The unofficial LEGO builder's guide
The real fun of LEGO building lies in creating your own models from choosing the subject to clicking that final brick into place. Learn how in The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, CA :
No Starch Press
c2013.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628555006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Brief Contents""; ""Contents in Detail""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1: The LEGO System: Endless Possibilities""; ""A Brick Vocabulary""; ""Sizing Up the Elements""; ""The Stud""; ""The Tube""; ""The Brick""; ""The Plate""; ""The Slope""; ""Specialized Elements""; ""Arch Pieces""; ""Tiles and Panels""; ""Cylinders and Cones""; ""Cylinder Plates""; ""Baseplates""; ""Decorative Elements""; ""Precision, Geometry, and Color""; ""Why Precision Manufacturing Matters""; ""Fun with LEGO Geometry""; ""The Colors""; ""For the Color Challenged""; ""Review: The LEGO System""
- ""2: Back to Basics: Tips and Techniques""""Decisions, Decisions: The Best Ways to Connect Bricks""; ""Stacking""; ""Overlapping""; ""Staggering""; ""Building Walls""; ""Connecting Walls""; ""Straight Bricks Can Make Round Walls""; ""Bracing: Unseen but Not Forgotten""; ""Bracing = Beams + Columns""; ""Beams""; ""Columns""; ""How to Separate Pieces""; ""Review: Basic Building Principles""; ""1. Build big but think small.""; ""2. Pick the right bond pattern.""; ""3: Minifig Scale: Oh, What a Wonderful Minifig World It Is!""; ""Scale: It�s All Relative""; ""Creating a Minifig-Scale Building""
- ""Building Two Versions of the Train Station""""Bill of Materials: The Parts You�ll Need to Make This Model""; ""Step by Step: Train Station Construction Details""; ""Submodel: The Train Station Roof""; ""Substitution: When Other Parts Will Do""; ""Substitute Walls""; ""Substitute Arches""; ""Substitute Windows""; ""Substitute Roofs""; ""Review: Building Techniques and Alternatives""; ""4: Miniland Scale: The Whole World in Miniature""; ""Miniland Scale: Bigger but Still Small""; ""Creating a Basic Miniland Figure""; ""The Best Bits: Useful Pieces for Miniland Figures""
- ""A Basic Miniland Figure""""Creating Characters with Personality""; ""Heads and Hats""; ""Shirts and Skirts""; ""Lots of Legs""; ""Arms and Accessories""; ""On The Run: Making Miniland Figures Come to Life""; ""Miniland Buildings""; ""Building Facades""; ""Street Life: A Simple Downtown Scene in Miniland Scale""; ""Behind the Scenes""; ""Propping Up the Facade""; ""Review: Miniland Scale, Big Possibilities""; ""5: Jumbo Elements: Building Bigger Bricks""; ""How to Scale Up""; ""Building the Walls of the Jumbo Brick""; ""Other Parts, Same Technique�More Ways to Make Jumbo Bricks""
- ""Building with Jumbo Bricks""""The Best Solutions from the Simplest Plans""; ""Other Scales: Which Ones Work and Why""; ""Approximation""; ""Review: Jumbo Bricks Are Just the Beginning""; ""6: Microscale Building: More Than Meets the Eye""; ""Getting Started: Ignore the Details""; ""Translating Ideas into Bricks""; ""Reviewing the Technique""; ""Replacing Full-Size Parts with Microscale Stand-Ins""; ""Microscale Wheels""; ""Microscale Windows""; ""Instructions for Building a Microscale House""; ""Review: Things to Build in Microscale""; ""7: Sculptures: The Shape of Things to Build""
- ""Spheres: Round and Round They Go""
