TBB first-timer Jeremy Couch (Marchides) might have dubbed his mini-mech “Vera Crone,” but with a green color scheme and white stripes, it might as well be the perfect Brothers Brick-bot.
The Vera Crone appears to be fully pose-able, including transforming from chunky bipedal mecha to flight mode.
Thanks to reader Curtis for the tip, via Facebook.
I’ve parsed through everything submitted to our Flickr group for photo submissions for The Brothers Brick Twitter and Facebook cover photos. As a reminder, here are some tips for photos, from the first month we ran this little contest. There are a lot of great photos in the pool now, and as of last month, we’re no longer looking only at submissions from within the last month. I had the honor of making the selection, this month, and I must say that it was a tough choice, our readers have certainly brought their best to this endeavor, and I hope that continues.
Without further ado, here are my choices, and a little bit about the reasoning behind them.
For Facebook, I’ve selected “A cola for Bucky,” (above) by Caleb Angell (.bricko). This photo is already cropped to about the aspect ratio we need, and it still reads great. It’s a nicely compose image, which tells a story, and also leaves the viewer asking questions and drawing connections, and it’s well built. The lighting in the scene is interesting, and well thought out. Finally, the lower left corner is conveniently bare of anything that would be a loss to obstruct with our logo.
For twitter, I’ve chosen this lovely photo of greebles, (above) by Blake Foster (New Flickr Layout Sucks!). Obviously, I am a great fan of space builds, and quality greebling is one aspect of a good space build. This build also strikes a nice balance between smooth, flowing, areas and functional looking greebles. This photo was taken of a work-in-progress, and is thus something we wouldn’t normally blog (at least until the creation is complete), but the portion in the photo looks great, and the fact that it’s attached to an incomplete creation doesn’t stop it from being a great cover photo.
Perhaps that’s a bit of an overstatement, but I hope I can be forgiven for suffering from nostalgia. You see, much of my childhood took place in the Eighties and I grew up watching Ghostbusters, The A-Team, The Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider, among others. Last year I built the A-Team van, but in the last few months, instead of building new stuff, I have mainly been updating my existing LEGO models. About a month ago, however, seeing Ghostbusters for the umpteenth time inspired me to build something brand-new: Ecto-1. The great response and many suggestions I got from members of the flickr community as well as car models by builders such as Alex Jones (Orion Pax) and Stephan Sander have lead to something of a new theme for me. In the last two weeks I have added K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider and The General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard to my collection of cars from Eighties movies and TV shows.
Ghostbusters is still brilliant, but I’m not too nostalgic to realise that much of the acting in the TV shows was a bit rubbish and that their plots were instantly forgettable. The cars used in the shows were definitely memorable, however, and I’m sure I’ll have plenty of fun building some more.
When I first encountered the work of Sean and Steph Mayo I thought to myself “Who are these new-age musician weirdos and what do they want from us?” I looked up articles on how to identify cults…you know, just to be ready.
This mosaic is titled Once Upon a Time…which to be honest doesn’t do much for me as a title. It simply isn’t new-agey enough. Perhaps something like “The Diagonal Woman”, “Lifescape” or “Quantum Dreams” would have been better?. The mosaic itself is masterful, but looking at it long enough has the same effect as new age music…I start to drift off.
See you next Friday at the fights, it has been a pleasure being your weekend DJ.
David Leest (Deviet) returns to the Brother-Ship after an almost two year absence. The diorama is a classic slice of fantasy boilerplate with soaring towers, meticulous rock-vomit and of course, access to the water table. The star of the show is the bridge that somehow anchors the model and helps to elevate the whole enchilada. Enjoy your Sunday serving of Castle.
It has been too long since we featured something for our Train-head friends on the big blog. Hopefully i don’t run afoul of Gambort, operating on his digital turf, but I couldn’t resist blogging this photogenic Vagon-CZRC by Valgarise The Vagon was built as a companion piece for set #79111 (Constitution Train Chase) and I think the builder did an admirable job replicating the style of the train.
Please don’t shank me Tim…last time it took like 50 stitches to close me up.
Of course I’m talking about Victoria, the latest microscale-space build from LEGOLIZE IT MAN. This outstanding model almost made the cut for my micro-space roundup on Friday, but it didn’t fit the theme I had going. Since Sunday seems a little quiet, I don’t see any reason not to add one more, especially when it has such nice detail on each surface. I just hope the builder continues the naming convention and we see the MelB, MelC, Geri and Emma.
Although I’m not a huge fan of Steampunkery in general, I like to think I know a quality build when I see it. Tommy M (Eklund!) is clearly a man who knows the advantage of having an exclamation point after his name and a man who knows a thing or two about avoiding the pitfalls of thematic convention. I’m ready for Steampunk to run its course, if it hasn’t already, but so long as there are builds like this around, I’ll put up with it.
Oh, and I really like his use of nets….you don’t see enough quality net usage anymore.
Jon Hall (JonHall18) returns to TBB for the second time this year with another impeccable war-bird, the H-90 Falcon. Jon is one of those go-to builders for many of us on this site, a slump-buster if you will, whose builds can always be counted on to be bloggable.
Some models require no explanation, you either get it or you don’t. The kind of model where you don’t need some LEGO wonk like me prattling on about part numbers, color blocking and studied asymmetry. No, this model has cojones so large that they can be recognized from a very great distance. Thank you SweStar for proving that Saturday night is indeed, alright for fighting.
George Panteleon (ZetoVince) invokes the spirit of Ferdinand Porsche for his recently revised Porsche 930. Being a community-minded guy, George has also thoughtfully posted instructions so that you…yes you…can make one for yourself. Stop dreamin’ and start drivin’, constant viewer.
Get them now though, because you never know when MOCpages will have another blackout.
Maybe it’s the moonlight, or the champagne talking, but I think we can squeeze in one more for the motorheads out there.
David Hensel (Legonardo Davidy) is churning out creations this week, with at least six decent dioramas in as many days. First up is this great little scene. The mounted Wyvern is what really makes this one shine.
Also there’s this gorgeous mill scene.
Be sure to check out David’s photostream to see the rest of his beautiful dioramas.