Guides for building your own models
Practical notes for designing your own models with LEGO® bricks, from your first MOC to buying parts and sharing instructions. They follow how experienced builders work; where MOCsmith helps with a step, the guide says so.
- What is a MOC?
What MOC, MOD, AFOL and SNOT mean, and where builders share their models and instructions.
- How to build your first MOC
Scale, the brick grid, building a sturdy frame and the free software builders use.
- Building techniques: SNOT, offsets and greebling
SNOT and its parts, the five-plate rule, half-stud offsets, greebling and “illegal” connections.
- How to buy individual pieces for a MOC
Pick a Brick, BrickLink and the other places builders buy parts, and how to spend less.
- How to make building instructions for your MOC
What good steps look like, the tools designers use and where to share them.
- How to make a brick mosaic from a photo
Size, colours, dithering, bases and buying the parts for a custom mosaic.
- Turning a 3D model into a brick model
What conversion gets right, why it falls apart and how to finish the model by hand.