Remarkable 5.7m-high recreation of Apollo 11.

[progressoid]

This amazing recreation of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 was made by Lego fan Ryan McNaught from 120,000 plastic bricks.

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Father-of-two Mr McNaught will display his sculpture, which took 250 hours to make, at the Brickvention event in Victoria this month.

The Melbourne-based artist has populated his wonderful construction with tiny Lego astronauts, fuelling up the rocket ship, travelling in Nasa's astrovan and even stopping for lunch. A few droid stowaways are also amusingly scattered around Mr McNaught's impressively accurate rocket.

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The astonishingly realistic model even has cutaway sections so that people can look at its workings on the inside.

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The artist, who calls himself The Brickman, believes he 'never grew up'. The married father of twin boys was previously an IT manager and is now one of only 13 certified Lego professionals in the world.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086640/Plastic-fantastic-Lego-fan-builds-5-7m-high-recreation-Apollo-11-launch-rocket-using-120-000-bricks.html#ixzz1loOeNsU2

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1. WAIT --

they actually have a certification program for "lego professionals"?


DAMN! i KNEW i shouldn't have hired all those lego builders without proper credentials!

[pokerfan]

2. I knew I never should have given up the legos

That could have been me! I thought this thread was going to be about a model rocket:

Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 1/10th scale model of the historic rocket—built in his garage near Akron, Ohio—lifted off from a field on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The 36-ft.-tall rocket was the largest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully—and at 1648 pounds, also the heaviest. Eves' single-stage behemoth was powered by nine motors—eight 13,000 Newton-second N-Class motors and a 77,000 Newton-second P-Class motor. (Five Newton-seconds is equivalent to about a pound of thrust.) All told, the array generated enough force to chuck a Volkswagen more than a half-mile—and sent the Saturn V more than 4440 feet straight up. It was arguably the most audacious display of raw power ever generated by an amateur rocket.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/4315103

[progressoid]

4. OK, that was frickin awsome.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. Which Estes motors does that monster take?

[Diclotican]

11. pokerfan

pokerfan

That was COOL Impressive

Diclotican

[midnight]

12. 13,000 for fuel that burned up in ten seconds, but quite worth the show...What a talented man...

[d_r]

3. ok that is very cool, esp. the r2 unit, but-

[tech_smythe]

9. OH GOD THE 80'S!!!!

those shoulders, those outfits!!!!
the economy, the jobs, etc....
ok so not everything about the 80's sucked lemons.

[progressoid]

5. Here's the original for reference:

[tclambert]

6. It's legos! You didn't say it was legos!

That's like 20 ft. tall and made of legos!

[progressoid]

7. Oops. Apologies.

IT'S LEGOS!!

[Doc Holliday]

8. It's Legos. And....?

That's frickin' cool! I wouldn't have the patience to build it. The attention to detail, of course, is what makes it.

Thinking of Legos makes me think of the first time my daughter dropped an S-bomb on her dad...but that's a story for another place.

Thanks, progressoid.