Introduction to Headlight Brick Patterns

Introduction to Headlight Brick Patterns

Headlight bricks are an essential ingredient for making many different patterned mosaics.  Their unique shape allows for them to be pushed together into a "headlight brick square".  This is an ideal starting point for pattern building.  Headlight brick squares can be pushed together, and by using different colors of bricks, you can make many different patterns.  It is also possible to add other bricks inside of or in between the headlight brick squares, creating more complex patterns.

Book Review: The BrickGun Book: Build the World's Most Realistic LEGO(R) Handguns

The BrickGun Book by Jeff Boen is precisely what it claims to be:  an instruction manual that will show you how to "Build the World's Most Realistic LEGO(R) Handguns".  Published in 2013 by No Starch Press, The BrickGun Book contains 222 clearly illustrated pages that will show you how to put together five of the most popular models from Boen's company, BrickGun.com.  The models included in the book are the BG22 with Magazine, 92FS, 1911, Desert Eagle and MAC-11 Rubber Band Shooter.

El Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicería

Bad Spanish translation ahead.  Move along.  Nothing to see here.

Leaf Weaving

The following is an article that I am wrote for HispaBrick Magazine.

BrickCon 2012

The following is an article about BrickCon that I wrote for HispaBrick Magazine Issue No. 15.

Interview with Sean and Steph Mayo

Interview with Sean and Steph Mayo, originally published on MosaicBricks and HispaBrick Magazine No. 15.  Published here so as to create an archive of things I have written.  Read it after the jump.

Cheese Slope Mosaics PowerPoint

I made a PowerPoint presentation entitled, "Cheese Slope Mosaics:  An Introduction" at BrickCon 2012.  Here is a link to the presentation, for future reference:

Cheese Slope Mosaics PowerPoint

Evolution of a Cheese Slope Mosaic

The following article was originally published on MosaicBricks.  I am collecting all the article I have written into a single blog, so it will be re-posted here after the jump.

Cheese Slope Mosaics: A Tutorial

The following article was originally published on MosaicBricks and in HispaBrick Magazine Issue No. 14.  This article will give a tutorial on how to make mosaics with LEGO cheese slopes.

How to Make a Cheese Slope Mosaic (a six-pointed star)

The following article was originally published on MosaicBricks, but I am trying to make an archive of just my stuff, so I am going to put it here, too.  This article shows how to make a six-pointed start with cheese slopes.  Read more after the jump.

The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Model by Alice Finch
Photographs by Alice Finch and Carlyle Livingston
Text by Katie Walker

Alice Finch and her massive LEGO Hogwarts Castle were previously featured in HispaBrick Issue No. 15 in the article about BrickCon 2012.  Since then, Alice has published beautifully detailed photographs of her model, some of which have been used by the Hogwarts Admissions Office for the following recruitment brochure: