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Hi all,
A few of the Brickville guys spent much of our weekend building an 8 foot model
of the Great Sphinx, which will now become part of a local Lego exhibit running
here in Vancouver until September.
<http://www.brickville.ca<http://www.brickville.ca/images/sphinx-face-sml.gif>>
Click the link above, or below for some full size pictures:
<http://www.brickville.ca/images/sphinx-face-lrg.jpg>
<http://www.brickville.ca/images/sphinx-side-lrg.jpg>
<http://www.brickville.ca/images/sphinx-builders-lrg.jpg>
Some specs:
- About 95% Duplo
- Used some System brick to "smooth out" some of the curves (face, etc.)
- About 35,000 bricks
- Approximately 70 man-hours to build
- A really fun build!
Big thanks to the builders that helped me; Scott Falez (not pictured above),
David Gagnon, and Paul Hetherington.
I'll be posting links to more pictures of this and other creations in a few
months when the exhibit wraps up.
If you're in the Vancouver, BC, Canada area in the next 4 months, come and check
out an awesome exhibit, "LEGO: Secrets Of The Pharaohs" at Science World
(Exhibit -
<http://www.scienceworld.ca/whats_on/exhibitions/featured_exh/legopharaohs.htm>,
Science World - <http://www.scienceworld.ca>).
Cheers,
Robin Sather
Brickville DesignWorks - <http://www.brickville.ca>
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Oops, forgot to post that message in FTX.
Here’s the teaser picture/link ...
Cheers,
Robin Sather
Brickville DesignWorks - http://www.brickville.ca
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Is this a permanent installation? Was the model glued?
-David
In lugnet.announce.moc, Robin Sather wrote:
> Hi all,
> Some specs:
> - About 95% Duplo
> - Used some System brick to "smooth out" some of the curves (face, etc.)
> - About 35,000 bricks
> - Approximately 70 man-hours to build
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Very impressive! I never duplo could do so much, and I don’t feel childish
playing with lego at all now ; )
God Bless,
Nathan
Visit my brickshelf gallery:
(pic=link)
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In lugnet.duplo, David Winkler wrote:
> Is this a permanent installation? Was the model glued?
No, the sphinx is part of a 4 month exhibition, and will be dismantled in
September to arise somewhere else (with another weekend build)!
I wish I'd had your software to help design it, David! I ended up combining a
few different programs and creating an electronic design for part of the model.
My software solution did not do any brick allocation, however, and just gave me
a "skin". The real trick was in estimating the bricks necessary to create it.
I ended up creating a spreadsheet to help me, and it worked fairly well. It
over-estimated what I needed, which of course is better than not having enough!
Robin
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