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LEGO® MOC – Let it Bleed (The Rolling Stones)

The images on this webpage are from a recent MOC (My Own Creation) idea for a LEGO model, built using the free Lego Digital Designer software and rendered with assistance from the free BrickLink Studio software. The MOC images and some descriptive text were submitted to a Lego Ideas competition, based on the theme of the British Rock Band, The Rolling Stones.

This model is a tribute to the several of my favourite Rolling Stones songs, including "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want", which all appear of one of the band’s best-selling albums, “Let it Bleed”.
The build is an attempt to recreate the infamous album cover in Lego, which features a decorative iced cake which was made by one of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, Delia Smith. “Let it Bleed” was released in 1969 and the record sleeve’s artwork was styled like a stacking record player with layers above the record comprising a plate, a tape canister, clock face, pizza, tyre, and on the top the cake, itself. The cake is topped out with miniature figurines representing the band.
This is probably one of the most abstract Lego models I have ever designed and there were several technical challenges along the way, many associated with the largely round shape of the various sub-assemblies of the build. Whereas the actual record sleeve shows the stack of cake/tyre/etc. mounted and balanced above the record on the same pole that runs through the centre of the vinyl, the record was placed separately in this design, for reasons of strength and balancing, should the physical model be constructed.
The model contains a total count of 856 Lego pieces.

Note that the model design shown here, in its entirety or in part, is copyrighted and therefore no permission is granted to reproduce it for commercial or any other purposes(s).

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