Illegal lego building techniques

People Are Posting ‘Illegal’ LEGO Building Techniques You Probably Didn’t Know Before (27 Pics)

@tipsandbricks on Instagram: “#676 TECHNIQUES: Greebling techniques - Greebling; this is a piece of LEGO jargon that put simply means mechanical-looking details with no…”

@tipsandbricks on Instagram: “#567 TECHNIQUE DISCUSSION: SNOT techniques This Sunday we'll be discussing SNOT (Studs Not On Top) techniques; any techniques that build in…”

Here are some tablescraps I made up to demonstrate different useful castle techniques for a presentation that I gave to ArchLUG last weekend. I hope you enjoy, and feel free to share these with others.

Probably my craziest technique so far. It uses a whole bunch of weird and rare pieces. (It doesn't work with regular 1x1s btw :/ ) I can't believe this is my 9th wall technique yet - I've been challanging myself to do smaller and finer details for quite some time, but it seems I finally reached the limit of what is possible with lego in terms of detailed walls. Hope you like it and feel free to use :)

Did I tell you panels are useful? :P A fairly simple technique with a similar effect as the fairly common technique using 1x2 tiles held by snot-bricks. There are a few advantages however: - gaps are not as deep - more flexibility for the length of the indidual "bricks" - additional micro details by using cheese slopes - more partsconsuming, though :/ Hope you like it, feel free to use

Everyone who has ever played with LEGOs knows the frustration of missing pieces, blocks not connecting the way you want them to or design being too complicated for you LEGO sets. However, some adults are just too good at breaking the LEGO building games rules. Adult fans of LEGO or AFOL, are people who haven't let their enthusiasm for the building blocks game die. While these enthusiasts respect the activity, some have gone off-map to create - "illegal LEGO building techniques," and they are…

Illegal techniques cause stress on LEGO elements, but we’re going to break the rules! These are all the illegal SNOT techniques for sideways building and stud reversal to make your creations that much more nefariously awesome.

Have you come across a LEGO technique used in an official set or a MOC that left you wondering “how does that even work ?”. It turns out there is a pretty good explanation for every technique out there as long as you don’t mind getting your hands dirty with a little math. In this… Continue reading The Math Behind LEGO Building Techniques – Volume 1