was I able to ‘copy and paste’ large sections at a time, as every nook and cranny needed to be completely unique in order to effectively capture the rugged, natural terrain. It was an incredibly long process, most of which was spent with LEGO Digital Designer on the left side of my screen, and Google Earth on the right.

All in all, the final model consists of roughly 22,000 pieces and took about 400 hours to design (over the course of eight weeks), plus another 150 hours to build.

What future builds do you have in mind?

There are always a few landmarks and/or landscapes on my mental shortlist that I’d like to give the LEGO treatment. One of the ongoing projects I’m most passionate about is my Chicago layout. My body of work features around thirty models of Chicago landmarks, many of which are combined into two geographically-accurate layouts of the city. The smaller of the two layouts, featuring a chunk of the Magnificent Mile along Michigan Avenue, is currently on display in the Masterpiece Gallery of the LEGO House in Billund. The larger

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Building

Mike Koppe’s building....

The Weischer Media Company Building is in Hamburg, Germany. A seven-story structure designed by the architecture firm of Hillmer and Hillmer, the building was built between 2001 and 2003. It is part of the Elbberg Campus in the Altona part of the city. The distinctive profile of the building caught the eye of Mike Koppe, a 62-year old Canadian LEGO fan and rekindled builder.

Having lived in Hamburg as a child, he started looking for interesting buildings in town. After first finding the Dockland office building on Google Earth, he spotted the Weischer Media Building one street over. From Google Street View, the building looked really impressive, and the building challenge was difficult, but not impossible. One of the many challenges that Mike would face making this building was that one side was covered by aluminum horizontal lattice, and the other side was a glass wall with views of the office space and other items inside.

He had no option but to build the exterior and interior of the building.

...and its real counterpart.

Mike Koppe’ s Challenging Build Article by Joe Meno Photography and Digital Model by Mike Koppe

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Mike’s experience in constructing came from LEGO building initially in the ’60s until the early ’70s. He returned to building in the ’90s when he bought his kids a lot of City and Bionicle sets. He helped his kids while getting back into building with the early Star Wars sets, including the X-Wing Fighter and TIE Interceptor.

On and off he would build sets of interest such as the Space Shuttle, but he really got back into serious building just a couple of years ago when he built a mobile launch platform for his LEGO Saturn V set. The platform was built with bricks and elements ordered from the LEGO Store. Once he discovered Bricklink (an online sales site for LEGO and related materials), he realized he could do more.

Star Wars was the theme that got Mike back to building, but he discovered that his favorite theme was Architecture. It was only a matter of time before he would find a building that caught his interest.

Building

Blake Foster’s

Ugly Duckling Article and Photography by Blake Foster

The M:Tron Magnet Factory, Blake’s largest project to date.

I’m Blake Foster, software engineer by day and LEGO Space enthusiast by night. I’ve been building spaceships for about 32 years, punctuated by only a short spell in high school and college when I was building less frequently and only MINDSTORMS. MINDSTORMS kept my love for LEGO alive in the time that would otherwise have been a Dark Age. One of my favorite creations of that era was a pair of stair-climbing robots that I raced to the top of the stairs at my parent’s house. I also had a particular fascination with bipeds and built one that could turn and follow a line. While I still think MINDSTORMS are really cool, I program computers all day and I prefer to focus on strictly artistic projects in the evening.

My AFOL career got started one afternoon in 2007, just after college, when I decided out of boredom to build a LEGO spaceship. I was proud of it, so I went looking for places to share it on the Internet. I stumbled upon the Classic Space forum. There I found a community of AFOLs building spaceships that made mine look dumb. I shared it nonetheless with a title along the lines of “Ultimate Spaceship” (which felt a bit disingenuous having seen what other builders were doing), and promptly received feedback along the lines of it needs more greebles (details added to the surfaces to make it appear more complex) and too many studs showing. I was humbled, but I knew I wanted to build the kind of thing that the talented builders on that forum were making. Two weeks later I was working on my first SHIP (an acronym for Seriously Huge Investment in Parts—a model [usually a spaceship] that requires, well, a seriously large investment in parts and money).

You Can Build It MINI Model

Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color)

Qty Color 1 Trans Clear 1 Trans Clear 1 Trans Clear 4 Dark Bl. Grey 1 Dark Bl. Grey 2 2 2 1 3

USCSS Nostromo Design and Instructions by DanSto

The USCSS Nostromo spaceship appears in the famous horror/science-fiction movie Alien, directed by Ridley Scott in 1979. With a crew of seven people, it operates as a hauler for the transportation of a huge refinery between the Earth and outer colonies. During its final travel in 2122, it was landed on the moon LV-426 in order to explore a crashed derelict and was infected by an alien creature which killed most of the crew. A large part of the action takes place aboard the Nostromo up to its self-destruction before the end of the movie.

As a fan of the movie, I wanted to build models inpired by it. After having built the creature at different stages of its growth, some based on the Arvo brothers’ creations (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/77709542@N06/27662860880/), I am now trying to build some of the ships appearing in the movie. The present microscale model of the Nostromo is the first achieved vessel.

As a guide for the build, this iconic spaceship is detailed on several websites with blueprints and pictures from the movie, and the 3-D model by Starrigger was also very helpful. The microscale Nostromo model pulling the refinery by RemcoRohaan on Flickr was another source of inspiration, but my version is finally completely different from his.

The main challenge was to include the two pairs of lateral square propulsors and the four small back propulsors, in addition to the three large truncated conic ones. These details explain the final size of the model. Including the forward sensor pylon was another challenge: It is solved by combining a black droid arm and a new black wand.

The size of the model allows to display the cockpit, three landing gears, and a detailed docking arm clamp connector with the atmospheric intake port represented by legs. Finally, a trans-clear stand displays the 32 short model nicely.

1 1 2 4 3 4 4 17 6 4 5 9 2 2 5 1 6 2 2 4 1 1 2 2 2 5 2 1 1 2 6 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 2 1 1

Part 3960.dat 4070.dat 30359a.dat 3024.dat 15573.dat

Description Dish 4 x 4 Inverted Brick 1 x 1 with Headlight Bar 1 x 8 with Brick 1 x 2 Curved Top Plate 1 x 1 Plate 1 x 2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud, without Understud Dark Bl. Grey 25269.dat Tile 1 x 1 Corner Round Black 3024.dat Plate 1 x 1 Black 6141.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round Black 26047.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round with Horizontal Handle on Side Black 33286.dat Brick 1 x 1 x 2/3 Round with Scala Base Black 36752a.dat Minifig Tool Wand Black 59230.dat Minifig Mechanical Arm Straight Light Bl. Grey 2431.dat Tile 1 x 4 with Groove Light Bl. Grey 2555.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Clip Light Bl. Grey 3020.dat Plate 2 x 4 Light Bl. Grey 3021.dat Plate 2 x 3 Light Bl. Grey 3022.dat Plate 2 x 2 Light Bl. Grey 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 Light Bl. Grey 3024.dat Plate 1 x 1 Light Bl. Grey 3069b.dat Tile 1 x 2 with Groove Light Bl. Grey 3070b.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Groove Light Bl. Grey 3623.dat Plate 1 x 3 Light Bl. Grey 3666.dat Plate 1 x 6 Light Bl. Grey 3700.dat Technic Brick 1 x 2 with Hole Light Bl. Grey 3710.dat Plate 1 x 4 Light Bl. Grey 3839b.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handles Type 2 Light Bl. Grey 4070.dat Brick 1 x 1 with Headlight Light Bl. Grey 4081b.dat Plate 1 x 1 with Clip Light Type 2 Light Bl. Grey 4274.dat Technic Pin 1/2 Light Bl. Grey 11477.dat Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 Light Bl. Grey 15535.dat Tile 2 x 2 Round with Hole Light Bl. Grey 15573.dat Plate 1 x 2 w/Groove w/1 Ctr Stud, without Understud Light Bl. Grey 24201.dat Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 Inverted Light Bl. Grey 26047.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round with Horizontal Handle on Side Light Bl. Grey 32028.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Door Rail Light Bl. Grey 34103.dat Plate 1 x 3 with 2 Studs Offset Light Bl. Grey 36841.dat Bracket 1 x 1 - 1 x 1 Down Light Bl. Grey 41879a.dat Minifig Hips and Legs Short w/o Hole Light Bl. Grey 47905.dat Brick 1x1 with Studs on Two Opp. Sides Light Bl. Grey 52107.dat Brick 1 x 2 with Studs on Sides Light Bl. Grey 54200.dat Slope Brick 31 1 x 1 x 0.667 Light Bl. Grey 59900.dat Cone 1 x 1 with Stop Light Bl. Grey 60478.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handle on End Light Bl. Grey 61409.dat Slope Brick 18 2 x 1 x 0.667 Grille Light Bl. Grey 61678.dat Slope Brick Curved 4 x 1 Light Bl. Grey 63864.dat Tile 1 x 3 with Groove Light Bl. Grey 75535.dat Technic Pin Joiner Round Light Bl. Grey 85984.dat Slope Brick 31 1 x 2 x 0.667 Light Bl. Grey 87580.dat Plate 2 x 2 w/Groove w/1 Centre Stud Light Bl. Grey 98100.dat Brick 2 x 2 Round Sloped Light Bl. Grey 98138p06.dat Tile 1 x 1 Round w/Headlight Pattern Light Bl. Grey 99207.dat Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 2 Up Light Bl. Grey 99780.dat Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Up

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You Can Build It MINI Model

The Justice League’s Hall of Justice Design and Instructions

by Amado Pinlac Building in microscale is less forgiving than system scale because there is almost no room for error. Either your creation resembles the reference object or not, so piece choice is very critical to give life to the build. Instead of real structures, these two iconic buildings in the comic super-heroes universe have been given the microscale treatment.

The Hall of Justice was constructed by the Justice League of America a year after the destruction of the previous Justice League Watchtower, and located in Washington, D.C. The Hall was designed by John Stewart and Wonder Woman, financed by Batman, and built from scratch by Superman.

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Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color)

Qty Part 6 2412b.dat 2 2431.dat 4 2877.dat 14 3004.dat 4 3005.dat 1 3020.dat 16 3023.dat 2 3028.dat 5 3069b.dat 4 3070b.dat 2 3666.dat 4 3710.dat 4 4162.dat 4 4865b.dat 2

7 2 3 2 12 1 8 1 2 3

Color White White White White White White White White White White White White White White

Description Tile 1 x 2 Grille with Groove Tile 1 x 4 with Groove Brick 1 x 2 with Grille Brick 1 x 2 Brick 1 x 1 Plate 2 x 4 Plate 1 x 2 Plate 6 x 12 Tile 1 x 2 with Groove Tile 1 x 1 with Groove Plate 1 x 6 Plate 1 x 4 Tile 1 x 8 Panel 1 x 2 x 1 with Rounded Corners 6231.dat White Panel 1 x 1 x 1 Corner with Rounded Corners 6636.dat White Tile 1 x 6 15712.dat White Tile 1 x 1 with Clip (Thick C-Clip) 30055.dat White Fence Spindled 1 x 4 x 2 30565.dat White Plate 4 x 4 Corner Round 48092.dat White Brick 4 x 4 Round Corner 87079.dat White Tile 2 x 4 with Groove 3005.dat Trans Med. Blue Brick 1 x 1 6141.dat Trans Med. Blue Plate 1 x 1 Round 54200.dat Trans Med. Blue Slope Brick 31 1 x 1 x 0.667 15573.dat Light Bl. Grey Plate 1 x 2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud, without Understud

You Can Build It MINI Model

Mini 6930 Space Supply Station Design and Instructions

by Christopher Deck Hello everybody and welcome to this very special micro building session! This issue’s theme is about microscale building, so I am particularly pleased to build a micro model with you which even employs the original LEGO microfigures. We’re now minimizing the Classic Space set 6930—Space Supply Station!

As a first step we need a smaller version of the 32x32 crater base plate. It turned out the best way to do this is building it with bricks and plates rather than sloped or curved elements. This also resembles the Classic Space feeling.

Step 1–4 and the first section of the partslist show you how to build the crater plate. You can use this design for every micro space model which needs one of these.

The following steps describe the construction of the supply station itself. The quite simple layout of the original systemscaled base allows for a pretty detailed micro version;

especially the use of 1x1 slopes and 3x3 dishes comes in handy. A pretty nice way to build the landing pads for the two saucer rovers is to use the base parts of 2x2 turntables.

The last steps take care of the vehicles: Two saucer rovers, one surface jeep and a transport lorry. To pilot these vehicles we employ original LEGO microfigures which you may know from the Games theme some years ago. You can find the yellow classic space microfigure in set 3842—Lunar Command—from 2009, and the red one in set 3850—Meteor Strike—from the year 2010.

With that, our micro space station is finished! Have fun building and even more fun playing!

Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color)

Crater Plate

Qty Color 1

Light-Gray

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Light-Gray

7 6 6 1 2 4 3 1

Light-Gray Light-Gray Light-Gray Light-Gray Light-Gray Light-Gray Light-Gray Light-Gray

Supply Station

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3024.dat Plate 1 x 1 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2

3794a.dat Plate 1 x 2 without Groove with 1 Centre Stud

3623.dat Plate 1 x 3 3710.dat Plate 1 x 4 3022.dat Plate 2 x 2

2420.dat Plate 2 x 2 Corner 3021.dat Plate 2 x 3 3020.dat Plate 2 x 4

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Blue

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Light-Gray

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Light-Gray

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Part

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4592.dat Hinge Control Stick Base

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Light-Gray

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Light-Gray

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16 2 2 2 2 4 2

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Description

3867.dat Baseplate 16 x 16

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White Blue

Trans-Red White White Blue

White Blue

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White

3010.dat Brick 1 x 4

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Blue

43898.dat Dish 3 x 3 Inverted

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White

4070.dat Brick 1 x 1 with Headlight 4740.dat Dish 2 x 2 Inverted

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Light-Gray White

Description

4593.dat Hinge Control Stick 3959.dat Minifig Torch 3024.dat Plate 1 x 1 3024.dat Plate 1 x 1

6141.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round 6141.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round

61252.dat Plate 1 x 1 with Clip Horizontal

4081b.dat Plate 1 x 1 with Clip Light Type 2 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2

3794a.dat Plate 1 x 2 without Groove with 1 Centre Stud 3794a.dat Plate 1 x 2 without Groove with 1 Centre Stud 3710.dat Plate 1 x 4 3710.dat Plate 1 x 4 3710.dat Plate 1 x 4 3666.dat Plate 1 x 6

Building Since the release of the M.O.D.O.K. LEGO Minifigure, something has been missing from the LEGOverse. In order to explain, we have to examine the backstory of M.O.D.O.K. He started out in life as an average technician by the name of George Tarleton. Ultimately, poor ole George found his fate forever changed thanks to a random selection by his boss, the Scientist Supreme of Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.). The Scientist Supreme needed a unique, bio-engineered “living computer” in order to plumb the mysteries of the Cosmic Cube. George was subjected to hideous experiments, mutating his body into a massive-headed being possessing superhuman intelligence and extraordinary psionic powers, all created by a process that drove him madly insane.

Given the code-name M.O.D.O.C. (“Mobile Organism Designed Only for Computing”), George instead turned on his superiors, slaying them all and declaring himself Scientist Supreme. Moreover, he changed his name to M.O.D.O.K., with the “K” standing now for “Killing.” As Scientist Supreme, M.O.D.O.K. is in need of his confederates, his LEGOverse missing A.I.M. Agents.

M.O.D.O.K. – Photo and custom chair

by Jeff “Octopunk” Cross

Minifig Customization 101

Usurping a Theme: Evil Soliloquy Article and Photography

by Jared K. Burks 58

For those unfamiliar with everything in that first paragraph, I hope I at least have your attention. A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) is an organization of brilliant scientists and their hirelings dedicated to the acquisition of power and the overthrow of all government by technological means (i.e., Evil Tony Stark types). A.I.M., organized during World War II, was the scientific research division of the subversive military organization Hydra; however, they seceded from Hydra in the late ’60s because of political differences and began independent operations. A.I.M. first came to public attention when it was incorporated as an international cartel dealing with the development and marketing of new technological products. It supplied hardware and weapons to governmental and quasi-governmental agencies. Sometime after this, Colonel Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. exposed A.I.M. to be a subversive organization. Since then, all of A.I.M.’s activities have been covert.

In the Marvel world, A.I.M. has only had three major achievements: the Super-Adaptoid, the Cosmic Cube containing an Infinity Stone, and M.O.D.O.K. Thus, M.O.D.O.K. needs to meet his makers! [Footnote: M.O.D.O.K. and A.I.M. biographies were modified from Marvel.com]

A.I.M. Poster – Don’t call us, we’ll call you, by Mike Mahle: AIM Recruitment Poster: https:// www.deviantart.com/mikemahle/art/A-I-Mrecruitment-poster-304721029

M.O.D.O.K.’s A.I.M. Agents wear a very distinctive yellow outfit with a beekeeper’s-style helmet. Before proceeding, we need to discuss the elephant in the room: The color. I took a bit of creative license following LEGO’s lead, which was to substitute the Yellow color for Bright Light Orange, just as LEGO has done with the Yellow Lion from Voltron. This makes other possibilities, which will be featured in the second act of this evil plot. The main required element will be the beekeeper helmet, which does not exist in LEGO, so I set out to create it for this article. I have been wanting to use my 3-D printer for more things so I started by learning to

use Autodesk Fusion 360 software. This software is free for makers and widely touted as the best option, and I have long wanted a project to learn it, so what better than the A.I.M. Agents’ helmet?

Using Fusion 360 to create an A.I.M. Helmet

1. Create an outline of the Helmet in the Sketch mode. Note that I only drew ½ of the design and the helmet features a collar, which I included.

2. Use the Revolve option under the Create Tab to take the basic sketch and turn it into a solid object.

3. Select the Fillet Tool under the Modify Tab to round the top and bottom edges of the helmet.

4. Did you notice from the inspirational images a small clipped triangle from the front of the collar?

Draw this on the Sketch option.

5. Next, we have to move this out from the center plane and extrude the triangle.

6. Subtract the triangle by using the Combine Function under the Modify Tab. Select Subtract from this function.

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Community

Dinosaurs and a Coaster:

James Burrows’ Jurassic World!

Article and Photography

by Joe Meno

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There are only a few roller coaster layouts built by LEGO fans, and one to see is James Burrows’ Jurassic World coaster display. Currently touring LEGO fan events in the eastern US, this layout has grown from an initial length of 6 feet to the current size of 23 feet, 10 inches—with more to come! Currently, it has an estimated 300,000 pieces and 1997 minifigures.

To make and expand the coaster track, James uses the Coaster Dynamix system of roller coaster track, which uses tubing and mounts to make track lengths and curves. Using this system allows for more track manuevers, such as loops and corkscrews. As of presstime, there is 91 feet and 10 inches of track, but that will be expanded soon.

The Coaster Dynamix cars also use metal wheels that are very efficient, allowing for a car to travel much farther and faster than any other track system. However, this particular coaster is doing something that no other coaster is doing—it is actually traveling to its scale, so it actually is slower visually on its runs, which makes it look more realistic.

The track is controlled by two NXT MINDSTORMS controllers that use light sensors to detect the cars as they pass. The MINDSTORMS bricks time the motors that run the chain lifts for the cars to make sure they do not collide. The entire layout is also lit with LEDs on the paths and in the buildings. The coaster track has running lights and also flashes for the riders’ photos when they take the second drop.

The other ride that is electronically controlled uses Power Functions motors and controllers, and is the Dino Drop. Located on the opposite side of the layout from the roller coaster launch slope, the Dino Drop is a drop ride that pulls riders in a car up a column, then lets go. The drop is fast but stopped by a braking system in the column. The clamp for the car is dropped and relinked to the lift car, and the ride runs again. Running the perimeter of the layout is a train that is based on the LEGOLand train in design. This is also Power Functions powered.

You Can Build It Minifigure Scale Model

Hot Dog Stand Design by James Burrows Instructions by Joe Meno With Spring coming around, one of the things that starts popping up on street corners and at events is the hot dog stand. James Burrows, who has built some incredible rollercoasters, designed this to add to his amusement park layouts. You can change the color of the slope to make you own stand—just make sure you have enough hot dogs for your layout!

Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color) Qty Color

2

1

1

5

1

1

1

3

1

1 1

2

1

2

1

1

1

1

Rubber Black

Trans Clear

White

White

White

White

White

White

White

White White

White

White

White

White

White

White

White

10 White

5

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

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White

White

White

White

White

White

White

White

White

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Part

Description

Qty Color

Part

4

3004.dat Brick 1 x 2

51011.dat Tyre 6.4/ 75 x 8 Shallow Offset Tread

1

Red

3003.dat Brick 2 x 2

1

Red

3005.dat Brick 1 x 1

2

Red

98138.dat Tile 1 x 1 Round with Groove

3004.dat Brick 1 x 2

2

Red

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Aaron Fiskum:

Launching Brick Formation!

Article and Photography by Joe Meno and Aaron Fiskum

The model that started it all—the large-scale Hiigaran Destroyer.

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Brick Formation is a new group coming on the scene, with plans to design and sell a wide variety of models, the first of which are spaceships from the Homeworld® series of video games. Licensed from Gearbox Software®, these sets are collector-quality models that have been designed by some builders familiar to the LEGO fan community or building community. Brick Formation launched their Homeworld® line at BrickWorld Indianapolis, where Cofounder and Design Lead Aaron Fiskum first revealed the sets to the public.

IF YOU ENJOYED Aaron is an accomplished LEGO builder that lit theTHIS sparkPREVIEW, CLICK THE LINK TO ORDER THIS the led to Brick Formation—orISSUE more precisely, IN PRINT he ORbuilt DIGITAL FORMAT! the model. (For BrickJournal readers, he was featured in BrickJournal #37 with his Landspeeder model that was submitted to LEGO Ideas for consideration. While it got the votes needed for final consideration, the set didn’t make it to production. However, the model did get sent to Billund to be displayed at the LEGO Idea house!) In 2016, Aaron built a model of one of the ships from Homeworld 2®, the Hiigaran Destroyer. At almost 4.5 feet long (and 11,000 elements), the model got a lot of attention at BrickWorld Chicago 2016 from many, including the development and design team at Gearbox for Homeworld Remastered® itself!

After BrickWorld, Aaron was invited to bring the model to Gearbox’s corporate headquarters where it was on display for a time, and due to that praise, he wasBRICKJOURNAL approached by #57 LEGO BUILDING! Tour WAYNE TYLER’S Naothers in the LEGO communityMICROSCALE about building kits. from ROCCO tional Mall (Washington, DC)custom layout, skyscrapers BUTTLIERE, BRANDON GRIFFITH’S Battlestar Galactica model, This seeded an idea to start doing custom work, but Brick step-by-step LEGO instructions by CHRISTOPHER DECK, BrickFormation wanted something unique the Not manyMinifigure Nerd’s DIY for Fan Art withkits.

TOMMY WILLIAMSON, JAREDfor K. BURKS, and more! custom kit companies (outside ofCustomization LEGO)with strive licensed (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) models, so Brick Formation targeted procuring a license with$8.95 (Digital Edition) $4.95 Gearbox. bit.ly/BrickJournal57