Dag's Bricks

Seen this yet? Imagine a 1x1 round tile. Then put a tiny 0.4L (3.2mm) bar on top. Finally, drill a 1.6mm hole through the bar. The result? P...

Yeah I know. What? Not a clue. But I found one of these little parts in a bulk bin and grabbed it because it was new to me. Plus it takes no...

Finally getting back on track with the study on headlight bricks. A while ago I showed how headlight bricks are an odd construction. They m...

Being up to the wheel wells in mud is one thing.  Being up to the wheel wells in LEGO bricks is quite another.  While the former sounds fun,...

I'm rather thrilled to be building my first ever LEGO commission.  The news coverage on my 1:1000 scale downtown Portland garnered some...

As a microbuilder I'm always looking for miniscule solutions.  A couple of other techniques merged into one tiny little beast of a techn...

AKA Brick 1x1x2 with extra tube side, AKA the Emmet Brick.  When I first saw this piece on the interwebs I was intrigued.  After seeing Cape...

Maybe you're familiar with the Pony Ear technique from the 80's.  That's the one where you place a plate sideways between the st...

Cones come in several shapes and sizes.  From the tiny 1x1x2/3 "Fez" to a gigantic 8x8x6 built from two halves.  But until only re...

The new LEGO lug wrench is a thing of beauty.  Unfortunately its utility is destined for smallness based on its categorization.  Minifig Ut...

My pile of the new round tile with hole took a little longer to acquire than I had hoped hence the delay.  When I first saw this part in the...

In the process of figuring out another trick that was going to be for this week, I ran across a technique that could have been included last...