Joining your Lego Figures Together

This lesson begins after you have built your chess board.

  1. Open the file with the chess board.    Doesn't my chessboard look awesome?

  2. Click File. 
  3. Place your mouse over import.  Click Wavefront. 
  4. Navigate to your file.  Use the two triangles to begin finding your file. 
  5. Click on your minifig file.  Get the file that ends in obj.
  6. Click Import. 
  7. Click Ok. 
  8. This gets your character in Blender.  These next steps are important so don't mess up!
  9. Change to side view. 
  10. Your character will look something like this: 
  11. Press the R Key to stand your Lego figure upright. 
  12. Use your blue and green triangles to position your Lego figure above the board. 
  13. Right click one part of your character.  In this example the arm has been selected. 
  14. Use the B Key to select the rest of the Lego figure. 
  15. The figure should now be pink. Nothing else should be pink.
  16. Ctrl - J.  This is to join.
  17. If you have joined correctly the whole character should be pink.
  18. Click Center New. 
  19. Place the Lego figure on the chess board.

Don't miss or mess up on any of the steps.