Tips and Tricks #12
Posted by Catarino,
Hello everybody, Tiago here for another round of Tips and Tricks!
Today the theme is supermarket again, with a few more key builds to help you along the way.
As usual, with video instructions and part lists in the videos provided.
Pallet Jack
Supermarkets or warehouses will always have a couple of this working in the back carrying pallets everywhere. A cool example of how one can build instantly recognizable objects with minimal amount of LEGO pieces.
Fruit Display
A must-have to display your food and vegetables. Another clever way of taking the window elements out of the walls and make them hold your selection of articles to sell. Just turn them sideways.
Food Display
Wether you want to display meat or fish in a chill environment here is what you need. Those car windscreens are perfect for the job, and some nice shapes in the base make for a cool item for your supermarket build!
If you would like to see how some of these builds can work together check the supermarket MOC I made a while ago: https://youtu.be/HPPcLFoE1oM.
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WoW! Perhaps your best yet! Or maybe I like supermarkets way too much :P
Can you showcase some medieval/pirates era appropriate mini builds (like furnitures etc) as well pretty please? Thaaaaaaaanks!!!
I really like that Display case. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I'm looking forward to some Chinese inspired builds
Yet again super cool small builds!
Love the pallet jack!
Thanks again Tiago! I'll have to incorporate these into my grocery store MOC, which I'm fixing to tear apart and start fresh (since it's barely got the completed ground floor anyway). Your fruit display method is much more elegant than simply using treasure boxes, which is my current solution.
@blackdeathgr said:
"Can you showcase some medieval/pirates era appropriate mini builds (like furnitures etc) as well pretty please? Thaaaaaaaanks!!!"
You can find some great medieval furniture tutorials on this website: http://www.brickbuilt.org (this is not my website).
I love these. They look so simple but at the same time are very cleverly designed and instantly recognizable. Well done :)
Keep the ideas coming guys! I'm always looking out for new inspiration! The medieval era furniture and Chinese inspired builds are cool ideas! Thanks :)
And thank you for the awesome feedback all the time, I truly appreciate it!
This Pallet Jack is so adorable!
The chiller looks a lot like the Fish and Chip stand I submitted (by email) for the polybag competition. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Bornin1980something/Pridetown/bornin1980something_chipshop01lores.jpg .
Perhaps Star Wars builds next?
Just in time for me to start in on my butcher's shop part of a custom modular
Great ones, Tiago! Those are some really clever builds!
As someone who works in a grocery store, you have no idea how annoying pallet jacks can be to steer, especially with backrooms as crowded as we have.
Great builds!! Im thinking about a butcher shop as a build shortly and these are perfect for that (even the veggies displays).
These have all been amazing, finally one I can use! The pallet jack! Watched the video and now the tool bench will be next :p
Thanks!
@LegoHobbitFan said:
" @blackdeathgr said:
"Can you showcase some medieval/pirates era appropriate mini builds (like furnitures etc) as well pretty please? Thaaaaaaaanks!!!"
You can find some great medieval furniture tutorials on this website: http://www.brickbuilt.org (this is not my website)."
I know those guys and they are superawesome too! But you know, the more, the merrier! ;-)
The pallet truck reminded me of this from Lego Ideas some years back.
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ea707d73-65cd-45b6-a5e0-ac5714d8f507
@Catarino said:
"Keep the ideas coming guys! I'm always looking out for new inspiration! The medieval era furniture and Chinese inspired builds are cool ideas! Thanks :)
And thank you for the awesome feedback all the time, I truly appreciate it!"
Could you do a tutorial on building Lego characters in the midi-land scale and larger. I’m trying to do Scarecrow from Arkham City in that scale and I can’t figure out the proportions of the torso and arms.
One minor change I'd suggest for the pallet jack is to replace the center cheese wedge with a 1x1 tile. I've never seen one that wasn't flat on top right there.
@GSR_MataNui:
If you pull them, they steer like cars. The two downsides are that you put more wear and tear on your arms, and you can't watch the load at all to make sure it clears any obstacles. Pushing it allows you to put more of the load on your leg muscles, but now it steers like a forklift (meaning you have to swing very wide to the right to make a tight turn to the left), and you can't see any obstacles directly in front of you. If you get one that's motorized, it only compounds these problems because you can ram the load into stuff with enough force to do considerable damage. Put a riding platform on them, and they're even more dangerous, as you can increase the speed so it drives faster than you can walk. After that, you're on to proper forklifts, which require a lot more room to maneuver, and do a lot more damage when you run into stuff (I've seen videos from a Home Depot store and either a Jack Daniels or Jim Beam warehouse where drivers clipped pallet rack legs and caused them to collapse, and in the case of the warehouse the driver got showered with broken glass and alcohol when the cases smashed into the overhead safety cage).
So, depending on the situation, they all have their uses and problems. But grocery store pallet jacks tend to be worse than what you'd find in a warehouse or factory, since the ones I've seen locally are all extra skinny. There's less chance of a lawsuit from a customer stepping on one of the forks, but it decreases the size of your wheel base considerably (by as much as 50%, maybe?), making the pallets more prone to tipping (especially when making a sharp turn). If the weight isn't distributed evenly, it could even make it impossible to move a pallet without restacking the entire thing, because you can't shift the pallet jack to the heavy side and get it under the COG.
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it.