Okay, I know trains are Tim’s domain, but I just like the fact that Peter “swoofty” Norman” (Brickshelf) went out and took pictures of his LEGO locomotives in front of the real things.
NRE 3GS-21B in Union Pacific livery:
EMD F59PH in Metrolink livery:
Like his Rally Fiat we highlighted earlier this month, Steven Marshall‘s Olio Fiat 131 features custom stickers and amazing details:
See how it contrasts with the earlier Fiat:
See more pictures in Steven’s Olio Fiat 131 photoset on Flickr.
One of the things that got me into Star Wars back in the 90’s was the PC game Dark Forces (released in 1995).
Tim “RogueBantha” Goddard has created a vignette to showcase his microscale Moldy Crow (an older creation):
I wasted far too many hours late at night blowing stormtroopers away with the concussion rifle and avoiding thermal detonators thrown by three-eyed Grans (“Tink tink tink…BOOM!”). Ah, good times…
Tim’s latest is actually a lovely little Theta-class shuttle, shown here with Palpatine and a pair of clones:
Adrian Florea takes the flyers of World War II as inspiration for his latest fighter:
The angled wings, the rear stabilizers, the chrome helmets… Fantastic. Here it is from another angle:
The Pumping Iron: Extreme Armor Building Challenge is wrapping up over on Reasonably Clever.
Chris Doyle has a great example entry, “Late 1980’s Romantic Comedy Armor”. Ha!
With tons of Exo-Force and BrickArms prizes, less than 20 entries so far, and the contest ending on May 2, this may just be your chance to score some sweet loot. ;-)
Any update to Michael Jasper‘s Brickshelf gallery is a must-see. His latest batch of tiny, ingenious creations include a diversity of wonderful families with prams and strollers.
Check out the toddler in this picture:
Nathan Proudlove has mainly been building amazing hotrods and other vehicles lately, but that doesn’t mean he’s not also a talented space builder.
Nathan’s “Lucky Strike” cave racer is blocky and colorful on the front and round, spiky, and black in back. The contrast of color and shape is wonderful.
(Via the ever-vigilant Young Spacers.)
My Spawn minifig was inspired by a conversation I had a while back with Drew Ellis. He suggested Bane from 7787 The Bat-Tank would make an excellent Spawn. I’m inclined to agree:
(All official pieces; no custom parts.)
When the dead rise from their graves to destroy the living, dark magic must be afoot (or it’s the solanum virus, but that’s a different story). Dave Lartigue illustrates one such incident in his “Assault on the Necromancer’s Tower” diorama. Here’s the tower:
The dead rise up!
Villagers fight back!
There’s lots more to see in Dave Lartigue’s photostream on Flickr.
Kidthor (Brickshelf) is a fairly prolific builder I hadn’t noticed (sorry!) until he posted this brilliant mecha drop-ship:
If that’s not cool enough for ya (and it should be), the mecha has a separate “Lodestar Aerospace Booster”:
Check out more pictures in Kidthor’s Flickr photostream or Brickshelf gallery.
Joriel “Joz” Jimenez (MOCPages) has been hard at work updating his Flickr photostream lately. I keep bookmarking stuff to blog, and then he posts something even cooler.
With squad after squad of great minifigs, Joz is clearly a man after my own heart. Unlike too many “army builders,” he peppers his multitudes with unique units like this pair of “Jump Jet Instructors”:
Here are my favorites:
Oh, and yes, that is a kangaroo in the CPKF Insignia. Nice.
