Giant LEGO B-1B Bomber Escorted by Fighters, Hawkeye Aircraft

This stunning 1:36 musical scale B-1B wedge is made of about8,000 LEGO blocks , beat theMillennium Falcon ’s 5,195 . make with no special pieces , it has transferable wing and retractable landing place gear , just like the rest of its companions : oneRussian plane , theSU-27 Flanker , and two classic US aircraft , the E-2C Hawkeye and thenow notorious F-15 . We talked with Ralph Savelsberg , the LEGO skipper behind them ( you asked for these interviews ) , about how he establish them . Read the interview after the jump , along with a huge gallery .

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Jesús Díaz : How many art object do your model use ?

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Ralph Savelsberg : I do n’t really keep path of how many portion I use for any finical model . I can really only guess . The belittled ones ( the F-15 , Su-27 and E-2C ) belike use between 1,500 and 2,500 parts each . I would n’t be able to narrow it down any more precisely without take them apart and counting . The B-1B is a lot bigger and heavier and probably uses between 6,000 and 10,000 parts .

JD : How ’s your typical construction mental process ?

RS : There are quite a few builders who sit down and start up building . I ca n’t quite do things like that , or perhaps it does n’t in reality lend itself very well to the subject . I practice pictures and plans of the aircraft . 1/72 is a fair coarse scale for model aircraft and it ’s relatively easy to find right drawing on that scale . My plane are 1/36 in the main because I can simply scale them up by a broker of two relative to the scale drawings .

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JD : So you apply drawings first ?

RS : I usually make a turn of drawings ( the old - fashioned mode with a pencil and paper ) judge to figure out how to interpret the aircrafts ’ oecumenical outlines , such as the physical body of the wing , for illustration , in LEGO parts . There is only a limited range of angle available in LEGO home base , so bewilder the angle of the lead or trailing edge of the wings ripe can be tricky . I used a pythagorean triple ( 3,4,5 ) to do the tailplane on the B-1B and used a compounding of different slant plates to get the wing on the E-2C right . That ’s the sort of thing I really have to work out on newspaper .

I sometimes also make drawings of specific parts of a plane , such as the nose on the E-2C or it ’s radar cup of tea . I find that only order parts together does n’t work as well for me as visualise the shape , thinking about how to make it in LEGO and then make a few drawings before I start to build up . The Su-27 was almost completely design on composition . The F-15 was a lot simpler somehow and follow together without too much formulation .

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