BEHIND THE SCENES: From Broken Prototypes to Living Motion
“A jet stream, frozen in motion, waiting for your hand.” SOME IDEAS JUST WON'T LET GO. The night Leon finished the L6 engine model , his lamp was still on. The pistons clicked up and down, but his eyes weren't on them anymore. Weeks earlier, he had seen a video of a jet turbofan spinning - layer upon layer of blades rotating at different speeds, sometimes in opposite directions . It wasn't just mechanics; it was rhythm, like a symphony of gears. He couldn't shake the thought: Could we bring that alive in bricks? One morning, he sent us a sketch - half shaft, half dream, and a row of crooked question marks scribbled in the margins. “Might be tricky,” he wrote, “but it'd be fun.” By then, his desk was already buried under piles of gears and axles. Compared to the V8 and L6, this wasn't a next step - it was an equation nobody else dared to solve . And that was exactly why Leon wanted it. THE HARD PART WAS WORTH IT. The first prototype looked promising. But when L...