Monthly Archives: September 2012

Earth elementals assault Peregrinus

Most LEGO builders are satisfied with presenting their models against either a neutral or edited background. Not Gabriel Thomson (qi_tah). In “Attack on the Causeway,” Gabriel builds in some serious weather.

Attack on the causeway - 3/4

There’s lots to love in this diorama beyond the clouds & rain. See all of Gabriel’s photos in his photoset on Flickr.

Featured builder: VolumeX

Speaking of builders whose photostreams you should spend time perusing, I’ve had VolumeX‘s whole photostream bookmarked for a while now, unable to decide which of the widely varied LEGO creations — everything from realistic spacecraft to steampunk — to highlight here. I still can’t decide, so here’s a bunch.

Bazroota3

Essentia    Fledgeway

THE ZOMBIE JUNK RACER

Twenty minutes of my evening well spent, I think.

This bugs me

It’s not clear to me why we’ve never featured anything by David Steeves (SuperHardcoreDave), a very talented builder whose LEGO models span the range from funky alien spaceships to big stompy mechs. Well, we’ll fix that with this disturbingly odd, vaguely insectoid “Inter Atmospheric Fighting Pod” called Wisp.

Wisp - Inter Atmospheric Fighting Pod

David’s photostream is well worth a lengthy perusal.

Via YSAB.

Why do Daleks have plungers?

The death-rays that Daleks use to EXTERMINATE! make sense. The plungers? Not so much. Pascal (pasakuru76) helps me to understand the purpose of that singular device.

Exploitation of the Daleks

Windy City

Dark-Alamez has built us a Chicago street section. Two of the buildings are based on real ones, while the third one is out of his imagination. It took me just a glance at the thumbnail to recognize the city this creation represents. Aside from beautiful buildings my favorite is the Chicago Loop railway segment.

Chicago

The Most Interesting AFOL in the world

The most interesting AFOL in the world prefers BRICKCON

Awesome graphic, Iain Heath. And remember, register now to guarantee engraved bricks, swag bags, and other good stuff.

Outpost in the Desert

We feature some amazing creations on here, and I love when the builder adds a level of play-ability to the creation, much like Peter de Yeule has done with his desert outpost.

The build itself is quite excellent. What I loved though is that it opens!

You can see all of the nifty stuff inside. Well done!

Hope Ever Springs Anew

This expressive vignette by Chris Maddison shows how much effect some simple posing and a bit of ingenious landscaping can impart. This scene reminds me of a re-imagining of Wall-E, featuring a fantastic humanoid robot. Good stuff.

hope 02

Ah, nostalgia!!! Tomy Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard in LEGO

Let us take a trip back to the early 80’s…to play with one of lil’ Tromas’ favourite toys…a Tomy Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard. Many an hour were spent zigzaging in and out of traffic and zooming down the highway.

When I saw tkh’s microscale mini representation all the happy memories came back :D

tomy-turbo

All the features are perfectly captured…and at this scale, that is quite the feat!

U2 “War” album art mosaic is more bricky, still angry

Joel Midgley (Greybrick) just posted a LEGO version of the cover art from U2’s 1983 album War.

LEGO U2 War album art

This is a “studs up” rather than the usual “studs out” LEGO mosaic, which allows Joel to have finer control over diagonal angles in places like the lettering, as well as a samller “pixel” with the side of plates rather than their top.

The Castle Amongst the Clouds

Carson Hart has churned out a brilliant microscale scene, packed full of nifty parts usages and cool shapes. He says he was inspired by Iridescent Nohow, and I can definitely see the influence in this whimsical diorama.

All in the details.

Jeffrey Matthews (Jeffykins) proves that you can take a relatively simple build and put it over the top with finishing details.

The ship itself is a great little swooshy starfighter, but the sticker work and play features make this all the more awesome. In particular, check out the subtle use of small bits and pieces on the wings for antennas and sensors…not immediately noticeable, but absolutely genius!

Lock & Load

Nebula

Be sure to check out the photo set for all the nice little tidbits!

EDIT:
I knew this thing looked familiar! I was just browsing around Peter L Morris’ older stuff, and came across his Zarfly. It is always cool to see an awesome build expanded upon! Especially when done to this degree!

LF-1400 Zarfly