Today, fan-written LEGO programs like Bricksmith, LDraw, and Studio 2.0 allow builders to “try out ideas without needing to dig through your tub of LEGOs or go out and find parts at a garage sale,” says Jacob Moore, creative director at BrickLink, a LEGO fan forum, brick market, and publisher of the Studio 2.0 design program. Like most new LEGO projects, Charles’s ship materialized on a computer before he started clicking bricks together. Whether you’re looking for cutting-edge software to design your next project or a site that can generate a piece-by-piece instruction booklet, it’s likely out there, free for download.Ĭharles’s ship is accurate to the stud except for one thing: The bridge is four studs wider than movie scale. Throughout LEGO’s 62-year history, die-hards have always built wild, imaginative models from their plastic scrap heaps, but a new wave of fan-made digital resources has given builders the tools to craft custom models that rival the detail and integrity of official LEGO sets. “I’ve seen one over 10 feet long.” His construction is distinct because it’s custom, the first such LEGO model he’s built.Ĭharles credits his Star Destroyer to a digital revolution transforming LEGO fandom. “There are definitely bigger and more impressive LEGO Star Destroyers out there,” says Charles, 43, a senior technical animator in Raleigh, North Carolina. But it’s not the mass, weight, or obsessive detail that make Charles’s starship so remarkable.
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