If you are a LEGO Castle fan you have likely run across the work of Luke Watkins Hutchinson, a.k.a. Derfel Cadarn. (And if you are not familiar with them, read on – you will be inspired!) He is especially known for his incredibly detailed stone-work on LEGO buildings as well as LEGO landscaping techniques. Take a […] Read more
Advanced Guides for LEGO Fans
(Written by Shade Snake) Would you like to light up your LEGO sets? Brightening up your LEGO cities, cars, spaceships, and other LEGO creations, and make them come alive? LEGO does provide a light & power kit, but unfortunately it is $30, you only get 2 lights, and the battery-pack is really big! :( However there is another solution for […] Read more
(Written by HP) When you build LEGO creations sometimes it’s just difficult to build a huge backdrop to finish your layout. Either you’ll start to get bored creating building after building, or you just don’t have enough LEGO pieces. The LEGO building technique I’m going to share with you today is called forced-perspective, that can remedy this […] Read more
Sometimes even LEGO fans would like to sell their LEGO collection, or part of their collection. This may be due to not having enough room, moving, financial challenges, loosing interest in the hobby (hope not!) or just wanting to free up room for new LEGO sets. ;) There are several venues to sell LEGO – […] Read more
Can’t think of any new things to build with your tub of LEGO bricks? Want step by step instructions for fun LEGO brick creations? Well, if you have an iPhone or iPod you may want to try out this new LEGO app from Brick Tub! Isn’t technology great? :) The Brick Tub LEGO app was created […] Read more
(Written by Tobymacboy) If you are like me, you would want LEGO to be involved in almost everything you do. So, why not make LEGO chocolate?! LEGO actually has a whole line of kitchen supplies for making food fun and interesting for LEGO fans (or finicky eaters). In this tutorial I will show you how to make […] Read more
Remember the LEGO CubeDude craze from a couple of years ago? It all started with PIXAR-animator and LEGO-fan Angus McLane uploading over one hundred of his brick-built LEGO figures on Flickr towards the end of 2009. He called them CubeDudes. :D The stocky, adorable, and easily recognizable characters became instant favorites and everyone started building their own […] Read more
(Written by Sarah) One thing the CUUSOO website doesn’t feature at the top of the front page is official news or bulletins. That doesn’t mean it’s not there, it’s just a little buried at the bottom of each page. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom, you’ll see a link to the […] Read more
(Written by Sarah) As with all things LEGO, I’ve learned it’s very important to give feedback, for things you like and things you don’t like. Feedback is a very powerful tool to affect change. And it’s even more important with CUUSOO because it’s in beta. They do want feedback on how to improve. So I […] Read more
(Written by Sarah) In my last post I introduced LEGO CUUSOO, going over its purpose and highlighting some CUUSOO projects. In this post I’ll give you some tips on navigating and finding LEGO models on CUUSOO as well as highlighting a few more projects that I feel deserve the attention. (Read previous post here: CUUSOO – Where […] Read more
