cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lego/p/969974/moc-us-constitution

Roughly 85% the size of the original document, this MOC illustrates the 13 stripes of the nation’s flag being etched into the parchment and leaving a trail of dripping red blood. The process of methodical destruction is led by an orange separator, which represents an orange separator, and it is aided by a number of red crooks (AKA crowbars), which represent red crooks. To the left are some shrugging blue crooks, which represent shrugging blue crooks to the left. The scale and placement of text and lack of text is as accurate as possible to the actual handwriting on the document.

Wow, this is incredible work

I don’t even have words for the amount of thought, vision, creativity and skill this must have taken.

It is excellent art if this is yours OP it could/should take its rightful place in any gallery.

Thank you! I’m incredibly flattered. It is indeed mine. I was thinking just today of how to go about finding a proper gallery for this.

Side note: Does anybody know why the additional photos are in lower resolution or how to upload them in a way that retains their original resolution?

The best way to do that would probably be hosting the images externally and then embedding them (put the image's direct web adress in the link field for the post). I know a lot of people here use catbox.moe, or imgchest.com. imgur is also an option

Your instance may compress images to make hosting everything more affordable, since instances are run on donations

To embed an image in the body of the post use this formatting: 

Hopefully that shows corectly. If further info would be helpful feel free to ask :) I'm not an expert on anything but I'm happy to try and help

This is beautiful. I like your strange little crowbar man in the last pic, what's his deal?

Thank you! He’s shrugging apathetically because he thinks that’s the most effective thing he can do in response to what’s going on next to him.

Thanks, I’ll try to look into this and see what I can do

This is really impressive, but i think i got brain damage from reading the description lol. Anyway, awesome.

Absolutely stunning work! You should be really proud of yourself for this. Well done!

Luckily there is an explanatory text, I would have never guessed (as a European)

Could you expand on your process to turn “accurately” text into lego? Did you take a pic of the constitution and lowered its resolution?

I found a high resolution scan of the first page of the Constitution. After deciding on my scale, I superimposed a 78x64 square grid over the scan, as well as a separate 65x64 rectangular grid for when I was building in the vertical dimension. After hemming and hawing for about year about over how to best to depict the paragraph text, I eventually decided that random shaping was the only viable option with the medium. However, using the grids as a reference allowed me to place the larger text, the indentations, new lines, and empty spaces in nearly their precise locations as on the original document.

Side note: the scale wasn’t determined by the text, but rather by needing the thickness of the stripes to be evenly divisible by the width of the brick separator. I opted to be 15% undersized rather than 13% oversized since it would be an easier task plus I thought it would look better scaled to the brick separator.

The orange separator, and red/blue crooks representing themselves.

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Thanks for the write up!

I was able to post the images on a new community on my host instance. It looks like there is ultimately always going to be some degradation of image quality if I use my instance as the host, but this workaround is a improvement over the images being posted onto the main post directly. Thanks for the help!

I'm glad you found something that works better for you ☺️

Hope you have a lovely day my friend!