Military AhBoon | 22 Jan 2007 05:19 pm
USS Lego
A new ship is set to join the US Navy. The aircraft carrier Harry S Truman. No, not the aircraft carrier that joined the fleet in 1998. The all new, improved and miniaturized Harry S Truman. Oh, and it happens to be built entirely out of Lego blocks.
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth and the last Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, named in honor of Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), thirty- third President of the United States. This pic on the right is the real Aircraft Carrier Harry S Truman.
The real thing is one of the largest ships afloat - and this amazing copy is the biggest one ever made out of Lego.
Father-of-two Malle Hawking, 36, used more than 300,000 lego bricks to build his scale model of the USS Harry S Truman from scratch.
The Harry S Truman is one of the largest carriers in the US fleet. The full size nuclear powered aircraft carrier carries 85 warplanes and more than 5000 airmen and crew.
Dailymail - The 300,000 lego brick aircraft carrier
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More picture can be found on [Brickshelf’s Gallery]
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Technorati Tags: Aircraft Carrier, Lego, US Navy, Truman
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on 24 Jan 2007 at 8:41 pm 1.Dino said …
Too much time on his hands, he needs to get out more!
on 24 Jan 2007 at 9:59 pm 2.BarracuddA said …
Whoow, impressive…
Did he publish the 3,000 pages build book ?
on 30 Jan 2007 at 3:56 am 3.G Edwards said …
Sir:
You’ve done an excellent job in constructing the AC Carrier down to the finest details available using Lego blocks. I spent countless hours playing with them myself when my children were little and invariably I would run out of shapes and colors that I needed.
So congratulations!
I would like to point out if no one else has noticed, that the photograph of the real Harry S. Truman is a dead givaway for the Theodore Roosevelt. Even the number CVN-71 can be seen on the flight deck island. Hence the name “Big Stick”, since Teddy Roosevelt popularized the expression Speak Softly, but carry a Big Stick.
-G Edwards
on 13 Mar 2007 at 12:05 am 4.Terror said …
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on 11 Apr 2008 at 5:07 pm 5.Anubis said …
Even if I am not an friend of war or weapons in general, I have to say that your ship is one of the greatest works of lego I’ve ever seen. And trust me, I’ve seen a lot, because it is one of my passions, too.
on 23 Sep 2008 at 2:31 am 6.Johnnystyro said …
G Edwards is absolutely right. It is the Teddy Roosevelt. The ship’s motto of the Truman is “The buck stops here.”