Our sister group, LEGO Users of Central NY, are holding their Spring LEGO show in April. We’ve attended in the past and definitely all agree it’s not a show to miss. Finding and parking at their venue is easy, which is a big plus. As long as the weather cooperates, …
Hard to imagine with the crazy weather we’ve had this winter that Easter is just around the corner! Last year two of our members, Leif H. and Mike G. worked on a collaboration to create a small Easter Bunny set. We wanted to share this free downloaded instruction file with …
This post details the build process of my first model in 2017, Sigurd’s General Goods: a medieval general store based off of the store Bits and Pieces from the game Skyrim. Despite being a very detailed model, it came together rather quickly, perhaps partly due to having reference images to …
Taking your build style from traditional block stacking to more advanced techniques often requires understanding lots of technical build points. Here is a great article about the 3.18 mm connection points. http://www.newelementary.com/2016/12/bravo-three-one-eight.html
The LEGO Community Engagement Team (CET) is how our recognized Lego User Group (RLUG) interfaces with LEGO. CET is a valuable resource for our group and helps us to be successful hosting events and growing our memberships ability to build awesome creations. Recently the CET requested a meeting with ambassadors …
Our members are always up to cool projects with Lego. Looking to learn something new today? Check out these great tutorials by Isaac and John S.! Brick Built Tutorials
The main theme at this year’s RMSC display was the 4 elements: earth, fire, water, and wind. Besides creations focused on the elements, there was quite a variety of displays: great ball contraptions, a medieval village, modular buildings, micropolis, and an assortment of other builds.
One of my favorite little Micropolis builds, which was designed with Lego Digital Designer. This build is fairly light in piece count with not many particular hard to find components. Perfect example of how to think differently with bricks at different scales of building. In this build the Lego …
A display focused on a Great Ball Contraption (GBC) setup, and train layout were exhibited at the November 2016 Rochester Mini Maker Faire. The new Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator fit in nicely with the other GBC modules.
Small display of some of our members Micropolis modules to demonstrate the building standard to attendees of our SUNY Geneseo event. At this event attendees learned how to digitally build then create with actual bricks a micropolis module designed by our LUG.
