Lego Minifigure Display Case

I've been working on a better way to display my minifigures than just the regular plate they give you in the packets. I built little cubbie holes in a building to fit minifigures, it works great! Also, a reason that it looks really cool is that you can customize the building to match the minifigures! I made a display case for my Ninjago minifigures and my Castle minifigures.

Lego Technique Diagonal Stripping

This technique is generally used on buildings. When using the Diagonal Stripping Technique you cannot just place the normal and inverted brick slope bricks casually against each other, because of the overlap. Slope bricks are available in a variety of colors. These slope bricks are quite common and are great to be used on a Lego model.

SNIR (Studs Not In a Row)

You probably have not heard of this technique, SNIR Studs Not In a Row, very useful on walls and other things. In Lego, studs (nubs, dots, etc.) are in a row, and a straight one. Using SNIR  makes studs be in zigzags or diagonal lines. This technique comes very handy when fighting the BIG grey Wall Syndrome, (in previous post). As you can see, in this picture of someones moc, my own creation, (it's not my creation, that's why I said in this picture of "someone's" moc, so toc (their own creation), they used SNIR, I'm not sure if they new about it, or just did it because it was a cool pattern, but they used it, and make what would be a sort of boring picture, moc, or toc, an interesting creation. 

The Antidote for the BIG Grey Wall Syndrome

Okay, another technique coming your way... it's the antidote for the BIG grey wall syndrome, using interesting pieces to make the wall different, used in the Castle With Many Techniques. A way to stop the BIG grey wall syndrome is to use different colors of pieces, in my castle I used brown, and dark grey, as well as light grey. Other ways include using different pieces like cylinders, and brown pieces that unlike normal 1x2 and 1x4 bricks, they have a little cut away so it looks like they are wood. In the second photo I have used the antidote for the big grey wall syndrome, un-like photo number 1.

Invisible Rods Technique

The Invisible Rods technique is used in many of the best Lego models or dioramas. The Invisible Rods technique is used to display a thing flying, jumping, floating, lifting off the ground, or in this case levitating. The Invisible Rods technique is quite good for using birds, planes, or showing any motion that includes leaving the ground. In some posts I have already given a brief mention about the Invisible Rods technique in posts like Atlantis, and The Castle With Many Techniques. There are many pieces for the Invisible Rods technique in sets today. There are different types of translucent bricks, the rods (I used that in this model), the 1x2x1, and the 2x2x1/2, there are others but these are the most effective. Translucent rods are great because you can use them to have something floating in the air.

Brick-built Rocks

Brick-built Rocks is a very useful technique, it is quite piece consuming, but in the end when it is finished it looks better than if you just used the big Lego rocks. In my creation, The Castle With Many Techniques, I used a brick-built rock that I made. I also was able to add a dungeon inside the rock. Brick-built rocks are quite realistic, and I think that it is worth the pieces it takes to make one. Brick-built  rocks are being used more and more in Lego creations. 

Lettering Technique

Lettering is a technique used on many different things in Lego sets, railroad cars, markets, and buildings. There are many different types of lettering, like SNOT-ized Mosaic Lettering, that just means that the letters don't have their studs facing up, like in the picture. Stud-up is another way, it gives you an bird's eye view of the Lego's, so you see the studs. Stud-out is yet another way, it means that the Lego bricks are sideways and you see the top studs sideways.

Mixed Cylinder Curving

Mixed Cylinder Curving is a very piece consuming Lego technique, done correctly it allows you to curve a Lego wall into a circle or any shape with roundish edges. The bricks needed to make these cool walls are: 1x2 or 1x3, and a round brick. To make these walls all you have to do is offset the bricks so it would be 1x1, round brick, 1x1, round brick, until you can curve your wall to your desired shape.

Marakoeschtra's Wall

This Lego technique is piece consuming but makes your buildings more life-like. Real brick-built walls have lines of mortar separating the bricks, so the structure holds together. In the Lego world most walls are completely smooth and plain, with the Marakoeschtra's Wall technique the wall becomes more life-like and real with detail. This brick-built building is both realistic and extremely detailed with it's bricks.

Lego SNOT (Studs Not On Top)

Lego SNOT (Studs Not On Top) is a technique used in some Lego creations. This picture is a good example of SNOT, because the boat can move freely, so can the crocodile, but it has no studs poking up through the water, also the builder was able to catch the wake of the boat. Here are some reasons when using SNOT makes your creation better:

• other bricks can move in different directions, that they could not go in if not using SNOT 
• and It gives your creation a more detailed and  lifelike appearance

Cubedudes

Cubedudes, as the guys are called for their squarish head, are not regular minifigures. They can be anything you want them to be, including real business people or figures of our imagination, like wizards, devils, goblins, trolls or vikings (like the viking shown above). Cubedudes are getting more and more popular. I think that soon we might have cubedudes instead of minifigures because cubedudes are more detailed.