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From the Editor....................................................2
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LEGO ® CUUSOO Meets Minecraft.......3
People
Building the Fellowship.................................9 Building Barad-Dûr......................................12 Building the Last March of the Ents.....16
Building
William Pugh: Dino Builder.....................20 You Can Build It: Velociraptor.....................................................23 Mini Modulars Review...............................26 Rod and Bert......................................................32 Minifigure Customization 101: 3D Printing Minifigure Accessories.....................................................34 You Can Build It: Radiant VII........................................................39
Community : Event Reports
BrickMagic 2011.............................................42 Brickworld 2011..............................................46 Brick Fiesta 2011.............................................51 Lecco 2011: Bricks Near the Lake.......56 BrickFair 2011....................................................61 BrickCon 2011..................................................64 A Towering Achievement........................68 LEGO Fun at Lynhurst Castle.................72 Community Ads.............................................77 Last Word.............................................................79 AFOLs.....................................................................80
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From the Editor: It’s been a few years since BrickJournal launched online, and fewer since the magazine went to print. It’s been astonishing to watch the community grow in leaps and bounds, but in the passing time, some AFOLs have passed away.
June 2012 Issue 19
Publisher John Morrow
Editor in Chief Joe Meno
Photography Editor Geoff Gray Proofreader John Morrow
Traffic Manager Elizabeth Cortes
European and LEGO Group Bureau Editor Megan Rothrock Japanese Bureau Editor Nathan Bryan West Coast Editors Todd Kubo Ashley Glennon
Contributors: TJ Avery, Jared Burks, Davide Cavagnino, Marco Chiappa, Tim Courtney, Christopher Deck, Geoff Gray, William Hough, Michael Inglis, Benoit Kayser, William Pugh, Jordan R. Schwartz, Will Smart, Sharon Ulrich Vance, Kevin Walter, Bryan Wygand, and Greg Hyland. Many thanks to the websites who have served as mirrors for BrickJournal:
A builder spotlighted in this magazine passed in April. Her name was Heather Braaten and she was well-known in the community, especially in the Seattle area where she lived. Her models have been seen online and in person by thousands. I met her a few years ago at Brickworld, and she was a funny, sharp woman with building skills that few others had. The first model of hers I saw was of a dollhouse that was of a larger scale than minifigure. The details that she made in the model were simply beautiful. She also built other things, but that was the first impression I got of her. I, as well as the community, mourn our loss. However, her inspiration will remain in all those who met and were friends and family with her. And that is a good legacy to leave. Joe Meno, Editor P.S. Have ideas or comments? Drop me a line at admin@brickjournal.com. I’m open to suggestions and comments and will do my best to reply. P.P.S... Yes, BrickJournal has a website — www.brickjournal.com! Twitter? Yep, there too — http://twitter.com/brickjournal. Facebook? Yup — http://www.facebook. com/group.php?gid=58728699914&ref=mf. Or you can scan the bottom codes with a QR reader! P.P.P.S. If you want info on a subscription, you can go to: http://twomorrows.com/ index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=78&products_id=616 or scan below! Website
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LEGO® CUUSOO Meets Minecraft! Article by Joe Meno Photography provided by the LEGO Group
On December 5, 2011, a project was posted on LEGO CUUSOO that changed the website forever. A model project based on the online game Minecraft was presented on the site, developed initially by two LEGO fans. With the expansion of LEGO CUUSOO to international size, the number of supporters needed for consideration by the LEGO Group went from 1,000 to 10,000. What’s amazing is that the Minecraft project reached that threshold in 48 hours to become the first international set to be considered and approved by the LEGO Group - an astonishing feat! Tim Courtney, Senior Consultant for Community Business at the LEGO Group’s New Business Group recounts: “We were quite taken by surprise. Some of my colleagues are avid Minecraft players, but I’m not a gamer and didn’t realize how popular it was.” The resulting set, LEGO Minecraft Micro World (#21102)was developed in collaboration with four LEGO fans: Chris Malloy, Michael Thomas (suparMacho), Kyle Tingey (koalaexpert), and Bjarne Panduro Tveskov. These fans developed their own concepts alongside LEGO designer Steen Sig Andersen and the LEGO CUUSOO team, and helped shape the product into its final version. BrickJournal talked to one of the builders, Kyle Tingey, about designing the set. He was one of the two fans that originally submitted the set, with Michael Thomas. Asked about how the project collaboration was done internationally, he replied, “We collaborated over the internet. We gave feedback and made some models to share our ideas. We looked into multiple scales, including brick-built figures and minifigures. 3 We also looked into sets with giant mobs.”
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Sharon Ulrich Vance:
Sharon with her model of the House of Elreond, Rivendell, with the Fellowship of the Ring.
Building the Fellowship
Article by Joe Meno Photography by Sharon Ulrich Vance Sharon Ulrich Vance is a chemistry professor at a community college who teaches Introductory Chemistry and Chemistry of Life for nursing students. At Brickworld 2011, she displayed several models based on the Lord of the Rings movies. BrickJournal briefly spoke to her about her models. BrickJournal: What got you into building? Sharon Ulrich Vance: I became hooked on LEGO when my sisters sons were small and playing with it. I started out collecting Star Wars sets, train sets, town sets and the cowboy and Indian sets. My brothers and sisters also started collecting other lines and we formed our own “LEGO club” and thought it would be fun to set up towns and displays in our basements…little did we know at the time that other AFOL’s were doing similar things across the country.
The entrance to the Mines of Moria.
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People Kevin Walter:
Building Barad-Dûr
Interview and Photography by Joe Meno One of the outstanding models at Brickworld was the tower Barad-dûr, as seen in the Lord of the Rings movies. The model was built (actually rebuilt, since it arrived from shipping in pieces) by Kevin Walter. Kevin is a history student on the Albert-LudwigsUniversität (University) in Freiburg - Southern Germany. On October 2010, he began work on the tower. Serving his civilian service over nine months, he earned the necessary money to finance the tower and his trip to Brickworld 2011. When he arrived there, his tower took center stage at the event. BrickJournal was able to talk to him about his building and the tower. BrickJournal: What is your usual building theme, and what led to building Barad-Dûr? Kevin Walter: Generally, my preferred building themes are spaceships or in general all kinds of science-fiction stuff. That made the construction of the tower even more of a challenge than anything before; it was a completely different genre that I never worked with before. But I appreciated it, because I love to build models based on concept art or an existing model. The motivation and challenge for me lies in building it as detailed and close to the original as possible. The tower itself was part of the Lord of the Rings collaboration at Brickworld, called “The Journey of the Fellowship.” It was a secret collaboration and until the unveiling in Chicago, no one except the other members knew about this tower. Originally, the tower was the someone else’s project. Now in review, I can luckily say that I had the honor to take over this important part of the model - since I saw Lord of the Rings the first time, even the scene where Saruman watches the Palantir and you can see Barad-dûr in it’s all size and glory/beauty, I told myself that I had to build it. This collaboration gave me the wonderful opportunity to work with some of the best builders and friends in the community together and also allow me to build Barad-dûr. I was really shocked and just amazed when I saw how many people had seen my model and read all the wonderful reactions and great feedbacks and praise I received - at Brickworld, in the internet community (on mocpages and flickr); even from noncommunity people, such as blogs (like MTV Geek: http:// geek-news.mtv.com/2011/06/24/fan-used-50000-lego-bricksto-build-saurons-dark-tower-from-lord-of-the-rings/ or on The Hobbit movie blog)
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An imposing view of Barad-Dûr.
BrickJournal: How tall is it? How many parts do you estimate the tower has? Kevin Walter: The tower was exactly 1.75 meters high and 1.10 meters wide (on the base). I can say that at least are 50,000+ parts are in it. I ordered about 35,000 and I had to use all my black I have (And I got a lot of it before Barad-dûr), not to mention all my other colored bricks I used for the internal structure or to fill the gaps and made the rockwork strong. So I think even 50,000 is a small guess for it - When I look back I think 75,000+ is an even more accurate estimate. BrickJournal: How long did it take to build? Kevin Walter: The construction time was about 6 months separated in two blocks of 3 months each. From November 2010 (where I took over the project) to January 2011, I just searched for reference material (which was a real pain) and did some first experiments with wall segments, rockwork, baseplate - long story short: I used my “normal bricks” and worked on ideas about how to do what before ordering a lot of parts I couldn’t use in the end. The problem with the reference material was that in the movies you see the tower only in a few scenes for a few seconds, not to mention that this is a black tower on a black background. So I searched the internet for pictures and more pictures (A miniature model would have been much easier and had not caused all that trouble...). But I found pictures of Barad-dûr in different angles and views - to capture the details and the right proportions there was a lot of visual judgement necessary. That were the first three months of construction - actual building started in February when I
The Eye of Sauron.
A look at the detail work around the gate to the tower.
An overall view of the tower.
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Building
Minifig Customization 101:
3D Printing Minifigure Accessories by Michael Inglis and Jared K. Burks
Hello everyone and welcome to another article on minifigure customization. In today’s article we are going to discuss one of the biggest technology advances in minifigure customization: three dimensional printing. As I am new to 3D printing, I have asked Michael if he would help with the article as he has created several items using this technology. 3D printing a method of rapid prototyping, which involves creating digital 3D objects and ‘printing’ them by having a printer lay down successive layers of a material. Objects manufactured using this process can often be extremely detailed and include awkward shapes. Other manufacturing processes such as metal injection molding cannot easily manufacture these awkward shapes without multiple molds. The process of 3D printing allows a minifig customizer to physically make a 3D model without having to deal with extremely large production costs and minimum orders. The rate at which these models can be ordered and received is merely a matter of days with companies such as Shapeways offering a 10 - 15 day turnaround. This is also a great option for prototyping any mass production piece as all the measurements can be confirmed before a metal mold is tooled.
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The materials that can be produced by a 3D printer are extensive. Shapeways, the leader in hobby creation of 3D printed parts, currently provides metals, plastics, glass, ceramics and sandstone. This technology was very limited in the early days, however currently it has limitless potential in the creation of custom items. The production of custom
LEGO-like elements first brought me to the Shapeways site. At the time, there were two materials which suited both the detail and texture of LEGO elements; the ‘White Strong and Flexible’ (WSF) and the ‘Detail’ plastic. The WSF material is a nylon material and as the name would suggest is strong and flexible. Although cheap, it has a somewhat bumpy surface due to it originating from a powder. The Detail material solved this surface problem. The Detail material is an acrylic-based photopolymer, which is a smooth material with a much higher resolution to the printed item. This resolution has limitations as it lacks both the flexibility and the strength of WSF. Over the last year however, many colored variations of the two materials have been introduced as well as a polished WSF option which significantly improves the problem of its bumpy surface texture. The high demand for such small detailed objects
also allowed Shapeways to release the ‘Frosted Detail’ and ‘Frosted Ultra Detail’ materials. This UV curable acrylic plastic can achieve details of up to 0.1 mm and is very smooth to the touch. Despite being quite costly compared to the other materials, it is by far the most authentic looking in the hands of a LEGO Minifigure as it most closely resembles LEGO element materials (ABS). 3D objects to be printed are created in 3D CAD package, which can range from being free to costing thousands of dollars. Freeware such as Google SketchUp gets the job done but for the more experienced modeler, Michael recommends software such as Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks. The process of creating a 3D object can vary program to program. That being said, a basic tutorial for creating a cube is presented below. Basic shapes can be created in a couple of steps in most any software.
Creating a Cube
A square is drawn in sketch mode.
The profile of the square is then extruded into the cube.
Creating a Sphere
The process of creating a sphere is somewhat similar:
A semi-circle is drawn in sketch mode
The profile is then revolved on an axis, thus creating a sphere.
A more complicated tutorial featuring one of Michael’s designs can be seen on the next page.
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Community
Brickworld 2011 Article and Photography by Joe Meno
For one weekend in June, the ‘Windy City’ of Chicago became the Brick City. June 16th through 19th were the days of Brickworld, one of the largest LEGO fan events in the country. Over 800 builders and fans came to the event bringing models and more to the Westin Northbrook, the convention site. With all the builders, the was a diverse collection of creations and layouts. LEGO train clubs from Illinois and neighboring states showed off layouts of cities with running trains along with large collaborative displays built by other groups. In 2011, collaborative builds included a Lord of the Rings display and a layout named Oasis, built by Nannan Zhang and Tyler Clites. The Lord of the Rings layout included Minas Tirith under siege and Barad-dûr, which was built by Kevin Walker and showcased later in this issue. Oasis, at 5 by 7 feet, was a layout that had motion built in so the central wheel rotated. The water also rippled with another set of motors and gears. Minifigure models included planes and other vehicles. A model of a Super Constellation L-1049 was built by Nick Dean that not only on a custom made base, but had a full interior. Microscale was also well-represented, with a collaborative microcity layout built onsite from standard modules brought in from attendees. What started as single buildings became a growing micropolis. Benjamin Caulkins brought an unusual model: a HALO Spartan armor uniform. What made it unusual was that it was life-size, and he wore the suit during the public hours of Brickworld, where he was the subject of countless photos. The convention side of the event, for registered LEGO fans only, had activities specially for them, including presentations and demonstrations on building and LEGO-based filmmaking to games and competitions.
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Brickworld’s guest speaker was Adrian Jones, General Manager of LEGOLAND Florida. He talked about the notyet-opened park and invited the convention attendees to visit for opening. After his speech, he took questions from the audience. Displays of other models outside of minifigure scale were represented by mosaics by Christopher Doyle. Among his mosaics was a portrait of Wolverine... or two Batmen, depending on how you looked at it. Another was a look into the Phantom Zone from the Superman movies. Brian William’s train layout homage to Indiana Jones had not only the circus train seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but also the tank from the same movie, the Flying Wing from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and other cars and planes for the movies and Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV show. The train itself was a model of the circus train seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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A Note From the ItLUG LEGO Ambassador Luca Rusconi A big event becomes a great success thanks to the effort of the people in charge of the organization, and when you can add to this the nice support from both LEGO Italy and the CEC team in Billund, then the result is astonishing! The whole community was pleased by the statues, the banners, the prizes for the public contest, the new SW set and other great stuff that was used for the auction during the AFOLs Saturday night party. A friendly and informal behavior during the whole event has granted the opportunity to share much more than just some comments about each other’s creations. It’s a fact that all the participants are willing to come back again in the future, and we are proud to welcome them again from Italy and from all the rest of Europe and beyond! The authors thank Sara Bresso for the help in translating this article.
Cableway by Stefano Prosseda
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Two large cranes by Tommaso Corti
Community
Dragons and Spaceships and More..
BrickFair 2011
Article and Photography by Joe Meno For BrickFair (held August 5th - 7th at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly Virginia), this was the year of the dragon. While there were around a thousand LEGO fans who attended from around the world, and thousands more public, the most visible newcomers were the dragons. Built by a new group of builders, including Sean and Steph Mayo (who will be in an upcoming issue of BrickJournal) the dragons took many forms, from flying to fire dragons. Castles and medieval models also made an impressive showing, from an immense black castle (8 foot wide, taking two tables) to simple scenes embellished with details.
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