LEGO builds in 60 bricks: Dune buggy

Brick Fanatics is challenging talented builders to demonstrate what can be done with just 60 LEGO pieces. Today, Jme puts together a sleek buggy with exactly 60 bricks

Brick Fanatics decided to celebrate 60 years of the LEGO brick with a challenge – put together a series of builds in which each model uses just 60 pieces. It is not easy to produce a recognisable, clever build with such a specific piece count, but Dimitri and Jme were certainly up the challenge…

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Building small can be a big challenge. “LEGO maths” can be tricky under the best of circumstances, but when it comes to building small, there is a lot less wiggle room in terms of spacing. Each and every part you use carries with it exponentially more information as you go smaller.

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It’s not all negative. There are some positives to building at a smaller scale. One of the biggest is the ability to utilise colours that are less common. There are a lot of great LEGO colours, but many of the more interesting ones share the problem of having a considerably limited number of parts moulded in that hue. When building at minifigure scale or larger, it can be difficult to build something with a cohesive color theme using these rarer colours. Conversely, at a small scale you can easily make use of parts you only have a few of to help make your build pop. It also means that shapes which normally might be difficult to integrate into a build can take on a new life, as the context of their shape changes at a more diminutive scale.

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Check out more of Jme’s build on Flickr, where he goes by klikstyle. Share your 60 piece LEGO builds with Brick Fanatics on social media.

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