here are the first of my minifig scale instruments...
here you can see some folks playing Lutes...
here is the link to the construction..only four pieces required!!!
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/boses ... /lute1.jpg
here is a portable harp, like the Twin Harps in Final Fantsay II
here is a profile of two different color schemes for this harp...
http://brickshelf.com/gallery/boses/cas ... /harp4.jpg
And here is the Full-scale minifg harp that got me started in this venture...
Even Goblins know how to play...
and here is a picture of the banjo by itself...
http://brickshelf.com/gallery/boses/cas ... banjo1.jpg
Please tell me what you think...
custom minifig instruments...
custom minifig instruments...
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Impressive! I've never seen any minifig instrunents, but I have seen working life-sized instruments made of Lego. The banjos are my favorite.
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I love the little harp! (and the big harp is still cool )
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I like that harp made with the rail piece. I wish I'd seen it before I made Jack and the Beanstalk... I wanted to include a harp in it.
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All of these are cool - the instruments are good - I have to confess, the larger harp is still my favorite, and I like the white frame that you used for it - nice ivory-looking harp.
On a side note, those two brick-built figs playing a mandolin are really really cool.
On a side note, those two brick-built figs playing a mandolin are really really cool.
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1.A member of an order of knights founded about 1118 to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade.
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here you can see a lute, ready for travel...
or play...
please tell me what you think...
or play...
please tell me what you think...
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Your lute looks great, as do all your instruments.
I'm thinking, though, that for future presentation of your instruments- or other brickbuilt creations handheld by a minifig- that it might be better if you didn't use your brickbuilt heads on the presenting figs.
Amazingly ingenuitive though those heads (and legs) are, they make it a good deal more difficult to look at the instrument objectively. In the case of your lute, especially, the bright colours of the head obscured the lute itself, forcing one to sort through the brighter colours and many bricks to isolate the lute on its own.
In addition, separate creations (like heads and instruments) that are quite obviously separate in real life easily become blurred when they appear in more or less the same space in a photograph.
Just a suggestion, use it if you will.
I'm thinking, though, that for future presentation of your instruments- or other brickbuilt creations handheld by a minifig- that it might be better if you didn't use your brickbuilt heads on the presenting figs.
Amazingly ingenuitive though those heads (and legs) are, they make it a good deal more difficult to look at the instrument objectively. In the case of your lute, especially, the bright colours of the head obscured the lute itself, forcing one to sort through the brighter colours and many bricks to isolate the lute on its own.
In addition, separate creations (like heads and instruments) that are quite obviously separate in real life easily become blurred when they appear in more or less the same space in a photograph.
Just a suggestion, use it if you will.