[MOC] Building Other Album Covers

[Retro]

I thought I'd have a go at making some other album covers in between Pink Floyd work. So, here we go with the first one...

Number 1: Queens of The Stone Age - Rated R

Lego;

 

Original cover;

 

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Number 2: Aimee Mann - Whatever

Lego;

Original Cover;

 

Number 3: Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

Lego;

 

Original cover;

 

 

[JGW3000]

Stop it!  Too many old memories coming back. I've literally forgotten about these until now!  Great work and keep them coming. How about ELP's Brain Salad Surgery?

[CardinalBricks]

Hey Retro

These are awesome, I hope you do more. I've always appreciated your emphasis on photo-recreation rather than being constrained by a consistent scale/ needing to have a tangible display piece like what I do.

Really like how you did the R and the black hand on Aimee Man helps cover up the fact that minifigures can't lay like that, nicely done.

I had never heard of Aimee Mann but the album cover caught my attention. I've been jamming to Whatever for the past couple of days, it's so good.

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19 hours ago, JGW3000 said:

Stop it!  Too many old memories coming back. I've literally forgotten about these until now!  Great work and keep them coming. How about ELP's Brain Salad Surgery?

Could you pick something harder, please, lol? (Actually, someone suggested 'In The Court of The Crimson King'!) I will try and keep going, thank you.

14 hours ago, BrickRally217 said:

Hey Retro

These are awesome, I hope you do more. I've always appreciated your emphasis on photo-recreation rather than being constrained by a consistent scale/ needing to have a tangible display piece like what I do.

Really like how you did the R and the black hand on Aimee Man helps cover up the fact that minifigures can't lay like that, nicely done.

I had never heard of Aimee Mann but the album cover caught my attention. I've been jamming to Whatever for the past couple of days, it's so good.

Thanks so much. Yes, the R took me about two days! And the black hand, well spotted, I don't know where her hand is in the original picture! Is it in her pocket? Is she lying on it?

There's great stuff on all Aimee's records. 'Smilers' is my favourite at the moment. 

Edited February 13, 2020 by Retro

[JGW3000]

1 hour ago, Retro said:

Could you pick something harder, please, lol?

How about the Beatles White Album 

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Number 4: Steely Dan - Gaucho

Lego (disclosure - a little magic was used);

Original;

 

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Number 5: Pearl Jam - Ten

Lego;

 

 

 

Original LP;

Original CD;

When I started this, I intended to make the CD cover version. The one with just the arms. But I discovered two profound enemies of Lego building. One, is trying to do a specific font. I had to make the white letters so big to make them look reasonable, that it pushed the whole thing to be about 300mm. Second is accurate human anatomy. Minifigure arms are just so short! I even tried brick building the whole collection of arms in black, and though the silhouette shape was perfect, the lack of colour variations for hands and sleeves just looked wrong. So I ended up with this hybrid between the LP and CD cover, with some minifigures of the band just doing their own thing. ?

Edit: will include brick built arms version here now;

 

Edited March 4, 2020 by Retro
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Number 6: Massive Attack - Protection

Lego;

 

Original;

 

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Number 7: Bruce Hornsby - Harbor Lights (Original painting was Edward Hopper's 'Rooms by The Sea')

Lego (natural light, no tricks);

 

With blue filter;

Original;

 

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Number 8: Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Lego;

Original;