Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide, 2nd Edition by Allan Bedford -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide, 2nd Edition WHAT THE LEGO® COMMUNITY IS SAYING ABOUT THE UNOFFICIAL LEGO® BUILDER’S GUIDE Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The LEGO System: Endless Possibilities

A Brick Vocabulary

Sizing Up the Elements The Stud The Tube The Brick

Using Various Brick Sizes

The Plate

Using Various Plate Sizes

The Slope Specialized Elements Arch Pieces Tiles and Panels Cylinders and Cones Cylinder Plates Baseplates Decorative Elements

Precision, Geometry, and Color

Why Precision Manufacturing Matters Fun with LEGO Geometry The Colors For the Color Challenged

Review: The LEGO System

2. Back to Basics: Tips and Techniques

Decisions, Decisions: The Best Ways to Connect Bricks

Stacking Overlapping Staggering

Building Walls

Connecting Walls Straight Bricks Can Make Round Walls

Bracing: Unseen but Not Forgotten

Bracing = Beams + Columns Beams

How Not to Build a Beam The Right Way to Build a Beam

Columns

The Simple Post The Compound Post The Chimney Pattern The Keyhole Pattern The Hybrid Column

How to Separate Pieces Review: Basic Building Principles

1. Build big but think small. 2. Pick the right bond pattern.

3. Minifig Scale: Oh, What a Wonderful Minifig World It Is!

Scale: It’s All Relative Creating a Minifig-Scale Building

Building Two Versions of the Train Station Bill of Materials: The Parts You’ll Need to Make This Model Step by Step: Train Station Construction Details

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11

Submodel: The Train Station Roof

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6

Substitution: When Other Parts Will Do

Substitute Walls Substitute Arches Substitute Windows Substitute Roofs

Review: Building Techniques and Alternatives

4. Miniland Scale: The Whole World in Miniature

Miniland Scale: Bigger but Still Small Creating a Basic Miniland Figure

The Best Bits: Useful Pieces for Miniland Figures A Basic Miniland Figure

Creating Characters with Personality

Heads and Hats Shirts and Skirts Lots of Legs Arms and Accessories On the Run: Making Miniland Figures Come to Life

Miniland Buildings

Building Facades Street Life: A Simple Downtown Scene in Miniland Scale

The People in Your Neighborhood Building the Buildings

Behind the Scenes Propping Up the Facade

Review: Miniland Scale, Big Possibilities

5. Jumbo Elements: Building Bigger Bricks

How to Scale Up

Building the Walls of the Jumbo Brick Other Parts, Same Technique: More Ways to Make Jumbo Bricks

1×2 Plate: Building Instructions for the Jumbo Version 2×2 45-Degree Slope: Building Instructions for the Jumbo Version

Building with Jumbo Bricks

The Best Solutions from the Simplest Plans

Other Scales: Which Ones Work and Why

Approximation

Review: Jumbo Bricks Are Just the Beginning

6. Microscale Building: More Than Meets the Eye

Getting Started: Ignore the Details Translating Ideas into Bricks

Reviewing the Technique

Replacing Full-Size Parts with Microscale Stand-Ins

Microscale Wheels Microscale Windows

Instructions for Building a Microscale House Review: Things to Build in Microscale

7. Sculptures: The Shape of Things to Build

Spheres: Round and Round They Go Dividing the Building Process in Two Sculpting Other Subjects: The Sphinx

Choosing an Identifying Characteristic Building the Head Techniques for Building Special Features

The Nose The Ears The Paws The Headdress

Building the Foundation Last

Review: Sculptures Are in the Eye of the Builder

8. Mosaics: Patterns and Pictures in Bricks

What You Need to Make a Studs-Out Mosaic

Geometric Patterns Creating Photo Mosaics

Print and Trace Pixelating an Image Using a Computer

Designing a Studs-Up Mosaic

Design Grids for Studs-Up Mosaics Mosaics on Edge

Review: Mosaics of All Sizes and Shapes

9. Putting It All Together: Where Ideas Meet Bricks

How to Think Like a Model Designer

Limit Your Scope Pick Your Subject Work from the Bottom Up Let Reality Guide Your Design Decisions

Structural Decisions: Let the Real Thing Tell You How to Build

Look at Your Model from the Side Pick a Scale Color Concerns

Elements of Design

Shape Color Proportion Repetition

Building the Triton Step by Step

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9

Something Wrong? Redesigning Doesn’t Mean You’ve Failed You’re Done. What Now? Review: You’re the Model Designer

10. Beyond Just Bricks: Other Ways to Enjoy the LEGO Hobby

Creating Your Own Building Instructions

Step-by-Step Pictures Computer-Generated Instructions

Fun LEGO Games

LEGO Checkers or Chess Connect-Across

Setting Up to Play Connect-Across The Basic Rules Playing the Game Winning the Game

Review: Enjoying Every Aspect of LEGO

A. Brickopedia

How the Brickopedia Works

B. Design Grids: Building Better by Planning Ahead

Downloading the Grids About the Grids

Design Grid #1 Design Grid #2 Design Grid #3 Design Grid #4

Using the Grids Effectively

Colorize Your Ideas Description and Date for Future Reference Drawing on Design Grid #1 Drawing on Design Grid #2 Drawing on Design Grid #3 Drawing on Design Grid #4

Review: From Grids to Bricks

Index About the Author Colophon C. A Note from the Illustrator D. Updates Copyright

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