Monday, March 15th, 2021 by Brickfinder
I’ve been following this project for a while which is why I’m super excited to announce that the LEGO Ideas Violin project has reached 10,000 votes!
LEGO Fan designer Samuel Ho originally built this for his daughter who is a talented violinist and then decided to submit this into the LEGO Ideas platform in January 2021.
And in just a couple of month, it has garnered enough support for it to be included in the next round of LEGO Ideas projects selection!
I really do love his use of arches to create the curves of the waist and fence element for the bridge.
When I first saw the thumbnails, I honestly did not realise it was LEGO till I had a closer look at the images.
I agree that it does have a niche market but this is such a gorgeous design and would make a really nice display piece for the musically inclined.
I really do hope that this will be selected for production as the brick count is actually quite reasonable for a life sized replica.
Designer description:
The violin is the musical instrument that is known as the queen of musical instruments. With its distinctive curved body shaped like an hour glass producing beautiful tones, it has been recreated in LEGO brick form. Reddish brown 1x12x3 arches are used with a combination of tiles, roof tiles, bricks with bow and plates to recreate the unique curves of a violin. Besides the curved body, it was a painstaking task to build the detailed parts of the violin such as the scroll, chin rest, f-holes, bridge, strings and tuning pegs.
The 12 outer cable 176 mm connected with 1×1 clip pieces as the strings, black bar with 1×1 round stud and golden rings as the pegs, and an ice cream swirl element as the decoration of the scroll.
SNOT techniques were also used to create the life-like smooth body of the violin, to add that touch of realism. A total of 1029 pieces was used to build this musical masterpiece.
This brick-built violin is my first MOC for 2021 which was a specially constructed gift for my musically talented daughter. I hope all the LEGO Ideas supporters like my creation!
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