6 Scale Horse ... finished!

I did manage to get our horse finished for the recent display at LEGOLAND Windsor as part of the world record LEGO tower celebrations. I even had time to do a proper rider and saddle!

And here is a shot of it on display in Windsor.

There are more pictures from the event in this folder along with a some dodgy geezers behind the horse :)

6 Scale Horse : Work in Progress

Well, Brick Street (otherwise known as Richard!) came down to stay again at the weekend.
We spent some time building 6 scale figures based on James Sutton's designs. Also Richard did this excellent 6 Scale Horse!

It is really a WIP at the moment and he has left me with the daunting task of finishing it off, but he hasdone excellent work! A bit more work needs to be done to the head, including finishing off the bridle, but is amazing that he put this togther in about half a day! He had pre-prepared some drawing to help him though, I just wish I was any good at art :(

Cheers Richard, great having you to stay again!

6 Scale Knights

The figures for the 375 castle were designed by James Sutton, another Brickish member in the UK. I had my doubts that figures at this scale would ever look totally believable, but I think you will agree that these do.




James has also made LDraw files and I think that it is his plan to make them available to anyone who wants them at some point, so I expect to see many of minfigs at this scale in the future!

Well done James, I will certainly be making some very soon. They are sooo cute!

6 scale 375 Classic Castle !

Where do I start with this! This castle was built by Duncan Titmarsh, fellow member of the Brickish Association in the UK and was mostly assembled in the last 4 weeks believe it or not!

Check out this picture to really get a sense of the scale of it! (The original size set is on the table to the right).

I was lucky enough to get to help build and take this apart at the Brickish AGM in Sheffield at the weekend. It really is amazing how big this is and you know it is a big LEGO model if you need to look up at it! I always wanted to know how what it felt like to be a borrower :)

The hinges on the castle worked like the official set and proved very handy for the steady stream of people who wanted to get inside it. (Duncan is the guy inside the castle in the earlier picture).
The attention to detail is amazing, even the drawbridge can be raised and lowered. I will talk about the figures in a separate post or this will get too big.

Congratulations Duncan, this certainly raises the bar in terms of scale building and part of me just wants to give up now as this is way out of my league!

You can see the full gallery of pictures here. I hope you agree that we are back with a bang!

6 Scale Collaborative Build

I built a lot of 6 scale bricks yesterday for a collaborative build at the Xmas party of the Brickish Association next week.

I had a lot of white 2x2 round corner bricks (macaroni's) so I built a lot of white ones! I am not sure what the completed model is going to be yet, but will post a report about it after I get back.

6041 - Armour Shop X6

This is a very nice x6 scale set of the classic castle set. I saw it at the Skaerbaek event recently.

It looks very impressive and I loved the horse and the sheild detailing. The minifigs look very effective, but are very hard to do at this scale, especially to get the head/face right. I am glad I build to the larger x10 scale as it is much easier to get things looking rounder!

More photos in my Flickr folder.

More 928 info

I found this on Brickshelf in seb928's gallery. It gives more information about the scaled up 928 that has been featured before on this blog here.

6x Scale 928 Classic Spaceship

This is a 6x scale 928 Classic Spaceship made by Lego. The picture was on a postcard from the '81/'82 Club Rally day in Leeds, UK.

They havn't modelled the studs, so I don't think it's as cute as the x3 924 model blogged earlier, but it was produced 20+ years earlier!

LEGO Builder's Guide Book

If you want to start building to scale, but are unsure where to start you could do worse than to pick up a copy of the 'Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide' by Allan Bedford (No Starch Press)

It has an entire chapter related to the building of larger scale bricks including the topics; 'How It's Done', 'What Scales Work and Why' and 'Approximation'. It has step-by-step examples of how to build a few simple bricks and covers 4:1 to 12:1 scales.

You can buy it online at Amazon;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Builders-Guide-Bedford/dp/1593270542/ref=sr_1_2/026-2197561-8109213?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183319058&sr=8-2

or I noticed it is now available to purchase in the Legoland Parks themselves.

The rest of the book is excellent too and I learnt a lot of good techniques. I also has a wonderful 'Brickopedia' about what parts are avilable and when they were introduced.