Wed Feb 8, 2012, 01:38 PM
progressoid (45,570 posts)
Remarkable 5.7m-high recreation of Apollo 11.
This amazing recreation of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 was made by Lego fan Ryan McNaught from 120,000 plastic bricks.
... 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. ... The astonishingly realistic model even has cutaway sections so that people can look at its workings on the inside. ... 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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 Remarkable 5.7m-high recreation of Apollo 11. (Original post) |
progressoid | Feb 2012 | OP |
| unblock | Feb 2012 | #1 | |
| pokerfan | Feb 2012 | #2 | |
| progressoid | Feb 2012 | #4 | |
| ChairmanAgnostic | Feb 2012 | #10 | |
| Diclotican | Feb 2012 | #11 | |
| midnight | Feb 2012 | #12 | |
| d_r | Feb 2012 | #3 | |
| tech_smythe | Feb 2012 | #9 | |
| progressoid | Feb 2012 | #5 | |
| tclambert | Feb 2012 | #6 | |
| progressoid | Feb 2012 | #7 | |
| Doc Holliday | Feb 2012 | #8 |
Response to progressoid (Original post)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 03:14 PM
2. I knew I never should have given up the legos
Response to pokerfan (Reply #2)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 03:32 PM
progressoid (45,570 posts)
4. OK, that was frickin awsome.
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Response to pokerfan (Reply #2)
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 05:02 AM
10. Which Estes motors does that monster take?
Response to pokerfan (Reply #2)
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 05:10 PM
11. pokerfan
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pokerfan
That was COOL  Impressive
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Response to pokerfan (Reply #2)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 01:26 AM
12. 13,000 for fuel that burned up in ten seconds, but quite worth the show...What a talented man...
Response to progressoid (Original post)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 03:20 PM
d_r (6,105 posts)
3. ok that is very cool, esp. the r2 unit, but-
Response to progressoid (Original post)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 03:33 PM
progressoid (45,570 posts)
5. Here's the original for reference:
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Response to progressoid (Original post)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 04:05 PM
6. It's legos! You didn't say it was legos!
Response to tclambert (Reply #6)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 09:10 PM
progressoid (45,570 posts)
7. Oops. Apologies.
Response to progressoid (Original post)
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 08:12 PM
8. It's Legos. And....?
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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.  |
