Lego building tips
My tips will help you to build out to the side, attach Lego bricks upside down, and build at angles.
Studs on sides can be used to attach wings
You can turn plane tail pieces into wings if you use studs on the sides of planes.
A curved slope piece in front of the wing makes the plane look sleek.
Check your pilot can fit inside before you finish your plane! A pilot needs extra room for his arms.
Rocker bearings
Rocker bearings can help you make a door with a hinge.
You need smooth tiles on the top of the door so it fits under the roof.
This plate can be a handle for the door.
Rocker bearings can make doors that open the top of a spaceship.
You can put normal slope bricks on top of the rocker bearings to make a sloped roof.
A long plate makes the middle part of the roof. The plate is also attached to a rocker bearing so the plate can tilt up.
Rocker bearings can help you build at an angle.
This spaceship has 4 wings. The wings are attached to rocker bearings.
The wings can be moved at different angles.
Lots of rocker bearings have been used.
The rocker bearings have been attached to bricks that have studs on their sides.
Cheese wedges
This spaceship uses cheese wedges to join pieces upside down.
The upside down pieces make the bottom part of the cockpit.
Cheese wedges are small slope pieces. See the red cheese wedges below.
These small pieces can fit into the bottom of a plate and the bottom of a brick. They need to go in the corners.
Press the bottoms of the plate and brick together and — hey presto — they're now joined together!
The astronaut is sitting on a bracket. She won't fall out because her feet are stuck to studs.
The bracket is attached to a turntable. So the astronaut can turn around in the cockpit.
Engines on top
The same spaceship has 2 rocket engines on top. The spaceship needs holes on top for the engines' studs to be pressed into. How do we get holes on top? We use our imagination to use special pieces in new ways!
Some bricks have holes in their sides.
We can press the brick's holes into jumper plates. Jumper plates are tiles with a stud in the middle.
A red jumper plate has been pressed onto a rocket engine, and the red jumper plate's stud has been pressed into yellow brick's hole.
The rocket engine has been attached to the spaceship by pressing the yellow brick's hole into another red jumper plate on the spaceship.
We can hide the space at the side by pressing a normal tile onto the studs.