Brick-buildin’ the Chinese opera!
Vincent Cheung‘s Chinese opera display is an incredible work of art that captures the essences of one of the oldest drama art forms in the world. The creation depicts the iconic colorful costume with its intricate designs and even the painted/masked face. The whole build is nothing short of gorgeous.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:08 pm
This is what the hobby is all about! When you’re jaded and think you’ve seen the best that there is along comes something like this to prove you wrong. this is a heart stopper for sure! Words can’t describe how wonderful this is.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Look at all the pretty colors…
July 31st, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Lino said it well — this is not something I’d ever have expected. The little scene in the base makes it even cooler.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Astounding.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Marvelous!
July 31st, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Stunningsville Arizona!
July 31st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
This is the stuff nightmares are made of.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:06 am
Absolutely incredible! Those Chinese characters look great…are they accurate? What do they mean?
August 1st, 2009 at 2:00 am
Wow! So many awesome and colorful brick-built details!
Definitely not a one-hit-wonder either, click up in the gallery for
Space Ship Yamato
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3657506
KnightGundam
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=338331
HKLUG’s Beijing Olympics WaterCube
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=338304
and lot more!
August 1st, 2009 at 7:25 am
absolutely exquisite. thank you for this.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:10 am
I’m ’bout to throw my computer out the window! That build is bananas!
August 1st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
“Absolutely incredible! Those Chinese characters look great…are they accurate? What do they mean?”
If you’re referring to the actors with “characters”, then it looks like this is a scene out of The Romance of Three Kingdoms, though I can’t see who the bottom, smaller characters would depict.
The big figure on top is then most likely Guan Yu, IF this is actually depicting said story.
If you mean characters as in the symbols with which they write… I don’t know. I’m not Chinese.
August 1st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
The character is yue (粤), it’s related to the name of the Guangdong province.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I am afraid the character is not Yue (粵), Yue (粵) is the shorthand name for Guangdong, a southern province in China, the character is actually General Kwan (關羽), a famous personality from the Three Kingdom era (around A.D. 200), who is also a symbol of Loyalty and brotherhood in Chinese history, please note his famous weapon, which has a special crescent moon shape.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I was referring to the symbol character depicted on the model.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Sorry Nannan for misinterpreting your explanation, my apology.
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:33 am
No problem, thanks for explaining the other character :)