The Art of LEGO Scale Modelling
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No Starch Press has just sent us information about another forthcoming LEGO book:
The Art of LEGO Scale Modeling: New book showcases fan-built LEGO models of real vehicles
San Francisco, CA (August 4, 2015) — The LEGO scale modeling community brings a miniature world to life with artistry, skill, and patience—a world inhabited by remarkably detailed scale models of real trucks, ships, planes, race cars, and even construction vehicles. Some of these models are so intricate, they're easy to mistake for the real thing.
In The Art of LEGO Scale Modeling (No Starch Press, $29.95, 204pp., Sept. 2015), authors Dennis Glaasker and Dennis Bosman are our guides to this unique world. These two veteran builders, who have been scale modeling with LEGO since the 1970s, are now releasing a stunning and fascinating new book that belongs on the coffee table in every LEGO-loving household.
For the first time, we're invited into the world of twenty-four of the most talented LEGO scale modelers, who showcase models like the Tyr Viking, a four-foot-long ship constructed from more than 20,000 LEGO elements; a Caterpillar bulldozer complete with two motors; locomotives with lights, horns, operable doors, and smoke effects; United States military aircraft; a five-foot-long Peterbilt 379 and MAC end dump trailer; popular Toyota, Ford, and Volkswagen vehicles; Ferrari and Renault Formula 1 race cars; and Harley Davidson classic motorcycles and custom choppers.
"What I love about LEGO scale modeling is that it's so complex, you can always be improving your work," explains Glaasker. "By choosing new subjects, and with LEGO's continuous introduction of new pieces, there are always new challenges ahead; it's an endless medium for exploration."
According to No Starch Press founder Bill Pollock, "As we continue to develop art-quality books for serious LEGO fans, I'm excited to release this new book that, for the first time ever, highlights and unites the work of these incredible builders."
The Art of LEGO Scale Modeling will be available in bookstores everywhere this September and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.co.uk
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That F-4 Phantom is awesome. Might get this - though it would make about 100 "coffee table books" in my library...
That's pretty cool. Is that just a model showcase, or are there some techniques being shown as well?
I saw that train and I thought, cool. Then I saw that it was on electric scale model track and I was blown away.
Does the book give instructions on how to build them too or are they just pictures?
No Starch Press and DK books have managed to do what no Lego focused Magazine has been able to capture: interesting subjects based on derivative content. And you can buy one book instead of 12 magazines!
@PicnicBasketSam and Xerics, The book has high quality photo's of the models. There are not instructions or highlights about techniques shown. This book is ment to be a coffie table book.Just a nice book to pick-up and look through, so very good for people who like to just look af pictures. The idea is that every kind of person could be interested in this book and not only kids and AFOLs. Every model has a short background story.
No Starch Press and the makers of the book (Dennis Glaasker and Dennis Bosman) are trying to make a book that is also interesting for people outside the LEGO community.