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The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide
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The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

by Allan Bedford
September 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
376 pages
10h 26m
English
No Starch Press
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Non-LEGO Tools

I mentioned earlier that some of the tools we’d talk about in this chapter are made from LEGO, but that must mean some are not. The ones that are not might be things you already own; you just haven’t put them to use in LEGO building yet.

An example is a simple ruler. You may wish to measure part of your model, in real terms, inches or centimeters, especially if you are dealing with building something to a particular scale. We talked about scale at length in Chapter 3, so this next example should be easy to follow.

Suppose you are building a model of your favorite die cast metal car. You’ve measured the wheels on the real car and they are almost exactly one-half the size of the smallest wheels you have in your LEGO collection. So you ...

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