Shawn Snyder may not be as prolific as some of the builders we feature frequently, but each of his LEGO creations is no less blogworthy. Shawn’s latest mech is 16 inches tall and includes a motor to make it move around.
Watch the video here:
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Johnny Tang’s LEGO Hellboy has abs of plastic
Johnny Tang (johnnytang) is at it again with amazing sculptures. His latest is Hellboy:
At this scale, Johnny can pack in lots of important details (like the two studs on Hellboy’s pecs), but it takes some serious skill to get it all to fit together so well. Check out the full LEGO Hellboy gallery on Brickshelf.
Thanks for the tip, Bruce! (More to come…)
First high-res pic of 8038 The Battle of Endor [News]
UPDATE: 8038 The Battle of Endor is now available from the LEGO Shop online.
Chuck Citrin has uncovered a high-resolution picture of the forthcoming LEGO Star Wars set 8038 The Battle of Endor on Kastor’s Korner:
When we say high-res, we’re talking 3666 x 2531, so there’s a lot to take in — not least of which is Leia’s new hair, printed Ewoks, and some very cool torsos on the Rebel troopers.
Hmmm HX
Please excuse the terrible pun in the title but I couldn’t resist. Firas Abu-Jaber has once again demonstrated why he should be blogged regularly with this excellent Hummer HX. And he’s gone and made a lovely boat and trailer to go with it.
Thanks to Al McLaren for the heads-up.
Elm Castle lurks deep in gearcs’s woods
The Forestmen were always the “good guys” for me back in the 1980’s, allies of the Crusaders against the Black Falcons. I’m not sure how gearcs feels about that alliance, but “Elm Castle” — the seat of a knight named Sir Roland — includes excellent examples of half-timber LEGO construction integrated into the grey stone, along with complete landscaping and a full interior.
Check out more pictures of Elm Castle on Brickshelf, along with many other LEGO Castle creations in gearcs’s Brickshelf gallery.
Thanks to reader greenglo for the suggestion!
Marek’s Monowheel puts 1×2 plates to excellent use
Marek Markiewicz was sorting his LEGO recently and ended up building this cool monowheel instead. The wheel itself is built from 1×2 plates partially pushed together on one side.
Thanks for the suggestion, Dave Shaddix!
Hispabrick Magazine 004 now available in English [News]
The latest edition of Hispabrick Magazine is now available.
Hispabrick Magazine 004 includes:
- Coverage of events like the Hispabrick expo and Japan Weekend in Barcelona.
- How to build LEGO trees
- Interview with Marta Tantos, Design Manager at LEGO’s Concept Lab
- Interview with Steven Marshall
- How minifigs shop for new clothes
Check out Hispabrick Magazine 004 on HispabrickMagazine.com today!
Pyrefyre’s hardsuit is harder, particularly when apocafied
Alvaro Gunawan (Pyrefyre) has been churning out cool variants on a hardsuit he designed, including this post-apoc version. With minifig legs for arms, it’s fully articulated, and has even inspired some excellent cover versions, like an Armored Paratrooper by KryptonHeidt.
Most recently, Alvaro posted the GSF-702 “Bumblebee”:
I love the slight twist to the rotors, and true to its name, the gun swivels forward from the rear:
Valve’s Portal in LEGO steampunk vignettes
I Actually Really Do Like Cars.
I made an April Fools Day post saying that I was only going to blog cars, because they were the only creations I liked anymore. That wasn’t entirely a fabrication, as I really do like cars.
This red affair by Allister McClaren (Captain_Underpants), for instance, is quite nice. It looks like a cross between a race car from the 60s, like the Chaparral 2J and a modern supercar.
Fradel Wishes You a Happy Easter
It may be a Hoppy Easter, actually, as the mecha that Fradel Gonzales (slice151) has built has some pretty beefy looking legs. I picure this thing as leaping and bounding across the battlefield, not plodding like most mecha.
My favorite part of the so-called Easter Whambit, though, is the cute eyes on the cockpit. It’s the perfect camouflage to blend in with those chicks. I’ll have to ask Fradel what a Whambit is, though.
Tsing Starfighters
Johnny Frye (Dr. X) has built a couple of neat starfighters. They’re both meant to have been built by the Japanese in the early days of star travel.
If you look closely, you can see that the Tsing-Nasu (below) is an improved version of the Tsing-Yoichi (right). This improvement is attributed to an evolution in design by the minifig designers, but it can also be ascribed to the builder himself. The Yoichi was his first attempt, and the Nasu is his attempt to improve on that first design.
I respect when a builder takes the time to revise a creation, and try to improve it, even if the original was quite good to being with.
