The Brothers Brick

Check out this nifty little steampunk triplane.

Talk about swooshable!
Update (April 2): April Fools!

Mark Stafford’s invention of the theme called science fantasy looks like a combination of castle, steampunk, and science fiction. The result is a city called Sproket. The scene depicts the city plaza under invasion by pirates while guards and citizens respond in defense.

Check out the two walkers from the scene.

Jamie “Morgan19″ Spencer is on quite a roll with his custom steampunk creations. Sure, Jamie uses paint to achieve some of the gold coloring, but it’s so darn shiny and cool that even purists have got to give these beauties a closer look.
His most recent creation is a firefighting robot titled “Dühnlist, Flameward […]

Tim Zarki goes airborne with his latest two creations, a pair of steamilicious flyers.
Technically, the “Royal Defense Steam Hornet” is not in fact powered by steam (look closely):

“The Probably Most Definitely Dangerous Flying Machine” probably most definitely is:

Build a high-powered engine
Attach the engine to a long chain.
Attach a very small platform to the chain.
Stand on the platform.
Start the engine.
Hang on for dear life.

Behold Scott Whitesell’s “Redheaded Stepchild” driven by the intrepid Jesse “Flash” Tasker:

And a second racer, the Radial Ripper:

Following on his now-world-famous — and allegedly first — steampunk Dardenbahst, master customizer Jamie “Morgan19″ Spencer presents his second steampunk creation, full of shiny gold custom parts and lots of gears and chains. Behold the “Kriegerhund, Sentinel of the Deutsches Reich”:

Of course, what creation from Jamie would be complete without a detailed schematic?

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The 50 brick or less steampunk contest on Reasonably Clever has just ended. While we’ve blogged a few of the earlier entires, there’s plenty of great submissions towards the end. Here are some of my favorites:

Created by Nannan, Jarek, Chris, Jordan, and Adrian respectively.

Tim Zarki takes *punk in a different direction with this “rocketpunk” contraption, flown by the inimitable Baron de la Croix.
Who needs steam when you have solid propellant and can go a hundred times faster?

Jamie “Morgan19″ Spencer’s first venture into steampunk resulted in a beast of a machine called the Dardenbahst, Workhorse of the Deutsches Reich. The most appealing parts of this model are the custom spray painted metallic gold parts (using Krylon’s metallic gold spray) and the detailed mechanisms that suggest functional form. The minifigs too deserve a […]

Horace Cheng enters the Reasonably Clever steampunk contest with “Motte” — and he gives the world a lovely animated GIF to sit up here and cycle at the top of the page. Yay!

I can’t stop laughing, so I’ll just let Tim Goddard tell you all about his new bot himself:
“Wash day blues? Let Wash’O’bot wash, dry and iron your cloak for you!”
Ha! Excellent.

With three fantastic creations in a row, Horace Cheng (Flickr) gets his own roundup post.
A Daihatsu Midget inspired by hitahita-05:

Wildschwein, a steampunk version of the droid tank from Star Wars:

H.A.F.S. Cataphract:

Reasonably Clever is holding a LEGO challenge to build a steampunk creation in 50 pieces or less.

Adrian Florea joins the fun with a 44-piece cuirassier (Wikipedia in case, like me, you had no idea what that was).

Literary LEGO will attract my attention every time, but check out the footprints in this vignette by Sir Nadroj (Flickr):

Now, if only I liked Longfellow’s poem as much as I like Sir Nadroj’s LEGO version of “A Psalm of Life.” Oh well, I blame Modernism.
While we’re at it, Sir Nadroj’s “whistle-punk” lumber mill also deserves […]

Rocko’s steampunk TIE fighter has inspired Matt Armstrong to make his own micro version:

Okay, so the colors aren’t exactly the same, but the one-piece steam makes up for it.

You know how it goes. You build something for a contest, but you don’t get around to finishing it on time or taking pictures. Well, in the case of Zach Clapsadle’s Jedi Steamfighter, the lateness doesn’t detract from the awesomeness.
Zach says he wanted to create a complete hyperdrive ring. Yowza! Let’s hope he comes back […]

Brent just keeps churning out fantastic creations. Enough words. Here’s the LEGO.
My favorite, an air barge powered by eggbeater-shaped propellers called Weal:

Phaeton Carriage and Iron Wasp:

Shrine of Etward:

See more in Brent’s Flickr photostream.

After a sojourn through some great Black Fantasy and achieving fame with his Victorian Shuttle Tyderium, Brent is back to his punky magical ways with Irradiant Dragon. As much as I’ve enjoyed everything he’s built in the intervening weeks, it’s nice to see Brent go back to his “roots” (which appear to be yellow).
Incidentally, this […]