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Nathan Bell
("Radar", "Radarbell")
Favorite LEGO toys/themes: technic
My fascination with LEGO began... in 1982 when I got my first kit, a street sweeper.
I once built... a front wheel drive minivan and trailer which was 3 feet long.
Someday I will build... a Lego chipper.
LEGO is great because... it allows modular construction of anything and the diversity of pieces is wide.
LEGO fans are great because... they think outside the box.
My favorite Non-LEGO Toys: AutoCAD
My favorite Hobbies & Interests: LEGO, music/song writing, poetry
My favorite Foods: pizza, mexican, salmon
My favorite Movies & TV: A Beautiful Mind, the Passion of the Christ, The Red/Green show
My favorite Artists: EXTOL, Blindside, Kekal, Mortification, Narnia, Savior Machine, Dream Theatre.
My favorite Music: Heaven's Metal
My favorite Pets & Animals: None
Words which best describe me: Random, (Brutally) honest, intelligent
I love it when... Toys R Us or Meijer has January sales on Legos.
I hate it when... people do not think objectively.
I can't seem to get enough... dates- No, really. Dates are good for regularity!
I always seem to have enough... job diversity.
I wish I could... marry a woman who likes legos and metal concerts.
I hope I never... have to live in an environment where onions are the staple food.
I wish I hadn't... farted so much in High School.
Believe it or not... I have sanity.....most of the time.
If I were super-human... The world would be a scary place
More & Less:
- more racial tolerance, less bitterness towards others
- more Legos in toy stores, less Country music on the air
- more jobs available for Industrial Technology graduates, less political animosity
Rules I try to live by:
- Live a life of servanthood towards my creator.
- Use whatever talent I have to showcase God and not myself.
- Be true to my personality without trying to change the personalities of others.
Additional comments:
My favorite thing to design is construction equipment. My basic philosophy is "form follows function." I always design my own creations and make them look how I want them to look. I use the basic form of the real-life machinery as a template but always customize the appearance around the function of the machine. To me, functionality is realism, and appearance comes second. I try to make them look as realistic as possible but also like the artistic quality of negative space, which is typical of Lego Technic. I typically make everything in 17th/18th scale because I need at least 2 tire-sizes to be above the semi-truck tire-size. This allows me to make relatively large scale Lego trucks that are still proportionate in size to larger equipment (which usually have bigger tires than semi trucks do)while also having several smaller tire sizes for cars. This scale also is close enough to the Lego engine piston/cylinder size. I have been building for almost 23 years and hope to raise my future children with Legos.
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