What this is

Trinvis is a new kind of building instructions. We show it here on our own minibuilds: every Friday a new one, free to build.

Printed instructions were shaped by paper. Building never was.

A printed page is expensive, so one picture shows several parts at once, from one fixed angle, and you work out what changed. Callouts, arrows, numbered boxes and part lists all exist to make up for that.

We left all of it behind. Every step is one part: it moves in and presses into place. The order is the real one, the way the model goes together on the table, with nothing between one part and the next.

The one thing we added is what a page could never give you: you can turn the model and look at the new part from wherever you need. That is the most honest flow we know, and it runs without a break. Now and then the model waits while you build a small group of parts on its own; we call that a sidetrack.

Nothing extra

There are no games, badges or decorations here, on purpose. Trinvis is streamlined: nothing that is not the build itself. With everything else gone, what is left comes through strong: the part, where it goes, and when.

Grey while you build

The model stays grey while you build and takes its colours at the end. Without colour, the shape and the place of each part come first, and you are free to build it in whatever colours you have. We design our own kits the same way: our models are colour-independent while we design them, and get their colours last.

Checked by hand

Every build here was checked step by step by the people who designed it, and corrected where the order was wrong. A build goes up only after that check.

Who made it

Trinvis is made by WLWYB (WE LOVE WHAT YOU BUILD), a small studio in Budapest. We have designed and built models from LEGO bricks for more than fifteen years, and printed a lot of instruction booklets along the way.

It is free. There is no account and nothing to install.

Trinvis is an independent, unofficial fan project. More in Credits and notices.