Aerospace Bricker

08/05/2026

My latest project - more info coming soon!...

05/29/2026

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04/27/2026

Yesterday I did the first build of my 1/100 Micro Scale Blue Angels C-130J "Fat Albert" LEGO® model. I took photos of each step & made a slideshow video - to show what a typical build looks like in my Most Basic Bricks & Plates Only "Classic Style" ...

04/12/2026

In celebration of Artemis II - here's the step-by-step plans for AeroSpace Bricker's Most Basic Bricks & Plates Only 1/100 Micro Scale version of NASA Artemis Orion / SLS in a downloadable/printable PDF file...

Step-by-step build instructions for this LEGO® model.

04/11/2026

Welcome Home Artemis!
Angel & I had our names onboard inside "Rise."
So now - with a successfully completed mission - Artemis Orion-SLS joins my US Human Crewed Space LEGO model collection…
I have digital build plans for all of these. Please let me know if you want any of them.

04/01/2026

The Apollo Saturn V flew 9 manned missions to the moon - all successfully returning the crews safely home. Of those, 6 included also landing on the moon.
Only 1 of the 9 (Apollo 13) failed to obit the moon - that aborted mission did a "free return trajectory" maneuver - similar to what Artemis II plans to do.
All manned Apollo flights took place between 1968 and 1972 (4 years).
If all goes well, Artemis II may start its first manned mission tomorrow (April 1, 2026) over 53 years later.
Even if that flight gets delayed - we hope to see another manned moon mission successfully completed soon!
In anticipation of that - I have build plans for a 1/100 Micro Scale Artemis LEGO model ready to release - upon that mission’s success.
In the meantime - here's the step-by-step plans for AeroSpace Bricker's Most Basic Bricks & Plates Only 1/100 Micro Scale version of NASA Apollo Saturn V in a downloadable/printable PDF file generated using LEGO® BrickLink® Studio™...

Step-by-step build instructions for this LEGO® model.

03/29/2026

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03/13/2026

47 of my 52 AeroSpace Bricker™ 1/30 Base Scale Rutan/SCALED LEGO® models have been on display in the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin since 2011 (15 years). This exhibit was added to the Rutan Legacy section of the museum on the occasion honoring my dad Burt Rutan’s retirement from SCALED Composites - the company he founded in 1982 and sold completely to Northrup Grumman shortly before he retired. Many thousands of aviation enthusiasts got to see these models in those years – along with real artifacts, several actual aircraft & full-scale replicas of Voyager & SpaceShipOne (the original real ones of these two replicas are in the Smithsonian - along with a few other Rutan/SCALED aircraft).

Last year (2025) EAA celebrated the 50th Anniversary of dad’s VariEze airplane that revolutionized the homebuilt aircraft industry. VariEze was a futuristic stall-proof design built using his then new moldless fiberglass & foam composite construction techniques - instead of the typical riveted aluminum and/or wood & cloth. The fact it could be built in a couple years by one person in their home garage - in (all) their spare time - with no previous aircraft construction skills - catapulted VariEze to instant success back in 1976 - when it was first introduced at the EAA Annual AirVenture Fly-In/Air Show/Convention.

This week I was notified the EAA no longer wishes to display my models - so they’re shipping them back to me. I don’t have enough space to display them in my home. I’ll be looking for a new museum that will appreciate & display them for years to come.

These models represent nearly the full scope of the of the extensive body of manned aerospace craft created by Burt Rutan & SCALED Composites (under his leadership) – all to scale in a medium (Most Basic LEGO® Bricks & Plates Only) that anyone can build themselves - using my plans or making up their own. My hope is that the models inspire interest, creativity & STEM ambitions/learning/achievement in younger folks - as the real ones inspired generations of engineers before.

02/26/2026

I'm currently working on build plans for the biggest LEGO® model I've designed so far. I have a self-imposed max limit of 5 feet (1.5 meters) max dimension for any model I design. This new model is close to that limit in wingspan at 56.1" (142.4 cm). My 1/30 Base Scale WhiteKnightTwo has exactly the same wingspan in real life & here in the same scale. But this B-29 has bulkier total volume in all dimensions - even with only one fuselage.
My online friend John Schneiderman inspired this project. He's been working on creative techniques to build using a very limited part type inventory (like I use - but possibly adding some Tiles) to try to get rid of as many visible studs & anti-studs as possible. Then he came up with some new ideas for building horizontally instead of vertically to achieve this more economically.
We ended up committing to both of us designing the same airplane in the same scale using the same part type limitations - but in opposite build orientations. After we both finish our Stud·io Instructions, we will do a presentation together comparing & contrasting the approaches & techniques we used - and telling about what we learned along the way.
Should be a great story! Stay tuned!

02/10/2026

The first LEGO® model I designed & built was a 1/30 Base Scale Virgin Galactic / SCALED Composites SpaceShipTwo (SS2) - back in 2008. I also designed & built SpaceShipOne (SS1), SS1's Mothership White Knight (WK1) & SS2's Mothership WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) soon after.
My first SS2 model was done before the real one was built - based only on concept renderings. It was built using only Bricks (no Plates) - so it was very chunky. I later redesigned all those 4 original models using lots of Plates as well as Bricks - for more graceful appearance. We built all those refined designs + 70 others for the EAA Aviation Museum Exhibit. The 1/30 Base Scale SS2 with WK2 together are the flagship of that collection - largest, most expensive & among the best looking.
The current versions of those original 4 models are all now available in BrickLink® Studio™ Stud·io files.