- Welcome back to Brick by Brick.
I'm your host Adam Ward and today
I've got an awesome build for you.
And not only is this build for you,
this build celebrates you.
Celebrates you for the person you are.
And not just for an accomplishment,
like having a perfect attendance record
or bowling a 300, or having really nice penmanship.
This award celebrates you for being you.
It's this trophy and you absolutely deserve it.
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First up, 1x2 Technic bricks.
These help us decorate the outside of the cup.
Up top, we've got 2x2 angled bricks.
These act as the mouth of the cup.
We use 1x2 inverted slopes to imitate
the curve of the bottom of the cup.
A 4x4 rounded plate is at the base of the cup.
2x2 rounded bricks.
These serve as the stem of the cup.
And 1x1 translucent plates.
We've got these all over this build.
They shine beautifully in the light
and imitate that classic trophy look.
It's a lot to look at, I know,
but if you want a complete list of all the pieces,
check out the video description.
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Now to start, we build a really
strong base for our trophy.
I like using a 4x6 plate and another 4x6 plate.
Put them together just like that.
Next, we put a layer of bricks right on top of it.
Now it doesn't really matter what bricks you use.
I think the bigger the better,
as long as we're covering up this seam.
Lock them in like that.
These are 1x8s. Takes 4 of them.
And then a 2x4 on either side.
That's it for the base.
Now it is column time my friends.
So this is a stack of your classic 2x2 bricks.
So you could just have the columns look like that,
but I like mixing it up a little bit.
So what I've done in the design
is I've taken these apart and
in between each one, I've put one of our essentials.
A 1x1 rounded plate.
Now these things are kind of a pain
to put into place.
You can really hurt your finger.
So I like using this antenna.
Pick it up, place it in.
Pretty sweet, right?
You can also make noises while you do it if you like.
And then we stack them all, one on top of another.
And then the top one doesn't get a plate.
That one goes right in the center.
Now you can use any color you like.
I've used light blue for the center,
and I've gone ahead and I've built my other columns.
I used magenta and lime green.
And these columns hang out with our center
just one brick apart.
Look at that happy little family.
What's up?
Just chillin.
Being a trophy, almost.
So up next, is another one our essentials,
the 1x1 translucent plates.
Now to match the same height of our columns
we need 19 of these, so I just stack
them on top of each other.
And you'll notice as I'm stacking
that I rotate each one just a little bit.
That way, they catch more light and are shinier.
Cuz you want your trophy to be shiny.
It's a pretty amazing accomplishment being you.
19 high, same height as these.
These are going to go out on our corner.
And we're going to copy that for all the other corners.
So make three more and put them on just like this.
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Now it's time for the next level.
You ready to take on the next level?
We use more of our 4x6 plates and
we put it right on top.
So half will be on the center column.
Time for side two.
So we're going to decorate our second level a little bit.
Just to make it look more interesting.
Got some more bricks.
So just take care of the center.
Go on like that, those are 1x8s and 2x4s.
We're going to use these 2x2 slopes.
They go right in the center.
And then we've got these pieces.
They look like little shields.
They're pretty sweet.
We're going to put those right on the side
and have them hang over, great.
Final two, last one, terrific.
And we've also got some of these 1x1 wedges.
Really kinda of draw the eye up to
where the cup of the trophy is going to be.
Cuz that's the coolest part of the trophy.
Don't worry, we're getting there.
We're almost there.
We're there.
Going to put this aside for a second.
And focus on the cup.
We start with another one of our essentials.
This is a 4x4 rounded plate.
This is the base of our trophy.
We've got four little 1x2 wedges.
Put them with the tall part on the inside
and the short part on the outside
to get that nice slope of the bottom of our cup.
And we've got these little 2x2 plates.
Put one down in the center.
And a couple 2x2 rounded bricks.
One on top of that.
Plate on top of that.
And then our other brick.
Great, so our base and our stem of our cup is ready.
Now, it's time for another essential piece.
Four of them actually.
The 1x2 inverted slope.
Now when we put them on, we want to make sure
that each one is pointing a different direction.
So I'm going to point it straight to you.
I'm going to rotate it and put another one.
And another one.
The finished product looks a little bit like a pinwheel.
There, now we've got a 2x2 tile right down in there.
And next up, these are building the side of our cup.
We've got just these plain old 1x2 bricks.
And these are going to go right on the pinwheel
and lined up with that tile that we put in the center.
On top of these 1x2 bricks,
we're going to add another row of 1x2 bricks.
But these are Technic bricks.
These have a hole in the center,
which allows us to add other cool pieces
and make our trophy even more special.
These go right on top.
Up next, we've got these angled 2x2s.
They're going to help us make it look like
we have a lip to our cup.
And they're going to go right on top of our Technic pieces.
Our cup is almost complete.
Now to fill in those holes,
back to one of our essential pieces,
the 1x1 translucent plate.
Very gently, I'm going to push these in.
And I think it looks really cool
when we make them look like a diamond
and not just like a square.
All the way around.
Look at that.
Okay, now I don't even know what these pieces are.
Are they are door knocker?
Are they a life preserver?
If anybody knows what these are actually called,
please let me know.
I know they're awesome and I think they
look great on the side of our trophy.
So regal.
So distinguished.
I think I feel like I need to do the rest of this
in like an fancy English accent just as we finish it.
So, we're going to grab four 1x2,
I'm going to stop that accent right now.
Four 1x2 tiles and these go right on top
to cover up the little Lego notches.
Final tiles are in.
Our cup is complete.
And our cup can now take it's rightful spot
on top of our trophy base.
Amazing and if your trophy looks like this, fantastic.
If your trophy looks a little bit like this, amazing.
If your trophy looks nothing at all like this, wonderful.
There's no wrong way to make a trophy.
Your trophies are as wonderfully unique as you are.
And now that you've made one,
you get to give it to somebody.
If you give somebody the trophy you just built,
and you tell them why because of something they did
or just cuz of who they are,
you're going to make that person's day
or maybe their week, even their month.
Who knows?
Acknowledgement is such an amazing tool.
And sometimes we just assume that people know
that we love them or assume that people know
that we think they're really cool or
great at Lego building or something,
but so much of the time they don't.
So I would invite you to take that trophy
and give it to somebody and tell them why.
I think you'll be amazed at what a difference you can make.
Now I'm going to hit the streets
and I'm going to acknowledge the heck out of some people
and see what we can do cuz it is trophy time.
♫ SoulPancake subscribe
Hey thanks for watching.
I know you're going to make some awesome trophies.
I think you could really touch a lot
of hearts with this one.
I took to the streets to award some
people trophies for just being their awesome selves.
To watch, all you gotta do is click the video on the left,
or on the info button in the top right corner.
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