Brick Tutorial Blog #9: ‘Tis But a Scratch! (Part 1 of 2: Weaponry) | (#BTTutorials)

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Heya, fellow of this amino!                 Lyric here.

Heheh... Unfortunately I had to post this a week late due to personal life and mental health-

Buuuut, with my recent affiliation with the new Build Tutorial Team, it has become my turn to make a blog for my week!

The topic, or theme, of this week is about medieval-themed architecture and objects! Like, torches, statues, small weapons (ex: axes, spears, bows), pottery—anything that looks like it belongs in the Middle Ages!

Though-

I’m not exactly sure why I decided to go with a medieval theme, because I clearly like robots and machinery more, but because of the whole ‘landscape’ and ‘animate objects’ sort of theme we have in our team, I decided to go with this one.

You can also say that I was inspired by a binge watch of the Lord of the Rings movies, as well as a little rewatch of Monty Python & The Holy Grail-

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Okay! When making these medieval builds, I wanted to make these things purely brick-built, so I had to make a few rules for myself.

First rule, no specific pieces made for anything medieval. This means that I couldn’t use any shield pieces, axe pieces, or anything specially made to fit medieval objects. Second and last rule, keep things original, besides taking reference from pictures of the real-life counterparts of the weapons.

I went by these personal rules to make these bunch of builds—six builds in total, four of which are weapons! The two remaining builds are apart of the architecture department, which I unfortunately had to stuff it in a second part, due to space. Part 2 should come later today or tomorrow.

First- Let’s start with some ol’ weaponry!

(Disclaimer: Some of these weaponry may not be historically accurate)

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Here’s the four weapons I decided to choose from! Each use a different technique, which to be honest are rather basic, but work!

First, let’s start from left to right-

Here’s a medieval styled scythe!

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The scythe is the simplest out of the bunch, and doesn’t need too much pieces to make. There’s 6 pieces in total that are needed.

Pieces from left to right:

•A brown pole/bar piece.

•The newer(I think) machete weapon piece.

•A light-grey 1 x 1 open stud piece.

•A light-grey 1 x 1 flat stud tile piece.

•A brown 1 x 1 flat stud tile piece.

•And lastly, a light-grey 1 x 1 headlight brick piece.

(Note: These names may not be accurate and might be educated guesses)

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Let’s see how it scales with a minifig!

It scales pretty decently, it’s not too large, nor too tiny. It’s just about alright!

The scythe is approximately 8 studs tall, making it among the smallest of the bunch.

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~ Technique Highlight: ~

The only technique I could highlight with the scythe is that you have to use the highlight brick and turn it on its anti-stud, and then you can stick the pole piece inside where it connects with the open stud on top.

Not the most interesting technique— But it’s something to highlight!

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Now onto thy medieval weapon #2–

the Mace!

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Just like the scythe, the mace is very simple, however it has more pieces than the scythe. 10 pieces in total.

Pieces from left to right:

•A light-grey half pin with a stud.

•A black 1 x 1 brick with studs on four sides.

•Two black slope vent pieces.

•Two of the 1 x 1 round plate with a handle/clip.

•Two black 1 x 1 studs.

•A black 1 x 1 cone piece.

•And lastly, a black pole piece.

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Let’s see how this thing scales well with a minifig!

It doesn’t fit in two hands like I wanted to, but I think it scales pretty well! Bravo!

The mace is approximately 14 studs tall, making it the second tallest of the weapons.

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~ Technique Highlight: ~

One of the few small and simple techniques I used for the mace is the usage of the technic half pin piece—You see, I used the 1 x 1 four-studded brick and turned it upside down, and put the pin inside the anti-stud. Then, I put two of the black studs on the pin’s open stud. Then boom! There’s the top. Another technique I used is that I flipped the black cone upside down and stuck its anti-stud into the top of the four-studded brick thingy.

Again, very basic and simple, but very interesting!

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Now, the last two weapons—

The monstrous battle axe!

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The battle axe requires the most pieces out of the bunch. 11 pieces in total.

Pieces from left to right:

•A black flag pole/staff piece.

•Two light-grey 1 x 1 flat stud tile pieces.

•A light-grey 1 x 1 open stud piece.

•A black 1 x 1 brick with studs on four sides.

•Four silver sloped vent pieces.

•And lastly, two white-grey 2 x 2 plate pieces.

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Let’s see how this monstrosity scales with a minifig!

The battle axe is unfortunately pretty heavy for an average minifigure, and the minifig needs to be standing against or on something in order to hold it with both hands.

The battle axe is 16 studs tall, making it the tallest weapon of the bundle.

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~ Technique Hightlight: ~

One technique I could highlight is more of just interesting part usage. I used the four vent pieces and put them on two 2 x 2 plates, and with them combined I stuck them on the sides of the 1 x 1 four-studded brick.

Again, just part usage- but the silver vent pieces are a very interesting piece in coloring!

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Now, the last and remaining weapon in the weaponry bundle is—

The flimsy flail weapon!

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The flail is in second place for with the least amount of pieces. 9 pieces in total.

Pieces from left to right:

•A dark brown lightsaber hilt piece.

•A dark brown 1 x 1 flat stud tile piece.

•Three dark-grey 1 x 1 stud pieces.

•Two bar 1L with claw clip pieces.

•A black 1 x 1 clip tile piece.

•And lastly, a light-grey 1 x 1 round tile with bar/pin piece.

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Last minifigure scaling test-

Though it is a little big around the hilt, the flail scales pretty well with a minifig.

The flail (with its chain extended) is 16 studs tall, oddly equal in height to the battle axe.

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~ Technique Highlight: ~

If it wasn’t too obvious, a primary technique I used for the flail consists of the two claw pieces. I didn’t want to use the chain piece only because it would not only look weird, but be very uh... dangly. I wanted things to be posable, so I decided to use the claw pieces and stick them together by connecting them by their pole connections. I then used the 1 x 1 round tile pin pieces and stuck the two studs on its anti-stud, and used its pin to connect it with the ‘chain’. The technique itself makes it a little flimsy and prone to come apart a few times—but I think it works pretty well!

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That’s about it for the first part of my tutorial week!

Make sure to stay tuned for uh... maybe tomorrow for the second part; the medieval architecture!

Au revoir!~

This is Lyric... g out!

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