Stefan Käsmayer (– 2×4 –) likes his samurai movies, and we like his creations. His second samurai house once again shows how effective grill tiles are for the roofs of such buildings. You can see his first samurai house we blogged last year.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Animated set building videos
I’m familiar with the custom brick lights by Max Yang (Artifex Creations), but I’m just now aware that he also produces some excellent videos showing brick-by-brick constructions of the newest Lego sets. In my opinion they are more interesting to watch than speed-up builds, which don’t show the techniques or parts used in the sets. Here are two examples; you can see the rest on Youtube.
Thanks for the tip DarkkosiS!
The Voice of Evil
Duco Brugman (bloei) presents a nightmarish castle perched on top of glowing lava. There is also a video that shows moving features of the creation. One of my favorite parts is the eerie transparent green accent, which balances the overwhelming hot colors.
Multitude of mini many-legged mecha
It is always nice to see something new from Izo Yoshimura (Izzo’s Legostyle). Nicer still to see a collection.
A Queen, Pharaoh in her own right
Hatshepsut, a women who held the position of Pharaoh in the 18th Dynasty, built a mortuary temple fit for any king. She took power at the sudden death of her husband, Thutmose II, and stepped into history. She assumed the role of Pharaoh and left her mark, which later was struck from the record like Akhenaten and Nefertiti some 200 years later.
Matija Grguric has brought her temple to life. Deir el-Bahari is in western Thebes, and was inspired by the funerary temple of Mentuhotep II. Hatshepsut herself was buried nearby in the Valley of the Kings, and believed to have been lost to the sands.
Edit: This creation, along with the others in his Civilization series, are now available for your support on CUUSOO!
F-105D Thunderchief
It’s been a while since we’ve blogged one of Ralph Savelsberg’s (Mad physicist) LEGO planes but the wait has definitely been worth it. With his F-105D Thunderchief he’s combined three difficult colours (old dark grey, dark tan and dark green) to pull off a realistic camouflage pattern. And the quality certainly doesn’t stop at the camo.
Not the sleekest Greyhound
But a very, very, very cool one. I was previously unaware of this awesome half-up-top Scenicruiser but Henrik Hoexbroe seems to have done it perfect justice.
The Zumbi Rod
Calin (_Tiler) demonstrates that size is not required to make a sweet ride. The teensy beauty is based on misterzumbi’s ‘rod drawing.
Lego Minecraft Set 21102 Review
Here’s a video review of the newly released 21102 Minecraft set, the first CUUSOO product to be released outside of Japan. You can get it starting today for $34.99 on Lego Shop at Home.
Summary: the Minecraft set is a decent buy for a collection of small plates and tiles. It is more geared for display with its detailed texture and modular sections. Even though I am not a Minecraft player, I’m believe that Lego has succeeded in turning the game concept into a product (although my initial sentiments still stand).
Automated points switch
While the immediate use of Masao Hidaka‘s clever device may not be apparent to non train fan readers, I hope that the ingenious basic principles will be. Basically it’s an all mechanical, close to all ‘system’ system for changing which path a train will take, based on the position of the red dot. So much elegant engineering here and I hope it might inspire even better approaches to this and similar problems.
Thanks RAILBRICKS.
Bricks & Heroes at Memphis, Nov 9 -11
This fall, the 2012 Memphis Comic and Fantasy Convention will be featuring a section dedicated to Lego where you can see and and display creations. In addition there will be Lego vendors, brickfilm showings, and discussion panels. Click on the poster below for more info.
Someone call crowd control
This concert stage by sssteinberg is out of control. In addition to its massive size, the creation has an entire crew at the back stage. Check out all the details on Flickr or MOCpages.
