I’m generally not impressed with the results of combining clay or Sculpey with LEGO minifigs, but Peter C. (Pete Corp) has achieved amazing results with this custom minifig of Princess Leia as Jabba the Hutt’s slave girl.
Princess Leia’s armband, bikini, and ponytail are all sculpted from clay — amazing detail at this small scale.
Check out Pete’s photostream for lots more photos, including close-ups and fascinating shots of the work-in-progress minifig.
This microscale transport by Haung (rack911) is an excellent creation that makes good use of colors, not to mention a few parts such as planks and textured wall pieces, which are definitely not expected on a spaceship but nevertheless works well in this case!
At last year’s BrickWorld, Dr. Jay Hanes from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and collaborators captured the marvels of LEGO fans and their exhibition and produced a documentary about the love of the brick. At this year’s BrickWorld, you can watch a screening of the documentary and meet the producers and many of the featured builders. You can learn more about “Love of the Brick” here and watch the trailer below:
After seeing an earlier work in progress, I’ve been eagerly anticipating this lovely steampunk sculpture by Guy Himber (V&A Steamworks).
The expression on the moon’s face is priceless.
Guy’s HMS Brown Widow, aka “The Flying Rivet” displays his usual attention to detail, with sections of LEGO tubing as rivets on the trailing edge of the wings.
Allister McLaren (Captain_underpants) takes us to the moon and back with this superb collection of rocketships. I love rocketships.
He’s also just added a bunch of BLBDC pics from our local LUG’s collaborative build session. Call me biased but I reckon our minimally planned town square looks pretty excellent.
Oh, I’m sorry, was that the wrong response to this new installment in Brendan Powell Smith‘s The Brick Testament
I love the apocalypse, just love it.
Part of why I’m here as a regular contributor is to provide a sort of guide to emerging from the “dark ages.” Over the coming months I plan to write a little bit about various ways that people can become more active in different kinds of LEGO communities or activities. The order may not make sense for other people, but it’s autobiographical. I could start with how to write comments on TBB, but that would just be silly. I’ll just lead by bad example in that arena.
So I’ll start with LUGs. A LUG is a “LEGO user group,” and they take many forms, but mainly fall into three types: special interest (Battlestar Galactica, etc.), train, and geographical.
I am a member of a geographical LUG (SandLUG) that covers mainly San Diego, CA, though members travel from as far away as Los Angeles to attend our monthly meetings.
Some of the great things I’ve experienced in my particular LUG are:
(Above Right: SandLUG member Matt Armstrong’s [monsterbrick] bionicle Admiral Ackbar)
There is a lot of diversity in the dynamics of the LUGs out there, with some people having mediocre to bad experiences (complete with schisms and cliques). Some are just very different from my LUG because they’re more structured, exclusive or engage in different sorts of activities as well as regional or national variations. The good things I’ve experienced and described above could potentially exist in any LUG. I’d really appreciate feedback in the comments section about those differences because, well, I just like to learn stuff.
Think. Consider. Is this something you’re interested in doing? I know it is. You can’t hide it from me.
Next on an all-new Lugging: How to find a LUG.
Just a few months ago, I was musing about how great it would be if more LEGO train builders made graffiti on train cars, especially out of bricks. So I was tickled pink when I ran across these boxcars built by Justin Pratt (legotanks).
It doesn’t hurt that he’s included a combined illustration/vocabulary lesson. Definitely worth checking out his close-ups and other train cars.
And that function is to tease Walter, Don Solo‘s M-8 droid. Walter’s not so sure he wants to be teased.
The idea of rolling around our creations in the dirt is anathema to most of us LEGO SYSTEM builders. Not so a group of LEGO Technic engineers who gathered in Prague last month for the 2009 LEGO Technic Rally.
I was rooting for this Tatra by Nikolas Tepper.
Read more about this event on TechnicBRICKs.
Modern fire engines in real life frequently have flat front windscreens. However, this is not a LEGO piece that has existed in six-wide from until the recent release of 7641 City Corner. Steven Asbury (s-asbury) immediately takes advantage of this new piece to create a Mack Collapse Rescue Unit.
Steven’s immediately previous LEGO fire vehicle is this big yellow airport rescue rig.
