My partner's workplace #LEGO Slack channel (!) has been asking questions about the making of this set and I put together a how-to make a color-scrambled LEGO set that I have now published on my blog.
https://blog.mrpetovan.com/slice-of-life/how-to-design-a-color-scrambled-lego-set/
It's niche so I don't expect a lot of traffic but I already did the writing work so it wasn't hard to convert it to a blog post.
LEGO Boeing 787 "Putting back the dream in" Dreamliner
This is our latest #LEGO project with my partner, using an official design as a base (in this case, the 2006 Boeing 787 Dreamliner 10177 set), and using as many different colors for the parts as possible. Most came from my existing collection, several had to be purchased in the wildest colors possible.
To zero in on this set, I used Rebrickable Build Search feature that returns how much of which sets can be built given a pool of parts. This search engine has several interesting options, including disregarding the part colors entirely, matching only on part molds.
This gave me a result with an extremely wide range of sets, so I had to filter further. I first limited the results to sets with more than 1,000 parts so that the patchwork of colors would be shown at a meaningful scale. The second filter was manual, I tried to find a set where color differences weren't used to denote a change of texture or geometry. This set stood out thanks to its simple geometric shape, and the base bi-tone color scheme was perfect to scramble.
We're pretty happy with the result, and it will nicely adorn our living room shelves for a while.
More pictures:
How to design a color-scrambled LEGO set – MrPetovan.com
Color-scrambled LEGO sets make for visually stunning display pieces, here's how I built my LEGO Boeing 767 Dreamliner with scrambled colors.blog.mrpetovan.com
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