The Shpleem Dome
jonpalmer > Collections > LEGO
"When you go to a LEGO convention typically the larger models get most of the attention. Not good or bad, just the way it is. I wanted to make something large to take to shows that used the smallest amount of parts, so a geodesic dome sounded right.
"I built this for Brickfest DC 06. The geodesic dome took about 6 months of design and prototyping in my spare time. I wouldn’t have been able to build it without the awesome dome calculator on desertdomes.com. It was a surreal project because I learned (a little bit) about how real geodesic domes are made and then got to figure out how to make it with LEGO."
more pics in his photoset on flickr.com
