After the above brief introduction, it goes right into providing step-by-step instructions for each model. Get ready to unleash your creativity and start building armies of… Tiny LEGO Wonders! However, this book presents models that are fun to play with and even have working features! This book, by providing step-by-step instructions for all the models, will help you to discover the tricks of building in small scale while still including lots of detail. Building in small scale can be very challenging and sometimes, in order to get the perfect shape, compromises need to be made. Most of them are reproductions of vehicles that exist in real life – but even at this small scale, they are instantly recognizable. I also like the introduction of the book: Bigger isn’t always better… This book aims to collect the finest tiny, but detailed, LEGO models created by some of the best model designers worldwide. Imagine what you can build with just a handful of LEGO bricks–almost anything! In Tiny LEGO Wonders, you’ll create mini-scale models of real vehicles like a space shuttle, jets, planes, and helicopters, France’s high-speed TGV train, F1 racecars, muscle cars, cargo, cruise, wooden ships, and more! Let your creativity run wild! – Hardcover. These fun, compact designs will inspire you to get creative with as few as nine LEGO pieces. Here is the official description of the book: In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to build 40 miniature models of race cars, airplanes, ships, trains, and more. Tiny LEGO Wonders doesn’t just include models from Mattia, but also other LEGO fans like Thomas Lockwood from the USA, Liam Bates from the UK, Peer Kreuger from France, Robert Heim and Alexander Bugiel from Germany, Matteo Russolillo from Italy, Jarek Ksiazczyk from Poland, George Panteleon from Greece, Ngoc Truong from Vietnam, and zizy from Japan. Since I really enjoy micro-building, I was very happy to hear about a new book called Tiny LEGO Wonders – Build 40 Surprisingly Realistic Mini Models!The book was put together by Mattia Zamboni, who was the co-author of both volumes of The LEGO Build-It Book: Amazing Vehicles (see link to review at the end of this post). You can watch all the episodes here: LEGO Micro-Building Tutorials with Micro Square If you would like to get an introduction to the secrets of micro-building, I recommend checking out LEGO’s own series of video-tutorials titled Micro Square. The point is that building small is fun, educational, and both easy and challenging at the same time. LEGO’s own designers use micro-building techniques in full-size LEGO sets, but often in a large model those clever techniques get buried, or at least not as much appreciated as they should be. While the shape of an element is fixed, the orientation is flexible, and the scale can also dramatically change based on how the piece interacts with your model. Instead of always using bricks to build up walls in minifig-scale creations, you realize that if you turn the same bricks sideways or upside down, they can be a milliard of other things besides just being bricks in a wall. I do find that micro-building will improve your skills, even if you normally build minifig-scale or larger models, because you become more intimately familiar with LEGO elements. Micro-building can be a hobby on its own, or it could be the way to pass the time in between larger projects. Building small really makes you look at pieces more carefully, and see how you can utilize their unique features to the fullest extent. A simple brick can become an entire skyscraper, or a small plate can be a full sail on a tiny ship. Another aspect of micro-building I really like is that building in such a small scale really highlights the shapes of even ordinary LEGO elements. You can create some very impressive models with just a handful of LEGO elements without taking up too much time, space, and financial resources. Micro-building with LEGO has always been one of my favorite hobbies.
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