Vignweek is an annual competition hosted by RebelLUG that challenges builders to assemble a vignette around a daily theme. 5 weekday builds and a weekend build, for a total of 6 builds in 7 days. It’s a marathon and a sprint for some incredibly talented LEGO creators. The contest kicked off on Monday with “Archaeology” as the theme. Here are some of our favorite creations from day 1.
Carson Lacy zooms in with Johnny Thunder exploring a lush jungle site. I hesitate to call them “ruins” as this location seems as slick and studless as they day it was built. It’s probably cursed, but this beautiful build certainly isn’t!
Behold_The_Loaf offers up an alien archaeologist scanning a future Earth. What do they make of this Octan fueling station?
francis.design unwrapps a mummy’s tomb. The brick-built hieroglyphics are a standout. The buckets of tools provide a nice pop of color.
Speaking of color, building_after_dark‘s vignette is positively vibrant in its depiction of a space-faring xeno-archaelogist. I’m not sure what I love more – the alien ruins or the brick-built bot.
Owen (_brickbytes) shows a climber discovering an ancient arch. The vignette is a beautiful exercise in assymetry, from the shape of the base to the tree and broken arch framing an urn.
The_ maly brings back Johnny Thunder for a two-level vignette. I always love these cutaway builds that feel like a slice of cake or a DK guidebook.
Niki Filik also plays with a slice of life. Technically this is paleontology, not archaeology, but it’s a great skeleton!
Syrdarian invents a whimsical scenario where frog archaeologists uncover evidence of an ancient duck civilization. I love the tiny scaffolding!
lambbricks captures the methodical excavation of a tomb with wooden scaffolding keeping the ruins from collapsing as the archaeologists go about their work.
FS Leinad depicts a pair of robot excavators uncovering the fossilized remains of a car. A distant ancestor of theirs, perhaps?
GioiaLego‘s build is a tribute to the book The Richest Man in Babylon. I don’t know if it will make you rich, but the builder’s vignette skills are money.
Finally, CRCT Productions takes a historical approach with a depiction of the L’Anse aux Meadows excavation in Newfoundland where Viking artifacts were first discovered in North America.
