I know, I know, I’ve been gone from posting for several days. I’m creating giant bricks — really giant bricks. I’ll post more about that later. But for now check this out –
Fat Tony (no, that’s really his Flickr handle 
) has created this super awesome Smaug in preparation for the upcoming Hobbit trilogy, which means we probably won’t see the great dragon till at least the second movie.
I love the dragon, but I also love the golden hoard that he is perched upon. I also love what he said about it:
“I have to be honest about the treasure, most of it is gold foil I got from a craft store. I used real LEGO coins to make imprints into the foil and then draped it around a LEGO base. Then I spread the real stuff around, pretty convincing, huh?”
And even the floor is an awesome technique. My reaction — “So Pretty!!!!”
Now all we need is an invisible Bilbo Baggins trading riddles. 
Tags: Bilbo Baggins, craft store, dragon, Flickr, Gold, gold foil, golden, hoard, LEGO, LEGO coins, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Minifigure, Model Building Secrets, Sculpture, Smaug, The Hobbit, treasure
August 13, 2012 at 8:29 pm |
That is really impressive. Very cool Smaug.
August 13, 2012 at 11:51 pm |
We never got a balrog set. We never got a fell-beast set. I’m going to be all kinds of pissed if they manage to get through the entire Hobbit “trilogy” without giving us a Smaug set.
Also, invisible Bilbo Baggins _is_ in that MOC. Can’t you see him? He’s right there, clear as day!