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Yep I do have graphic design skills but it was not that complex TBH. I used this awesome custom box service that provides the box blueprint, the images were rendered in the awesome Stud.io and the rest of the graphics comes from the wedding stationery me and my wife designed + standard Lego boxes references. It was really fun to put everything together 😁

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Okidoke, here's a video showing it a little better. Does that help at all?

Edit: I am uploading full instructions. So hold this thought!

Double edit: Okay, here we go! I've put it on Gumroad, so you can either download free or if you think you learnt something you can throw me a dollar. Did not expect this model to blow up, the response has been amazing, so thanks to all for the kind words.

It is laying out all of the parts in an organized fashion. Here is an interesting article about it. What is Knolling?

Hi everyone, im back with another release for one of my favorite (and apparently yours as well) military MOC's!

here are some details on the model itself:

• Made from over 777 Genuine LEGO bricks
• Sliding doors
• Working rotors
• Detailed landing gear
• Room for 5+ Minifigures inside the helicopter
• Realistic engines and vehicle details accurate to the real aircraft

You can purchase either the complete unassembled model consisting of brand new authentic Lego bricks, or download the instructions for Lego Digital Designer at my Etsy shop via the following link:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BrickSharkCustoms

Check out my Flickr album for additional pictures. This is the second build for my city named "Edervisk." An album for the first build can be found here. Enjoy!

u/poxenham has already addressed this, but I'll give a slightly more detailed response.

I build in LDD and use Mecabricks (specifically, the Mecabricks Advanced addon) to produce LEGO Movie grade renderings via Blender 2.9. Mecabricks offers a free "Lite" version of their addon which you can use to experiment for yourself, if you wish (it has all the same basic functionality, sans imperfection functions like dust/fingerprints/scratches/etc).

He built it with Lego Digital Designer, a software dedicated to Lego building. He then exported the model to Blender, a 3D rendering software.

This is my 14th custom modular Lego building, a moderately-upscale clothing boutique. While the furnishings are modern, the front facade was directly inspired from playing the opening scene of Bioshock: Burial at Sea Part 2. A few hours after I finished the game, I started building this. You can see more pictures and some description in my Flickr set. Thanks for taking a look!

Sure! Here's a link to the program download. Bricklink is a non-official Lego source where you can buy new or used parts from all over the world, or even entire sets and minifigs. Stud.io is a program used to model Lego digitally, and although slightly limited, is very powerful and can be used to make nearly anything you would IRL (with some practice and patience). The cool thing is Stud.io is made by Bricklink, so it has up-to-date prices in-program for all parts in all available colors, with the ease to send your digital build straight to their website to order the parts to build your creation. But wait, there's more! It also has a photo-realistic rendering program packaged with it, so you can truly visualize your creation, and now an instruction editor/creator, so you can print off your instructions or prepare them for others to use if you decide to sell your set's build.

If you're a fan of this project, feel free to "favorite" on Flickr or "appreciate" on Behance

Here's the real life model: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wesleyhiggins/4838392200/in/set-72157643407282493 I saw one near my parents house back 15 years ago when a tornado took out their substation. This rolled in, Alabama Power hooked up transmission lines and feed the area for the next several weeks while they rebuilt the substation

Now that she's seen what it's fetching on eBay (the set is 100% complete, with box & instructions), she insists on selling it & using half the money for getting sets for our son (he's 4 years old), and the other half for, if you can believe it, food.

Pfft. Food.

The design features Jedha City (with hovering Star Destroyer), an ancient fallen Jedi statue, and the Caverns of Caldera (Saw Gerrera's hideout).

Instructions to some of my builds can be found <strong>here</strong>, and you can follow me on Instagram <strong>@BenBuildsLego</strong> if you'd like.

This is really amazing. Great color, really wonderful greeble (as in your previous Edervisk build), and a lot of genius whimsy in constructing the scene. It's such a rich build, it would probably take more than an hour just to appreciate most of it. I'm so glad to see the update, especially after admiring so much about it during an earlier post you did here while it was under construction. Congratulations!

Can I ask some really elementary questions?

(1) Where did the name "Edervisk" come from?

(2) Did you have to tear down your previous build, the Edervisk Mill and Tavern, to have enough pieces for this build?

(3) The curtains outside the windows of the royal house: are they red capes?

(4) The guy with the rope and hammer outside the wall: is he repairing the masonry? Such a clever idea.

(5) Finally -- and I guess this is a question anybody who builds castle MOCs could answer -- where did you get most of your pieces? From sets that you already had, from sets that you bought for the purpose of building this MOC, from bulk purchases through Bricklink or Lego.com, from visits to Lego Store locations, or somewhere else?

Bricklink has Stud.io and the official Lego LDD can still be downloaded

Stud.io has the benefit of being able to find sellers for the parts you need to create the build, although it's a new(ish) feature that I haven't tested yet to see how good it is

Wall-E Qualifies also. Only available online. Total after discount needs to be $25.00 or above for free shipping.

this link will list all eligible items and it is sorted from high to low price, but you can sort it as you wish. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/30-off-any-one-toy-game-item/building-lego/lego/_/N-2ktoZ2fpy?Nrpp=40&amp;Ns=P_Sale_Price%7C1&amp;page=1

Here is mine. I hope you like it.

I designed it and provided the pieces. My wife refined the design. Her aunt made it happen.

Here is the list of parts I used to make this set: Google docs. The part numbers and colors are according to Bricklink. The only custom parts I made were the orange plumes, which I painted from white, and the number tiles, 3:1 ports, and the red die, which I added the patterns to the Lego pieces with waterslide decals.

I don't have instructions formally made out, but it is something I am working on. I made all the models in MLCAD first, so the steps are mostly in there, but it will take time to make them into a sensible format.

The weight of a standard Lego brick (4 knobs length-wise, two knobs width-wise) is 2.5 grams, which equals 0.088184 ounces.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_weight_of_a_Lego_brick

20 lbs = 320 oz = 9,072 grams / 2.5 = 3,629 bricks (4x2s)

that is 29,032 bumps (I assume these are flat not tall bricks)

so that is about 24 bricks for $1. seems like a reasonable deal to me

I ran it through a font ID site. This link might work to see the results: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator?token=7c22lnghyjwcscz2

Most similar to my eye:

• Exo Soft Bold
• Core Sans M 65 Bold
• Galapogos BRK Normal

>I know these are not exact large-scale versions of the pieces on which they're based. I just eyeballed em.

Wouldn't it be possible to use 3D models from LDraw? Supposedly this is the direct link to the dat file of the leaves part: http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/parts/2423.dat

3d view on Bricklink: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=2423&amp;tab=V

Oh my god. LeoCad? you poor soul. Just download Stud.io and never look back.

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Funny you post this, I was planning on doing the same exact thing. I have a shelf that I think it will look nice on but would like to put it on a rotating base of some sort. A quick search on Amazon brought this up which could work, the specs say the castle is 17" wide and this is 18"

https://www.amazon.com/Lipper-International-18-Inch-Kitchen-Storage/dp/B008DCH9A6

I've found that the ldd instructions aren't useful when creating larger models as there's no control over the steps. The defualt seems to like putting parts in think air and then building up to them, or building around a part and then putting it in a way that is not physically possible in brick.

I'very had some success with building in ldd then opening in stud.io and arranging the build into steps or sub-modelS, saving and opening the file in a program called LPUB3D https://sourceforge.net/projects/lpub3d/ which can then generate a usable pdf.

Of course this can be a bit labor intensive and is quite time consuming if you have a slower than average pc so YMMV :D

There's actually a pretty active community of WW2 LEGO builders. For more check out Operation Bricklord or one of the many flickr groups.

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It's the second option. Some of the more famous sets from the Ideas line are the Saturn V 21309, the Old Fishing Store 21310, and recently Voltron 21311.

I'm not entirely sure of the details, but the general gist is that a user will submit an idea, either using real bricks or using a digital set, and the community will vote on whether or not they want to see the idea become an official set. If the idea reaches a certain number of votes, Lego then officially decides whether or not it becomes an official set for sale.

The digital program used to design a lot of the sets you see is either Lego's own official (but now unsupported) Lego Digital Designer, or Bricklink's (a fan site) stud.io.

PEDRO, one of my most favorite LEGO customizers (he hand-paints all of his minifigs) has some really nice techniques for achieving a worn/dirty effect. He also shares some tutorials. Check his gallery here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/48907904@N06/

I modeled and rendered it in fusion 360. I didn’t have a lego brick with me, so I struggled to find measurements and technical drawings of it on the web. If anyone could link me to good technical drawings of lego I would be grateful. I couldn’t find any vector drawings of the text used on the block studs so I traced it in illustrator. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask Fusion file: https://a360.co/2yVyhuW Lego logo used on bricks svg: https://files.fm/u/8ngummpp Edit: fixed link thanks u/acklavidian

Fabuland!

And their steampunk-before-steampunk-was-cool theme, Time Twisters

Before we jump on the circle-jerk train, the notion that holes in the minifigure head was to prevent choking stems to a Gizmodo article. Keep in mind that the author's question is "Why is there a whole [sic] in the head of the mini-figs now?" Also, the article is not a transcribed interview with a Lego representative, but rather what the author remembers being said during a tour.

Here is a response article to the question. I think it's a bit outrageous to believe that the holes were an anti-choking precaution. Rather, I think it's more likely that head holes help facilitate head removal. Try removing a head from each style, see the difference.

The change was indeed likely made to cut costs. Most of the heads without holes I have are from licensed minifigures (including every LoTR but Elrond so far). Also, heads without holes look better for heads not intended to have hair/hat pieces.

What I think is more concerning is that the yellow used on new minifigures looks to be more lemon-lime than the sunflower yellow of the 1990s.

Also, I really like to see how other people organize their LEGO, so I have created some galleries on flickr compiling the systems I liked the best. You can see them here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/akunthita/galleries/72157640849847324/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/akunthita/galleries/72157625185890950/

Gotchu fam

Take a look at the burger and drink shop middle of the picture. Exactly what you made.

Edit: Here's the fry shop

I don't know the search function of LDD, but you might want to give stud.io a shot. I am able to find (most) parts very quickly. It's beeing developed development and has some nice features and a clean and modern interface.

https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/studio.page

Stud.io This one was created by Bricklink, and connects directly to their website. Since Bricklink was bought out by Lego, this is as close to an up-to-date 'official' app as we have.

Some people still use Lego Digital Designer, but support for it ended a couple years ago.

If I recall correctly, the plastic brick design patent has expired, which is why companies like Mega Bloks are able to use similarly designed bricks in their products.

On their wiki page, it seems like LEGO has come down hard on knockoff brand Enlighten in Finland, but with other countries where enforcement of IP isn't important, I doubt they could do much.

Walmart is your best bet by far in my opinion (Use brickseek.com). That's how I get a majority of my sets, almost always 50% off

Bookmark this link (https://slickdeals.net/newsearch.php?forumchoice%5B%5D=4&amp;forumchoice%5B%5D=9&amp;forumchoice%5B%5D=10&amp;forumchoice%5B%5D=13&amp;forumchoice%5B%5D=25&amp;forumchoice%5B%5D=30&amp;forumchoice%5B%5D=38&amp;forumchoice%5B%5D=39&amp;forumchoice%...)

Every day when you get online, click on that and see if there is anything special, it's usually amazon or other online options. But I've gotten quite a few really good deals off of there

Kinda, but not really. There are Movie Maker sets for The Lego Movie 2 where you use an app on your phone to take shots and make a stop motion film. But the app doesn't have a ton of features, and it (obviously) requires you to leave your phone mounted/sitting somewhere during the entire time you're shooting the stop motion film.

I totally get why they'd use an app instead of creating a new camera, but it comes with some drawbacks. I'd personally like to see a Lego-themed stop motion software for Windows/Mac that is easy enough for kids to use and can be used with any usb webcam. but with mobile phones and tablets as ubiquitous as they are, I doubt we'll ever see that.

It's on phones now, and totally worth getting again.

Edit: Links below

iOS App Android App

Sure thing. Halo 1 Pelican: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DfnViEJVEOM2Fyc2dmeHgzTnc/edit?usp=sharing

Halo 4 Pelican: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4DfnViEJVEOYzZveEpKR2Rsckk/edit?usp=sharing

Edit: was in a hurry and forgot to mention they are LDD files

I just read an article. He said it's not up yet but hopefully will be soon. &quot;Hopefully it will be approved in the next few days and we can all start supporting it.&quot;

My nephew builds sets with me and gets really excited about doing the stickers. I always have to tell him I don't put stickers on mine and he gets REALLY bummed out.

What is it with kids and stickers!?!

EDIT: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-children-love-stickers

Looks good. It's a cool model. The doors for the original model are unique to that set, so they're very rare. Some other parts are also rare, if I remember correctly, although I don't recall which. Also, this set is the largest model produced before the year 2000. Here's mine.

I couldn't tell any specific model. I just asked for the smallest mounting leds (without legs) available, which were these, for about 80 USD cents each

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNg1EXSYGRoCEqRnBH9D_ljWhBz9fHCL4QVEcefNzB_WCcNlDBRaup4sMQ0vnGagg?key=bHBhVjlualBpZUI5VFlGWGN2MGdFdzRRU3R3X3RB

The only color available was white and they were too bright for this, so I removed the capsule and applied a layer of black oil ink (permanent sharpie) and then a blue one. I don't think you're supposed to do that, but so far they are working great.

Good luck with your own mod! I hope we get to see it

I used blender, which is a 3d animation and modeling software (it's free and open source too!): https://www.blender.org/

I got the 3d model from leocad, and then in blender I created the material (=setting how reflective the plastic is for example), set up the lighting (=to have proper shadows), did what is called tracking to have the 3d model "fixed" in the scene even when the camera is moving and finally I did the animation.

https://mecabricks.com/en/models/N02gWlMW2LD

There you go! If you haven't used Mecabricks before, just click that link and hit "editor" at the top to enter the build mode, or scroll down for an "Inventory" tab. You're gonna run into some problems doing this in dark green, such as the quarter circle tiles and 2 x 2 wedge plates, but I'd very much look forward to seeing what you come up with! And you can always message me here or on flickr if you have problems or questions.

edit: Also, almost all of this should be available (in the color scheme I used) through Bricks and Pieces. I think I found everything except for the blue wheel arches, red 1 x 2 bricks, hubcaps, the larger size of tire, and the white 2 x 4 tile there when I ordered mine.

No instructions per se but you can take it apart in Sketchup (.skp) no problemo. I've thrown in the Brickstore inventory (.bsx) too.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4igVfbj0kJNcVlvYW16X1lZWlU&amp;usp=sharing

You'll need Sketchup for the model, and Brickstore for the inventory, both are free.

I got mine after xmas last year for $4. You can probably get them at Michaels or Walmart. Also found them on Amazon

Department 56 Accessories for Department 56 Village Collections String Of Flashing Led Lights

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EPLQOO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_Ns7vwbD5DWQRD

ok, ask and reddit shall receive, i've updated the listing with some more sizes including the huge one shown on my table top.... https://www.etsy.com/listing/170861330/lego-pirate-vinyl-cut-sticker-and-wall

here u go, as a noob in the reddit world, i wasn't sure how agro people get over shit like this, more than sell a few stickers i just wanted to show of our killer lego set up. as i told mookiwook, i have been thinking of adding some bigger sizes to the pirate sticker as well as a wall art version. maybe i'll get that up tonight or tomorrow. anyway here's our store, it's mostly HP stuff, but my wife has some cool lego hoop art too... https://www.etsy.com/shop/Clankwerks

As far as I know, there are no instructions to build a custom zergling. You would pretty much have to design it and build it your self. You can order pieces from bricklink.

If you have the money you could always try to get Lego builder Mike Nieves to commission a Zergling for you as he has done them in the past. Though be warned, something like that is probably several hundred dollars.

To hell with what people think. I'm 32 and currently doing a photo project, I'm out taking photos of a Lego dude every week in public, people love it.

Shameless plug for my photo project if interested. https://www.instagram.com/rustla/

For anyone else interested, we have two other topics from two other links going on.

Not picking on you, submitter - just letting you know this already popped up 5 and 7 hours ago. Thanks for the link!

Ah, yes, but they broke all of their philosophies when they started making movie sets. Lego people were yellow so they could be any race or ethnicity. When they made movie sets they starting giving lego people race, and since Hollywood usually casts the angry and violent characters as non-white roles the majority of the brown lego people are angry and scowling. http://gizmodo.com/5633208/hollywoods-racism-exposed-by-lego

Forgot to post this when I had it done... Oops! A couple more links to associated images:

• UCS Plaque

• 360 degree render

Was going to say.

Cross-post this as an ask to /r/3dprinting

Combine this separator STL model with this opener STL model and...

My wife spotted this at costco for roughly the same price. Just checked, and it's on their website, too: LEGO City Police Station 60047

Not that I blame you for opening it, I opened mine years ago... but if you hadn't, you could have sold it for $400, if not more... http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-NEW-MISB-LEGO-6769-WESTERN-FORT-LEGOREDO-1996-/160559744851?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item25621b4753#ht_500wt_1180

To understand why that didn't happen, you have to understand Guiness' new business model.

Guinness now creates new categories (for a fee) so that companies can market stuff. There was probably no contender in this category prior to this event, and some cruise line paid for the category to be created and advertised. Average Joe's can still set records, but they have to be in existing categories.

NPR's Planet Money did an episode about this.

Anyway, now that the record category exists, you could probably do exactly what you described.

Thank you! You can see all of my buildings in this Flickr collection, and all of my photo sets (buildings + vehicles &amp; minifigs) here.

I'm afraid I don't have much of a process: I typically have an idea in my head of how the facade will look, and then just start building, editing and making it up on the way. There are a few basics: to connect with the official modular buildings, you place the two-stud technic pieces nine studs from the edge of the baseplate, and leave 10 studs between them. That way your building will align with the existing ones. Beyond that, I'm just making it up :).

Did it SELL for $550 or was that an active auction?

Because this is what it sells for: http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?LH_Complete=1&amp;_trkparms=65%253A13%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1&amp;rt=nc&amp;_nkw=lego+millennium+falcon+10179&amp;_sticky=1&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&amp;_sop=15&amp;_sc=1

Went to Wal-Mart this weekend and built a new shelf to display my LEGO sets. The shelf can be found here.

I linked to a video showing the mechanism a little better up top. I don't have time just yet to do much more right now, but if there's demand I'm sure I can get back to this soon.

Edit: plans.

This animation is generated using the new animation render mode of Bricklink Studio 2.0.1_65.

https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/studio.page

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The effects I used are 'building sequence - user defined' and 'revolve'.

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Some settings did not work for complex scenes. For example, when I chose 'building sequence - auto generated' and/or 'brick falling down effect', a progress dialog was popped up but blocked indefinitely.

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The generated video is not encoded in H.264 so that I have to convert it before uploading to YouTube.

Where have you read that? it says on their webpage:

>SmugMug has acquired Flickr. If you use our products today, rest easy, they aren't going anywhere.The future is bright, but we'll only get there together.Let's do this.

It might be true, I don't know. I just haven't read anything about it

Use LEGO digital designer (free download) in extended mode. You’ll have access to a lot of pieces in all the colors. Then position the figure, and take a screenshot. The website says they don’t support it anymore, but download still works and it’s easier to use than the other software available.

Link to digital designer: https://www.lego.com/en-us/ldd

It seems that your comment contains 1 or more links that are hard to tap for mobile users. I will extend those so they're easier for our sausage fingers to click!

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "LDD"

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Yeah, you are better off making your own. If you love chess, you will love This guys flickr. He has made incredible Star Wars Chess sets. I recommend checking out the different ones he has posted.

Ladies & Gentlemen, this Flickr group may be of considerable interest to some of you wishing to check out the alternative builds featured on Lego boxes throughout the ages.

Enjoy.

All the lego pieces needed are here with instructional pictures on how to build it. http://www.instructables.com/id/Lego-Portal-Turret/ All pieces can be found on www.Bricklink.com If i have some time I might be able to find all the pieces needed and link them, or I'm sure other lego fanatics can help/

https://www.mediafire.com/?3r312d45hh8a4ys

Once you collect all of the instruction manuals in Bricksburg, you get to build Bob's Kabob Stand. Thanks to the way the game allows models like this to be built, careful analysis reveals the exact way the parts are laid out. However, I did make one or two changes for more stability (also not entirely sure if all of the parts are available in real life). Stickers from the set should be able to be used on this to make it movie-accurate.

EDIT: Link updated, made minor change to backside to make it more movie accurate, see image below.

Honestbleeps is going to fix this in the next version. Also, I happen to use this extension and turn off the inline viewer in RES since this one's much better and works anywhere on the internet. I know other browsers have their own similar extensions, I'd try looking them up and see if they work out for you.

Rebrickable and myBrickset. I use brickset to scan Barcode or look up sets, and keep track of what sets I have/want. Between brickset, rebrickable, and amazon, I've got an app for just about everything in terms of inventory and price checking.

Brickset app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.otissoft.mybrickset

You're right, I confused it with pricing out the SSD (10221) which I did at the same time. Got the price on that one to $457.92.

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A65D84200494DCB2!9566&amp;authkey=!AMevuY-lgbX6XXI&amp;ithint=file%2cbsx

A little bit of everything. These are in my office at work.

Office LEGO

So, I took this down. Imgur's albums are weird. You can't add to them without removing them completely. Public, published albums are locked.

So, if anyone still wants to see them, I've put them on Google photos. Hopefully you can see them all and I can keep adding without problems. There's just no fun upvoting or faving or discussion around them.

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Sorry for this long link, but reddit removes ULR shorteners.

Album

Also, feel free to join it. I try to add new ones every couple days.

Through October 11 you can save 30% on any single qualifying Lego purchase from http://barnesandnoble.com. Anything still over $25 after discount is free shipping.

I had a very frustrating experience trying to pick out a set yesterday and chose to buy nothing. Maybe you'll have better luck :)

Best route I found was to go through their sale banner, click on a toy that qualified, and click on the tag below the featured image to see ALL qualifying toys. Then I filtered to "Building and Lego" and finally just to "Lego". I'd share a direct link with you, but that flopped on me yesterday, too.

Some notable inclusions: Wall-E, the RV set that has been mentioned already, the Maze set from JK Brickworks design, and a bunch of other creator and Star Wars sets.

Good hunting!

Update: here's a direct link to the filtered results: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/30-off-any-one-toy-game-item/building-lego/lego/_/N-2ktoZ2fpy?Ns=P_Display_Name%7C1&amp;showMoreIds=10008

Thank you! Got the lights from amazon: LED Schrankbeleuchtung, 20 LED Sensor Licht mit Bewegungsmelder, USB-Wiederaufladbar Unterbauleuchte Küche mit Fernbedienung, kabellos, für Treppen, Kleiderschrank, Küche, Flur (5 Stück) https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08VHYLM24/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_C6PQ3S3H63YV6BXRVY7G?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

If you've got a costco membership, get the 12 pack for $40.

i would love to have the Breaking Bad superlab. someone actually put one together a la cart--complete with walt & jesse in hazmat gear (their faces are pretty spot on), gus with some chicken, and tyrus(?); the pictures made their rounds on reddit not that long ago

edit: found it via gizmodo, though i think it's lacking some of the pictures from the original post...

The collage is missing Lloyd (the Green Ninja), the Kendo outfits and alternate Rebooted outfits for Zane. I will make a complete collage at a later date (when I own all the minifigs).

Also check out this page if you want to view larger versions.

I built Velma Staplebot's mech ( https://imgur.com/a/8bLel ) mostly with the yellow mixels. Also the new Chima Legends beast sets have a nice selection of parts as well as a good amount of the new ball and sockets. The new Hero Factory sets feature awesome cockpits if you want to go a little bit bigger in scale.

ok here is the LXF file for LDD, I think I got almost everything correct, neat little trick with the flash to change your stud orientation! I still don't know which wheel and tire belong on the lens, any input would be appreciated!

http://www.filedropper.com/cameraincomplete

*The lens has an extra piece too I think near the camera body, and the flash had to be exploded because one of the connections doesn't work in LDD

i use the LDraw suite. MLCad for modelling and LPub for the instructions. Here's a tutorial, it would be nice to see other people use the software :)

Yes with LDraw you can create logical instructions. Take a look at my submissions, you can find many i created.

I use MLCad to create models, which is part of the LDraw suite. When you create a model you insert pieces and then when you want you add a "step" separator, which tells the program the building steps.

Then with LPub you create the instructions. It uses the step you inserted to create all pictures etc. It has a lot of options and stuff, as well as many quirks and some bugs. This is a good tutorial to get started

I never used LDD, but i guess it doesn't support steps, so if you export it in some way to open with MLCad, you probably have to sort the pieces "cronologically" and add the steps.

I need two more of this one to make the b/c sets, but if you only have one of that one, the engine makes most sense.

Pfft, no. I learned these techniques by looking at other people's builds, so I have no problem with someone else doing the same! If I ever go through the trouble of building them in LDD/Stud.io and compiling instructions, I'll probably sell the plans, but even then, not for much.

In the meantime, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

It was really crowded,. My 4yo son enjoyed it, but I spent the whole time making sure he didn't get lost. Next lego convention I'll have to go by myself :)

I am glad I was able to see the ME-Model.com custom 9V train tracks. Check out their Kickstarter if you need 9v tracks.

I was just browsing lego stuff on Etsy and found this... https://www.etsy.com/listing/179139460/lego-spaceman-logo-shirt-classic-space?ref=sr_gallery_2&amp;sref=sr_d7ea3c215a650dfe530c6441f2818526fe230c3d8150de5e5e0a6bfff46b2e7f_1395265622_14975568_lego&amp;sref2=MTc5MTM5NDYw%3AbGVnbw..%3AMTQ5NzU1Njg.%3...

Thanks so much. It is a bummer to lose every year. The person who got 1st place last year was truly amazing. Here it is: http://tinypic.com/r/f080o7/8

I think I would have gotten 2nd or 3rd had there not been another (really good) Mr. Gold that same weekend (the contest runs every Saturday in October.)

I am having a hard time coming up with an idea for this year :(

A couple of people have asked for the ldd file, so I'm happy to oblige

http://www.filedropper.com/raptorpenrender

My only request is that if anyone does build their own, send me a message, I'd love to see it in real brick!

Hi, I would love to see it in real lego bricks too. I hope the bricks used are available in real life. :) Maybe you can tell if it is possible to be build? Here is the LXF LDD link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwRnvAxg7QiIWk5lenhhblJFWWs/edit?usp=sharing

It's from www.thingiverse.com

Here is the customiser I used

edit because I cannot format today. Sheeish.

Is it this model: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:170076 ? I am wondering how much material it took.

I've been tempted to try it using the printer at my local library, but the material cost is very high, so I would want some idea of the cost before I started.

The original bolts that came with it would have been too weak since there's no stud behind the mount. I had to use a different set of moly bolts that clamped to the back of the sheetrock. They look like THIS.

Besides, half the enjoyment I get out of these display pieces is when someone bumps them and I have to go back and fix it.

Exactly. The last time I was there, I saw everything regularly priced. Right now online, prices are crazy high: LEGO Architecture Barnes &amp; Noble

Below is a link to one of the tiles in my tinkercad collection. I did get several from Thingiverse, but I made a lot of the custom designs. Hopefully this link can get you my other tiles and designs for the table as well. These were very specific for the table I was using, so not sure all of them will be useful.

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/1F1XbgjJSya

No, it is a smaller scale than the Model Builder design, the base design is a tight 6 studs wide, wheels bleed over to around 7-8 wide. I used this as the main trailer bed

Is there a website that can give you a list of legos used in let's say Legohaulic's "Red Riding Hood" https://www.flickr.com/photos/legohaulic/5298612994/ Or perhaps a community that would be into it?