A lovely little piece of retro-tech is Steve Vargo’s stirling flyer:
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Busterbuilder’s Sparrow
Busterbuilder has put together a fun little futuristic air craft:
I really like the angles on the wings and near the cockpit, and the colour designations on the wings are a fun little detail. Good work!
Go!
No, not the verb, the ancient Asian game. Go is too complicated to explain in a blog post about a vignette, so you can read about it on Wikipedia.
Brickshelfer T-Brick distills the game down to an 8×8 base:
(Via VignetteBricks.)
Izzo’s Exterminators
Well, he’s done it again. Izzo’s third installment in his Dragon series is freakin’ cool. Exterminators is definitely worthy of this incredible builder. I love that sculpted flame!
Steamship Möwe by Andreas Weissenburg
If this is just “part of a longer harbour project” by Andreas Weissenburg, Malle Hawking may have some competition in the large-scale maritime model realm:
King Leonidas I by Jared Burks
King Leonidas I of Sparta led his men in the Battle of Thermopylae, and will be starring in an upcoming feature-length in-game cut-scene — I mean movie! — titled “300”.
Jared Burks follows up on the Ghostrider minifig he created recently with another movie-inspired minifig, the great king himself:
LEGO MMOG (!!!!!!)
Everyone’s favorite plastic LEGO brick has already been incarnated in digital form through thrid-party software (Ldraw), computer games (LEGO Island, etc) and other software (LEGO Factory), but coming to 2008, The LEGO Company, in parnership with NetDevil, is launching a Massively Multiplater Online Game. Excited? Check out the website and press release!
(Thanks to Brickfilms.com member Dan and Classic-Castle member Jake_Snicket for the heads–up)
EDIT (AB): Added three more exclamation points to the post title. Just because this is the most awesomest ever.
Holy Batlord Ballista!
DARKSpawn built a sweet, functional Ballista. You gotta love that dragon skull!
Izzo’s Engagement & Escape
Izzo has done it again, but this time its a confrontation of epic proportions. He has recently posted a diorama called Engagement and it definitely engaging! He refers to this as scene 01, hopefully that means that more is on the way…
As soon as I got the above diorama posted, Izzo posted another one! Scene 02 is called Escape.
It’s not easy being green...
…unless you’ve got big guns! Classic-Castler Magnus has recently posted a bunch of military-themed MOCs, including several armored humvees and tanks. Gotta love the green/dark green/dark gray camouflage.
Contemporary Art, LEGO’d
Classic-Castle member brody has discovered an art exhibit in the U.K. by John Cake and Darren Neave (aka “The Little Artists”) that recreates various pieces of contemporary art in LEGO bricks.
Read more about the exhibit, titled “Art Craziest Nation,” on the Walker Art Gallery Web site. Here are a couple of previews.
Damien Hirst’s “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991):
Andy Warhol’s “Money”:
The UN of the Future, as Envisioned by Chuck Citrin
Chuck Citrin envisions a world in which United Nations peacekeepers ride ashore on four-legged mecha and ATVs with very small windscreens.
The Cerberus LAV:
The Cougar urban ATV:
