Hey everyone, Jason here. A couple days ago I built one of the latest LEGO
Architecture sets, which is this, the Statue of Liberty, and it's a pretty
awesome set. Even just as a parts pack there's a lot of great parts and tan and
sand green in it. It also uses some pretty cool building techniques and the
amount of detail on this model is actually quite phenomenal, that is until
you get to the facem which is just this blank shield piece and a lot of people
don't seem to mind it, but I really feel like it is at odds with the amount of
detail on the rest of the model, and I'm really not a big fan. But of course this
being LEGO and all, I thought I would see what I could do about it and you might
recognize this face is the face of Sisyphus or the lawnmower man, and the
nice thing about this is that all the pieces you need to build it actually
come in this set. So in a second I'll show you how you can make some very
minor modifications to this set and use some of the extra pieces that come with
it to build this and let's see what it actually looks like. Now I don't think
it's perfect by any means the jaw line's a little bit prominent, maybe a little
too masculine for this model, but the brow and the nose are such prominent
features in the actual Statue of Liberty that I really prefer them being
represented in some way in this model. But I'd love to hear what you guys think.
Do you prefer the original? Do you like this? Let me know in the comments.
So, what do we actually need to build this? We need a 1x1 tile a 1x1 cheese slope
and 1x2 cheese slope, two 1x2 jumper plates and a 2x3 plate.
The 1x1 tile and cheese slope actually come as extra pieces in this set so we can
just use those. For the other pieces we're gonna see where we can get them
from the finished model. There are only three jumper plates in the model and
they're at the back of the head here for creating the offset for mounting the
crown, so we're gonna have to rebuild that a little bit,
and we're gonna start by taking the crown off and then we'll take the face
off as well as the head and actually while we're here, I also think this neck
is just a little bit too long with the four stacked 2x2 round plates, so
we're actually gonna replace the bottom one with the 2x2 square plate that's on
the back of the current face, and I actually think this creates a much nicer
transition from the shoulders into the neck. I mean you can decide to do that or
not as you see fit. We're gonna take these two jumper plates off here and
we're actually gonna replace them with this 2x2 round *plate* that we just took
from the bottom of the neck and in the middle of that we're gonna use this
1x1 light gray round plate which came as an extra piece in the set as well and
you can just stick that in between the four studs. It might be a little bit awkward
to get in there but it fits there nice and snug and yes it is light gray but
really, you don't even notice it once you put everything back together. We'll put
the head back on and we can put the crown back on as well, right on that
round plate. So now we have our jumper plates for the 2x3 plate there is one
right behind these grill tiles here so we're just gonna pop that off, remove the
grill tiles and there we have it and we're actually gonna replace it with... for
the grille tile on the back we're gonna put this jumper plate underneath it
because we've got three jumper plates from the base of the crown and we only
need two of them. We can put that there, put the grill tile over top. For the
center grill tile we're gonna use this 1x1 plate which came as an extra piece,
and we'll just put that behind the grill tile and stick it on.
And then the front grill tile we're just gonna put directly on the stud, and
actually I think this looks a little bit nicer than just having the 2x3 tile
behind it, plate behind it, because you get a nicer transition
around that corner. And now all we need is the 1x2 cheese slope and we're
gonna take this one in the back because it's pretty inconspicuous. And we're
actually gonna replace it with this 1x2 tile, so we'll take that off, put that
there and then to cover up those studs we're actually going to take out these
curved slopes and we're just gonna replace that with the original face.
Sp we actually get the same shaping at the bottom of the dress. It doesn't bow in as
on the bottom but you know we have to make some sacrifices. So now we have all
the pieces we need so put the 2 jumper plates and the 1x2 cheese slope there
and the 1x1 tile and the 1x1 cheese slope and now we have our face.
Now all we need to do is add it to the head and voila, our Statue of Liberty has
a face. Anyway that's all there is to it. I hope you enjoyed the video. As always,
thanks for watching, keep on building and I'll see you next time.