Maxifigure Baby Furniture

Today’s building inspiration is from a 1980 Lego set, “Bedroom” (Set 5233).

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Before the mini-figure came the maxi-figure, and a much larger scale for building stuff, almost dollhouse scale. It’s kind of an interesting scale in the level of detail it allows using non-specialized lego bricks.  The modern mini-figure was introduced in 1978. Over the next few years, they continued to release maxi-figure scale sets, and in a few cases they included mini-figures to use as babies in the maxi-figure sets. So today we’re building baby-furniture that is scaled appropriately for a mini-figure. Continue reading Maxifigure Baby Furniture

Shell Pickup Truck

Today’s model is a shell gas station truck from set 6394 “Metro Park & Service Tower” from 1988:

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House with Garden

Today’s build is LEGO set 376, “Town House with Garden”, from 1978: (229 pieces)

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This house in particularly interesting because it’s hinged, so it can be closed up like a real house, or open to play with the inside like a dollhouse. Aside from requiring 2 hinge bricks, the important parts can all be made from basic building bucket pieces.

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Medieval Horse-Drawn Cart

Through Steve’s Lego Blog I came across Lego item 6000, an “Idea Book” from 1980. The horse-drawn cart jumped out at me as being both interesting and something we might have enough of the proper pieces to build.

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Despicable Me Minion

Today’s building idea is instructions for building a Minion, from the movie Despicable Me.

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The design and instructions were created by LEGO MOC creator Tony Sava.

Instructions (2 jpg’s) and parts list for the minion (1 jpg) on the left are on Brick Fanatic’s blog post about this or Tony’s flickr page.

Lego Typewriter

Today’s lego inspiration is a mini-typewriter from Bricks Ben:

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It is made from 73 tiny and often uncommon pieces.

Although a parts list and instruction-set is not provided for this model, it makes a great illustration of a “studs not on top” master builder technique. Notice how the side of the keyboard is a 1x2x3 roof tile laying on its side? The keyboard also uses studs not on top techniques to get that gentle slope between rows. Take a look at the inside:

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There are additional photos on Bricks Ben’s Website that may help with re-creating this fabulous construction

Sea Eagle

This one is from a McDonald’s Promotional Set: Sea Eagle (1642) from 1989:

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Cleaning Yellowed Legos

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I admit, I was skeptical that yellow faded legos could even be “cleaned” to look like new again until I saw some posts online about it.

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Biplane

Today’s model is a biplane, set 613 from 1974:

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Custom Lego Submarine

Today’s lego inspiration is a “submarine” my husband created from our parts collection:
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