Details: Inspired by TV home design shows, these two rooms (in roughly a miniland or Belville scale) get the modern look down just right. The bed makes use of one of those odd pink-ish colors (looks like magenta to me), and sits on top of a raised floor made using plates and tiles inlaid sideways (at two different angles). Another nice touch is the blinds, which use some loose angle work and even include a rope so the inhabitants can adjust them. The pillows give great use to a number of difficult to use parts, mostly in rare colors. The lamp even uses an upside-down Scala flower pot!
The three flickr photos (one of which is shown above) are just a teaser - check out the Brickshelf gallery for close-ups of each detail and piece of furniture.
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Your Belville/Scala/Technic characters don't have enough nice furniture. The sad fact of the matter is that it's impractical for most of us (although it is possible) to build a proper house with walls and furniture at that scale. Even rarer than nice furniture this size is functional furniture this size. This recliner is an interesting start, and it looks like it works fairly well. You can see more of how it works by looking at the photos at the link above.
Take this as a challenge, too: this recliner really reclines, but the foot rest is always in the up position. Can you build a recliner that has a moving foot rest as well as a reclining back?
Details: Front-loading washing machines sound easy enough to build until you realize how difficult it is to build the round front at a decent scale. A simple studs-not-on-top technique handles it here - if you look closely, you'll notice that the bottom of this model is assembled with the studs on top of the LEGO bricks facing downwards. A 3x3 dish element on a pole fits nicely with the arches to complete the front-loading mechanism. The result is a bit too large for minifigs, but is at a decent scale for Miniland, Scala, or Belville people. For those of you trying to build this at home (you know your dollhouse needs one!), take a close look at the photo I've featured here and make sure you have enough of the 'Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 4' element on hand.
Details: We previously featured an animated Pirates tale created by this builder, but now the brilliant motorized antics are applied to this gorgeous music-box style bignette featuring dancing minifigures. The video and pictures from the site above do a good job of summing this up, but I thought this information found on the related YouTube page was worth sharing here:
Recently, my daughter Alexandra told me that there are no much LEGO Mindstorms NXT projects for girls. So, after building arcade games, pirates, Bionicle robots, Power Miners vehicles, stadiums and other motorized/automated models (that both my sons have much enjoyed) it was time to create something just for her.
The idea was to build a classic (but fully automated) music-box with a ballerina. With the time, the original idea has changed a lot and finally 14 LEGO minifigs have been NXTfied so to dance in front of a Crystal Palace. The actual chorography (synchronization/NXT-G programming) was based on the famous Blue Danube by Johann Strauss. During video editing I decided to use a royalty free tune, to avoid any undesirable (due to copyright) incident. Thus youll be able to see only a portion of my minifigs dancing skills.
Dedicated to my princess Alexandra! (and to all FFOLs!)
Visit http://web.me.com/NeXTSTORM for more pictures.
Magic starts by pressing one of the transparent pink flowers which works as a secret button (NXT Touch Sensor). Then the two LEDs (one PF Light pair located at the base of the flowers stand) flashes and the music box opens (LEGO Pneumatics) by separating the NXTree construction in two pieces. After this, the Crystal Palace appears (Linear Actuator) and a center dance stage with 7 minifig couples is lifted (NXT motor) in front of it. The lights (7 PF Light pairs) of the Crystal Palace turn on, start dimming and then the dance commence.
The first (master) NXT Intelligent Brick which is mounted on the back of the box controls all the action. The brick is connected with one NXT motor, one NXT touch sensor, one HiTechnic IR-Link and one PF Light per using cable converters. Additionally, the master NXT brick controls PF Lights and Pneumatics via IR-Link and the slave NXT brick via Bluetooth. The second NXT Brick (slave) is responsible for the dance.
Elements of The magic NXTree and the Crystal Palace Dance: -Two Intelligent NXT Bricks -Three NXT Servo Motors -One NXT Touch Sensor -One NXT IR Link (HiTechnic) -One Converter Cable for Mindstorms NXT -Two Power Functions IR Receivers -Two Power Functions Polarity Switches -Three Power Functions M-Motors -Eight Power Functions Lights -Three Power Functions Extension Wires -One Power Functions Battery Box -One Linear Actuator -Two Pneumatic Cylinders -One Pneumatic Switch -One Pneumatic Airtank -One Pneumatic Small Pump -One Pneumatic Pump (Manual)
Thanks to my LEGO brother bazmarc (http://www.youtube.com/user/bazmarc) who gave the title of this movie (The Magical NXTree and the Crystal Palace Dance).
The movie was filmed at Vitina, Greece (http://www.maplandia.com/greece/pelopon issos/arkadhia/vitina/) on the 9th of August 2009.
Thank you ALL for watching and stay tuned (...or even better subscribe now) for more LEGO creations!
Details: There aren't enough awesome, fully fleshed-out dollhouses built in Belville scale. Not only is this a full building - but it's fully furnished. There are even little Belville inhabitants living inside.
Details: This charming Belville layout gives us some interesting examples of regular parts and minifig-scale elements working well in a larger-scale layout. I'm finding the use of rare Aquazone baseplates here to be particularly entertaining. I have my suspicions about the amount of pink bricks on display here, but it might be possible to do that without cheating (I haven't exactly been buying every "pink pack" that they put out).
Inspired by TV home design shows, these two rooms (in roughly a miniland or Belville scale) get the modern look down just right. The bed makes use of one of those odd pink-ish colors (looks like magenta to me), and sits on top of a raised floor made using plates and tiles inlaid sideways (at two different angles). Another nice touch is the blinds, which use some loose angle work and even include a rope so the inhabitants can adjust them. The pillows give great use to a number of difficult to use parts, mostly in rare colors. The lamp even uses an upside-down Scala flower pot!
