Building up your LEGO® Technique



LEGO® is probably one of the oldest type of toys available in the market, being around since the early 1930's, LEGO® has become a natural household name and you've probably played with it when you were young, or maybe, are still playing with it. LEGO® is such a popular name that it has become a name for any form of brick toy, even if the, ehem, brand is different, children still call them LEGO®.


But even if the LEGO® company insist that their products are for kids, and haven't really advertised for their more, ehem, older fans, this doesn't keep the LEGO® Fanatics from coming and coming and building and building, larger, more perfect LEGO® Sculptures year after year with their own LEGO® techniques. Its a fun way to pass time, and once you've mastered the LEGO® techniques, you'll be tablet to make your own LEGO® sculptures with more ease.

So if you're one of those adults, who like to experiment with LEGO®, and are just starting up your LEGO® Technique, here are a few LEGO® techniques in building and assembling a few of the basic elements of your very own LEGO® land.

Trees

Now if you're making larger scale models of LEGO®s, you'd need a LEGO® technique that enables you to make larger LEGO® trees, for your larger size models. LEGO® tress are usually one piece ones but are of course too small. A good LEGO® technique to make larger trees is by using the base of a palm LEGO® tree, and inserting into it a flex tube just wide enough to be secured in place. Then you can insert LEGO® plant leaves, onto the flex tube. Make sure that the first leaf you insert is through the middle so as to make your creation more stable, then from this, branch on out from the center leaf. Make the top leaf center, to seal your creation.

Connecting two 1xN Plates

If for some reason, you'd want to connect two 1xN plates, both with their studs out, here is a good LEGO® technique invented by Derek Schin from www.LEGO®fan.org/forum, he used a rubber tubing to attach the two inside tubes of the two LEGO® tiles together. You first insert a small piece about a quarter of a centimeter long of rubber tubing, attach it to the inner tube of the LEGO® tile, and attach the other inner tube of the other LEGO® piece to the excess rubber tubing. This LEGO® technique is good to use if the plates aren't for support as the connections aren't really that sturdy.

LEGO® Technique for Triangular Arches

If you are building one of your LEGO® castles, you would know that Curved arches are available in the set, but just for the heck of it let’s say that you wanted to use triangular arches instead of curved ones? Here is a good LEGO® technique that you can use to make triangular arches without having to re-melt your LEGO®s. The LEGO® technique is to superimpose the arches alternately such that, the short strain side of one arch is in the middle of the apex of the curve of the other, do this with more than two arches, arranged in a line, the result of this LEGO® technique is triangular shaped arch.