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Issue 65 • January 2021

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ZIO Chao’s Brick Figures

Koen Zwanenburg’s Creations

INSTRUCTIONS AND MORE!

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Issue 65 • January 2021

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

People ZIO Chao: Character Builder!...............................................3 Pieter Dennison: Building the Dunedin Railway Station......6 David Koudys: Moonbase Master!..........................................12

Building Aukbricks: Brick Architect!...............................................21 To the Stars and Beyond: Building Microscale Near-Future Space.......................................26

Ben Pitchford: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!...............30 Wing Yew: Temple, Toy and Room Creator!.............34 You Can Build It: Holiday Build Holiday Train...................................................39 Koen Zwanenburg: From Holidays to History!.........................43 Victor Leparc: Building Towers, Manors and More!.....48 Kang Jun Lee: Bird Builder!.....................................................52 You Can Build It: AT-XMas............................................................56

Minifigure Customization 101: Dadadadadadadadadadadadad adadada — SANTA BAT!............................62

Community Bantha Bricks Files: Mirko Soppelsa’ s K2-SO...............................66 Community Ads...............................................78 Last Word.............................................................79 AFOLs....................................................................80

People

ZIO Chao:

Character Builder!

Article and Photography by ZIO Chao

Santa in a dog sleigh?!?

It can take an unusual thing to get started in the LEGO hobby. For ZIO Chao, now a LEGO educator, it took a TV show: the Japanese show TV Champion—King of LEGO.

Hi, Santa!

This show has several amazing LEGO adult builders using their skills and creativity to build topics revealed in the competition. What impressed ZIO were the builds: one builder made a large ring-shaped space station with different facilities and various minifigure scenes in each chamber. Another competitor built a mega-animal amusement park with many cute and funny animal sculptures. Before seeing the show, ZIO couldn’t imagine LEGO could be built like that. Since then, he got addicted to this LEGO world.

In his childhood, ZIO was always attracted by LEGO commercials, with a special love for Castle and Pirate themes. These times were full of adventures, and like roleplaying games that he could play with all day long. When he became a teenager, he was fascinated by Star Wars and sci-fi movies. When he learned that LEGO also produced Star Wars sets at the same time he got into building, he crazily bought a lot of Star Wars sets.

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People

Pieter Dennison:

Building the Dunedin Railway Station Article by Joe Meno Photography

by Pieter Dennison

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Pieter Dennison started building when he got his first LEGO set, King Leo’s Castle (6091) at the young age of 4. He discovered that building was his favorite hobby and in only a couple of years he was constantly building new creations.

14 years later, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, Pieter had the time to devote to building during lockdown. As he notes, “It’s not been the greatest time to find a new job currently, though it has given me plenty of time to build, which is positive.” When asked about what got him to start building beyond the LEGO sets, Pieter replied, “I like building something that no one has ever done before and packing in as much detail as I can. Also, I enjoy the problem-solving aspect:

The build and the builder.

trying to make my builds look as realistic as possible, playing with angles, and working with new techniques and ways to create something from nothing.”

His latest project, the Dunedin Railway Station, was the result of years of planning and building. Pieter displayed the main building of the Railway Station when he attended his first Brickshow in 2015. From there, he was inspired to complete the model. “Getting to watch people admire your work and meeting others who share your interest is a huge motivator for me. I really enjoy the community aspect of being an AFOL,” he explains.

Part of the garden.

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People

David Koudys:

Moonbase Master Article by David Koudys Photography by David Koudys and Calum Tsang The current moonbase layout.

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Which brings me to my final point. We are all part of the one hobby where the only consistency is change. The truly good bit about this—each one of us the the architect of that change ourselves. We can change as little, or as much as we want, and we can do it whenever we want. Don’t get discouraged because ‘other people’ are better builders. That’s not true at all.

Dave capping the layout.

Build something small or build something tall. Build with a few pieces, or thousands of pieces. The size of your build or the quantity of pieces doesn’t matter one bit. If you don’t like it? Do it again. If you enjoy it, then you’re already farther ahead than most other people. Don’t worry about anything else.

This is the joy of the hobby—as with the almost limitless building possibilities with the bricks themselves, there are so many possibilities for you to explore what you want, and so many possible ways for you to build the way you want.

Just have fun doing it.

Space Transports wait for pilots.

The full display with the cases as a base.

A lunar train is on the ground level.

Another lower view of the tower.

There’s a lot of activity at the Moonbase.

You can see video of the Moonbase here: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Sparky1701 You can see photos in Dave’s Flickr feed: https://www.flickr.com/ photos/sparky1701/albums

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Building

A Christmas scene from Aukbricks.

The builder known as Aukbricks hit the scene this year with some outstanding builds. Concentrating on architecture, her builds have deep detail, innovative design, and also happen to be digital. BrickJournal chatted with her online to find out a little bit about her LEGO creations.

Aukbricks:

As with most other builders, Aukbricks (who prefers to keep her anonymity) started the hobby when she was young. She started playing with LEGO as a child but found other interests when growing up and had a Dark Age. When her son was old enough to not try eating the LEGO bricks, she got out of her Dark Age to start building together. Soon after, about four years ago, she built her first MOC.

Article by Joe Meno Renderings by Aukbricks

Brick Architect!

Aukbrick’s favorite theme reflects her interest in architecture—her favorite is LEGO Architecture while also enjoying LEGO Expert Creator and LEGO Ninjago.

LEGO’s launch of their Architecture Skylines, in fact, was what led her to start building her own creations. She was thrilled by the launch but wanted to build the skyline of her hometown. From there, she expanded her building in skill and scale.

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Aukbrick’s ideas for building come from small details that she thinks would be nice to recreate in LEGO. She also loves to browse architectural photography on websites such as Instagram. A lot of inspiration is gathered there.

She starts by working on the design of an inspiring detail and building the rest of the model around it. There’s no planning on paper because Aukbricks has no drawing skills—she uses her building skills. She just opens LEGO Digital Designer and starts building! Often the build will stay as a small build on her computer but sometimes, when she is happy with the result, she will render images of the MOC. Her models start in LDD or Mecabricks (which is another digital building program), but then are exported to Blender with an add-on from Mecabricks to make renders.

For Aukbricks, it is always nice to build and see a model designed with real bricks, but she thinks building digitally has many advantages. First of all, one is not limited to what bricks are owned or are affordable. For her, building digitally is also much faster. One doesn’t have to constantly look for that specific brick and one’s not limited to build strictly from the bottom to the top. A builder can really try out techniques and design a model at no cost and when completed, they can either get the elements needed or export the model file and make a render of what was built.

A look at the building rear showing the diagonals of the staircases.

F-Town Building

There is a LEGO modular of the F-town Building located in Sendai, Japan by architect Atelier Hitoshi Abe—about 8500 bricks of which over 3000 are white 1x1 plates. (Computer rendering, but only existing bricks were used.)

A streetlevel view.

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For Aukbricks, LEGO building is a way to relax and think about other things than all that is going on in life. Most of the time she likes to create replicas of buildings, but A view of the front.

Building

To the Stars and Beyond: Building Microscale Near-Future Space

The I.E.A. Vanguard.

By Chris Malloy

A version of this article was originally published on The Brothers Brick (www.brothers-brick.com).

The forward end of the Vanguard, with the micro-asteroid shield.

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As a longtime LEGO space builder, I found I was ready for a bit of a change. After years of building Star Wars and video-game inspired spaceships, I wanted to try my hand at building a spaceship that is, paradoxically, a little more down to earth. Rather than ships bristling with big guns or outfitted with wings, I decided to take my visual cues from movies like Interstellar, The Martian, and of course, NASA’s own designs. Several years ago I built a small vignette of a space shuttle launch system in this theme, and since then I’ve been working on a couple of spacecraft. The first ship I built was the Vanguard, part of my own fictional Interplanetary Expedition Alliance, mankind’s first attempt at visiting nearby planets and their orbiting bodies.

I built it as a series of discrete modules, and then strung the modules together to create the larger spacecraft. I’m fond of this technique because it lets me play with small structures of a few dozen elements at a time, which also results in a look similar to the real International Space Station’s modular design, cobbled together by numerous agencies over a period of decades.

This also allows me to try out a lot of unusual elements, such as the Ninjago spinner for the micro-asteroid shield on the ship’s front. If you’re familiar with the Ninjago spinners, you may be wondering how I got it to stay in place, since they’re filled with a cast-iron weight. But the earliest Ninjago spinners have screws holding the two plastic clamshells together, so I was able to disassemble the spinner and remove the weight without damaging the pieces (sadly, later spinners are riveted).

Another part that sat in my unused bin for way too long before finding a home aboard this craft is the Buzz Lightyear wing. I combined a pair with just two other elements and some custom stickers (trimmed from the leftovers of official LEGO sticker sheets) to create an auxiliary shuttle.

As I built each core module, I tried to make sure it could support a Technic axle through its center, and the majority of the modules allow this. Once I had all the modules created, I used some very long Technic axles to string them together, and then mounted the ship on a display stand.

Although it sounds pretty straightforward, it’s a lot of trial and error, because not all of the modules work well next to each other, both from aesthetic and engineering standpoints. I ended up with a handful of leftover modules that just didn’t fit the look I wanted on this ship.

The finished model is about 89 studs long, putting me just shy of the 100-stud length that LEGO space builders venerate. 100-plus stud LEGO spaceships are known by the acronym SHIP, which stands for Seriously Huge Investment in Parts, an apropos term to be sure. I’d never built a SHIP, so I knew I had to go for it and those leftover modules were the perfect starting point.

Chris’ take on a shuttle of the near future, the Indefatigable.

A look at the auxiliary shuttle.

Building

Ben Pitchford:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Article and Photography

by Ben Pitchford

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Ben Pitchford has been featured before in BrickJournal (issue #43, Building the Samurai Code) with a large layout, and since then he built another, this time themed to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Instead of a natural layout dominated by a mountain, this new layout is a manmade landscape of New York City and is dominated above by buildings and below by the sewers and waterways of the city. BrickJournal talked to Ben about his creation and got a tour of the layout.

It took Ben a little over six months to build the layout, and was motivated by his three kids—they thought it would be a fun build. Since they already had the minifigures

Building

Wing Yew:

Temple, Toy and Room Creator!!

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Wing Yew is a mechanical engineer that has been a LEGO builder for seven years. His beginning in the LEGO hobby was seeing the Collectible Minifigure Series 8 released at the end of 2012. The unique minifigures in that series got his attention and he fell in love with the series and the bricks.

His favorite themes became the Creator Expert and City themed sets, and he eventually collected all the Collectible Minifigure series, Creator/Modular and Creator winter sets. Other sets and polybags were bought occasionally, but Creator Expert and City were always first.

It took some time, but Wing realized that LEGO sets couldn’t fulfill his temptation of building, so he started to try and build something new from his dismantled sets. He did a lot of online research and at other resources that were related to creating and building cool LEGO creations, which led to his MOC building journey in the brick world.

A couple of views of Kee Lok Si.

Wing, for the most part, builds just to create, and he enjoys the process of designing and creating something new with the bricks. Using his own style, he describes, crafts and builds something by his own definition. He will first imagine and visualize how a model would be if he transforms what he sees, whether it be an object or an environment, and into LEGO bricks. He will then build it up by using different scales (Minifig, micro, 1:1 scale) to find the best building option. He also tends to build things which are not commonly seen in the LEGO MOC world, so it gives other AFOLs another perspective and inspiration to build something unique.Wing also participates in competitions as well as local LEGO fan events and displays.

Out of all the builds Wing has done, the one he is most proud of is a replica of Kee Lok Si, a temple which is situated in the island of Penang, Malaysia and is one of the largest and finest temple complexes in Southeast Asia. For him, the temple has been his most challenging and toughest model he has ever built, but it has also been the most satisfying build he has ever done. It took him 3.5 months to build this replica from the idea phase to planning, detail scaling, bricks and color selection, and actual building.

The most challenging part of building the temple was determining the scale of the model. He spent almost 2-3 weeks just thinking about how he should scale the model.

Due to the unique design and location of the temple, he had to make sure the scaling was right not only on the temple building, but also on the landscaping where the temple is located. It wasn’t affordable to build the model in minifigure scale as it was too large and Wing didn’t have enough bricks to complete it, so he considered building in microscale. However, if he built the temple in microscale, the end product might end up being too small and not something he was looking for. After some thought,

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

Qty Part Color Description 2 56902.dat Light Bluish Grey Wheel Rim 8 x 18 with Deep Centre Groove and Peghole 4 30027d.dat Light Bluish Grey Wheel Rim 8 x 8 Notched Hole, One Slot, Recessed Cross, for Wheel Holding Pin 1 2432.dat Light Bluish Grey Tile 1 x 2 with Handle 2 4600.dat Light Bluish Grey Plate 2 x 2 with Wheel Holders 1 3022.dat Light Bluish Grey Plate 2 x 2 1 3023.dat Light Bluish Grey Plate 1 x 2 2 2458.dat Light Bluish Grey Brick 1 x 2 with Pin 1 99781.dat Light Bluish Grey Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Down 2 60592.dat Black Window 1 x 2 x 2 without Sill 4 4070.dat Black Brick 1 x 1 with Headlight 1 3020.dat Green Plate 2 x 4 1 3023.dat Green Plate 1 x 2 1 3004.dat Green Brick 1 x 2 2 54200.dat Pearl Gold Slope Brick 31 1 x 1 x 0.667 5 6141.dat Pearl Gold Plate 1 x 1 Round 1 59900.dat Pearl Gold Cone 1 x 1 with Stop 3 3068b.dat Red Tile 2 x 2 with Groove 1 3069b.dat Red Tile 1 x 2 with Groove 4 11477.dat Red Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 1 4032b.dat Red Plate 2 x 2 Round with Axlehole Type 2 1 6141.dat Red Plate 1 x 1 Round 2 6143.dat Red Brick 2 x 2 Round Type 2 1 3034.dat White Plate 2 x 8 1 3020.dat White Plate 2 x 4 5 3022.dat White Plate 2 x 2 3 2540.dat White Plate 1 x 2 with Handle 2 32028.dat White Plate 1 x 2 with Door Rail 1 3023.dat White Plate 1 x 2 1 6266.dat White Minifig Skeleton Leg 1 4740.dat White Dish 2 x 2 Inverted 1 99207.dat White Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 2 Up

You Can Build It Holiday Build

Holiday Train Design by Wing Yew Instructions by Joe Meno

Here’s a Christmas model you can make for yourself, from Wing Yew. With only a handful of parts, he made a Christmas locomotive that fits in the palm of your hand. Have fun building!

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Building

Koen Zwanenburg:

From Holidays to History!

Article and Photography by Koen Zwanenburg

Do you want to build a snowman? Koen did!

Koen Zwanenburg, a builder from the Netherlands, has been a lifelong builder. As a kid, he played a lot with LEGO bricks, especially with castle- and pirate-themed sets. He rediscovered LEGO about ten years ago when he wanted to have a model of a ship on top of his bookcase. At the time, he found a LEGO set of Queen Anne’s Revenge (from Pirates of the Caribbean) and started building. He was surprised to see all the new shapes and colors that LEGO made. Enthusiastically, he soon purchased the other Pirates of the Caribbean sets and a pile of second-hand LEGO. That’s when he stated building his own creations. His first big creation was another aged ship for his bookcase. Apart from building his own creations, he also buys sets from time to time. He especially likes the Harry Potter and Star Wars themes nowadays.

Every year, Koen tries to build a Christmas MOC ranging from a gingerbread house to a toy soldier or snowman.

For the last two years, The LEGO Group has been running a campaign called BuildtoGive in which the company donates sets to children in hospitals. Every Christmas MOC posted online with the hashtag #BuildToGive results in a donated set. This gives Koen evermore reason to continue to build Christmas MOCs. Koen’s best known Christmas builds are of a gingerbread house and a train. The house got 10,000 supports on LEGO Ideas and the train won first place in a train building competition on LEGO Rebrick (a LEGO website that was merged with LEGO Ideas). Both builds we also displayed in the Masterpiece Gallery in the LEGO House and were shown as part of its Christmas exhibitions.

Previous Page: Koen’s gingerbread house.

Some of Koen’s cuddly toys.

The award-winning Gingerbread Train.

Building

Victor Leparc:

Building Towers, Manors and More!

Article and Renders by Victor Leparc Views of the Hollywood Tower, the ride building for Disney’s Tower of Terror attraction.

Sometimes building a model can become a daunting challenge. Making a place or building in minifigure scale can be nearly impossible to do because of size or expense.

Reducing the scale may decrease price and part count, but presents new problems. Digital building has been around for a decade or so, and with it has come a new group of LEGO builders. One of those builders is Victor Leparc, who has done a variety of large-scale LEGO landscapes.

Victor is a builder that has been building for almost 22 years, which is pretty much all of his life—he’s only 25.

He’s also a law student preparing for his Law School entry examination. While he has been building since childhood, he lost interest in playable sets. He wanted his passion for LEGO to become more challenging. He didn’t want just to build what someone else designed before anymore; he wanted to be the designer. He also liked to create things that could be displayed with a lot of detail.

Victor builds what comes to his mind, so he really doesn’t have a favorite theme—unless one calls micro-dioramas a theme. If he suddenly has an idea that he thinks can be turned into a LEGO creation, he just jumps into building.

Inspiration comes from all the things Victor likes and that have influenced his life. He is a man of many passions, having lived his life through them: music, history, video games, trips, the United States, Disney parks. All are good themes to pick ideas from.

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Building

Kang Jun Lee:

Bird Builder

Article by Joe Meno Photography by Kang Jun Lee Kang Jun Lee is a 20-year-old LEGO fan that has been building since 2016.

It was then that he made his first appearance at a LEGO exhibition and got out of his Dark Age he had been in for four years. Before then, he built and played with the bricks, since, as he says in an online chat with BrickJournal, “I was too young.” Now, his favorite hobby is building.

During his Dark Age, Kang was feeding another interest: raising a bird. His love of nature and birds became part of his building and his favorite building subjects. He reflects: “There’s nothing more beautiful than making nature out of LEGO.” Kang turned to building birds when he noticed that he had rarely seen real birds built out of LEGO. Being a person who likes to build original models, he built two birds: a peacock and an eagle. Kang has built other models of a variety of subjects and themes, but it’s when he builds birds that his skills take flight.

Building the birds was a challenge, as both models had two assemblies: the body and the base. The body was built first, and the base had to be built to support and secure the body.

Making both assemblies stable took many redesigns, and Kang built and rebuilt them many times.

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

AT-X-Mas Body

Qty Color Part 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 60476.dat

Description Brick 1 x 1 with Clip Horizontal (Thick C-Clip) 3 Light-Bluish-Gray 3004.dat Brick 1 x 2 1 Dark-Bluish-Gray 3004.dat Brick 1 x 2 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 3622.dat Brick 1 x 3 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 3010.dat Brick 1 x 4 4 Light-Bluish-Gray 4740.dat Dish 2 x 2 Inverted 8 Light-Bluish-Gray 63868.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Clip Horizontal on End (Thick C-Clip) 4 Dark-Bluish-Gray 2540.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handle 12 Light-Bluish-Gray 60478.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handle on End 4 Dark-Bluish-Gray 18674.dat Plate 2 x 2 Round with 1 Centre Stud 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 3021.dat Plate 2 x 3 2 Light-Bluish-Gray 11212.dat Plate 3 x 3 6 Light-Bluish-Gray 4286.dat Slope Brick 33 3 x 1 2 Dark-Bluish-Gray 3665.dat Slope Brick 45 2 x 1 Inverted 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 3038.dat Slope Brick 45 2 x 3 3 Light-Bluish-Gray 60481.dat Slope Brick 65 2 x 1 x 2 4 Light-Bluish-Gray 3678b.dat Slope Brick 65 2 x 2 x 2 with Centre Tube 4 Dark-Bluish-Gray 2555.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Clip

Imperial AT-XMas Transport Design and Instructions

by Christopher Deck Hello everyone, and welcome to our holiday building session! Let me take this as an opportunity for saying thank you to all of you for going through so many building sessions with me so far! I hope you have enjoyed the many models we already built together and will stay tuned for more in the future! Another big thank you to our chief editor Joe Meno for giving us this wonderful platform for our building sessions. It’s an honor to share my building ideas and techniques with all of you!

So here’s the Empire’s latest addition to the All-Terrain Transport series: The AT-X-Mas Transport, usually employed on cold ice worlds to lead Imperial convoys through severe snow storms. After the holidays, you may simply remove the antlers (they only sit on a jumper plate) and the red nose (including the jumper plate, then replace it with a 1x2 trans-red grille tile) to obtain the standard Imperial AT-AT. Happy holidays to you and your family! Have a good time, stay safe, and see you next year!

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AT-X-Mas Head

Qty Color Part 2 White 87695.dat 2 Light-Bluish-Gray 36841.dat 2 Light-Bluish-Gray 4070.dat 2 Dark-Bluish-Gray 30162.dat

Description Animal Cattlehorns Bracket 1 x 1 - 1 x 1 Down Brick 1 x 1 with Headlight Minifig Binoculars with Round Eyepiece 4 White 53451.dat Minifig Helmet Viking Horn 2 White 53989.dat Minifig Mechanical Arm with Clip and Rod Hole 2 Light-Bluish-Gray 3794b.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 2540.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handle 1 White 2540.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handle 1 Dark-Bluish-Gray 3839b.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handles Type 2 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 3660.dat Slope Brick 45 2 x 2 Inverted 1 Light-Bluish-Gray 30602.dat Slope Brick Curved Top 2 x 2 x 1 1 Red 32474.dat Technic Ball Joint with Axlehole Blind

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Minifig Customization 101:

Dadadadadadada dadadadadada dadadada SANTA BAT! Article and Photography by Jared Burks

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Hopefully the title has the correct theme song running through everyone’s head now. If not, merely reflect back on Adam West’s Batman TV show and replace the last bit, and let’s create some Christmas in July (the month I’m writing this). During this Christmas season the naughty list doesn’t merely get a lump of coal in the stockings, they may get a lump or two added to the top of their head from Santa Bat and Elf Robin. Perhaps the Santa Bat may be the most feared Krampus of all times. Naughty list beware!

There have been many reasons pointed out that Batman may in fact be Santa Claus. For starters, what does Santa Claus do the other 364 nights of the year? Has anyone ever seen Batman and Santa Claus together? How is it possible to track a naughty list of 7 billion people? It would require the skills of a master detective using the best super computer on the planet. Who, other than Bruce Wayne, would have these resources available? Speaking of resources, Christmas presents cost money. There aren’t sweatshops full of elves building all those presents. Wayne Enterprises really needs the annual tax write-offs and purchases them. Clearly Batman likes disguises and a Santa Suit is merely another disguise. Also, how on earth does Santa circumnavigate the globe so quickly without

Bantha Bricks Files:

Mirko Soppelsa’s

Bantha Bricks Files

K2-SO

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Article by Steven Smyth, Bantha Bricks: Fans of LEGO Star Wars Photography by Mirko Soppelsa

What are your favorite design elements you created for the build?

I am very proud of how the head and the connection between the pelvis and the torso came. For these elements I worked a lot on them and I made many versions before finding the right balance. Another element that required a lot of energy were the hands, as I wanted to reach and at the same time have tapered and elegant fingers.

Did you freestyle build this or did you use a computer design program to lay it out first?

My construction and design method is related to “old school”. I start to design my MOCs by building the prototypes with the bricks I have at home. I have more than a million bricks, and do not worry about the colors I use. This is the way I build my prototypes and I can evaluate the build if the techniques adopted are the best for the project. I evaluate interlocking, tightness of the structure and proportions. Finally, once the “beta” version of the MOC has been created and built, I use software that I need to reconstruct the model virtually, useful for creating the list of pieces and instructions.

A lower view of the back, showing the waist and hip joints of the droid.

Were there any moments in this build where you felt like, aww man, I’m stuck! If so, how did you overcome that obstacle?

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by FORMAT! ISSUE INlike PRINT ORstruck DIGITAL lightning! Within a month I usually design and complete the MOC. This is where the critical phases will arise, but also the most stimulating ones. I work mainly in the evening and when I go to sleep my brain starts thinking and reviewing the techniques used. I rework the project and think of alternative solutions. The next day I dedicate myself to modification or improvement and I must say that it is true: “The night brings good advice.”

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