This may be the first steampunk SHIP (that’s a Spacer term for Significantly Huge Investment in Parts). Nathan Proudlove presents a flying steampunk aircraft carrier reminiscent of Angelina Jolie’s ship in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow:
Not surprisingly, my favorite part is the little steampunk bicycle thingie sitting on the deck:
(More catching up. This one via Brick Brick.)
Ever wanted to build a mecha of your own? Not satisfied with puzzling out building techniques from Brickshelf pictures? Wonder no more! Soren Roberts and Tim Gould have teamed up to announce step-by-step instructions for Soren’s RGM-79C GM mecha:
View the partslist and download the instructions (in PDF format).
(Okay, so I have some catching up to do… Credit to mumu for blogging this first.)
For the record, I don’t endorse vandalism, but some of these are really rather cool:
From Flickr user yorkshire4 | From Flickr user gfrancis
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Moko continues his series of Final Fantasy VII characters with Cid and Tifa (check out Cloud and Sephiroth):
Here’s Cid:
And here’s Tifa:
I recently helped Linus Bohman with some ideas for a cool little space ninja vehicle. Here’s his Shin-nyu, a “long range infiltration and assassination craft” (shin-nyu means “infiltrate” in Japanese):
Be sure to click the picture for the full gallery — lots of great details on this one. Here’s the pilot of the Shin-nyu, Danzou the Reaper (Danzou is named after a legendary Japanese ninja):
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Moko says he’s been playing Final Fantasy VII recently.
Here are his versions of Cloud (with awesomely spiky banana hair!!!):
And Sephiroth:
Microscale + steampunk = “micropunk” according to Scott Whitesell. Here’s his “steampunk dirigible air fortress” in microscale:
Brickshelfer (and recent newlywed) wintermoog presents a larger-than-minifig-scale Dalek from Dr. Who:
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Master mecha modeler Tac has posted several mecha inspired by pieces from Exo-Force set 7705: Gate Assault.
This one’s my favorite, mainly because green is my favorite color and I just got that alligator minifig (complete with rare green hair):
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It’s been a while since Megan Rothrock posted her Tragon, which attracted quite a bit of attention last November.
Nathan Wells picked up a number of her latest creations, but missed my personal favorite, “Hemi” the hotrod racing turtle:
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