HOW TO: Conceptualizing a Minifig

Thanks, Red! I seem to recal from a previous discussion long ago...

Question: "When does it stop being a minifig, and start being a Barbie doll?"

Answer: "When you can comb their hair!"

I don't actually see your article as being a guide to 'conceptualizing' a minifig so much as a guide to keeping your custom minifig a minifig and not something else. Whatever you want to call it, these are all good guidelines and suggustions!

Do you use "blank" minifigs with nothing on it, if so where do you get them? Or do you just modify any minifig that you get from a Lego set?

I know this is a basic question, but I have to start somewhere. Thank You

Blank minifigs:

1.) You can buy the pieces to make them (blank heads, black torsos, etc) on Bricklink. www.bricklink.com

2.) You can get the pieces via various LEGO sets.

3.) You can -make- blank minifig body parts by taking any body part that you have no special attachment to and rubbing it against a cloth soaked with Brasso. This will permenently remove the design that the body part came with, however.


There ya go, Qwick.

for capes and such, would you use an exact-O knife to cut the small holes, or somthing else?

\thanks