Hi everyone, Tiago here, on my birthday, with another round of Tips and Tricks!
Today some LEGO City essentials with a fountain and a bus stop, and for the kids room, a clever bunk bed, which might reminding people of the double-decker couch in The LEGO Movie!
Hi everyone, Tiago here with yet some more Tips and Tricks!
Today we have kitchen equipment, a way to start your playground MOC, and an essential build for all your LEGO Cities roadwork and construction sites!
Hi everyone, Tiago here with more Tips and Tricks.
Today we focus on city and house essentials. As always, making use of LEGO math, and taking some known elements out of context for (hopefully) interesting results
While the LEGO Architecture series has been around since 2008, the Skyline sub-genre only made its first appearance in 2016.
Ever since then LEGO fans around the world have delighted in creating their own MOCs using the distinctive skyline style. You could probably say I’m one of those fans: to date I have created over 40 of my own skylines using Bricklink Stud.io.
Instead of depicting world-famous cities, my skylines mostly portray popular fictional worlds,including “Star Wars,” “The Lord of the Rings,” and “Harry Potter.”
Hi everyone, Tiago here again!
The feedback on Tips and Tricks #1 was overwhelming, thank you! So let's try and learn a few new tricks today.
The following tips showcase cool ways to build detailed furniture, using clever LEGO math and sideways building.
Let's jump right in...
Have you ever wondered how to create the perfect customised minifigure? This article by guest author Zander will show you how:
On the face of it, there’s nothing to MOCing minifigures. Attach a head and some legs to a torso and voila! a minifigure. But creating great minifigures is not, for the most part, about the technical aspects. It’s about the art. And like all art forms, knowing the basics can get you a long way to becoming a master.
When I started MOCing minifigures back in 1993, AFOLdom was not the well established, interconnected community it is today. Each of us was off doing our own thing, so I had to work out for myself what worked, what didn’t and why. Here are a few guidelines and suggestions that I developed over the years, plus learnings I picked up from other AFOLs along the way. I hope they help.
Hello everyone!
My name is Tiago Catarino, a former Creator 3in1 LEGO Designer who still can't get enough of LEGO!
For the last couple of months after I've left Denmark, I've been doing daily building tips on my Youtube channel.
Reading the recent posts What will Brickset do for you, I couldn't help but think that, maybe sharing some of these tips could hopefully teach you some new LEGO tricks, and maybe, inspire larger builds of your own. LEGO as we all know, is an awesome time killer, especially so in this troubled times we're living.
So without further ado, I'll be sharing 3 building tips with you all hoping to inspire you to build something fun today!
For some reason Clikits sets are much derided but many of their parts have the potential to be used with System parts to provide decoration, greebling and even facilitate connections that are otherwise impossible.
While huwbot was busy running the site yesterday I dug my daughters' collection of Clikits parts out of storage and, with the help of Alice and my wife, sorted them out. Having done so I thought I'd have a play and see what they can be used for.
If you're curious, read on...
Wonder Woman first appeared as a BrickHeadz model at San Diego Comic-Con last year but a different version is now more widely available at LEGO store building events in the US.
MeganL attended one such event at her local brand store yesterday and has kindly provided scans of the instructions so we can all build one! You view the instructions in full, as well as a parts list, after the break...
LEGO has published instructions for two new Miniland-scale figures based on Supergirl and Wonder Woman as the characters appear in DC Super Hero Girls.
These were available as in-store builds last month but now everyone has the opportunity to build them as the models do not contain any exclusive pieces.
Large versions of each instruction leaflet are shown after the break...
Writing reviews at Brickset over the last few years has given me great pleasure. For me, part of the journey has been learning how to take better photographic images of my sets. I have researched how to improve the lighting that I use for my photography. As a result, I have found instructions for making an inexpensive light-box.
Maybe you take photographs of your LEGO for placing in reviews, or perhaps you list your LEGO on eBay or similar auction sites and need good quality images to improve your chances of making a sale.
Read on if you would like to see how easy it is to make an inexpensive light-box that will help improve the quality of the images that you take of your LEGO or small models.
LEGO video games often include digital models which inspire builders to try to replicate these designs in reality. Unfortunately this is sometimes not possible as parts are unavailable in certain colours and the physics of real bricks does not always work as it does in the game.
The new LEGO Marvel's Avengers video game includes one such model of the Avengers logo which can be seen on loading screens as shown above. This has sparked a great deal of interest so now seems like the perfect opportunity to publish the first in a new series of articles which has often been requested: building tutorials.
Having studied the logo shown on the loading screens I have recreated the model in physical bricks and you will find a full breakdown of the design after the break...