Snoopy Wedding
Well, the whole reason I was motivated for making the original Snoopy sculpture was it was a wedding request for a friend of mine. She originally wanted it to be on the cake, but little did she know.. :-)
The original Snoopy was a "base" for building the other two: the groom and the bride. The groom was the easier of the two to build, because it matches the base design by size and shape. As you can see, the head is exactly the same for both.
Snoopy's bowtie and tuxedo were the most difficult parts. It's nice to have a husband to bounce ideas off of (the bricks with the gradations for the tux shirt were his idea :-), and he helped with the sizing of the tux. It was important that the head could still rotate without the bowtie always coming off (which was aninitial design flaw).
Belle was significantly harder to make. The body didn't really have any model to follow as a bride with a pot belly makes people think other things, and this wasn't a shotgun wedding.
Belle's head is just like Snoopy's, except for the eye lashes. The head needed something to say that this is a "girl" Snoopy, and the eye lashes were the best for that.
Belle's body was the hardest to do. I tried to start with a Chinese wedding dress, but I couldn't quite get it to work. When I started with the American wedding dress, I was having a hard time--it didn't look like much (except a Belle Pez dispenser).
After a bit of reworking and more reworking, I ended up starting with the train. Surprisingly, that turns out not only much better than I thought it would, but it made the entire dress flow.
I can't tell you how many times I had to go out and buy new bricks for this project. I have NO idea how many white bricks it took.. just A LOT (close to 3,000 for both sculptures and the present).
After the final reworking of the body, the arms required quite a bit of work. This was one project that, because I was under deadline (the wedding date), I had to get it done. Fortunately, Russ suggested hinges (duh), which made it easy for Belle to hold the bouquet.
Some stats: both are about 2 feet tall (same height as the space minifig and Albert), not as heavy as the space minifig (Snoopy is not as solid), lots of white bricks, and between 3,000 and 4,000 total LEGO bricks and parts. And congrats to Toshi and Selena :-)
As of 6/22/2005, this MOC is a BIMP Featured MOC:
