Chief Wahoo
04/03/2001
Love him or hate him, Chief Wahoo is a fixture in the Cleveland Sports scene. The mascot of the Cleveland Indians Baseball team causes heavy reaction from people who think it's racist. I won't get into that, but what I will get into is how great of a mosaic/sculpture it makes. Made up of the three most common colors in the blue tubs, there's no shortage of pieces to build something like this. I decided to make this sculpture in honor of the start of the Cleveland Indians' 100 years of being a franchise in Major League Baseball.
The model was made using Todd Lehman's Mosaic Maker, a really nifty tool that can convert any image into a mosaic pattern that has the correct proportions for LEGO bricks. I then imported that image into Paint Shop Pro, overlayed it with a 5x5 grid so that I wouldn't lose my place, then sat down with that printout and a pile of bricks. Three hours later, we have this result.
It's 67 studs wide, 72 bricks tall, and 2 studs thick. It's made entirely with 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, and 2x4 bricks in red, white, and blue. The blue support base isn't included in these counts. Overall dimensions in human terms is 21" wide by 28" tall. The image is also on the back, though it's reversed there, of course.
Here are a couple more pictures, with a Pepsi can for scale, as well as the image I used to work from in order to make the design. Print it out and make your own Chief Wahoo! I would've liked to have made it a little bigger, in order to make the lines in the feather and around his teeth stand out better, but I didn't want to make it too big, or risk compromising its structural stability. No glue is used in the assembly of this mosaic.
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