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October 2012: Monthly Builder's Challenge: Food
MorkMan
Phoenix, Arizona, USAMember Posts: 853
October 2012 Building Challenge:
October 16, 2012 is World Food Day, a day recognized internationally by over 150 countries. It is a day to raise awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hunger. In light of this, the first Building Challenge will be themed around food.
Challenge Idea:
Build an item of food with LEGO, keeping it within the Challenge Limitations.
Challenge Limitations:
A) 150 pieces maximum.
How to Enter:
Post one picture per entry to this month's thread. Take the picture to illustrate the entire build.
Deadline:
October 31, 2012
Remember, this is NOT a contest. There are NO winners or prizes. This is a building challenge. All entries are welcome. This is to help us to learn more about and discuss techniques, tips, and dilemmas associated with 'the build'.
The challenge is about the building experience, not necessarily the final result. We should all continue to learn and grow as LEGO builders! Finally, the Challenge Idea should be considered guidance. Feel free to interpret it however you choose. Have fun, and enjoy the build!
October 16, 2012 is World Food Day, a day recognized internationally by over 150 countries. It is a day to raise awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hunger. In light of this, the first Building Challenge will be themed around food.
Challenge Idea:
Build an item of food with LEGO, keeping it within the Challenge Limitations.
Challenge Limitations:
A) 150 pieces maximum.
How to Enter:
Post one picture per entry to this month's thread. Take the picture to illustrate the entire build.
Deadline:
October 31, 2012
Remember, this is NOT a contest. There are NO winners or prizes. This is a building challenge. All entries are welcome. This is to help us to learn more about and discuss techniques, tips, and dilemmas associated with 'the build'.
The challenge is about the building experience, not necessarily the final result. We should all continue to learn and grow as LEGO builders! Finally, the Challenge Idea should be considered guidance. Feel free to interpret it however you choose. Have fun, and enjoy the build!
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Limitation B), I'm assuming no pink flesh minifigures or set specific elements?
:-)
This is Beans on Toast. If you're not from the UK, I expect you'll have to look it up!
What I wanted to try here, was having studs (although the toast itself it studless) facing in all 4 flat directions. Experimented with headlight bricks, which really are little miracles of geometry.
There are just under 50 pieces in the toast, and 100 orange beans (1x1 round bricks would have been better I think, but they aren't available in orange).
I wanted to try doing a darker edge to the toast (for a crust), but unfortunately same of the curved slopes I've used are not available in reddish brown. Also would have liked to do 2 pieces of toast, but would then have only had a handful of beans to get inside 150 pieces.
Thanks for looking, and comments are appreciated.
Or yellow plates for cheese.
Would love to see the crusted version... maybe you can hide the non-brown bits with beans??!
We're only meant to put one photo here, so here's a link to my flickr:
flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/8090137513/
Pancakes with maple syrup, a strawberry and some massive blueberries.
About 150 pieces with the syrup cup.
Comments, criticism welcome.
In case you don't get it:
Crab Stig's
(Crab Sticks - Get it??).... I'll just get my coat....
And thanks to @Morkman for organizing this
I think it looks good enough to eat!
It will be difficult to get a studless plate that big while keeping down the number of parts, but maybe a few 90498. Works especially well for the Japanese style square plates.
I am under the 150 parts count, maybe I can scrounge up something plate like from my collection.
On another note, any word on Novembers challenge?
Billy
@MorkMan Thank you for putting this together!
Billy
As for my submission, you've all put mine to shame.
See if you can spot the LEGO lime.
I genuinely can't tell how you built it though - I think that's a great sign! Is the roll 2 studs thick maybe? And wouldn't look quite right from some other angles? Or am I just being thick?
@Morkman. Even in this studs up, no-plate version, I think the lime would look better if you left off the 8 corner studs.
@morkman the lime looks great. I think you did a great job getting the shape with the limited pieces you have.
I also feel that the addition of the monkeys presents some sort of aesthetic dilemma. Is this human-scale and therefore a tiny banana? Or is it monkey-scale and therefore a giant banana? Or is it both? Or am I reading too much art into this slightly pathetic Lego creation? :P
(Edit: You can't quite get a feel for the shape of the banana because the right-hand monkey's paw is in front of the end of it, but that's a cheese slope at the end, which does give it quite a banana-ish shape.)