Lucky for you Bob Alexander (bobalexander!) is handing you the keys to his Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo (1988 Spec). Bob’s choice of windshield is perfect, and his attention to detail puts him up there with some of the best builders in the genre. So now you’ve got a premium ride, show us that fancy driving you’re always talking about.
On a related note, I really enjoy it when a builder includes an exclamation point in their screen name. Bob Alexander is nowhere near as cool as bobalexander! It forces you to run the names together and really say it with gusto. On that note, I’m off to alter my screen name on Flickr. I hope you’re enjoying Saturday as much as I am.
John Hammond would no doubt approve of this Jurassic Park vignette by Combee! who makes his first appearance on TBB. This build really captures the scene by reducing it to only the most essential elements. Also, the floating Hammond-head is a little creepy and it looks to me as if he’s about to consume the baby raptor. It is probably a good thing the builder chose not to use Dr. Sattler’s face, I’m not sure that her expression can be captured with LEGO.
Ryan McNaught (TheBrickMan) takes a break from building giant helecopters to bring you his microscale take on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The model was built for a LEGO retail store display and I’m guessing the employees are going to get tired of explaining to customers that it isn’t an official set.
eldeem brings you a diorama inspired by the 1942 painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. The scene is the culminating installment of the builder’s “Hawks in the Night” series, which features some very effective camera work.
If you’re a fan of the painting, you might have missed Alex Eylar’s Nighthawks of the Living Dead, featured on this august blog back in 2010.
LUGPol’s Air Marshall mrutek returns to TBB with a smoothed out warbird from WW2. This time mrutek sets his sights on the workhorse of the Russian air force, the Yak-1. Although the design was Russian, the Yakovlev 1 was also used by the Lotnictwo Wojska Polskiego (Air Force of the Polish Army). Enjoy today’s offering of military history.
I’m not completely sure what’s going on with fvin&yan’s latest effort, but the unfortunate fellow with the dapper hat is about to get a knife to the face! This model is simply stunning from top to bottom and features a pleasingly wide range of color. Perhaps one of our readers can help with the translation of the title and very brief accompanying text, the best I was able to come up with was “Poor included bei, also from Emperor Jing Ke Thorn”.
.TheBricks invites you inside his bathroom for a look around, and there is a great deal to see. The builder asks the timeless question “What is it with girls and bathrooms?”. I will leave it to you, constant reader, to answer that one. This model is an entry for the 2013 MocAthalon, under the category “What a girl wants.”
Mr. Tumnus leaps off the ABS page in this striking model by Noah McClung, or Glory Forever as he is known on Flickr. Noah picked just the right wintery scene to make the most of the book as a foundation.
Tonight’s TBB broadcast is brought to you by Jeep and the Jeep Grand Cherokee, all new for 2013. Built by Rolands Kirpis, better known as Rolic, the Grand Cherokee comes standard with working doors, hatch-back, and hood. I think one of the comments on Flickr, by TechnicNick, sums it up best: “An ordinary car done extraordinarily well.”
Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional hero created by author George MacDonald Fraser and a big inspiration for builder workshysteve. In this latest installment, Flashman finds himself in America circa 1858 and in the company of abolitionist John Brown just before his raid on Harpers Ferry. This shack is a good example of Steve’s ability to make the series-standard 14×14 base look twice as big.
Steve is up to 12 scenes and says that he is only about halfway through Flashman’s adventures in LEGO, so that means we have some great models to look forward to.
