How To Build Brick Airplanes: Detailed LEGO Designs for Jets, Bombers, and Warbirds

by Peter Blackert

How to Build Brick Airplanes shows how to construct some of the world's most legendary aircraft, including the SR-71, the P38 Lightning, and the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. 

Grab some bricks because it's time to get building! How to Build Brick Airplanes is loaded with clear, easy to follow designs for creating contemporary and classic jets, warbirds, bombers, and more using nothing more than bricks found in many common LEGO sets. More than just simple, generic recreations, the planes here are all scale models of their real world counterparts.

How to Build Brick Airplanes opens with simpler designs before working up to more detailed builds. This vivid, simple, and fun title is sure to bring hours of joy and airborne wonder to LEGO fans across the globe, whether you're an aviation enthusiast, LEGO lover, or looking for a project to share with little ones of your own.

LEGO is the world's #1 toy company. The adults who grew up building LEGO City and Spaceports are now passing their old sets onto their children, and a new generation of LEGO builders has emerged, along with a rabid online community and celebrated custom builders.

192 pages, Paperback

Published October 9, 2018

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book, featuring instructions for three levels of LEGO building expertise. Small and easy to builds, more complex builds and real challenging builds. The easy and medium builds are easy to put together from most LEGOs you may have lying around. My son had a couple of disassembled Star War builds in his LEGO box and I was able to do a couple of the simple and medium builds without a problem.

Being older, I loved the more challenging builds. The SR-71 Blackbird and the P-38 Lightning were my favorite builds. The pages included step by step instructions, where each piece goes and how modules of varying pieces are placed and how to connect to the larger frame work and onward until the completed aircraft creation.

The book includes the list of and number of pieces needed in the appendix, plus where to order what you need (bricklink). Purchase and enjoy the grand adventure of gathering and assembling some of these aircraft on your own.

[Pete Bailey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the models, but... I think there is a misprint in the Spitfire instructions - pretty sure step 51 doesn't belong there at all. I figured that one out though. On occasion, the author gives instructions for one side, and it's up to you to reverse the pieces and build the other side. For many cases, like the tail of the Spitfire (steps 38-39 comprised of 9 pieces), that's easily done. But it's not so cool to do that for the entire starboard wing assembly (steps 41-55, and a bunch of pieces).

If it weren't for that, I'd have given it 5 stars.

[Leilani Blackert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it so good my dad writes the best books

[Raymond Doolittle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the book great help with building Lego Mocs scone Lego officially has no fighter jet sets.

[Denice Langley · Rating 5 out of 5]

My nieces, nephews and grandchildren each picked a different airplane from this book and spent the weekend building them. It was a great adventure watching them visualize and build the scale model of each of their choices. They are all different ages and skill levels so it was a real test of the instructions and author's dedication to his craft. Everyone enjoyed the book. They've already chosen their next challenges!