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Hi again, everybody:
I’m happy to announce I’ve just completed my largest sculpture ever. It’s,
unfortunately, a very plain (boxy) shape, but it was a fun (and blistering)
challenge to build nonetheless.
JPMorgan Chase asked me to build this 6’4” tall model of their corporate logo
for a home-builder expo. In the center of the logo, I added a microscale town
(announced last month) showing
suburban and urban residential development. The logo will appear at trade shows
across the US throughout 2007, before finally setting down in a permanent home.
I’ll keep you posted if it’s coming to your neighborhood. :)
Read about it on MOCpages or
seankenney.com.
The biggest challenge in this project was coming up with a safe and sturdy way
to get each of the “wedges” of Chase’s logo to seemingly float in mid-air.
Three of the four wedges don’t touch each other or the base, and attach only to
an internal metal armature, which is mounted to a wooden base for stability.
There are also some lights mounted into the logo that shine down on the little
city.
The model was built as one inseperable hunk-o-brick, and was so huge it nearly
didn’t fit into the service elevator on it’s way out! It weighs over 400 pounds
and uses about 57,000 bricks. It’s fully glued and took about 310 hours to
build. I’m seeing blue in my sleep.
Anyway, I know it’s not much in the way of a sculptural masterpiece, but it was
an interesting challenge nonetheless and I thought I’d share. At the show, a
few passers-y stood speechless, literally with their jaws down. I suppose many
folks just aren’t aware of us crazy LEGO addicts. :)
Sean
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Sean Kenney
LEGO Certified Professional
http://www.seankenney.com
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In lugnet.announce, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Anyway, I know it’s not much in the way of a sculptural masterpiece, but it
was an interesting challenge nonetheless and I thought I’d share. At the
show, a few passers-y stood speechless, literally with their jaws down. I
suppose many folks just aren’t aware of us crazy LEGO addicts. :)
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Sean, you can count my jaw with the others, down there on the floor.
Truly a massive undertaking, and very well executed. Bravo!
I have had my share of gluing sculpture, and I had slight misaligmnent after
only only 6 inches of gluing. Yours looks dead-on all the way up. How did you
keep it plumb as you glued? Did you use an exterior/interior skeleton form as a
guide?
---Will
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Will Chapman wrote:
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I have had my share of gluing sculpture, and I had slight misaligmnent after
only only 6 inches of gluing. Yours looks dead-on all the way up. How did
you keep it plumb as you glued? Did you use an exterior/interior skeleton
form as a guide?
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Thanks, Will!
The sculpture has two forms of internal support.... a metal armature, and
LEGO-beams. Metal for rigidity, LEGO for accuracy.
The metal armature is mostly for keeping the model upright, and wasn’t welded as
precisely as LEGO modelling really requires... so aligning the model to the
armature proved problematic.
So, I ran LEGO beams front-to-back to keep the longer sides square and parallel
to each other. I borrowed the technique used in the Millyard project... By
turning beams sideways, gravity doesn’t fight with you and, in the case of the
Millyard, 12-foot-long unglued buildings can be lifted without any sagging! I
glued the braces also... figuring that glued ones would be even more invincible.
:)
(Millyard bracing
technique and and its
application.)
The long, horizontal wedges of the Chase logo came out fine using this
technique, but the taller side ones were more problematic. I ran these LEGO
beams front-to-back and left-to-right, criss-crossed. Even still, the model
“paralellogrammed” itself a bit, and by the time I was up to the last 6 inches,
one side was skewed by a whole stud. Fortuntately, there were enough rows left
in the model to counter this by forcing them back to a squared position with a
lot of clamps, pushing, and muttering.
Sean
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Sean Kenney
LEGO Certified Professional
http://www.seankenney.com
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:36:36PM +0000, Sean Kenney wrote:
> I'm happy to announce I've just completed my largest sculpture ever. It's,
> unfortunately, a very plain (boxy) shape, but it was a fun (and blistering)
> challenge to build nonetheless.
> <<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/seankenney/Events/Chase/sean03.jpg>>
Sometimes the more fun ones are the boxy ones.. except for the
blisters. Nice job! :)
-Anne
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