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Lego B-17 Flying Fortress in metallic silver bricks

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November 5th, 2010

Here’s one for the “limiting your options to stimulate creativity” file. Lego does not make many elements in its metallic silver color, so Flickr user Alex Schranz had very few pieces to work with when designing the fuselage and skin of his minifig-scale B-17 bomber model. I’d say he succeeded admirably.

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