Here be pirates fictional and legendary — Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Barbossa, and the cook Long John Silver.
Captain Jack Sparrow:
Captain Barbossa:
Long John Silver:
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Avast!
Here be pirates historical — he of the black beard, Edward Teach; Bartholomew Roberts, also of the name “Black Bart”; and Captain Henry Morgan, rum-fiend (not really).
Edward “Blackbeard” Teach (1680-1718):
Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts (1682-1722):
Captain Henry Morgan (1635-1688):
Gandalf by Cyin
Cyin is never one to rely on standard minifig legs (as he showed with Radagast and Tom Bombadil). He demonstrates this again with his new Gandalf:
Here’s Gandalf with a cart full of fireworks:
Delicious Steampunkery Goodness
Today’s batch of folder updates on Brickshelf included three steampunkish vehicles — one by Octopunk (of Jeff & Jeff’s Pandemonium), one by smartiac, and another by new Brickshelf user serenity.
First up, Octopunk’s zeppelin, the Louisa May Alcott:
Next, smartiac’s tank:
And serenity’s TimeShip:
Minifig Modernists
Today’s batch of literary minifigs includes several more 20th-century writers.
Ezra Pound (1885-1971):
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940):
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961):
See Pillars of 20th-Century Liturature and More Writerly Minifigs as well.
All Hail the Queen!
With interesting and innovative use of pieces, Michael Jasper is one of my favorite minifig builders. A recent update to his Characters gallery includes Queen Elizabeth I and a footman:
What I like especially is the use of the minifig helmet visor as a collar. (Credit goes to Classic-Castler smcginnis for figuring out what Her Majesty is wearing around her royal neck.)
Buildings of the World by Arthur Gugick
I don’t normally post buildings, but these are too good to pass up. (Unfortunately, as Kevoh warns in his Golden Shpleem post, the image sizes are monstrous; broadband highly recommended before clicking any of the thumbnails in the galleries I’ve linked to below.)
Here are nine of my favorites. There are nine more in Arthur’s Brickshelf gallery.
The Arc d’Triumph, Big Ben, Chichen Itza:
The Flatiron Building, the Forbidden City, Independence Hall:
Notre Dame Cathedral, the Tower of London, the Leaning Tower of Pisa:
Red Porsche 356 by Tmbgrulz
Brickshelf user tmbgrulz brings us a sweet Porsche 356:
I love all the chrome! (Thanks to Blueandwhite on Classic-Castle Forums for finding this and posting it there.)
More Writerly Minifigs
Following up on my Pacific Northwest poet minifigs, today I present several of my favorite women writers and poets — Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946):
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941):
Anne Sexton (1928-1974):
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963):
Mmmm... Yup.
Nathan Cunningham presents the alley behind Hank’s house, from the TV show King of the Hill:
