Lovers of Masamune Shirow don’t need to feel left out of the Cubedude phenomenan as Paul Meissner (legosamurai) has rendered the leading duo from Appleseed in blocky glory.
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Acrobattery
Ed Diment (Lego Monster) brings us an aircraft of a more terrestrial variety in his Red Bull Air Racer. The larger 1:22 scale allows some nice extra details and a smoother profile.
Ride the Tiger
Do not adjust your monitor. This is 100% LEGO. Shiny LEGO! bricksonwheels is showing off his homemade chrome collection and building skills to brilliant effect.
Show some backbone!
I was going to delay posting this to leave the 5th birthday post at the top of the page for longer but decided that we are here because we highlight cool LEGO models. Marco Tagliaferri (Tagl) demonstrates a lovely addition to the popular moonbase standard in the form of this transit spine standard. It feels so real.
And he has instructions to boot.
Meteor shower
Any train builder can tell you that taking photographs of full rakes is really hard so I apologise that this photo is a little hard to see. I make no apologies, however, for blogging Peter Norman’s (swoofty) excellent Silver Meteor model as it’s lovely.
Rolling Thunder
Castles made in space
If I ever own a castle I’m going to make it fly through space too. Bartosz Kacprzyk (the oneman) has inspired me. But watch out for dragons.
Contest: GHL building contest
The good people at GHL are running a contest:
To kick off our marketing and promotion efforts here in the Dominion planet of “Earth”, we at Galactic Handling and Logistics have decided to hold a contest, since the initial brain-scans and surveys have concluded that Terrans are a competitive bunch and best motivated by “free stuff”.
There are two Pro flickr accounts up for grabs and contest closes on the 31st August 2010.
Seven Nation Army
In the Meantime
With my return from a travel and jetlag induced hiatus I’m going to break the chain of large MOCs to go to the other extreme. Brian Cash (The Magic Tuba Pixie) reinterprets a Glatorian mask to create a lovely micro-scale submarine. A good dose of creative parts application can replace a lot of bricks.
Joe versus the Volcano
Since it’s totally lacking a description of any kind I can’t say much about Bryce McGlone’s plans for this volcano. But what ever they are (if they are) I feel certain they’re going to be great.
Bryce dropped me an email explaining a bit more about this excellent MOC. It’s actually a collaboration between him and Brandon Griffith (icgetaway) and was made for the Sarah Connor Chronicles (“It is on screen for about 2 min right at the start of Season 2, Episode 20(I hope)”). So not only is it awesome, it’s also famous.
I’ve never seen this type of landscaping before but I’ll certainly be copying it.
Have your say on colours
From Jan Beyer
Hi LEGO Fans,
The LEGO Community Development would like to know which of the already existing elements would be needed most urgently in missing colors. Some optimism presumed the number one of the resulting list could end in a “color change” and might be produced in the future.
To participate – the way is as follows:
- Suggestions need to be send by email until the 30.06.2010. These suggestions will be sorted and afterwards published for a voting. The final chart will be send to the LCD Team.
- For easier handling the suggestions should be aligned to the description of the BrickLink catalogue: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=P
- Suggestions only will be accepted in a color which is still in production. So e.g.”Fabuland brown” is invalid because production of this color was stoped in 1997. An overview about the actual colors could be downloaded here: http://x-brick.de/ambassador/colorpalette/2010LEGOcolorpalette.pdf
An example:
Part No: 50746
Name: Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3
New color: brick-yellow (tan)The suggestions should be send to this email address: ccf@x-brick.de
EDIT: I presume that “Some optimism presumed the number one of the resulting list could end in a “color change” and might be produced in the future” means that there is a good chance that the number one element will likely appear in sets.