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Related: About this forumRemarkable 5.7m-high recreation of Apollo 11.
This amazing recreation of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 was made by Lego fan Ryan McNaught from 120,000 plastic bricks.
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Father-of-two Mr McNaught will display his sculpture, which took 250 hours to make, at the Brickvention event in Victoria this month.
The Melbourne-based artist has populated his wonderful construction with tiny Lego astronauts, fuelling up the rocket ship, travelling in Nasa's astrovan and even stopping for lunch. A few droid stowaways are also amusingly scattered around Mr McNaught's impressively accurate rocket.
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The astonishingly realistic model even has cutaway sections so that people can look at its workings on the inside.
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The artist, who calls himself The Brickman, believes he 'never grew up'. The married father of twin boys was previously an IT manager and is now one of only 13 certified Lego professionals in the world.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086640/Plastic-fantastic-Lego-fan-builds-5-7m-high-recreation-Apollo-11-launch-rocket-using-120-000-bricks.html#ixzz1loOeNsU2
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Father-of-two Mr McNaught will display his sculpture, which took 250 hours to make, at the Brickvention event in Victoria this month.
The Melbourne-based artist has populated his wonderful construction with tiny Lego astronauts, fuelling up the rocket ship, travelling in Nasa's astrovan and even stopping for lunch. A few droid stowaways are also amusingly scattered around Mr McNaught's impressively accurate rocket.
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The astonishingly realistic model even has cutaway sections so that people can look at its workings on the inside.
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The artist, who calls himself The Brickman, believes he 'never grew up'. The married father of twin boys was previously an IT manager and is now one of only 13 certified Lego professionals in the world.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086640/Plastic-fantastic-Lego-fan-builds-5-7m-high-recreation-Apollo-11-launch-rocket-using-120-000-bricks.html#ixzz1loOeNsU2
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Remarkable 5.7m-high recreation of Apollo 11. (Original Post)
progressoid
Feb 2012
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(52,317 posts)1. WAIT --
they actually have a certification program for "lego professionals"?
DAMN! i KNEW i shouldn't have hired all those lego builders without proper credentials!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)2. I knew I never should have given up the legos
That could have been me! I thought this thread was going to be about a model rocket:
Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 1/10th scale model of the historic rocketbuilt in his garage near Akron, Ohiolifted off from a field on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The 36-ft.-tall rocket was the largest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfullyand at 1648 pounds, also the heaviest. Eves' single-stage behemoth was powered by nine motorseight 13,000 Newton-second N-Class motors and a 77,000 Newton-second P-Class motor. (Five Newton-seconds is equivalent to about a pound of thrust.) All told, the array generated enough force to chuck a Volkswagen more than a half-mileand sent the Saturn V more than 4440 feet straight up. It was arguably the most audacious display of raw power ever generated by an amateur rocket.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/4315103
progressoid
(49,999 posts)4. OK, that was frickin awsome.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)10. Which Estes motors does that monster take?
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)11. pokerfan
pokerfan
That was COOL Impressive
Diclotican
midnight
(26,624 posts)12. 13,000 for fuel that burned up in ten seconds, but quite worth the show...What a talented man...
d_r
(6,907 posts)3. ok that is very cool, esp. the r2 unit, but-
tech_smythe
(190 posts)9. OH GOD THE 80'S!!!!
those shoulders, those outfits!!!!
the economy, the jobs, etc....
ok so not everything about the 80's sucked lemons.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)5. Here's the original for reference:
tclambert
(11,087 posts)6. It's legos! You didn't say it was legos!
That's like 20 ft. tall and made of legos!
progressoid
(49,999 posts)7. Oops. Apologies.
IT'S LEGOS!!
Doc Holliday
(719 posts)8. It's Legos. And....?
That's frickin' cool! I wouldn't have the patience to build it. The attention to detail, of course, is what makes it.
Thinking of Legos makes me think of the first time my daughter dropped an S-bomb on her dad...but that's a story for another place.
Thanks, progressoid.