Preface When I first discovered the kinds of LEGO art work that people were creating I was astonished I had no idea that a little toy could go so far That was just three years ago Since then the level of craftsman ship in the LEGO building community has only increased Builders share their creations and techniques online which inspires others and pushes them to do even more incredible things with LEGO This book is a small collection of some of the impres sive models that I have come across in my time For practical reasons I was unable to include every awesome build or artist whose work deserves to be showcased but it’s my sincere hope that this book gives newcomers a representative sample of the work being done For those in the hobby I hope to offer a new perspective on familiar builds Whether you’re seeing these models for the first time or the hundredth I hope this book inspires you to new creativity Shannon Sproule Midnight in the Forest after Ernest 2009
Ramón and Amador Alfaro Marcilla Why LEGO We have many reasons LEGO is the only medium we know of that can be completely reused with no loss in function This is a great advan tage to us and is of primary importance In addition the result of your work is almost imme diate and changes can be made at any time To build you don’t need much just a few bricks a light a table and a chair although in our case we often build on a bed Being able to physically touch the model and ob serve your progress carefully choosing the next piece these are the joys that keep us inspired to imagine new constructions Could you tell us a little about yourselves We are brothers Ramón is the younger and Ama dor the elder We come from Albacete Spain a little city between Madrid and Valencia Until re cently we lived together Now our lives are sepa rate due to jobs family and such We have always had hobbies we could share despite our age dif ference video games comics music movies and of course LEGO How long have you been building Did you both catch the LEGO bug simultaneously We began building as children and then stopped during our university years the famous Dark Age only to restart the hobby again seven or eight years after graduating Girlfriends and LEGO were a strange combination Although we began building again at the same time during those first years we didn’t work together on the same models Our interests techniques and styles were different But video games changed everything Our first collabora tive build was an homage to the classic arcade game Operation Wolf LEGO is perfect for mix ing hobbies Your works are often so intricate It is hard to imagine how two people can collaborate partic ularly separated by distance How does this work for you Do you build separately and then meet to fit parts together How often might you meet We always say that four eyes can see better than two though that isn’t always true Each build is a bit different Sometimes one of us shapes the model’s general outlines and the other handles the details Other times when the size of the model allows it we work on different parts For example in the Iron Man model we were able to build the head and the feet at the same time 2
