As great as they are, brownstones and storefronts are fairly common LEGO structures built to the “Cafe Corner standard.” That makes this great train station by Johan van den Heuvel (Teddy) that much cooler.
I love the columns and the arches of the recessed entryway. The size itself is a first, as far as I can [...]
Once again Ralph Savelsberg and I seem to be on the same wavelength.
Ralph made an ambulance and semi-trailer.
And I made an ambulance and trailer (the actual truck was made a while back).
And I promise it was totally coincidental.
Holger Matthes breaks some rail speed records with his amazing ICE 3. As one of the ‘fathers’ of SNOT techniques Holger is no stranger to rendering complicated designs but the techniques on this are mind-blowing.
Tony Sava just finished his latest locomotive and its a big one! The H8 “Allegheny” class locomotives were the biggest steam locomotives ever built. Sava really did justice to them with his version.
Tony Sava is selling custom sets of one of his designs, the American Standard 4-4-0, via his Bricklink store. He has made this available in two different liveries, dark blue and dark grey.
The sets are $135 and seem to moving fast. As of this writing, there were only two of the [...]
Is it a train? Is it a mecha? Yes.
According to Adrian Florea (Olog), this bipedal mecha with wheels on its feet can fit “any gauge and any track, from your grandma’s 4.5V to RC tracks.”
For all you LEGO train builders attending the NMRA National Train Show this summer, here’s some pretty cool news:
As part of the National Train Show on July 10-12, 2009 in Hartford, CT, Jamie Berard, set designer of the newly released ‘Emerald Night’ and employee of The LEGO Group (TLG), will participate as part of [...]
Making good use of the LEGO Power Functions System Danden has made an attractive and working cog railway. He even shows us how to do it.
Thanks again to Matt Hamann for the tip.
Yonlev has built a gorgeous train depot, based on Tel Aviv’s Hashalom Train Station. Those curves are something else!
I sometimes feel I have a bad habit of blogging LEGO diesel and steam trains even though I’m a big fan of electrics. Esben Kolind has helped cure me of this with his fantastic Copenhagen metropolitan train. Most impressive of all, in my opinion, is the accurate taper of the sides achieved by (in his [...]
The forthcoming LEGO Trains set 10194 Emerald Night got an early announcement last month, but the original plan was to announce it at BrickFest 2009 (happening right now in Portland, Oregon).
AFOL-turned-Designer Jamie Berard takes his turn in front of the camera to officially unveil 10194 Emerald Night to LEGO fandom:
Jamie is of course best known [...]
Keith Goldman’s latest diorama is a true community effort. He has recruited help from twenty other builders in the LEGO community to help him populate his massive highway scene. Moreover, he recruited each contributor in secret, giving each contributor a code name ala Reservoir Dogs. Keith has called it a star-studded affair, [...]
If I understand correctly, Corfe Castle station is going to be the centre-piece of Carl Greatrix’s new train layout. If the rest of the layout is even half as good (and I have no doubts it will be) it promises to be one of the best.
In other news, congratulations are in order for Carl for [...]
I neither know nor care if this is new. I think it looks great so I’m blogging it. Nice work Ulimy.
There’s something inherently funny about advertising a sold-out product, as Peter Edwards does with a hand car from Big Ben Bricks in this video:
The video features a fantastic Technic bridge long enough to span a LEGO Amazon:
Maciej Drwiega from LUGPol presents a differently flavored train creation, one that depicts the more run-down end of things. Check out this small scene of a decaying flatbed train on an abandoned rail.
In his explorations of the subway system of Gotham City Brent Wolke (thwaak) has uncovered a secret world: a world of subway racers. These are the cutest set of LEGOy things I’ve seen in ages.
Just a reminder that the train building challenge closes at the end of the month. Get your entries in before Sunday.