While you might think of creators as expert artists and builders as folks who only use high-end art supplies or expensive materials to complete their masterpieces, there’s a surprising level of skill one can exert when creating Lego figures and scenes. If you loved using Lego as a kid, you may see them as a juvenile medium for someone who is grown up and serious about your craft. While Lego is mostly used by children to create simple structures or indulge in their favorite themed sets for Star Wars or other franchises, they have a lot to offer adults. Because of the unique shape and ability of Lego to lock into each other, you can create items with them without worrying about the objects falling apart if a breeze blows through your window or a family member comes rushing around and knocks them down. They’re also great if you want to use old Lego sets from your childhood to unwind after a stressful day and build something that makes you feel accomplished or happy when you look at it.

What Is Lego?

Lego is small brick pieces that interlock using simple shapes. While Lego primarily comes in rectangular and square shapes, you can also find circles, triangles, and other pieces that will help your vision come to life. If you’re good at making digital art with pixels, you can think of these bricks as the analog version of pixels. Many items that are built with this type of toy come out looking kind of “boxy” in their shape and structure. This is because Lego relies on users to form larger pieces out of small rectangular pieces.

How Can You Preserve a Lego Model?

Once you’ve built a Lego model such as a house, car, or model of your favorite fandom’s spaceship, you might want to think about how you can keep it together forever. Although Lego pieces may break or degrade over time if you don’t store them properly, you should be able to find ways to make your Lego structure stick together. One option for this is using specialized craft or super glues to keep pieces together. After you’ve planned out your model, you can add a small amount of glue to each piece or layer and keep it in place that way.

You can also use riskier methods like melting pieces together with heat since it is plastic. However, we would not recommend using that method unless you are a professional who knows what you are doing. What’s more, you should consider how adhesives, heating methods, and other ways of preserving Lego structures may affect how the piece looks or feels. Some materials might be great at keeping Lego together but they could also harm the plastic over time. Also, the added adhesive material may make the piece bulkier. If you’re trying to keep your piece sleek, you could use other methods like varnishing it with a sealant that is also sticky enough to keep pieces from coming apart from each other.

If you’ve ever gone to a Lego store, you know that these products are not exactly cheap. Depending on your budget, you may find them to be cost-prohibitive and over-priced. If you are low on funds, you may want to either set up a savings account or jar that’s devoted to buying Lego or you could ask for them for gifts. Getting large general sets of these bricks may be a better idea for your budget than getting specialized models that have specific pieces that would be hard to reuse or incorporate into future projects. Unless you plan on having specific models in your collection, you should be careful not to get sets that would limit your options for what you can create.

Mechanic Shop

While you might not want to think about going to a real repair shop for tire repairs, it can be fun for the creator expert to make a model Lego mechanic shop with all of the necessary equipment. Some people may love the aspect of adding different types of vehicles or equipment to the shop. You can also scale it to a certain ratio from life so that it fits into your collection. After you make a mechanic’s shop, you could make a car dealership, car wash or other automobile-themed place so that your little Lego people have somewhere to buy, sell, and fix their cars. It can allow your imagination to go wild if you enjoy cars. When you already have a model car collection, this can be a great way to branch into Lego while still tapping into your current interests.

Scale Model Jeep

As a creator expert, it can be fun to play a Jeep dealer for the day and make a scale model of this vehicle. Whether you decide to make your Jeep look accurate according to pictures of Jeeps that you find online or you take your own creative liberties, this can be an awesome way to show your love of Jeeps without taking time away from your Lego hobby. If you like both of these things, it really is the best of both worlds. You may also want to study the different types of scales. If you plan to use your scale model car to chauffeur dolls or action figures around, you should investigate what scale those dolls use. As a general rule, Barbie dolls are 1:6 scale while dolls like Calico Critters and other smaller figurines may be 1:12 scale or even 1:24 scale. Once you do your research, you’ll have a better idea of what these terms mean and how they may apply to you.

College Campus

One of the perks of being a creator expert is having the skills to bring your creative vision to life in Lego and other media. You can also live out dreams through your creative world that you never got to carry out in real life. If you’ve always dreamed of taking art residency courses, you should create a Lego college campus for yourself. This little campus can represent a dream that you had but no longer wish to pursue. If you’re in art school or you have a family member in art school, this can also be a great gift. To preserve the college campus Lego structure, you should look into sealants and glue that will keep it from falling apart before it arrives at the collegiate gift receiver’s house. One of the ways you can personalize it is by making it look like the college that you desire or that your gift recipient attends. You could also use this as a gift for a professor who is retiring or someone from your college who meant a lot to you.

Retirement Community

One piece of creator expert advice we can give is that you’re never too old to create with Lego. If you live in one of the more active senior living communities, you may be able to give back to your community by constructing a Lego model of the place. The staff and other residents will marvel at your amazing work. They may also love to place little Lego people who look like them in the piece and have a fun, interactive item that means something to them.

Scale Model Instrument

If you see a used guitar for sale on the internet, you can ask any creator expert what scale you should use to create a model instrument that is appropriately sized. Depending on what your purpose for making a Lego instrument would be, you may want to make it larger or smaller. From a violin to a drumset to a piano, the sky is the limit for the types of instruments you can create with your Lego set. As long as you can imagine it, you can build it. You could also see if there are kits of the types of instruments that you want to build. If Lego doesn’t manufacture one, you can either contact the company and see if they like the idea of making it or you can use pieces to estimate what it would be like to have that set and create your own.

Courthouse

When you love watching true crime shows with criminal defense attorneys, you can use your knowledge as a creator expert to replicate your favorite courthouse with Lego. Although your options may be limited by colors and available pieces, you can have a good time making a courthouse where justice is always served and the bad guys always get what they deserve. If you enjoy using stop motion animation, you could even make a movie or show with a camera and other supplies that handles true crime topics. If you don’t want to do true crime with that, you could try to write your own original scripts based on what you know about the topic.

Making a stop-motion animated Lego film can produce you a little side income that could help you pay for Lego sets. Since Lego are expensive, it helps to have a plan of how you’ll fund your hobby. Depending on what your family circumstances are like, your parents or spouse may not appreciate it if you spend all of your money on these sets. It can add up after a while and become a source of frustration for those who live with you. If you don’t want them to get upset at your spending, it can help to demonstrate that you have a lucrative option for how you could pay for it. The true crime genre has ballooned into a truly popular one that could make more money that some other options. Even if you don’t make a cent from it, you still could develop a new skill and find a new outlet that makes having Lego all the more rewarding.

Graveyard

As a creator expert during Halloween, you might want some spooky ideas of what you could create. One option is a graveyard complete with ghosts, tombstones, zombies, black cats, and any other creepy ideas. Maybe you could include a funeral service. If you decide to make a graveyard, you could also put names on the gravestones that replicate your family tree. This can be a great way to honor your ancestry.

Mansion

Building a mansion with custom shutters with Lego is a great move for a creator expert. This way, you can have a large, fancy house to show for your efforts. You could also add shrubbery and other details to bring it to life.

Hospital

While you may want to make your Lego hospital a general one, you can make it fancy. Try making a cardiologist office in a hospital. Alternatively, the average creator expert could make a replica of a research hospital for charity.

Sports Game

If you love sports physicals, you can add a sports section to the hospital. From football to baseball, a creator expert has lots of options when it comes to making a sports game come to Lego life. You can also create a football field and film your players playing the game through stop-motion animation techniques.

As long as you aren’t hurting yourself or those around you physically, emotionally, financially, or mentally, there’s nothing wrong with breaking out some plastic bricks and creating whatever your heart desires. If you have a family or other obligations, you may want to set limits on how much time you spend with your building blocks. Even so, anyone who loves you would support you in doing what you enjoy. Overall, it can be helpful to have this kind of outlet. It’s also completely normal to want to do things that you enjoyed as a kid as an adult. Once you meet your adult responsibilities, how you spend your free time is completely up to you. As the box says, you can play with them as a child or as a 100-year-old person. No matter what your age or stage of life is, you should know that whatever you find fun is a worthwhile endeavor.