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UNSC Marines from Halo. Original sculpts by @elon_wagner with some light mods and painting by me.
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Design Insights XLIV
The Sæpta Julia (pronunced: Sipe-ta You-lia) covered a vast expanse of the Campus Martius. The open-air space was completely paved in travertine and enclosed within a quadriporticus which once housed exquisite works of Classical art. The Sæpta was originally conceived of as a place for the gathering of eligible voters in the election of magistrates, but was gradually repurposed for the staging of public spectacles as the importance of voting waned during the imperial era.
It is often the case when discussing grand projects of Roman antiquity that the true scale of these undertakings is not readily apparent. Among a body of work such as mine, it has always been necessary to exhibit the SPQR diorama alongside other, more well-known and consistently 1:650-scaled works. Without the visual aid of other brick-built monuments on nearby tables for the timebeing, I'll instead compare the size of this week's DESIGN Insights subject, the Sæpta Julia, to something the brick-building community know well; convention halls.
The Sæpta Julia covered an area of more than 350,000 sq ft. To put that into perspective, the much-loved Brickworld Chicago convention typically boasts a 100,000 sq ft exhibition hall. The Sæpta could have easily accommodated more than three-and-a-half times that! The best spatial comparison I can conceive of would be to stand at the middle of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looking toward that same monument. Then, imagine gleaming travertine pavement over the surface of the water, from the midpoint of the pool all the way to the steps of the monument. You'd be hard-pressed to find any convention centers with that kind of uninterrupted square footage, let alone any which might rival such a richly decorated and neatly paved outdoor venue.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
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Here is my MOC of a Gatling Gun I created to for my Fort Iron Cactus. This can be placed on wheels and attached to wagons in the same way that the cannons can be transported. ideas.lego.com/s/p:3e48fd3e9c7e4ac09f887e74f56a5e80
Nebraska Brick Days 2024 🌽
It had been 3 years since I was last at NBD and it was so great to be back a few weeks ago! Loved reconnecting with some old faces and making new connections as well. I tried to do it all (yet again) which included ~25 MOCs, 2 presentations, 1 game show, and more. The response to my new class "How to be a Better Builder" was incredible - coming to Brickworld soon! I was so honored to have been nominated for Builder of the Plaines and be amongst such great company with Trent & Josh.
Brickworld Chicago is just a short <60 days away!
via Instagram ift.tt/1Jb0LQW Cool building technique I just noticed in this exterior wall. Using the 1x2 brick with the channel cut in it, plus a 1x1 brick, to create this cool 3D pattern in the wall. #lego #legos #legoaddict #legoaddiction #legoclub #legostagram #instalego #afol #afolclub
This is my Speed Champions style Lancia Stratos HF rallycar based heavily on the model by @jerrybuildsbricks
Probably the biggest change, that I made is probably the overall color scheme. I wanted to recreate the legendary Alitalia livery purely with just bricks. That resulted more changes of exterior details, but I like, how all the green and red stripes turned out.
The other bigger update was the whole back bumper area. Reworked the tail lights, the spoiler, the exhaust and the wheel arches as well.
At this point I already displayed this model at several conventions in the last couple of years, but didn’t posted much of it online yet. So here it is, I hope you like it as much as how satisfied I’m with it!
For instructions, check @jerrybuildsbricks ‘s assembly video on his youtube chanel!
📜 Welcome back to SPQR! The start of Phase III design works finds us all the way back at the beginning of the project; at the bend in the Tiber. Just north of Tiber Island, the river shifts directions before resuming its northward course. It was here at the bend in the Tiber where Aeneas's ship is said to have made berth in the century preceding the mythical 753 BCE founding of Rome. These once swampy marshlands were dredged and eventually incorporated within the pomerium (sacred city limits of Rome during antiquity) when the Circus Flaminius was consolidated into Regio IX, one of twelve administrative regiones established under Augustus.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
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via Instagram ift.tt/1Oqvc4r Finished laying all the tile. Love the blue/green color scheme for the bank, and am so happy they went with a white tile floor in the laundromat. It's the little things! #lego #legos #legostagram #instalego #afol #afolclub
This 32x32 bignette was a part of the WindyCityLUG Home On A Hill (HOAH) project - a seed part challenge to build a microscale environment using the Baseplate, Raised 32 x 32 Canyon.
It all culminated in a premiere event at a member's cookie party where all were displayed for the first time. Everyone did such a great job and brought a unique flavor to all of their builds. Mine is a futuristic urban life on Neptune.
Completed in Dec. 2019. Nominated for Best Microscale at Brickworld Chicago 2022.
Design Insights XLII
📜 "... everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
This particularly insightful excerpt of Juvenal's first-century work, Satire X, speaks as much to the modern era as it did to those living in the Roman empire. The concluding phrase "panem et circenses" refers to the artificial appeasement by which the ruling elite ensured the masses would remain pacified. To this point, we've explored many of the "circuses" referred to by this saying in their various forms. Today, for the first time in my ongoing SPQR project, we'll be taking a look at a space dedicated to "panem," specifically the 'grain dole' known as 'cura annonæ'.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
😎 These insights are EXCLUSIVE to Corinthian patrons, and peel back the curtain months before these designs will be shared publicly. The renderings, on the other hand, are shared with patrons of all tiers.
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