Brick Carving

[Randal]

Did you carve a Lego themed pumpkin this year? (previous years?) Throw a link or a reasonably sized pic of it up in this thread.

Here is a link to mine, though currently it's also my avatar.

[Capt. Stabbin]

Nice job, way to get in the spirit!!

[vlai23]

Here's the one I carved last week (also my avatar hehe).

[JimBee]

Did you carve a Lego themed pumpkin this year? (previous years?) Throw a link or a reasonably sized pic of it up in this thread.

Here is a link to mine, though currently it's also my avatar.

The front one is even appropriate to the site, although a little late for Sesame Street/ Muppets week.

Very nice work on these, how did you carve them?

[Randal]

It's a bit blurry, but here's all the pumpkins I carved this year, Including the Lego Jolly Roger at the bottom right.

As for how I went about it; I create templates which I transfer from paper to pumpkin with a spikey pizza cutter looking tool (for the Lego one, I blew up screen shots from LDD) and then I figure out what I want to be cut out, what I want to be pumpkin flesh and what I want to be pumpkin skin.

The cut-outs are done with a saw and the flesh portions are shaved away with a sharp knife. In the future I'm going to look into getting a power saw for the cut outs, as I think I'm getting carpal tunnel and all that repetitive sawing hurts. For Intricate delicate carving, it's best to start from the center and work your way out in widening circles. On the Lego one, I did all the shaving first, then I did the cut outs.