Building From Blueprints With Lego Bricks: Vehicle Edition

Sourcing, Scaling and Printing Blueprints as a Template - Taking Your Lego Brick Built Models to the Next Level

What you'll learn

Source, scale and print a blueprint to be used as a template when building your Lego models

Learn about Professor Brick Makers building philosophy and the three rules of Build-botics

Discuss popular Lego related building words and phrases - building jargon

Useful techniques and popular parts used to create a Lego built vehicle and how to source Lego parts form multiple sources

Hints and Tips: the hinge trick and how to separate difficult parts

Requirements

Beginners are welcome! Builders of every skill level will find the concepts, techniques and suggestions discussed in the class helpful and illuminating

To optimize the courses benefit, it's best for the learner to have some experience building lego kits that include sub model creation

Be familiar with basic Lego brick building techniques and basic parts like bricks, plates and slopes

Description

In this course, we're plussing (+ing, amping up, enhancing) our Lego brick built vehicle models.  Designing our creations to precise measurements, to be historically accurate and sized to minifig scale.  After reviewing a brief introduction to the class we'll cover Professor Brick Maker's building philosophy, the 3 rules of build-botics and all sorts of key words so we're all speaking the same language.  After we source and resize our blueprint image, we'll use it as a useful building template.  The course will include a discussion about key building parts and how to source them.  And after a brief summary, we will include several useful techniques.  By the end of the course the viewer will have gained perspective, several useful techniques and have a better understanding of how to use a precise blueprint template to aid the brick building process.Introduction to building models from blueprints with Lego bricksProfessor Brick Makers building philospohyThe 3 rules of successful model building - Build-boticsWords we use to describe techniques, tests, and key parts (some you might know) - Parts 1 and 2How to find blueprints of real vehiclesHow to find dimensions for real vehicles using wikipediaScale and convert to minifig scale - 1:35 - 1/35th scalePrinting your minifig scale blueprintChoosing key parts for our designWhere do I find parts for my design?Course review and more about scaleTiny Tutorials: Hinge trick and separating parts technique

Overview

Section 1: Introduction - Building Philosophy - and Building Jargon

Lecture 1 Introduction and Building Philosophy

Lecture 2 The 3 rules of successful model building - Build-botics

Lecture 3 Building Jargon Discussion Part 1

Lecture 4 Building Jargon Discussion Part 2

Section 2: Sourcing, Scaling and Printing the Blueprint

Lecture 5 Find and Source the Blueprint

Lecture 6 More ways to find and source blueprints

Lecture 7 Find the Exact Dimensions for the Vehicle Using Wikipedia

Lecture 8 Convert the Dimensions in to Minifig Scale or 1:35 1/35th Scale

Lecture 9 Resize and Print the Blueprint Image

Section 3: Choosing Key Parts for our Vehicle and Sourcing Parts

Lecture 10 Choosing Key Parts for the Design Part 1

Lecture 11 Choosing Key Parts for the Design Part 2

Lecture 12 Sourcing Key Parts for the Design

Section 4: Course Review and Tiny Tutorials: Techniques and Tips

Lecture 13 Course Review - A Journey of Scale

Lecture 14 Tiny Tutorials: Hinge and Part Separating Techniques

The Lego model builder who wants to take their designs to the next level,The Lego modeler that wants to precisely build historically accurate real vehicles in minifig scale or 1:35, 1/35th scale - the information contained in this class can be used to model vehicles, planes, ships or any other model type no matter the size,The MOC or display builder that wants to build models all in the same proportion,The Lego fan that wants to grow their knowledge about the Lego community