The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

The Best Bits: Useful Pieces for Miniland People

Although no LEGO element should ever be considered useless, it’s also true to say that, in some circumstances, some pieces are more useful than others. Tables Table 4-1 through Table 4-3 list parts I used to create the basic miniland figure in the previous section. You might find that these are the most handy to start out with. Think of the contents of these three tables as your toolkit for creating these little people. You may not use each piece in every figure you build, but these do give you a sense of the types of pieces you might want to gather before you start working on this type of model.

Small plates, like the ones shown in Table 4-1, are the key to creating the details of the head and neck. ...