As though we needed more proof (not that I’m arguing), the Gz-81 Naganata of Rob Dasnewten demonstrates yet again that he does a mean line in mean looking starfighters. His command of shape and texture is very unique and his models always pop out as both awesome and most definitely his.
Remember to check the two variants with different cockpit colours
Just a few of the smallest LEGO parts let Micah Berger (micahberger) create this adorable fairy. Genius.
While only time will tell I have a sneaking suspicion that Mike Psiaki may have just started a fad with his NASCAR racer. It’s small, colourful, easy enough to make and an excellent design.
Stage 1) Mike makes one, Stage 2) I make two, Stage 3) Mike shows a how-to, Stage 4) Instant fad?
Rocks: check, base: check, launchpad: check, compact design: check, fun colours: check. After admiring his recent (and tiny) Fireball I asked Peter Morris to do me the honour of building something for my Dogfighters 2137 theme and he’s more than lived up to my expectations with the bDY-210 Drahken and its base.
As an added bonus Peter made an LDraw model of the Drahken which allowed me to begin a joint CGI image featuring the Drahken and my own Verdant Fern. Fun stuff and being able to share models across the world is just amazing.
Allister McLaren (CaptainUnderpants) has been slowly building up a series of large and awesome LEGO action figures which somewhat evoke Danger Mouse to me. Henchbot (the big guy) is his latest but do check out Doc Grok (also pictured) and Sgt. Destroy.
Peter Morris has a constantly growing squadron of starfighters each of which is a superb piece of design. His delightfully compact latest
Well birthdays are lovely and all but we do have a blog to run here and pretty LEGO models to show. I spotted this beauty on Brickshelf today and was highly impressed by Camine’s fine work. There have been a bunch of good motorcycles for minifigs posted before but this is the best Japanese style bike I can remember seeing.
Hi all,
After heavily delayed judging thanks to the slackness of one of the judges (sorry!) the full list of winners of PotW have finally been announced. Going backwards by class we find… drumroll…
While the special judges choice winners are as follows:
And I can now debut an old MOC… the special prize for my pick is the all new Petri Racer
And I think it is time to bury the caveracing fad once and for all.
Pause magazine has some great coverage of the opening of the LEGO Discovery Center in Chicago. From the pictures I’ve seen of the Berlin centre this one looks to be even better and we can all hope that more of these will be rolled out (Australia… please!!!).
Incidentally I suspect most of you wouldn’t realise that Pause magazine was one of the very first AFOL resources way back in 19965 or so. It’s great for me to be able to refer to their LEGO coverage from my own little platform.
UPDATE: We’ve gotten lots of additional photos and behind-the-scenes details about HKLUG’s LEGO Sport City display from HKLUG.
HKLUG kick off an Olympic themed exhibition featuring some creative models of Olympic landmarks. Read more about it in their blog entry. The “Birdsnest” and water cube are highlights.
I’m a huge fan of Charles Stross’ books and short stories and am particularly fond of the anachronistic starship in Singularity Sky. Something about the combination of brass speaking tubes and faster-than-light drives just tickles me in all the right places. This is my attempt to do some vague amount of justice to the bridge featured in the book.
PS. If you like good sci-fi you should read as much of Stross’ catalogue as possible. The man is a modern great of the genre.
