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Issue 82 • November/December 2023
Contents From the Editor....................................................2
People Displaying Disney! ............................................3 Martin Schaal: The Old Man and the Brick .........................4 Paul Hetherington: B ricktacular West Coast Modern Show................................................10
Building
Guillaume Roussel’s Disneyland Paris ...........................................19 Tamara Dadswell’s Lenticular Mosaic: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall .........................26 Martin Harris: Disney Building!............................................28 BrickNerd Instructions: Tinker Bell! .......................................................38 Minifigure Customization 101: M.I.C.K.E.Y. M.O.U.S.E. ..................................48 Magical Kingdoms: Learning to Build from the Happiest Places on Earth..............................................52
Community
The Guitar Project (Ukelele)........................62 100 ROOMZ of Disney! .................................64 Bantha Bricks: Frank Averstegge’s Jabba’s Palace........68 Community Ads...............................................78 Last Word.............................................................79 Next Issue............................................................80
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People
Martin’s model of the Bietigheim Viaduct.
Martin Schaal:
The Old Man and the Brick Article by Joe Meno Photography by Martin Schaal
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Martin Schaal is a builder in Germany who has built train-inspired models and layouts for the past eight years, since his retirement from the railway business. He hasn’t been far from the brick, as he has built since childhood. He’s 67 now, and has the nickname “der alte Mann und der Stein,”which translates from his native German to “The Old Man and the Brick.” Martin’s favorite theme follows his career in trains—he loves to build railways, locomotives, stations, bridges, and town-themed items. He builds mostly in microscale, but doesn’t limit his creations exclusively to that scale. As for building style, he hasn’t changed that much from his childhood builds to present—it’s just that the bricks he used as a child required a bit more imagination. Painting is another one of his interests, and LEGO building is another way to ‘paint’ what he sees. Martin strives to build realistic scale models in his building. During a recent exhibition, a viewer told him, “ That is not LEGO. That is a real model!” That’s the main motivation for building: Martin wants to transform reality into LEGO. If Martin creates a town, he wants his layout to be like a Google Maps picture. If someone tells him that a build “would be impossible in LEGO,” Martin will work to make that statement wrong. He builds mostly realistic scale models, but also can build more creative items, such as his Elvis/Charlie cliff model. Martin’s rendition of the Göltzschtal Bridge, which is also the largest brick bridge in the world.
The bridge at the River Nidd, part of Martin’s layout of Knaresborough.
When he builds a new locomotive, Martin always starts with online research. Afterwards, he gathers all the measurements he found on an Excel spreadsheet. From there, he can define the scales for his builds. Most of the time he starts with a very small model to get a general feel for what he is building, like a rough sketch. Next, he builds in a larger scale to add details. By this second model, he’s pretty familiar with the information he found online. The larger the model becomes, the more accurately he builds. He always uses this process of building from small to big. For him, it’s better to have a good rough build than a build that is detailed wrong. For Martin, building a model is 40% planning, 30% building... and 30% sorting. The time to build can vary from a month to make a locomotive, to more than a year for the Knaresborough layout. Thomas the Tank Engine and friends!
Various versions and scales of the Ludmilla (DR Class 130) diesel locomotive.
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People
Paul Hetherington, in the lower center of the photo, talks about his models at the Bricktacular show.
Paul Hetherington:
Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show
Article by Paul Hetherington Photography by Blaine Campbell 10
Hello, I’m Paul Hetherington, a long-time LEGO fan who has been creating with LEGO for over thirty years. Many of my creations are well know within the LEGO community. I grew up in West Vancouver, B.C. and I currently live in North Vancouver. My new exhibit, the Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show, is my first official art show and my first solo art show. The exhibit is hosted by the West Vancouver Art Museum and is in collaboration with the West Vancouver Memorial Library where it is on display. The show ran from May 5–July 31, 2023. The exhibit featured eight recreations of iconic West Coast Modern homes which were designed by well known architects. West Coast Modern is a design style that originated on the West Coast and was popular between 1941 and 1988. Some of the characteristics of West Coast Modern homes include: flat roofs, deep eaves with exposed post-and-beam structure, and emphasis on integrating the architecture into the landscape, with the intent of bringing the outdoors inside. Many of the homes feature large glass windows to transition the indoor living spaces to the outdoor spaces. West Coast Modern homes were conceived as modest family residences. The movement intended to make affordable family housing with an emphasis on blending into the natural landscape of the rugged West Coast.
The genesis for the show began during the pandemic. I had created two fantasy pieces, Atomic Ranch and Googie, during this time. Atomic Ranch celebrates the optimism of the Atomic Age, a time in post-war America where the future was bright and architecture and design mirrored that optimism—where the dream of owning your own post-and-beamstyle rancher and a Detroit automobile where well within reach. Googie is my tribute to architecture that was inspired by car culture, and the space age. Googie architecture originated in Southern California and was popular among motels, gas stations, and restaurants. Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvilinear geometric shapes, and a bold use of glass, steel and neon.
The models that led to the display.
Back in early 2021, I showed these two pieces to my friend, international artist Douglas Coupland. He immediately saw their potential and he connected me with the West Vancouver Art Museum to set up a show. Hilary Letwin, the curator of the art museum, loved the idea of Mid-Century Modern designed LEGO models and suggested that models of local West Coast Modern home designs would be a perfect fit for the art museum’s programming. The show and playful medium could help to introduce these endangered homes to a new audience. We agreed to a show schedule opening in the summer of 2023. This would give me two years to create the models. That sounds like a lot of time, but with my busy schedule, it was down to the wire at the end to complete all the models within the allotted time.
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The last home Hilary and I chose was the Merrick House. This house was designed and built by architect Paul Merrick in the 1970s and has had two significant additions since. The home is made of wood, stone and glass and features 17 levels and only two 90 degree angled walls. It was not by accident that I left this complicated structure to the last. This was the most challenging of the homes to recreate in LEGO bricks. I had to translate all of the angles into a geometry that would work with the existing geometry of LEGO’s wedge plates. It was a complicated process to capture all the unique angles of the decks and bedrooms on the lower levels. After all the challenges of bringing the model together, I was pleased with the final result. The 40-foot stone fireplace is at the center of the model and is framed by the large cathedrallike ceilings in the main living room. For this model, I detailed the interior of the living room, which is the focal point of the home. All of the homes in the exhibit took me an average of three weeks each to create. That includes the time to research and visit the individual sites as well as time to design and build the models. The largest model is the Eppich House 1 which measures 20 inches by 30 inches and incorporates over 12,000 elements. On average, most of the home models incorporate around 9000 elements. One of the biggest advantages to having a show hosted by the West Vancouver Art Museum is having a publication released to coincide with the show. The publication for this exhibit features pictures and historical information on all the homes, as well as many pictures of my LEGO models. It features essays by Douglas Coupland, Nathan Sawaya, Hilary Letwin, Steph Hall, and myself. I really like the way historical photos of the homes are combined with photos of the LEGO models. Stacey Moines did an amazing job at designing the publication with a Mid-Century aesthetic, and Blaine Campbell did a great job photographing the models for the publication in incredible detail. I really enjoyed being involved in the design process and being able to contribute ideas to the overall style of the publication.
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Douglas Coupland (left) and Paul Hetherington (right).
The Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show opened on May 5, 2023 at the Memorial Library in West Vancouver. The opening night event was a huge success and had almost 400 attendees. Attendees included many of the featured homes, owners, local artists, West Vancouver art council members, and many Vancouver LEGO Club members. The mayor of West Vancouver kicked off the opening ceremony which included speeches by Steph Hall from the Library, Hilary Letwin from the WVAM, and by me. LEGO-shaped cake was served after the speeches. All in all, it was an amazing evening that flew by way too fast for me. For me, the biggest highlight was being able to host a local show in the community where I grew up, and being able to invite all my friends and family. I feel honored and humbled to be able to present these homes in a new way, to hopefully contribute in some small way to their preservation.
Guillaume Roussel’s
Building
Disneyland Paris Article by Joe Meno Photography by Guillaume Roussel
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The rear of the castle.
Guillaume Roussel has been building and making a name for himself for some time. He has been featured in BrickJournal before for his Disney builds, and returns to show some new builds he has made. Since the last time he was featured, he had also designed a LEGO set through the LEGO Ideas platform (The Globe) and also competed in LEGO Masters France. Here we focus on his Disneyrelated builds. BrickJournal: When did you start building Disney models? And what was your inspiration?
Disneyland Paris on display in 2016.
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Guillaume Roussel: I started to build LEGO Disney models when I was a teenager. I always loved Disney; Disney classic movies were a part of my childhood just like LEGO, and after visiting Disneyland Paris with my parents in 2011, I fell in love with this park, not only because of the “Disney experience,” but also because I was fascinating by the realism of the rides and the park. Everything in this park is so detailed and has a logic to it. Well, I started to watch and read a lot of articles and documentaries about how the parks were made and what the history was of each ride. I immediately wanted to be in a part somehow of this adventure, and seeing myself as a Disney Imagineer by recreating the parks in LEGO. At the beginning, the goal was to reproduce the exact same attractions, but I finally chose to just take some inspirations and creating my dream version of Disneyland, which is way more fun and creative!
Guillaume’s layout of Walt Disney Studios.
For me it was obvious to link LEGO and Disney together, but unfortunately at that time, the list of Disney sets available was very poor and even non-existent: no Disney castle, no minifigs. So, I began to create my own display with especially my Disneyland diorama, which is still today my biggest creation, but I also wanted to recreate the universes that I loved as a kid such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Bambi. At the end, it’s more than hundreds of MOCs! When did you start building Disneyland Paris?
Alice’s Curious Labyrinth. The Mad Tea Party.
I started to build my first LEGO Disneyland park in 2014, which I began to exhibit in a lot of LEGO events in France. At that time, it was more like an interpretation of Disney parks with parts that I had: a very limited choice of colors and parts was available. It was just the beginning of LEGO Friends so I had to wait a couple of years to build something more “Disney recognizable.” Years after years I extended the park and I focused myself on the only Disney Park that I visited: Disneyland Paris. I took inspiration also from Disneyland California and the Magic Kingdom as well, but from my point of view, the Disneyland Paris Park was the most beautiful one, with an impressive level of details, and some of the attractions like Space Mountain were unique to our resort. Ride after ride, land after land, I built a big part of the resort including the second park: Walt Disney Studios. Even if this park was at some point very disappointing due to the size and the number of the rides (seven rides only at the opening), 21 my passion for the cinema pushes me to recreate
Building
Martin’s Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Martin Harris is a builder who has been showing his work at Brickfair Alabama and Brickfair Virginia. He has also started displaying at other events with Sleeping Beauty Castle and his other Disney-inspired builds. I caught up with him to chat about his building and builds.
Martin Harris:
Disney Building!
BrickJournal: What got you into LEGO building? When did you start building?
Article by Joe Meno Photography by Martin Harris
Aurora and her spinning wheel.
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Martin Harris: As a child, I had the classic Castle sets, some space, some city. With four brothers, I rarely had a set made to display. Our LEGO was to play with, and the sets would be built by my older brothers, as they were too hard for me. We would then break them up and use all the pieces to build whatever we wanted. My memories of LEGO are not of set building, but free play, imagination, no constraints. My last set was when I was eleven. My first adult build happened in 2014-2015. My son was seven and we visited Brickfair in Alabama, 2014. He was an avid Ninjago fan, and any LEGO bought was for him. My hobby was photography. After attending, he stated that he wanted to “be one of the people behind the table,” which meant to be an exhibitor, to show off his builds. Throughout the year he kept talking about it and I realized that this was something that had to happen. So he started to work on his display, a mash-up of Minecraft sets, and a creative build of capturing the crystals. Though he and I were proud of his builds, I knew that they would be lost on display in a big hall. So I went to the LEGO store and bought some AT AT walkers and decided to build a Battle of Hoth scene to ‘draw people in’. And that I did; it was
seven feet long, crude in design, but I liked it—full of Star Wars vehicle sets, but the base and landscaping was mine (and my son’s). This was my first LEGO ‘MOC’ and actually I didn’t build the vehicles, my son and some Brickfair attendees did that. Two days before leaving for the show, my daughter wanted something also, so I built an Elsa castle from the movie Frozen in one evening. This was my first Disney build. I am in sales for a career and I am all about being relevant. Here I had both, and one of the first Frozen builds made. The show was a hit, we had lines of people looking at Hoth, taking pics of the Frozen castle and subsequently, stopping to look at my son’s builds and ask him questions. Mission accomplished—although there was one other build included. My daughter had a list of fave Disney princesses, the top one being Sleeping Beauty (to her, she was ‘Sleeping Booty’ as she couldn’t pronounce it correctly yet). The Wednesday before heading to Brickfair, I built a small ‘Sleeping Booty’ scene on a 32x32 baseplate, with castle backgrounds, a stream, and Princess Aurora and the spinning wheel. On the Sunday of the show, 3:45pm, right before the public was to leave, a dad approached. He said ‘thank you’ to me. He had been by earlier when I was not there, and brought his daughter to look at the Princess Aurora build. She was with him when he came to say thank you and she was dressed in a Princess Aurora outfit. The dad told me she was crying and upset because there was nothing ‘for her’. But when she saw my creation, her eyes lit up. All of this is to say, LEGO building and LEGO Disney building is how things really started for me. A fun fact: the spinning wheel from that first ever build is currently sitting in my Disneyland Castle creation.
An overhead view of the castle. The rear of the castle.
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Parts List
Tinker Bell
Design by Miro Dudas from BrickNerd To celebrate the magical theme of this issue, we decided to create a life-size Tinker Bell. The core design repurposes my previous Surfing Girls creation from a few years ago. The arms and legs were already positioned perfectly, so adjusting them for Tink was a breeze. All I had to do was make her fly. I gave her a pedestal and a clear support to anchor her in mid-air. (Building tip: use an older clear support rod since they are more rigid. The newer ones are made with a newer plastic that has a bit more bend and can’t quite support the fairy.) The model wobbles slightly when moved, so it almost looks like she is hovering all on her own. The wings were a challenge, but I stuck to a simple and sturdy design to let the colors shine and sparkle. And finally, you can easily swap all the tan pieces for reddish brown to make any version of Tinker Bell you wish. So grab some pixie dust and start building on your way to Never Never Land!
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John’s models of the Disney icons for (from left to right) Animal Kingdom, Epcot, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, California Adventure, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Magical Kingdoms:
Learning to Build From the Happiest Places on Earth Article by John Rudy
Standing in the inky blackness of an early Florida morning a few months ago, I marveled at the second floor of the hotel lobby. “That building is impossible,” I thought to myself. And it was. We were staying at Port Orleans: French Quarter at the Walt Disney World Resort outside of Orlando. From outward appearances, the buildings look like they’ve been ripped from Bourbon Street. Balconies hang over lazy sidewalks, fans swirl above tables, wrought iron is everywhere. And beyond those balconies is the second floor of the hotel’s lobby building where jazz musicians could be practicing or partiers cavorting. Your brain sees that second floor and fills it with any number of details. Except the building only has one story. Since Disneyland opened its gates in 1955, Walt Disney’s Imagineers have been crafting spaces and objects that intentionally trick the mind. These artists have been making impossible things for decades. And the techniques they use just might be useful to adult LEGO fans as we transform toys into something more. Every Disney Park on the planet is doing exactly what we do when we build a MOC; Disney’s theme parks are scale models. The scale just so happens to be 1:1—or at least it appears like it is. Imagineers create vibrant landscapes which intentionally distort reality, lead your eye to details, and tell vibrant stories all by manipulating the built environment. When building with LEGO, these same tricks aren’t just useful. They might be necessary.
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“It’s a world of hopes…” Minifigures don’t make sense from a perspective of scale. They are either too wide or too short, depending on how you measure it. If an average minifigure was six feet tall—a typical height assumption for scale modeling—then their hips would be about two feet wide. (Go ahead, grab a ruler and hold it up to your belly button. I’ll wait.) Likewise, if a minifigure’s hips were a more realistic 16 inches, then a minifigure would be about 3 ¾ feet tall. In spite of that short stature, their sunglasses would still be a staggering foot wide. And if the minifig is just under four feet tall, then the average height of a single story of a building would need to be 17 bricks and two plates high. (For comparison, the height of the first floor of the classic Cafe Corner is nine bricks high.) Any way you slice it, the minifigure is poorly scaled. We can approach the problem of the minifigure from any number of perspectives, but let’s think like an Imagineer. Imagineers adapt the landscapes they create to their versions of the minifigure: guests in their theme parks.
Scale comparisons of minifigure to Partners, first with height.
Examples of this abound, from the earliest days of Imagineering to today. When Disneyland opened initially in 1955, Walt made a famous mandate that trash cans be placed every 30 feet because it was as far as a visitor would walk to toss an empty popcorn box before littering. In late 2019, the queue of the new E-ticket attraction Flight of Passage was modified significantly—a space was carved out for a mid-queue restroom to help relieve the strain of the long waits for the headlining experience. Imagineers adapt the things they build to suit their human inhabitants. If we think like Imagineers and we realize the minifigure doesn’t make sense, how should we solve the visual problem? The answer is quite simple: use the oldest tricks in the book and trick the eye to forget what’s really there.
Scale comparisons of minifigure to Partners, now with waist matched.
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Community
Pinoy LUG’s
1OO ROOMZ of Disney! Article and Photography by Leslie Araujo
Vignettes are small LEGO MOC scenes that usually depict a single, frozen moment in time. It is considered a good exercise for creative building and storytelling. Every LEGO User Group had encountered and built something similar that varies in shape and size. It’s been called by many names, but in PinoyLUG, we call ours ROOMZ! We pioneered ours in 2017; we have made over 100 ROOMZ for our annual celebration display, and then a fun contest online during the pandemic. This year, it’s back and is super special—because we are aiming for another 100, the Disney 100 Years of Wonder anniversary via PinoyLUG ROOMZ! For 100 years, Disney’s passion has been storytelling. From one generation to the next, the greatest stories live forever. And celebrating that passion is a dream come true for everyone—building those memorable scenes from unforgettable stories that made a huge impact on our lives. PinoyLUG is proud to share a few, and all of us are thrilled to be part of the celebration in our own little way. Coco reminds us to never stop following our dreams, but we should never betray the people we love or our ideals to get us there. The journey is more valuable than the destination. - Dhorie Macatangay MOC by Dhorie Macatangay
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From Mickey Mouse to Winnie the Pooh and the journeys of Peter Pan, Disney kept my childhood as magical as it can get. And from its flattering set of stories to its out-of-this-world scenes, Disney has always kept my imagination flowing. LEGO has helped me, recreating this moment where my inner child would feel nostalgic and gratified. As I built my own Peter Pan recreation, my imagination drifted to Neverland where Peter Pan battles Captain Hook—and at the same time, how Tick-tock Crocodile chases Captain Hook. Disney truthfully has a spot in my heart, as it has made my childhood what it is and has been continuously satisfying my inner child. - Jonathan Lee MOC by Jonathan Lee
Apart from the childhood nostalgia that Disney endeared in our hearts, nothing beats the magic that fills our homes every time we watch a Disney film. From the enchanting musical scores to the stories that tell a lesson or two in life, Disney always lifts my spirit. I found myself bursting into a song. As a Disney lover, I am reminded to switch my views about life—to see the world with hope and wonder. Disney is truly a magical experience! - Belen Choi MOCs by Belen Choi Moana - the power of persistence and bravery.
Encanto - we are not defined by our abilities, but more importantly to stay true to who we are.
Disney Princesses - each one has their unique beauty and personality that continues to inspire us.
Sleeping Beauty - love is the most powerful force in the world.
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