Minifigure Customization: Populate Your World!

Minifigure Customization: Populate Your World! shows you the wide range of techniques you can use to alter the lovable LEGO® Minifigure into any character you can imagine! BrickJournal columnist and author Jared K. Burks has created thousands of custom minifigs over the last 13 years, and this full-color book assembles his knowledge into a series of step-by-step tutorials on decal design and application, color alteration, custom part modification and creation, plus tips on minifigure displays and digital photography to capture your custom figures in the best light―all the way through complete custom figure creation! Essential tools are identified, plus there’s a tips and tricks section, and a gallery of some of the best custom figures ever created! Don’t live inside the box―populate your world with any alien, superhero, historical, action, horror, or science-fiction figure you can “just imagine”!

After a long day of helping pursue a cure for cancer, Jared Burks, Ph.D., relaxes by custom crafting his own LEGO minifigures. Known online as Kaminoan, he has created thousands of custom minifigs over the last two decades. An assistant professor in Leukemia and co-director of the Flow Cytometry and Cellular Imaging Core facility, Burks oversees expensive equipment shared by researchers around MD Anderson which allow researchers to see, sort and analyze thousands, or even millions, of a person's cells very quickly. But at the end of the day, his idea of relaxing is focusing on something bigger than a cell, like a light saber the size of a toothpick, oOr a pair of goggles smaller than a thumb tack. He's a regular contributor to BrickJournal, the magazine for LEGO® enthusiasts.