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How do we transport our models?

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How do we transport our models? Is the question we often hear on our exhibitions. Today i have 2 videos showing hour our models are transported:

If you wonder, the boxes are made out of 5 layer cardboard in a  international standard FEFCO301. We ordered them here: http://www.cart-pack.pl/fefco.html but i would recommend finding local producer, as the boxes have to be sent folded, and that would be quite expensive.

As you see on video we have one of the sides unstapled so you can easily open it and remove the model. Cover is fully stapled.

If you have any more questions, please leave them in the comments, either here or on facebook.

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Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science

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Palace of Culture and Science in LEGO by Jetboy of Zbudujmy.to

Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science was originally build by Russian architect Lew Rudniew in 1952-1955. This  LEGO brick version  was built by me (Jetboy) during 2015-2016.

This build consist of almost 30000 bricks, is over 125 cm high, and it is the biggest thing i ever built. It’s base 4×5 baseplates, although i seen bigger things built out of LEGO bricks, is huge enough to call it crazy.

In late 2015 Polish LUGs were approached by LEGO Poland, to build some most iconic Polish landmarks AFOL style fir their Zone of Adult Fans of LEGO. We made projects in LDD, and 4 of them were selected to be built with real bricks. Palace of Culture and Science was one of them. It took me  about half year from starting project in LDD to handing the model to LEGO Poland, it was and adventure of it’s own. I will write in depth article about it soon. Subscribe, so you will not miss it!

Palace of Culture and Science in LEGO by Jetboy of Zbudujmy.to

 

I was building it keeping LEGO Architecture style in mind. That’s why there is that black, stripe around it. The thing is that Palace is so huge, i had to make it 2 studs wide, as one stud tiles would be hardly noticeable.

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Daniel Krentz, retired LEGO designer passed away last weekend.

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Yesterday i read on Mark Staffords flickr photostream:

Daniel Krentz, retired LEGO designer passed away at the weekend.

That is sad news, because Daniel was not only lego designer who
brought us classic sets like Yellow Castle,  but he was probably first Adult Fan of Lego.

Daniel was born and raised in the USA in 1937 living in Colorado and Chicago, he discovered LEGO bricks while at college in the 1960’s. He bought as many brick packs as he could afford on his salary and soon his fan creations came to the attention of LEGO’s US distributor at the time (Samsonite) who began using them as display models to increase sales. Soon after they showed off his MOCs to visiting LEGO reps he was recruited to be a designer in Billund Denmark. He was both the first AFOL and the first non-Dane hired to be a designer by the company. He started work as a designer in the mid 1970’s and continued until the year 2000. In Denmark he fell in love and married his wife who passed in the 1990’s, attended church every Sunday and lived a quiet peaceful life in Billund building with LEGO bricks every single day.

Daniel was the designer of many LEGO sets in his time but among his most iconic sets are:

375
375 Classic Yellow Castle (and all the castle sets that launched with it)

6067 Guarded Inn

6073 Knights Castle

6074 Black Falcons Fortress

6078 Royal Drawbridge

6081 Kings Mountain Fortress

6267
6267 Lagoon Lock Up

6276 Eldorado Fortress

And dozens upon dozens of others.

His funeral is on Tuesday 21st.

If his work or life had a positive impact on yours we will make sure his family gets any messages you would like to leave.

After retiring Daniel has kept his interests in LEGO. I have meet him during last Fan Weekend, unfortunately we did not talk long enough. Daniel had inspired so many builders with his creations… He will be missed.

There has been article about him in 3rd issue of Bricks Culture by    Are J Heiseldal. If you cannot get the paper issue, you can read article on Are’s flickr stream.

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WW2 in LEGO set up in Evansville Museum.

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If this photo is not Crazy enough to be posted on Crazy Builders, then i don’t know what is.

Some crazy builds by Daniel Siskind and friends, and one of the builders that is crazy enough to walk on his hands, as they are setting up weekend exhibition in Evansville Museum, Indiana, USA.

I wish i could go.