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Book Review: The LEGO® Builder’s Handbook – Become a Master Builder [Win a copy]

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The publisher provided this book for review, as well as prizes for the draw, but all opinions are my own.

Deepak Shenoy is well known in the online LEGO Community as Deepshen6 on Instagram, or for his Facebook page, formerly Towering LEGO Creations (now Brick Builder’s Handbook), to say nothing of his contributions posted at Bricknerd.com. His massive LEGO Towers, both real and virtual, have astounded thousands of AFOLs over the past 8 years. In The LEGO Builder’s Handbook – just released through No Starch  Press – he takes the lessons he has learned in creating these magnificent structures and clearly communicates them to the reader. He uses worked examples to explain how we too can ensure that our models will take on the shapes that we wish.

This book will not provide you instructions for a massive creation. It will give you a background in sophisticated techniques that will help you achieve your goals!

Read to the end to find out about our giveaway, and our exclusive 25% off code, valid until the new year!

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It’s Time To Get Things Moving With These New Releases From No Starch Press

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Now that the world is opening up, and live fan events are starting to sporadically appear around the world, we are starting to turn our attention to building models for exhibition. There is no doubt that a little bit of movement can help add life to a model – whether it’s an automatic door, a radar dish, or a slowly rotating turntable. These are not so challenging if you have grown up with a bit of basic mechanical knowledge. However, sometimes the right way to achieve such mechanisms using LEGO Bricks can be just a little bit obscure.

But help is readily available, if you know where to look.

I was recently sent pre release samples from the latest books from Yoshihito Isogawa, and I realise that they are now available from the No Starch Press website. Isogawa has been producing simple to read Ideas books for LEGO Technic for a number of years, and these books build on the previous ones, with emphasis in new areas. His latests Books, LEGO Technic Non-Electric Models: Simple Machines and LEGO Technic Non-Electric Models: Clever Contraptions build on his previous books, looking at Technic Ideas, as well as Power function and Boost Ideas (all available from No Starch).

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52 LEGO® Space Projects From @jeff_works – Book Review

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I love a good LEGO® Spaceship. I love looking at them. I love the stories behind them. I would love to enjoy building them, but my spaceship design skills appear to be trapped somewhere in the late 1970’s. As such, I was quite excited when No Starch Press told me that Jeff Friesen’s (aka jeff_works on Instagram) new book was going to offer 52 such models, with extra inspiration and parts lists, in his latest book, LEGO® Space projects. Due for release in June, to coincide with world Astronomy month, it is currently available for pre-order, with a 25% discount on the list price of $USD24.99 (print and ebook). The eBook’s list price is $USD19.99.

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