March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day, the day when just about everyone in the U.S. claims to be at least a little bit Irish, which means wearing green clothing and often imbibing copious amounts of beer with green food coloring added, especially when it falls on a weekend. (There’s very little to do with saints involved.) And more to the point, images of leprechauns.
In honor of this auspicious day I present an old MOC that I made 11 years ago in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, but which you might never have seen. For many years the original post, like a lot of my early LEGO blog posts, was on a defunct website. I recently rescued that archive and retroactively added them here! So now you can see the original post from 2004 along with a lot of my earlier work.
This Leprechaun was built for BayLUG‘s March 20, 2004 meeting, where we had a St. Patrick’s Day contest. You can see pictures of the contest entries in my meeting pictures album on Flickr from that meeting.
As a challenge to myself, this model was built entirely using regular plain LEGO bricks – not even plates added for details. I also used that approach for my Pokemon sculptures. At shows we often hear “Oh but they didn’t have all those special parts when I was a kid” from adults from the public. (Never mind that they actually did, unless they were a kid in the 1950s or maybe early 60s, but building models like this goes a long way toward defusing that argument :-) )
