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| Microscopic mite Representative for: Mites. |
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| Lego trick: break it up by body parts: when you find yourself clueless for what your lego creation is going to look like, figure out the form by section. A, find sections that are personal to what you're building. B, divide your creation and process of building by those sections. C, create. |
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| Golden-silk Orbweaver Family: Nephilidae, Infraorder: Araneomorphae, Order: Araneae. Representative for: Spiders. |
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| Lego trick, find your footing: when I was formulating the lengths of legs for my spider, I wanted each one to be a different length. I positioned them to get gradually wider or something, but that looked weird. I then decided to do them in a random order and that worked out well. (of course, the hooked plate was the front legs the whole time, since that would be the most biologically accurate.) |
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| Mantis Shrimp Order: Stomatopoda, Class: Malacostraca. Representative for: Decapoda. (despite not being a decapod, I still consider this mantis shrimp the representative for decapods since they look very similar. I guess I didn't do enough research. Oh well.) |
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| Lego trick, decapod* decor: I used lots of pieces I had to give the mantis shrimp its many leg. There is not much to say on this subject. *yes, Mantis Shrimps are not decapods. |
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| Centipede Class: Chilopoda, Subphylum: Myriapoda. Representative for: Myriapods. |
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| Lego trick, tricky tergites: It took a lot of experimenting to figure out what piece to use for this centipede's tergites (trunk segments). After trying 2/1 bricks and 2/2 tubular bricks in rainbow colors, I eventually decided to use 3/3 black rocket nozzle pieces for the tergites. I used 3/2 plates for legs and 2/2 tubular plates to fit them int the back of the tergite. |
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| Landhopper Family: Talitridae, Order: Amphipoda. Representative for: Amphipods. |
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| Lego trick: lateral loophole: When I was showing my amphipod to Ima, she noted how flat it was. I told her that Amphipods were laterally compressed. Later though, I realized 'not that laterally compressed'. So I got out some 2/1 hopper plates and smooth 2/2 tiles and made the amphipod slightly thicker. You can see in the photo how it works. |
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| (Rain) Pillbug Family: Armadillidiidae, Order: Isopoda. Representative for: Isopods. |
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| Lego trick, a new hope: I've always thought of the piece on the left as useless, since it's sister tile (above right) is broken. But when I put studs with holes on it's pegs, I got a cute little face I incorporated into my build. The piece in the middle was pretty hard to find a purpose for, but it was the perfect piece for the pleon. The piece on the right is designed to go on the front a car, but I put on the front of an isopod! |
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