The Brothers Brick

…defending ur spacestations.

Ben Jarvis constructed an oddly shaped fighter for SCI-LUG’s Small Starfighter contest. The ship flies in vertical position, propelled by space turbines. What a crazily cool concept!

Jeramy Cooke (icecoldmilk) recently finished a diorama intended for a certain contest a year ago :). It depicts a lone survivor guarding the last flower on Earth from an invading Black Fantasy creature. I love the dynamic chaos of the landscape and its contrast with a clean black and white tiled interior. Check through each photo in the gallery for notes from the builder on interesting details that you don’t want to miss.

Jarek’s awesome space pirate battleship features a unique blend of purple and black, resulting in a most spectacular build. As a rare and out-of-production color, purple is a sought-after color for its effective color accenting against neutral tones such as black and gray.

Steven Walker figured out what to do with all those extra battle droid arms that were laying around. Build a bike! I’ve never seen anything quite like this…definitely an eye-catcher!

Lego911 grabs a cab…and what a lovely rendition of the classic Checker Cab it is too.

David Luna has outfitted his medics with a jeep modified to carry stretchers. I hadn’t ever seen one of these before, they really did exist!

He’s done an excellent job on this recreation. I’m really liking how he used the all-purpose BrickArms monopods on the stretcher racks.

Here is another picture, with stretchers in place:

Fedde has gone airborne with this magnetically-powered Maserati Airturismo. Smooth lines, open cockpit, and my son’s favorite color…what more could you want?

There’s been a barrel-full of quality Steampunk creations lately. Many are entries in the Agents of the Imperial Crown contest, but some aren’t. It doesn’t matter, they are all awesome!

Black Valve by crises

Steam Bike I by Zack

FlyCycle by Barbara Marassi & Sopwith Hurricane by Rod Gillies

The latest installment in Rodney Bistline’s Space Action Hero series takes our intrepid hero into new dangers. Will he survive? Will he meet an untimely end on Slorox 5?

More in Rodney’s Brickshelf gallery. Via Klocki.

Our three-part interview with LEGO Designer Mark Stafford is now available in French on the FreeLUG website.

If you missed it the first time around in English, check it out:

• From LEGO fan to LEGO set designer
• Working as a LEGO Designer
• LEGO fan vs. LEGO Designer

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And please let me know if I got the French in the headline wrong! ;-)

Dr. X astounds me with his latest very unique alien starfighter. Unlike most spacecrafts, this one actually resembles a living creature with the tentacles and the life-sustaining cockpit.

Foamrider recently posted a cute little flying rock. This one supplies a long-overlooked need. Namely a rest stop for those overworked denizens of the sky, the messenger owls!

I wish I had a messenger owl that I could overwork….

This week Classic Castle announced the winners of their huge annual contest! The quality of the entries grows every year, but this year they seemed to really blossom. Quite a few of these have been featured already. But here they are, all in one spot, for your viewing pleasure.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Takeshi Itou is one of the most incredible Castle builders out there. Every one of his creations is incredible. Its been quite awhile since his last one, but it has definitely been worth the wait.

This City Hall with linking bridges is very striking and I love all of the various Tudor houses.

(Via E-Klocki)

Michael Jasper showcased some cool string bass and saxophone designs played by his Some Like it Hot characters last week, but he’s just added some more amazing musical instrument designs.

Not only do these Scotsmen carry ingenious bagpipes, but they’re also wearing kilts (made from minifig torsos):

This design for an electric guitar rocks my world:

Rock on, Michael Jasper, rock on.

It’s not often I look at a LEGO creation, go off to read more about it, and then come back and find that my appreciation for the work has grown. Even as a writer, I’ll admit that words rarely add anything to a LEGO creation for me.

Not so with this scene by Hillel Cooperman from Jackson Fish Market:

Hillel built this as a second-anniversary gift for his startup’s partners, using the restricted palette in LEGO Digital Designer.

The simplicity of the overall design hides some very cool conceptual details, like each person performing symbolic work on a representation of the first website they built, a virtual flower gift site called They’re Beautiful!

Head on over to Cooperman Brick Foundry to read more.

Kevin Fedde’s “larger project” Josh alluded to has apparently come to fruition:

A group of survivors cling to civilization in the middle of a wilderness. More on Brickshelf.

We love Adam Grabowski’s vehicles, minifigs, and, oh, pretty much everything he does, but this Hellboy sculpture is an interesting departure. I suspect Mike Mignola would be proud.

Via Klocki. And don’t miss Jordan’s custom minifig from last year.