{"id":302,"date":"2010-04-07T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/07\/building-commissions-part-1\/"},"modified":"2017-04-23T23:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T04:17:36","slug":"building-commissions-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/07\/building-commissions-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Commissions (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mwhuffman\/4486945313\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4486945313_fa0b045a27_m.jpg\" alt=\"Miami Children's Hospital\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mwhuffman\/4486945313\/\">Miami Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a>,<br \/>\noriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/mwhuffman\/\">mhuffman<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So Joe Meno asked me to do a presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickmagic.org\/\">BrickMagic<\/a> on &#8220;Building Commissions&#8221; &#8212; personally, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m really the right person to do it, but whatever.<\/p>\n<p>To give you&#8217;ll a little background, a few years ago, one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gflug.org\/\">LUGmates<\/a> got a phone call about a LEGO building commission work &#8212; a company who remodeled one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mwhuffman\/sets\/72157602366360066\/\">local hospitals<\/a> wanted to commemorate the event in LEGO, but the catch was, it needed to be done in two weeks.\u00a0 After some discussion within our group, we decided to take on the project &#8212; the structure was simple enough, we used LEGO from our <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.lego.com\/en-us\/Orlando\/LandingPage.aspx\">local PaB<\/a> wall and from our personal collections, and we felt like we had enough time to make it happen.\u00a0 And, if you looked at the pictures of the completed model, the client was happy with our work.\u00a0 Because of our success, we decided to form a small company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brick-replicas.com\/\">Brick Replicas, LLC<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;to be continued&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Children&#8217;s Hospital, originally uploaded by mhuffman. 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