Best of BrickNerd - Article originally published July 28, 2022. So lights are cool, right? Everything looks more awesome when you add lights to it: Houses, cars, PCs (you have no idea how much RGB madness is pumping out of the thinky box on my table)… and especially LEGO. In the past here at BrickNerd, Are talked about why one would want to add lights to an existing MOC, and Rob from Brickstuff gave a fantastic tour of his company’s history and offerings. We’ve also had Ann delve into how you can use existing lights on hand for spectacular results in MOC photography. But in my admittedly lackluster research effort, I have yet to see a good overview of what all the options are for LEGO lighting. So that’s what we’ll do here: This article will delve into your options, what you might want to use lighting for, what types of...

To help preserve some of the best LEGO content from the community, today we are pleased to share a guest article from Katie Walker who walks us through the steps of creating a LEGO cheese slope mosaic. Katie was originally one of the main contributors at MosaicBricks, a LEGO blog started by Casey McCoy that ended in 2014. Say Cheese! One of my favorite things to do with LEGO is to use cheese slopes to make different mosaics. I once took a series of photographs that show how to make a simple stained-glass window out of cheese slopes. I'm going to present them here, with some instructions on how to do it. First off, here is the final result: Any of the colors can be changed, of course; I love to take a design that fits into a certain space, and then change the coloring repeatedly until I find all the...

BrickHeadz are an interesting product. They are supposed to be a recognizable brick-built, blocky visualization of your favorite character from movies, TV shows, books, or even LEGO-owned themes. Yet one of their key features is how static they are. There is little to no inherent movement in a BrickHeadz character which makes photographing them both easy yet hard because they are made in the style of figurines. Today I will try to change that. The LEGO Group generously provided BrickNerd with these three new Harry Potter-themed BrickHeadz, and the team challenged me to give them a little bit more life. Harry Potter's Wizarding World is full of magical spells, moving portraits and surprising transformations. For today’s charms class, we're going to try six fun "spells" to create scenes with movement to bring these characters to life. Improvised Action Poses The most popular sport in the magical world, Quidditch, is an extremely...

It’s always nice to see a great MOC with a neat backstory, like these incredible action figures made by JNCE. At first glance, you just see two Chinese warriors, but there’s more to it—and JNCE was willing to share that with us at BrickNerd in a quick interview! Marco: Can you tell me what inspired you to build these action figures?  JNCE: There was a MOC contest in the Chinese community and the theme was something related to Chinese traditional culture with double/dual definition. It was a little bit difficult for me to find a good subject to build. Finally, I choose these action figures to reflect Chinese Door Gods which I thought is quite suitable to the requirement. Marco: Can you explain what these figures mean in Chinese culture? JNCE: It's an old tradition in China that people post two images of ancient generals (Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong) on...

I’m slightly annoyed writing this because the information I got from various people working at the LEGO booth regarding all of their giveaways was incorrect. Now it could be that at the time I was asking my questions, the answers I was given was correct at the moment and that plans changed due to various […] The post LEGO Giveaways at SDCC 2023 appeared first on FBTB. Original link