Wedged Cube

I initially created 8 corners using some wedge plates thinking of making a large cube. I was trying to come up with a way to connect them nicely and stumbled upon the smaller cube below that uses just 4.

A closeup of the corner's "inside." The build pictures below create the cube differently since it seemed easier to construct it that way rather than trying to connect four of these corner pieces together.

All the pieces used for this model, just three types.

Two wedges and a 2x2 plate make up each side of the cube.

Place a wedge on the 2x2 plate as shown.

Put the other wedge next to the first.

Make 5 more of these for a total of 6.

Turn over three of the sides and place connector bricks as shown.

Assembly these three sides to form half of the cube.

Carefully add two more. It might be slightly tricky to get good, solid connections between the bricks. If you take your time and make adjustments it will eventually work out.

The final cube using "wedges."

Dr. Mario - Concept

Similar to my earlier Donkey Kong concept work, here is an idea for a Lego-ized Dr. Mario. The layout is much simpler than in the game.

View of the Dr. Mario title done with some 1 bump wide plates.

Dr. Mario minifig. I do not have a Doctor torso, so I just used a white one.

The three viruses.

Full concept image of Lego-ized Dr. Mario.

Triship

Here is the evolution of the triship model from basic concept to final creation.

Basic idea was to use a bunch of these hinge-like pieces.

Four of them together, create a box.

From this, I added some "fins"...

... and created a rocket like model. The cone is not actually attached.

However, I was not sure how to attached the "nose" so I turned the box inside-out and was able to create the model.

I thought that the cone looked odd, so I changed one to a cockpit to make a space ship.

Thinking that it was too short, I expanded the base.

Here is a basic idea of the ship at first.

Played around with some variations of the ship structure, added some wings, and we get the final "triship" model.

Donkey Kong - Concept

I have been kicking around the idea of recreating a classic scene from the Donkey Kong video game in Legos. I could not really come up with a good representation of Donkey Kong himself with the pieces I have.

Here is some concept work of Mario, or Jumpman as he was initially referred to in the game. The mini-fig pieces are not the correct colors, so I tried to change them with GIMP.

Concept of Mario (Jumpman) versus a barrel.

Quick re-coloring of Mario.

Turtloy

One of my favorite animals are turtles, and I have had an idea in my head for creating a simple turtle model out of Legos. Unfortunately, I could not figure out how to get my original idea to work but I did end up making a sea turtle.

My original idea was to use a few "wing" like pieces and a dish.

I could not find a good way to put the pieces together, so I decided to try a larger dish. However, I still could not figure out a good solution.

Here is the inspiration for the final sea turtle modle, a magnet from one of my trips to Hawaii.

I ended up creating a much larger model but using the same basic ideas. Here is the body and shell.

A close up of the body. The four round 1x1 plates are used to attach the shell to the body.

Another zoomed in view.

The shell attached to the body. However, it felt like there was still something missing.

I added a few yellow 1x1 round plates to add more details.