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Built for the BrickNerd Nerdvember contest:
bricknerd.com/home/last-week-to-get-animated-for-our-nerd...
The theme for this year is animation. My MOC pays homage to Steamboat Willie, arguably one of the most pivotal moments in animation history.
Steamboat Nerdly was built in gray scale (except the star). The entire photo was converted to black and white to be consistent with the original animation.
I had so much fun with the storytelling for this build! Fabuland animal pirates wanted by the Imperial Bulldog Police. I submit this hideout vignette to the Bricknerd piRATs and BUGaneers Contest.
I also promoted the contest on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTQwMjE3MTk2MjQ0NjY0?...
#piRATSandBUGaneers
#BrickNerd
#LEGOpiratecontest
Ahh, time for the annual reckoning and trumpet blowing! Real life got in the way again this year, but I managed to scrape together a decent number of builds. This year it really started to dawn on me that its all the things you do around LEGO, beyond just building, that keep the hobby fun, especially stuff that you get to do with other people.
--- BUILDS ---
• My Flickr photostream reached 2 million lifetime views! Thanks in large part to the virality of my Twerking Miley Cyrus build, which recieved broad media coverage. Which basically makes me a giant LEGO whore now.
• Space Kraken: Achievement unlocked! This build took me way outside my comfort zone, taking 3 months to complete (followed by 1 month of burnout). The beasty now stands guard from a permanent display case in the lobby of Tableau software in Seattle.
• Beth & Catbug were featured on the Bravest Warriors home page and even tweeted by one of the show's animators. They also got to meet up with LEGO versions of Chris and Impossibear at BrickCon, built my one of my new fave builders Lego Junkie.
• Grumpy Cat also achieved some virality, even popping up on LEGO's facebook page. Which was awful :-)
• Brothers Brick continues to very kindly blog my work. I'm about 40 lifetime posts in at this point. Guess those BrickCon blackmail photos are really paying off!
--- VIDEOS ---
• Oddly for a LEGO builder, this year seemed to be all about video for me. And in fact I see this medium being a large component of my LEGO life going forward. I made five LEGO related videos this year, of varying lengths.
• 50 Shades of Bley documented the brick dying technic I used on Gollum last year, and hopefully the humor I infused made it slightly more tolerable to watch that my earlier video about Building Bilbo Baggins.
• AFAIL was my penance for the success of my Miley Cyrus build. Everyone should smash their LEGO creations from time to time, its very carthartic!
• Precioustration represented my annual reminder to the community about BrickCon. People seemed to like it. But probably not because of my mediochre voice acting.
• Tommy very kindly asked me to provide a voiceover for an episode of his fab new BrickNerd web show. More voice acting! Plus the trauma of having to recite the Ewok song!
• Joshua and Matthew of Beyond the Brick interviewed me for one of their episodes. By my count that makes 5 builders from SeaLUG that have appeared on the show! It was a really fun experience, and I loved their reactions to my LEGO versions of them.
• I'm going to be in a movie about LEGO! The documentary comes out in theaters early next year, and features a segment on builders. The film crew came to BrickCon and followed a bunch of us around. They also spent half a day shooting at my house in my tiny LEGO workspace. I was a really fun but also really bizarre experience.
--- OTHER ---
• Mike Doyle included a chapter on my work in his book Beautiful Lego, which I think is one of the most interesting books about LEGO that has ever been made. Go get it! Bizarrely, I also got a mention in FineClonier's new book about minifig customization. I know, the irony, right?
• SeaLUG pulled off another great display at Emerald City ComicCon. And I did another Wil Wheaton build for it! Except this time Wheaton does not come off all that well. Yep, it was a revenge build. Did I mention that SeaLUG is the best LUG ever?
• Tommy twisted my arm to enter his Pimp My Nerdly contest, and although I freely admit I phoned it in, I somehow still placed! And the nerdly chest burster was kind of a fun build in the end - I love doing stuff that is simulateously shocking and funny.
• As always, BrickCon was the highlight of my LEGO year. Bricks of Character was a roaring success again, bigger than ever in fact. So many great builds this year. I also attempted to bring back the Con tradition of invasions. Plus there were all the usual fun and games, including the drunk build. All my LEGO pals were there too, and I got to meet a bunch of really talented builders I've started following. But it was also time to say a sad goodbye...
• This year I have been priveleged to be the keeper of Miniland Gary. I don't get about much, but was able to take him to visit kangaroos in Australia, walk the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and even shipped him off for a brief tour of New Zealand! But in October, the time came to pass him to a new owner. That honor was bestowed on Pascal, and I took the stage at BrickCon to give Gary a proper send-off (and practice my stand-up). Thus Gary now begins his European tour, but hopefully will be back next year as the new official mascot of BrickCon, where he will once again change hands.
Thankyou all for viewing, and watching, my work this year. I'm hoping next year is gonna be a turnaround year. I have more time on my hands now, and some much bigger projects planned. And I'm kinda looking forward to seeing how that movie turns out... I think!
One of twelve Battlestars constructed by the Twelve Colonies of Man, Galactica represents the Colonial planet Caprica.
CLASS: Galactica Class
LENGTH: 1,445m
MAX SPEED: 1,500km/sec sublight, FTL drive
WEAPONS: 42 heavy batteries, 514 dual point-defense batteries
12 nuclear missile tubes
CAPACITY: 5,000+ crew
AUXILIARY CRAFT: Colonial Raptors, Colonial Vipers Mk. I-III, VII
The Model: Approximately 29,000 LEGO pieces. Measuring 47” long by 18” wide. Took over 300 hours to complete. At 1:1210 scale.
Custom Printing by: citizenbrick.com/
Lighting by: www.brickstuff.com/
More LEGO art: www.brandongriffith.com/
Photo: Tommy Williamson www.bricknerd.com/
They Venue serves as an entry level crossover SUV in Hyundai's lineup. It is sold in several global markets including the US. Built for the Festival of Mundanity hosted by Bricknerd and The Lego Car Blog
My first ever entry for the Nerdvember contest!
I staged an excerpt from the comic book The Amazing Spider-Man # 33 (1966), when Spider-Man uses all his strength and lifts the collapsed structure under which he is trapped, just to get to the ISO-36 serum and save his aunt.
Great competition, I enjoyed the build.
#Nerdvember2021
#Bricknerd
With the tragic loss of Alex Trebek late in 2020 I felt I needed to do something meaningful as a tribute to the man and his legacy of knowledge, service, and entertainment. My wife and I watch Jeopardy every day so the show and Alex have become a fixture in our lives. The most appropriate idea, and the obvious one for me, was to build a Lego MOC!
Video here on my youtube channel!
Main picture is here on my main flickr page
I spent last week building the Ghostbusters Headquarters and shooting it with motion control time lapse, it was fun. Here's the result youtu.be/WcPtk-mtu6c
You know the box car craze? Me either, one of these passes by and you don't even bat an eye no matter what goofy mod they've done to it. My entry to the Festival of Mudanity
I know Tommy isn't much of a Transformers nerd but I am. So here I present Nerdlyus Prime. My entry for Bricknerd's Next Level Nerdly Competition.
When I read about the contest the words “insane transforming capability” jumped at me and I knew what I would do. Neardly is mostly a red box with glas windows in front. Not so far from a red flat nose truck.
I didn't do any detailed plan on paper this time. I just started from the original nerdly instruction and modified it as I thought necessary. I mean, how hard could it be to make a G1 Optimus? :)
Fore those interested I can tell that Nerdlyus Prime differs somewhat from G1 Optimus Prime.
Fist of all the head was made to lock nerdy. You be the judge on how it turned out.
An early problem was that Nerdly's glasses stick out so mush so I made a different shoulder transformation (180° instead of 90°) and it worked because I didn't use any smokestacks.
I left the front wheels at the arms. I think I have seen that solution before but I have also seen fan art with the wheels on the arms.
Like my Optimus the fuel tanks become the upper legs. The legs also rotates individually rather than the whole hip (but the original didn't rotate at all). This also separate the legs a little. (I use a similar trick on my Optimus)
Little space city cruiser with subtle front grille- until you realize it’s the Bricknerd logo and now that’s all you can see
In French, octopus translates to pieuvre. This MOC is therefore inspired by a pun. Hat for the pirate hat that serves as its jawbone...
It's here, Nerdvember 2016! This year the theme is Disney, check out the official group for complete rules
www.flickr.com/groups/nerdvember2016/
and read more at bricknerd.com/home/nerdvember-2016-is-here-31-2016
It does look I can now finally join the BrickNerd Community!
Other than that, it's not the look I had hoped for. The black is too bulky. Plus the regular trans windows don't work either, so I'm thinking about changing this to trans-smoke.
The problem is that in 1:45 scale the windows don't fully work out. For example; They should be 1 panel + 1 plate high, which looks silly. Their length should be 5 studs + 1 plate, which also doesn't work. Oh, and the distance between windows is a little bit less than 1 stud. The worst part: I'm not willing to compromise for the time being, and thus will refuse to do selective compression.
Also, I should buy some 1x2 cheese slopes. These 1x1 cheese slopes are so distracting, even when I only have this short mock-up...
Next plan: Ignoring the windows for the time being, develop a underframe, a front and back, and bogies. Hopefully by accident I will then find out a good solution for the windows.
Oh by the way, I finally found a good picture of the prototype:
Now that the cat's out of the bag I can post a pic of bricknerd's RS3. You can see hundreds of pictures of a MOC online, but until you've been able to see it for real (and play with it!), that's when all the magic comes out. This build really shines on all fronts. The heft of it, the 7 wide size, the new roof and all the other little details really perfectly come together. RS3s could hardly be called glamorous even in their Sunday best paint, but this one is beautiful. Thanks bricknerd! That's one fine Alco you've got there.
Behold, the Bricknerd Headquarters, in all of its Nerdly glory! This two story modern construction features an office, extensive lego wall, in-house studio, kitchenette, wall space for plenty of movie posters, twin balconies, and a top secret Nerdly cloning chamber. (Baby Nerdly based on the design of Geneva/Kai NRG).
When this contest was announced I almost immediately came up with the name pun, (Modular & Nerdly = Nerdular), then the idea for the glasses as balconies. After that I just kind of threw stuff together till I figured out things that worked. Building a modular is a new experience for me, having never built any of the sets even, but I enjoyed this build, despite it feeling too simplistic in places. The studio area is obviously based on the classic backdrop that Tommy would appear against in the original Bricknerd content.
If you want to look at all of the interior details that I didn't have time to render a good shot of, the 3D view on mecabricks can be opened in the workshop, and the floors are easily grouped.
mecabricks.com/en/models/9P2kJyldaon
C&C Welcome!
Here's what you can build for Halloween :)
You can find free instructions over at BrickNerd.com. Bricklink parts list included as well.
I won Tommy's Nerdly for leaving a good comment on his blog and be being the car customizer that I am knew that even Nerdly can be made cooler with flames and exhaust pipes.
Thanks for the prize, Tommy!
This year I wanted to bring something really special to Brickworld. The theme of this years convention is unity. I wanted to show a unified front of men, elves, dwarves and even eagles against the forces of evil.
As some of you know, I love castle LEGO and I love building castles and this year I wanted the challenge of building a creature along with some traditional castle buildings. At first I thought about building a large demon, but then my thoughts went to the classic fantasy villain, the dragon!
I hope you all have chance to visit Brickworld this year. If you have a chance stop by the WISLug table, look for me, the really tall guy with dark brown hair for some BrickNerd swag.
First thing I usually build for a new model is the frame - you obviously need something to mount the hoods and cabin on, and to attach the trucks to. So let's take a closer look at the frame for the new FM.
Building frames for a 7-wide model is a bit trickier compared to 6 or 8-wide - there are simply no 7-by-something plates available, and to achieve the odd width while maintaining the necessary sturdiness can be sort of a challenge.
The design above at the top is my standard ladder frame. It consists of sandwiched offset 2x16 a/o 2x14 plates for the beams, and 2x3 struts. This frame provides a fair amount of sturdiness, but long engines will require an additional "spine", as shown here.
The frame shown at the bottom is a completely different approach, designed to overcome this need for additional support structures - the "spine", made of a Technic beam, is built into the frame. Mounting Technic holes on system studs results in a very strong connection, and those beams are VERY hard to bend. I used this design for my GN NW-3 and it proved very stiff, but its frame is a bit shorter, so I'm not sure if it'd work as well for my FM. I think I'll stick with the ladder frame for now.
Yeah, it's not that many compared to bigger YouTube channels, but it sounds like a lot to me!
Thanks for watching everyone!
Ever since I’d seen the new fern pieces in the satin pink color, I’d wanted to build an axolotl. I finally got a set that has the piece (Friends Space Research Rover) recently!
I went through my red-purple-pink bin and pulled aside all of my light pink parts. I found just enough for the build!
I also used lots of pink heart pieces for the hands/fins! It also has a cute little smile!
Built for the Bricknerd AdoraBuild contest, cuddly characters category!
I hope you enjoy!
Behold, the Bricknerd Headquarters, in all of its Nerdly glory! This two story modern construction features an office, extensive lego wall, in-house studio, kitchenette, wall space for plenty of movie posters, twin balconies, and a top secret Nerdly cloning chamber. (Baby Nerdly based on the design of Geneva/Kai NRG).
When this contest was announced I almost immediately came up with the name pun, (Modular & Nerdly = Nerdular), then the idea for the glasses as balconies. After that I just kind of threw stuff together till I figured out things that worked. Building a modular is a new experience for me, having never built any of the sets even, but I enjoyed this build, despite it feeling too simplistic in places. The studio area is obviously based on the classic backdrop that Tommy would appear against in the original Bricknerd content.
If you want to look at all of the interior details that I didn't have time to render a good shot of, the 3D view on mecabricks can be opened in the workshop, and the floors are easily grouped.
mecabricks.com/en/models/9P2kJyldaon
C&C Welcome!
The two GNs are the first of my locos equipped with really functioning folding platforms.
I'd made a first approach using minifig axes as platforms on my A&R GP38, but they were way too small. It was Tim's idea to use 2x2 flags instead, and here we go.
The whole thing works pretty well - neither did the minifig "me" fall off during a test run, nor did the platforms jam. The handrails rotate down when not in MU mode. Might try another solution based on chains, though.
One of twelve Battlestars constructed by the Twelve Colonies of Man, Galactica represents the Colonial planet Caprica.
CLASS: Galactica Class
LENGTH: 1,445m
MAX SPEED: 1,500km/sec sublight, FTL drive
WEAPONS: 42 heavy batteries, 514 dual point-defense batteries
12 nuclear missile tubes
CAPACITY: 5,000+ crew
AUXILIARY CRAFT: Colonial Raptors, Colonial Vipers Mk. I-III, VII
The Model: Approximately 29,000 LEGO pieces. Measuring 47” long by 18” wide. Took over 300 hours to complete. At 1:1210 scale.
Custom Printing by: citizenbrick.com/
Lighting by: www.brickstuff.com/
More LEGO art: www.brandongriffith.com/
Photo: Tommy Williamson www.bricknerd.com/
My 1960s 645 V16 prime mover, retrograted to a 1940s 567 V12 and fitted with roots blowers instead of the 645's turbo charger.
It's also slightly simplified and shrunk to 3+ wide to fit in the hood of my NW3, including drive shaft and main generator visible behind the access doors.
I'd been meaning to update my old 3GS21B for some time. Bricknerd finally gave me the push I needed to rebuild it completely. This version has bits of the original design and some of Bricknerd's ideas as well. Now I'm really glad I rebuilt it.
Time to put a face to my little blue demon I have on my profile!
Back in August, I receive an interview invitation from Olimpio Albano aka Alex, who runs one of the best-known LEGO blogs in Portugal. He is a member of 0937 LUG and is one of the members of the great LEGO Portuguese podcast ‘Conversas em Construção’ (Conversations in construction) who also participate Tiago Catarino LEGO YouTuber, Luís Baixinho from Oficina dos Baixinhos and Pedro Sequeira from BrickNerd.
I’m very grateful for this opportunity and to share a little bit of myself, my passion for LEGO and a little of how I come up with my MOCs. Thank you again Alex 😉
English Version:
playwellportugal-blogspot-com.translate.goog/2022/09/a-co...
Portuguese Version:
playwellportugal.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-conversa-com-rui-...
My entry for the TLCB&BrickNerd Festival of Mundanity contest. It's a scissor lift, like the kind you would find at any big construction site or in a store, being used to change light bulbs. To double down on the mundanity, it is based on the ubiquitous blue Genie lifts. Absolutely mundane, but very useful.
The model features lifting, pushed by a linear actuator; Steering, with very tight angle for a tiny turn radius; a deck extension, with a spring loaded latch, and a working door for entry into the work basket.
See Eurobricks post here for more:
www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/190213-f...
You didn't seriously just...
Um... errr... *nervous laughter*
I had fun building it. Why is it crooked? Don't...
Why do you write down every... *nervous laughter again*
A--- *sigh* This is harder then I thought. *nod*
Well, that's all she told me to say, this is the middlest Mouse (and proud of it!).
Hope you like her little build! Thanks for the inspiration! #Nerdvember
Nerd-in-Chief here, reporting for duty! What can you expect from the future of BrickNerd? Read on and stay tuned as we start this new journey!
They Venue serves as an entry level crossover SUV in Hyundai's lineup. It is sold in several global markets including the US. Built for the Festival of Mundanity hosted by Bricknerd and The Lego Car Blog
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