"Small" Tales: Making a Miniature

Aaron Newman September 26, 2018

I designed this miniature version of my Tale of the Three Brothers build, from late March of this year, for a microscale LEGO Harry Potter contest online. I had the idea to miniaturize my previous Wizarding World creation as soon as I read about the contest; after all, that build received such a warm response, and it remains one of my favorite presentations to date. So I set myself the task of making it micro!

This final build, the which I finished in a short day’s work, was a fun and quick exercise in miniaturization. While building stuff smaller-than-life in LEGO is hardly unusual (case in point: even my huge 40” Chateau de Chenonceau isn’t quite the same size as the real-life castle!), to take an existent design of mine and replicate it smaller was a novel task.

Read on to learn more about the parallels I drew between the original scene and its smaller version.

"The Tale of the Three Brothers" is my fifth ABS challenge build.

The Brothers Peverell

Aaron Newman March 27, 2018

This build, an artistic presentation of "The Tale of the Three Brothers" from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is the fifth build I've completed for my second round in the ABS Builder Challenge, an online competition where LEGO® artists are tasked with implementing a "seed part"—in this case, a silver goblet—creatively into as many builds as possible.

Read on to learn more about the design choices behind this model.