{"id":9560,"date":"2018-04-18T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2018-04-18T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:06:00","slug":"forestman-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=9560","title":{"rendered":"Forestman Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac\u00a0and I got a very unique opportunity through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/innovalug.com\/\">InnovaLUG<\/a>, to build a series of Nutcrackers based off of the promotional Nutcracker set to aid in The LEGO Group\u2019s advertising of the promotion. You can see that video on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LEGO\/videos\/10155260653428403\/\">Facebook page here<\/a>. They needed 18 unique outfits for Nutcrackers built within a few weeks, and we jumped at the chance to do some building for the LEGO group.<\/p>\n<p>This forestman was based off of one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bricklink.com\/v2\/catalog\/catalogitem.page?M=cas321#T=S&amp;O={%22ss%22:%22US%22,%22iconly%22:0}\">classic forestman designs<\/a>, and although pretty simple, it was a lot of fun to make. The shaping for his cap was a\u00a0fairly tricky, but after I few\u00a0iterations I found that wedge slopes worked pretty nicely. Another challenge was attaching the quiver in such a way that the functionality of the nutcracker wasn&#8217;t inhibited.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 16%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9560 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Forestman.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[9560]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Forestman-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Forestman-3.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[9560]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Forestman-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Forestman-back.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[9560]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Forestman-back-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac\u00a0and I got a very unique opportunity through\u00a0InnovaLUG, to build a series of Nutcrackers based off of the promotional Nutcracker set to aid in The LEGO Group\u2019s advertising of the\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=9560\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,818],"tags":[2459,286,2461,102,1789,2040,2458,290,2337,8,49,412,1780,2326,2323,2460],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john","category-special-themes","tag-archer","tag-build","tag-cap","tag-creation","tag-display","tag-feather","tag-forestman","tag-forestmen","tag-hat","tag-lego","tag-moc","tag-model","tag-nutcracker","tag-outfit","tag-promotion","tag-quiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9561,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions\/9561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}