How to Make a Easy Lego Gun by Renzo 260
Guns are a sensitive and relevant topic these days, which is across the scope of a LEGO blog, but the fact remains that for both kids and adults making a realistic gun using LEGO elements remains a popular pastime and interesting challenge. LEGO guns, similar toy-guns in general, won't hurt anyone and they definitely heighten your mechanical and LEGO building skills if you are inclined to tackle them. 🙂
Just about a year ago I introduced you to a very detailed LEGO book on making realistic and even working LEGO guns written by Jack Streat focusing on heavy weapons (see: How to Build LEGO Guns That Work!). Today I would like to evidence yous a LEGO book past another talented LEGO gunsmith, Jeff Boen, featuring handguns. The book is called The BrickGun Book – Build the Globe's Nearly Realistic LEGO Handguns.
Jeff Boen snapped together his beginning LEGO pistol in under 2 hours. The Texas-based web-programmer designed it solely from his memories of movies and video games, so decided to improve its design by borrowing a friend's 9mm Beretta for reference. Soon he had a functional LEGO model consummate with a working trigger, hammer, and slide. Confident he'd created the most realistic all LEGO handgun to appointment, he posted pictures of it to the LEGO Users Group Network (LUGNET). A few weeks later, he was shocked to encounter that his page – which typically got well-nigh 20 visitors a calendar week – was receiving eight,000 hits a day. Boen's LEGO Beretta had gone viral.
Suddenly Jeff'southward extraordinary LEGO gun was in high need. Requests for the design poured in from all over the world, and a Finnish rock band put its epitome on their album cover. Beretta Inc. itself sent Boen an electronic mail describing his LEGO 92 Serial as "beautiful," and he learned that it was being featured on several of the iconic gun manufacturer's fan sites. Later years of innumerable requests for more replicas, Boen went pro, combining his lifelong passion for LEGO and his tremendous admiration for well-made firearms into BrickGun.com.
The web-based company now produces LEGO kits and instructions for building nearly a dozen classic handgun models, all made out of standard LEGO parts. His make has become known for both the ultra-realism of its replicas every bit well every bit their simplicity. "Our LEGO models are truthful to life in that style," Boen says, recalling the first time he saw a friend's Beretta 84FS Cheetah. "He'd never dismantled it, only I was able to do then in seconds. It amazed me how elementary the firearm was when broken down into components. I'd heard that Berettas were the most efficient handguns in the globe, and at that moment I could encounter why."
In 2011, the IT-guy-turned-model-gun-designer decided to package his v most popular LEGO models into a comprehensive builder's guide for hobbyists, thus The BrickGun Book was born to the please of Jeff Boen's many fans. The model that started the madness, his Beretta 92FS, is included, as are other popular models with working mechanisms, such as the BG22 with loadable magazine and the rubber-ring-shooting MAC-eleven. Boen's signature commitment to particular and accuracy is obvious in the instructional diagrams, and the finished models feature functional triggers, hammers, slides, and safeties.
"Some people just put these LEGO guns on a shelf, but they're actually a blast to play with," Boen says, before noting: "I guess this is the signal where I remind everyone that, harmless as they are, BrickGuns are not toys. But, human being—they certain are fun." Please note that adult supervision is required with all of the LEGO guns featured in the book. The models are not suitable for children nether the age of 12. The MAC-11 shoots rubber bands. When firing the MAC-11, always habiliment eye-protection. For maximum safe, deport the MAC-11 unloaded. A LEGO replica may burn when dropped or hit. Exist particularly careful when handling these models in public because they have been mistaken for existent weapons. If y'all take your LEGO gun out in public add together a bright orangish tip to the muzzle to show that information technology'southward not the real affair. 🙄
Beneath I will review The BrickGun Book's quality, the instructions for building the LEGO guns, and the LEGO guns themselves – so read on…
➡ THE BRICKGUN LEGO Book QALITY: This LEGO book is also published by No Starch Printing, just like the previous LEGO gun book, so yous know the quality is excellent with sleeky pages that can accept some beating, big text that is easy on the eyes, and vibrant colors. The book is 222 pages and covers the instructions for v LEGO gun replicas: the BG22 semi-automated pistol with magazine, the92FS Beretta, theDesert Hawkeye, the 1911 classic semi-automatic pistol, and the MAC-11 safe-band shooting modest sub-machine gun.
➡ THE BRICKGUN LEGO BOOK INSTRUCTIONS: The instructions to build each of the 5 LEGO guns is similarly laid out as the steps in LEGO'south own didactics manuals. First at that place is a parts-listing in a spread-canvas format describing exactly what yous need. So there is a visual parts-list in case you are not familiar with LEGO part-names and would prefer a more visual reference. Then there are stride-past-pace instructions to put the models together. Hither I would like to mention that one of the nice things almost edifice LEGO guns is that the parts needed are quite basic. If you take a decent LEGO collection you tin can most likely put at least one of the models together without much difficulty. And if you accept parts missing you tin always become them from Bricklink or directly from LEGO.
➡ THE BRICKGUN LEGO Book GUNS: Jeff has gone through painstaking piece of work and many-many revisions to make these LEGO guns as accurate as possible. (You can read more virtually the history of each LEGO gun and Jeff's thinking process in improving them at the beginning of the book.) Interesting to note that both Jack Streat in the previous book and Jeff Boen in this volume made a Desert Eagle model, so yous tin build them both and decide which one you like best. All of the five models featured in this book have some unique details and mechanism that would brand them a swell edifice and learning experience; including working trigger, hammer, slide, slide-lock, magazine, etc.
In summary I would say that this is a must book for LEGO gun enthusiasts, and I would highly recommend it along with the LEGO Heavy Weapons book. Either or both of these two books will greatly better your weapon-building skills, and requite you all the steps to build impressive replicas of some of the most iconic guns. (Past the manner the 2 books are the same size and shape with matching covers – if such things are important to you.) I would propose the volume for older kids because of the complication of the building-steps and the amount of fourth dimension needed to build each of the LEGO guns. (The volume itself recommends it for children over 12 with developed supervision.) And I would definitely recommend this book for adults; it will challenge yous, delight y'all, and give yous the steps to build LEGO models that you tin can exist truly proud of. 😀
You can pick upward copies of bothThe BrickGun Volume and theLEGO Heavy Weapons volume direct from No Starch Printing, or from Amazon at the following links for about $xx each:The BrickGun Book and LEGO Heavy Weapons. (Likewise meet Amazon listings below.)
And then what do you recollect? Did you get the previously released LEGO Heavy Weapons book and tried out the models? Are yous planning to add The BrickGun Book to your drove? Feel gratuitous to share in the comment section below. Too, if you take whatever questions but permit me know. I take congenital some of the guns myself. 😉
And you can check out the LEGO Books department, or read the review on the LEGO Heavy Weapons book here: How to Build LEGO Guns That Work!
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