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    Build your own city: The Big Unofficial Lego Builder's Book
    Build your own city: The Big Unofficial Lego Builder's Book
    Build your own city: The Big Unofficial Lego Builder's Book
    Ebook443 pages28 minutes

    Build your own city: The Big Unofficial Lego Builder's Book

    By Joachim Klang and Oliver Albrecht

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    This book addresses all LEGO enthusiasts from 6 years up who are looking for a real challenge: why not build a complete town out of LEGO bricks? After explaining basic techniques and simple models for younger kids this manual provides detailed step by step building instructions for all items necessary to build your own Lego City. From streets, cars, trucks, houses, bus stops, supermarkets, people and animals, trees and plants - a must have how-to manual to build a city using the bricks from your collection at home. Besides providing comprehensive explanations for building with LEGO bricks it also contains four more complex, larger and complicated projects: a helicopter, a racecar, a ship and a large truck.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHEEL Verlag
    Release dateJan 6, 2015
    ISBN9783958431287
    Build your own city: The Big Unofficial Lego Builder's Book

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      cool but i did not have the lego but it is coooooool

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    Build your own city - Joachim Klang

    Tips, Tricks and Building Techniques

    LEGO®-Geometry

    In order to find one’s way in the world of LEGO® bricks, essential terms and the LEGO® geometry need to be explained first. Generally, there is a difference between bricks, plates, and tiles. Bricks and plates have studs; the surface of tiles is smooth.

    6x8-Platte

    Brick

    Plate

    Tile

    In order to properly identify bricks, plates, and tiles, you count the rows of studs (with tiles, it’s the rows that a plate of the same size would have). Usually, the smaller number is listed first as the width and the larger number comes second as the length. Hence the bricks shown here

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