According to Daniel Garcia (Evo), the airship Hermes was the first to be built by the Royal Navy, but was promptly stolen by pirates.
Most steampunk airships look like, well, flying ships, but Daniel’s ship has an unusual shape like an enormous flying catamaran.
Experienced builders tend to look down on the early, multi-colored LEGO creations of their childhood, dubbing them “rainbow warriors.” Jacob (Memory) demonstrates that a wide variety of colors can look rather awesome together in this unmanned underwater construction vehicle.
See more photos on Brickshelf.
UPDATE: The LEGO Architecture Guggenheim and Fallingwater are now available from the LEGO Shop online. Click the photos in this post to learn more.
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According to a press release from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, the next LEGO Architecture sets designed by Adam Reed Tucker will be inspired by the buildings of the iconic American architect (1867-1959).
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City will be celebrating its 50th anniversary later this year.
Wright designed Fallingwater in 1934 as the private home of Edgar J. Kaufmann, and the house remains one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s best-loved structures to this day.
Neither set is available from the LEGO Shop yet, but were apparently released on May 15 at the opening of an exhibit at the Guggenheim.
Via PrairieMod.
Speaking of minifig-scale vehicles, Sterling Knight built this LEGO version of the Shelby Cobra concept car from Ford.
The intake on the hood and the grill on the front include some interesting techniques, and the interior is also fully detailed.
Ralph Savelsberg (Mad physicist) proves once again that he’s one of the best LEGO aircraft builders with this B-26 “Marauder” bomber from World War II.
An entry for the second LEGO Military contest on Flickr, and has working landing gear and bomb bay doors.
I also realized recently that we’ve never properly blogged Ralph’s minifig-scale vehicles, so here’s a selection of his excellent emergency vehicles from a few months back:
The brick-built patterns on the British ambulance and patrol car are especially noteworthy.
Fredo Houben (Fredoichi) enters the Civilian Mecha Contest with this unmanned demolition robot.
Note the subtle use of yellow droid bodies on the side of the pod, along with the excellent sticker usage.
Kiwi T-shirt designer Glenn Jones (Glennz) has created a couple of really sweet shirts featuring little plastic people.
Tee hee! :-D Thanks for the tip, Rob Walker!
Ridiculously oversized feet, check. Ridiculously tiny arms, check. Ridiculously awesome? Check.
Great mech, KryptonHeidt. More pics on MOCpages.
Tranquility Base creator Louise Dade (Bladewood) has posted a Fabuland Danger Mouse, with Penfold and DM’s flying car.
The Fabuland figures were customized by Louise’s mom Hilary. (Hat-tip to reader Tim.)
Jamie Spencer (Morgan19) sure knows how to combine minifigs and custom accessories in interesting — and creepy! — ways.
From Yoda’s head on backward to Catwoman cowls for arms, Jamie’s minifigs are full of surprises.
See the full horde of Jamie’s creepy figs on Flickr.
That may be what defines space for Leonard McCoy, but I suspect Spock and Uhura — built here by Ochre Jelly — find more pleasure in the Final Frontier…
Via OJ’s blog, The Living Brick.
