The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

What exactly is a slope? What's the difference between a tile and a plate? Why is it bad to simply stack bricks in columns to make a wall? The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide is here to answer your questions.

Focusing on building actual models with real bricks, The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide comes with complete instructions to build several cool models but also encourages you to use your imagination to create your own fantastic creations.

side, you'll learn:

• The best ways to connect bricks and creative uses for those patterns
• Tricks for calculating and using scale (it's not as hard as you think)
• The step-by-step plans to create a train station on the scale of LEGO people (a.k.a. "minifigs")
• How to build spheres, jumbo-sized LEGO bricks, micro-scaled models, and a mini space shuttle
• Tips for sorting and storing all of your LEGO pieces

The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide also includes the Brickopedia, a visual guide to nearly 300 of the most useful and reusable elements of the LEGO system, with historical notes, common uses, part numbers, and the year each piece first appeared in a LEGO set.

The firm foundation for your LEGO hobby starts here!

Contenidos

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The LEGO System: Endless Possibilities

Chapter 2: Back to Basics: Tips and Techniques

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

Chapter 4: Miniland Scale: The Whole World in Miniature

Chapter 5: Jumbo Elements: Building Bigger Bricks

Chapter 6: Microscale Building: More Than Meets the Eye

Chapter 7: Sculptures: The Shape of Things to Build

Chapter 8: Mosaics: Patterns and Pictures in Bricks

Chapter 9: Technic: Not as Technical as It May Seem

Chapter 10: Putting It All Together: Where Ideas Meet Bricks

Chapter 11: Beyond Just Bricks: Other Things to Do Besides Building

Chapter 12: Sorting, Storage, and Sitting Down to Build Something

Chapter 13: Making and Using Tools for LEGO Projects

Appendix A: Brickopedia

Appendix B: Design Grids: Building Better by Planning Ahead

Index

Contenidos extra

View a sample chapter, Chapter 6: Microscale Building: More Than Meets the Eye

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Editado: Septiembre 2005

344 páginas

ISBN-10: 1-59327-054-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-054-4

Sobre el autor

Allan Bedford is a lifelong LEGO fan and builder whose most ambitious model to date is a 5,000 piece replica of Toronto's famed CN Tower. He is active in the online LEGO community, having contributed ideas and discussions for several years.

Bedford works as a business analyst by day and spends his spare time cycling, designing board games and, of course, building with LEGO bricks.