COMPLETE - Brick-Building Patch

Brick-Building Patch – Troop #346
(as of Fall 2018, this has been changed to a Badge)

Scout Name: Paul-Meronym

Date: ____________________

Costs: ___Brick sets & bricks____________Patch - $1.69_________________________

Directions: Listed below are 10 steps to complete. After each one get Miss Anarcadia or Beta-Pup to mark them off. At the end, turn in the sheet and patch fee to receive your patch (to be ordered). Be sure to take pictures of your artwork to display.

1. What is it about building with bricks that attracts you?

- I like building with Lego and compatible bricks for a lot of reasons. I like being able to take rational directions and finish a project in a reasonable amount of time and feel like I succeeded. I like being able to be creative and come up with something that meets some goal I've set for myself. Brickbuilding is something I can do by myself most of the time, but with someone else if the opportunity comes up. It's something that I can show off to other people and tell them 'this is part of me - I did this'. By building something, even if I'm not out for a long time, when I come back, it's there, and things are still familiar - my builds serve as an anchor for who I am when I build them. 

2. What are the major brands of bricks? Tell something about each brand.

- Lego is by far the biggest and best brick brand. Their bricks are more consistent, sturdier, fit better, feel better, and they have a huge variety of tie-ins. They are the large tire manufacturer in the world by production count. 

Mega Bloks is probably the next best block, as they are pretty consistent as well. But they sometimes are a bit too tight or too loose a fit. They have a whole lot of popular licenses, like Halo, World of Warcraft, Star Trek, and Despicable Me.

Kre-O is my third favorite. Because they have the licensing for Star Trek (also) and Dungeons & Dragons, I have quite a few of these.

Other brands include BanBao, Best-Lock, Cobi, K'Nex, Oxford, Tyco, and McFarlane.

Kre-O had the first license with Star Trek - that's their treatment of a Klingon on the right. Mega Bloks has the Star Trek license now, and their Klingon is in the back. Up front is my adaptation of some Lego pieces to make a Klingon, since they've never produced any Star Trek sets.





Here's a variety of figures from different brands. In the front, Tyrion from a Game of Thrones set by McFarlane, a Lego mini-doll guy, and a Lego minifigure (Pajama Guy). Behind them are a Lego Gandolf microfigure and a blue Lego statuette, then a Mega Bloks Assassin's Creed figure, and a minion on the right from Mega Bloks. In the back, a Monster High doll from Mega Bloks, and an old-style figure that I'm told was Lego-branded, but I'm not sure of.

3. Build something exactly from the instructions it came with.

- Temple of Airjitzu was a huge build I build exactly from instructions (well, at least at first). https://mmbrickbuilds.blogspot.com/2017/06/temple-of-airjitzu-build-log-in-progress_21.html





4. Take something built from instructions and modify it to be better.

- Our wedding table decoration came with a bride in a white dress, and purple and pink flowers. We modified it to match our wedding colors and to have me in a suit instead. 
https://mmbrickbuilds.blogspot.com/2017/06/lego-wedding-lego-40165-complete.html


5. Build something completely without instructions.

- My travel chess & checkers set is my most complicated completely-custom build so far (except for my mindscape). 
https://mmbrickbuilds.blogspot.com/2017/08/travel-chess-checkers-set-custom-build.html


6. Come up with a way to store legos that keeps them off the floor.
7. Organize and display builds you’ve created.

- I think I'll need to show these to a troop leader in person. But I have four similar shelves in my room, plus some smaller shelves and some organizer bins. Loose Lego pieces are sorted by type and put into plastic bins and organizers on three of the shelve or in a stack beside my Lego heads.

Minifigs and smaller builds, like my Star Trek sets, are displayed on the upper shelves and above the large shelves in several ways. Larger builds, like the Temple of Airjitsu, my pirate boat, and the Disney Castles, are displayed on top of shelves and on the table. Several starships are hanging in the air.

8. Use Lego Digital Designer to work on a completely unique design.

- I used LDD to design the base for my Mindscape
https://www.facebook.com/notes/multiplicity-of-me/mindscape/1341559529225429/
Here's the underside, which came from that design.

9. Build something that serves a purpose that you would otherwise have bought something to serve.

- I had bought a phone stand to set my phones on at work, but I wasn't happy with the angle or cord management it offered. So I built my own. 
https://mmbrickbuilds.blogspot.com/2017/06/dual-phone-stand.html


10. Create a blog to show your brick-building work to others. Share it with the troop.

- https://mmbrickbuilds.blogspot.com is my blog for my brick-building stuff



___ Paul_Meronym _____ has completed all 10 steps and given payment to receive this patch.

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