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The Magazine for LEGO® Enthusiasts of All Ages! Issue 58 • August 2019 $8.95 in the US Building LEGO® Warbirds Past and Present! with James Cherry and Ralph Savelsburg! Corvin Stichert’s Seraphim! Instructions 1 82658 00383 8 AND MORE! Issue 58 • August 2019 Contents From the Editor................................................ 2 People João Eínon: Secret Weapon Builder .............................. 3 Tan Yi Liang: Mechs Against NF2 ..................................... 6 Building Nicholas Kramer: Builder of Warbirds and Warships ..........10 You Can Build It: Mini V-22 Osprey .......................................14 Building the Grumman X-29 ....................22 The Aircraft and Helicopters of Carrier Air Wing Eight .........................29 Corvin Stichert: Building Modern & Future Planes .......36 James Cherry: Props, Jets and Bricks! ..............................44 Minifigure Customization 101: Usurping a Theme – Evil Soliloquy, Act II: GEAR! ....................52 You Can Build It: Mini Boeing 747 “Jumbo” Jet .................59 Community From LEGO Education: Introducing SPIKE Prime .........................64 Review: Building LEGO Dream Cars with Mattia Zamboni ...............................70 Community Ads ............................................78 Last Word .........................................................79 Bricks in the Middle .....................................80 People João Eínon with his model. João Eínon is a 30-year-old Portugese LEGO builder. His job is at the ticket office at Portela Airport, located in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. He’s an AFOL who is a plane builder. His latest model is a huge plane that was a version of a flying João Eínon: aircraft carrier, the Daimler Benz Project C. Before that, he has built other aircraft and military vehicles. João has always had LEGO in his house. His father and cousins gave him all their Secret LEGO collections, and after that, he continued to buy more and more. Luckily, he never had a Dark Age and always continued to build even when he got older. However, for many years, he thought that he was the only teenager that contin- Weapon ued to build with LEGO. That changed in 2005 when João did a Google search on “LEGO Military” and found Dan Siskind’s BrickMania website. After contact- ing and talking to him for a little while, Dan explained to João that there were Builder thousands of Adult Fans of LEGO worldwide. Shortly after that, he became a member of the Portugese 0937 Community and since then, he has participated at Article by Joe Meno a number of LEGO events in Portugal, Germany, Denmark, and the United States. João’s favorite LEGO theme is Classic Pirates, but while he has some of those Photography by João Eínon sets at his home, he always prefers to build his own models, specifically military planes, warships and tanks. This, combined with a video game, inspired him to build the Daimler Benz Project C. Many years ago, he bought the PS2 game Secret Weapons over Normandy, which featured this plane as the final Boss. The real plane was a secret project developed by the Germans at the end of World War II. The plane was designed to carry five manned guided bombs under the wings and then launch them against targets with extreme precision. Luckily this plane never flew, but João was so impressed with the size that he had to eventually make it. 2 3 People KS22 Keisha, Beatus Flamma Pattern. Tan Yi Liang: Another view of KS22 Keisha, Beatus Flamma Pattern. Mechs Against NF2 What motivates a builder? What inspires them to make creations? For Tan YL, his current inspiration is a genetic Article and Art by Tan Yi Liang disorder. Rear view of KS22 Keisha, Shooting Star pattern. Before that, Tan had been building other creations for a while. He’s a 34-year-old Malaysian journalist with an English-language Malaysian newspaper, but he started building around the age of five. He spent more time creating his own models than building sets, as he always found sets to be less fulfilling, and harder than creating new models. For Tan, LEGO has always been about creative expression. Tan’s main focus initially were conventional and science- fiction flyers like fighters, starfighters, bombers, and helicopters, as he had a love of aircraft in general. Mecha were actually a sideline to his main interests until 1999, when he discovered the creations of Mladen Pejic. The mecha Mladen built showed Tan what could be done with LEGO given enough practice, passion, and skill. He doesn’t have a favorite theme, but his current favorite set is D.Va and Reinhardt (75973) from LEGO Overwatch. Tan’s work is never far from his initial inspirations—the vast majority of the mechs he builds are flyers; when he comes up with new designs, he tries to create a seamless blend of a fighter, bomber or gunship and large power armor. He’s also learned a lot since he started posting his models online in 2014, when he built to occupy his time after his girlfriend Keisha Petrus passed away from Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2). 6 7 Building The C-47 Skytrain comes to life with motorized propellers. LEGO fans come from all walks of life and all kinds of jobs. Nicholas Kramer has two jobs: His career as a Deputy Sheriff for a department in Wisconsin, and brick designer Nicholas Kramer: and owner/operator of NK Custom Bricks. His company sells custom LEGO kits, including military planes and ships in micro- and minifigure scale. BrickJournal talked to him Builder about his building. of Warbirds BrickJournal: When did you start LEGO building? Nicholas Kramer: I built as a kid years ago, but as all childhoods go, life moved on to other interests and and Warships responsibilities. Did you have a Dark Age when you stopped building? If Interview by Joe Meno you did, what got you back into building? Photography provided by Nicholas Kramer Definitely the Dark Ages. I didn’t touch a LEGO from the mid-’90s until March 2015. I got my daughter a Disney LEGO set for us to build together. 10 11 Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by You Can Build It searching by part number and color) MINI Model Qty Color Part Description 1 Trans Clear 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 1 Trans Clear 85984.dat Slope Brick 31 1 x 2 x 0.667 1 Pearl Gold 90398.dat Minifig Statuette 2 Black 2780.dat Technic Pin w/Friction and Slots 2 Black 15790.dat Propellor 3 Blade 9 Diameter with Technic Peghole 1 Black 55298.dat Minifig Tool Screwdriver 1 Black 90370.dat Minifig Microphone 4 Black 98138.dat Tile 1 x 1 Round with Groove 2 Lt Bluish Grey 3020.dat Plate 2 x 4 1 Lt Bluish Grey 3021.dat Plate 2 x 3 8 Lt Bluish Grey 3022.dat Plate 2 x 2 11 Lt Bluish Grey 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 6 Lt Bluish Grey 3024.dat Plate 1 x 1 1 Lt Bluish Grey 3068b.dat Tile 2 x 2 with Groove 4 Lt Bluish Grey 3069b.dat Tile 1 x 2 with Groove 6 Lt Bluish Grey 3070b.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Groove 2 Lt Bluish Grey 3623.dat Plate 1 x 3 1 Lt Bluish Grey 3795.dat Plate 2 x 6 2 Lt Bluish Grey 4081b.dat Plate 1 x 1 w/Clip Light Type 2 1 Lt Bluish Grey 4085c.dat Plate 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical (Thick U-Clip) Mini V-22 2 Lt Bluish Grey 4274.dat Technic Pin 1/2 3 Lt Bluish Grey 4733.dat Brick 1 x 1 with Studs on Four Osprey Sides 2 Lt Bluish Grey 6541.dat Technic Brick 1 x 1 with Hole Design by Nicholas Kramer 8 Lt Bluish Grey 11477.dat Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 Instructions by Joe Meno 2 Lt Bluish Grey 13547.dat Slope Brick Curved 4 x 1 Inverted 1 Lt Bluish Grey 15068.dat Slope Brick Curved 2 x 2 x 0.667 The V-22 Osprey is the first production tiltrotor plane. The 1 Lt Bluish Grey 15573.dat Plate 1 x 2 w/Groove w/1 Cen- rotors at the tips of the wings can tilt up to 90 degrees, giv- tre Stud, without Understud ing the craft the ability to take off and land like a helicopter. 2 Lt Bluish Grey 18677.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Offset Peghole This lets the Osprey take off and land in a small area. After on Underside takeoff, the rotors are tilted forward and the Osprey per- 1 Lt Bluish Grey 24299.dat Wing 2 x 2 Left forms as a plane, with a speed of 310 miles per hour. 1 Lt Bluish Grey 24307.dat Wing 2 x 2 Right 2 Lt Bluish Grey 28192.dat Slope Brick 45 2 x 1 with Cut- The Osprey is in service in the United States Navy and Air out and without Stud Force as a transport craft for troops and equipment. This model by Nichoas Kramer is small-scale, but has tilting 1 Lt Bluish Grey 34103.dat Plate 1 x 3 with 2 Studs Offset rotors. Have fun building it! 2 Lt Bluish Grey 41769.dat Wing 2 x 4 Right 2 Lt Bluish Grey 41770.dat Wing 2 x 4 Left 2 Lt Bluish Grey 42446.dat Bracket 1 x 1 - 1 x 1 2 Lt Bluish Grey 43857.dat Technic Beam 2 1 Lt Bluish Grey 44728.dat Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 2 2 Lt Bluish Grey 58176.dat Cylinder Domed 1 x 1 x 1.667 with Bar 2 Lt Bluish Grey 61678.dat Slope Brick Curved 4 x 1 2 Lt Bluish Grey 63864.dat Tile 1 x 3 with Groove 2 Lt Bluish Grey 85861.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round w/Open Stud 2 Lt Bluish Grey 87079.dat Tile 2 x 4 with Groove 14 4 Lt Bluish Grey 87087.dat Brick 1 x 1 with Stud on 1 Side 15 4 Lt Bluish Grey 99780.dat Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Up Building The X-29 all ready to fly another test mission.

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