Tag Archives: Instructions

Can I have instructions?

For once the answer is yes.

Ronald Vallenduuk (Duq) has recently added a couple of sets of instructions to Flickr and kindly showed me how to get LPub working again. I actually reverse engineered the seat gondola many years back after seeing a picture of it and coveting it so it’s great to see Ronald making it available to all and sundry.

I used to make more instructions but had to stop for a while due to a problem I had with LPub. With Ronald’s fix I’m back and running so did some instructions for my latest.

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Space marine light assault vehicle and instructions

Tyler Clites has built the space marine light assault vehicles (SMLAV) inspired by the Warthog from Halo. By popular demand, Tyler created a set of quality instructions available for purchase at a very reasonable price of $5. Having built the SMLAV from his instructions, I can say that parts for the model are easy to acquire and the model itself is very solid.

Check out these fun variations of the SMLAV and military variants.

Attacking LEGO brushfires with my Wildland Ultra XT fire engine

The fire engine I built last year was mainly inspired by other LEGO builders, so I wanted to design something from scratch on my own. Here’s the result:

My brother sent me a link to the S&S Fire Apparatus Co’s awesome Wildland Ultra XT, and I just had to build this amazing vehicle — used by the US Bureau of Land Management and local departments where brushfires are common, such as the San Diego Fire Department.

Check out more photos in my LEGO S&S Wildland Ultra XT photoset on Flickr, plus instructions.

Build your own Penrose triangle

Peter Lea has made instructions to build your own Penrose triangle:

It’s not impossible, because Jarek has shown that it can be done! There’s no photo-editing involved either. The whole process took him only five minute (four to find the camera batteries)!

Via Klocki

How the west was won

I thought that it might be nice to do something for the community to finish off 2008 (fixed thanks). So I’ve begun a project to develop a Western Train along with some instructions. You can find the instructions here or as an MPD.

I’ll be adding new posts when I complete new stock so check back regularly.

Hope you enjoy it and may 2009 be a great year.

Tim

Upcoming 8259 Mini Dozer + animated instructions

The upcoming 2009 Technic set, 8259 Mini Dozer, looks very promising and has inspired eager fans to create their own before the set hits stores.

What amazes me the most is this set of animated instructions created by AVCAmpos:

Via Klocki

Instructions for 4999 Vestas Windmill

Although the sought-after Vestas Windmill will not be available for the general public, you can attempt to build your own through the official instructions from LEGO. The instructions come in part 1 and part 2.

Brent Waller releases Batman Tumbler instructions

We featured Brent Waller’s desert-camo Tumbler back in April, and now he’s released full instructions for the black version of his LEGO Batman Tumbler.

You can download the instructions from Brent’s site (4.5 MB PDF), or view the parts list and page-by-page instructions in HTML.

News: Can you help save the Building Instructions Portal?

Several years ago, Jake McKee, the former “community guy” for The LEGO Company, created the Building Instructions Portal (currently unavailable).

Due to real-life priorities, Jake announced over the weekend on LUGNET that he’s looking for someone to whom he can hand over the reigns of the site.

Read all about it on LUGNET, but in particular Jake is looking for someone familar with Adobe ColdFusion. (I miss Allaire…)

EDIT: Jake clarifies:

I’m looking for someone interested in a solution, which may or may not be based on ColdFusion. Since the site AND the database need to be recreated from the ground up (because both were done by a foolish young code noob…me), language doesn’t really matter.

News: Ross Crawford’s LEGO Instructions Cross-Reference Now Linkable

Ross Crawford announced today (well, technically tomorrow) that he has made queries to his LEGO Instructions Cross-reference database linkable using Web addresses.

For those of you unfamiliar with Ross’s ongoing project, The LEGO Company releases instructions for older sets on LEGO.com. However, the instruction code LEGO uses doesn’t necessarily match the set number you might be familiar with from the box or sites like Peeron and Brickset. Ross has painstakingly cross-referenced the LEGO instruction code with the set numbers.

So, head on over to Brickley’s Words and try out the instruction cross-reference tool:

http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29

Mecha Instructions from Soren. w00t!

Ever wanted to build a mecha of your own? Not satisfied with puzzling out building techniques from Brickshelf pictures? Wonder no more! Soren Roberts and Tim Gould have teamed up to announce step-by-step instructions for Soren’s RGM-79C GM mecha:

View the partslist and download the instructions (in PDF format).

(Okay, so I have some catching up to do… Credit to mumu for blogging this first.)