This amazing scale model of the Vatican City was recently built and shared by LEGO Fan and MOC builder Rocco Buttliere who is famous for his similar impressive MOC's like "The Vernacular of the Craftsman" or "SPQR - Imperial Rome". Acoring to the photo description the scale for this creation consists more than 67000 pieces and tokk more than 800 hours to design and to build. This amount of detail on a MOC is really exceptional. I strongly recommentd to check out the photo album for detail photos.
This amazing Hogwarts Great Hall Building from Harry Potter franchise was built and shared by LEGO fan and flickr.com user Stefan Johansson a.k.a stej123. According to the description this MOC takes over 50.000 pieces and 2 years to build. The final result is really impressive. I like the texturing of the wall and the enourmous height the building itself. There is also lights installed to make it extra beautiful. Check out the builders photo-stream to see more photos of this great MOC.
This beautiful modern house MOC namely "Greyplate House" was built and shared by LEGO fan and flickr.com user Sarah Beyer a.k.a betweenbrickwalls. The texture on the walls and wooden looking details with reddish brown pieces makes this house very cool. The house interior and exterior are full with great small details like barbeque on the poolside and fully decorated rooms on the inside.
This weeks guest of honor is Eero Okkonen a.k.a. Pate-keetongu from Finland. He is well known for his amazing large figures and steampunk creations. He also shared many impressive purist custom mini-figures as well. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions.
Kaplan: We already know you are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that. What is your real name? What is your dayjob? Do you have any other hobbies or activities?
Eero: I am Eero Okkonen. I write about my LEGO hobby on my blog Cyclopic Bricks. I’m from Joensuu, Eastern Finland, and I’m currently studying architecture on Tampere University of Technology (TUT). It’s my first year there, and it’s very interesting. I’m planning to graduate as an architect in 2021. My other hobbies include art in general (drawing, oil and watercolour, general tinkering – though my studies include most of them), music (I can’t play anything, but I listen to lot of it and buy records regularly), board games, reading, cycling, hiking… And naturally hanging with friends doing nothing particularly but doesn’t everybody do that.
K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?
E: No. I played with DUPLO before actual bricks (or pikku-leegot as they are called in Finland, sometimes), and I had plenty of my father’s old bricks from 70’s. But I remember some of my earliest set and these include quite good-looking 6335 Indy Transport (which was released only a year after I was born) and not-so-good 6474 4-wheeled front shovel. I’ve been around 4 or 5 years old back then.
Today we have a very special guest from USA. He is considered by many LEGO fans as the best of the best MOC'ers in the world. Tyler Clites a.k.a. legohaulic has already done and continues to impress us with his amazing creations from a wide variety of themes and scales. He is good in building almost anything. He has so many great and inspiring creations that we can not fit all of them in this post so be sure to check out his photo-stream. Photos from the work of our guest will be presented between the questions.
Kaplan: You are one of the best LEGO MOC'ers in the world. What can you tell us about yourself other than that. What is your full name? What is your dayjob? Do you have any other hobbies or activities?
Tyler: My name is Tyler Clites. I am self employed. I love art, film, photography, theatre... pretty much any creative outlet.
K: Do you remember the day when you got your first LEGO set? Which set was it? And How old were you when you started playing with LEGO bricks?
T: I remember having Duplo as a kid, but one day my mom brought home a value pack of small System sets when I was two. I remember being fascinated by the tiny bricks. And so the addiction began.
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