Michael Jasper‘s table tennis scene is as usual an inspiration in parts usage. Can you find the ping-pong ball?
Category Archives: Models
Dumbledore’s office
I am always happy to see beautiful Harry Potter creations once in a while. Despite all the sets, it seams to me that there aren’t much of HP creations these days. This Dumbeldore’s oval office build by Robuko was a real treat. I love the frame built using technic threads, bookcases and the walls. Check out the floor in this another set-up of the same creation.
Megastore
Alex Jones (Orion Pax) builds another excellent commission. This time it is for German Snipes Megastore opening in Cologne. You can take a look at all of the images on his website.
A creature from nightmares
Mike Nieves (retinence) is the most innovative Bionicle builder I know. His style of using the appropriate parts to create seamless contours is both imaginative and reflective of great skill. His artwork-inspired Xenomorph Rex is breathtaking in its biomechanical composition.
Life Below – subterranean post-apoc
We’ve seen a lot of survivor camps and up-armored pickup trucks from ApocaLEGO builders over the years, to the point that we’ve sort of stopped paying attention to the genre. Dillon (Pendragon) takes post-apocalyptic LEGO in an unexpected but completely believable direction — underground.
Dillon’s diorama features complex subterranean landscaping that incorporates salvaged structures and even a partially collapsed cavern.
Mars Curiosity Rover roars through the Martian atmosphere ... and lands safely!
I’m watching live coverage of the descent and landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover, thinking that we should note the occasion here on our little LEGO blog down on Earth as well. We featured Tim Goddard’s LEGO Mars Curiosity Rover a couple weeks ago. I found this great photo by Kooberz:
Alex points us to a LEGO CUUSOO project by Stephen Pakbaz:
As I post this, Curiosity has separated from its cruise stage, and JPL is receiving “heartbeat” transmissions from the spacecraft as it begins its entry into the Martian atmosphere. Good luck, Curiosity!
UPDATE: Mars Curiosity Rover has successfully landed on Mars and is sending pictures. Congratulations!
Hobbits hide from Ringwraiths in gorgeous LOTR diorama
Speaking of challenges, I wish more people would build LEGO Lord of the Rings models. It’s such a rich world, full of both fantastic landscapes and wonderful architecture. Xenomurphy rises to the occasion with this diorama featuring the scene in which the Hobbits hide from a Ringwraith while trying to escape the Shire.
As much as I love the beautiful shot above showcasing the LEGO diorama itself, what really grabbed my attention was this gorgeous poster, created with nothing but LEGO, a bit of smoke, and some afternoon sunshine — no photo editing:
Minifig-scale Serenity is the coolest ship in the ‘verse
Adrian Drake (brickfrenzy just completed his 70,000 piece Serenity (from the wonderful but short-lived series Firefly) after more than 475 hours of work over nearly two years.
The ship weights 135 pounds and has a complete interior, from bow to stern. Many interior spaces also have lighting, and the shuttles detach.
We’ve featured some great Serenity models here on The Brothers Brick over the years, but none at minifig scale. See 75 photos of this awesome model on Flickr.
(My challenge to build a minifig-scale Prometheus still stands…)
Elemental Attack on Avalonia
ZCerberus sure knows how to build a nice castle village scene. The elemental monster is also a cool creation by itself. But, what really caught my attention on this MOC is the ingenious use of Power Functions on the scene. Both the moving tentacles and the leaning tower are what makes this creation really great.
Watch the video on YouTube.
Bricking the Future
Buildingxyz (Michel Labelle) built his vision of the future home from LEGO. This is mid 21st century family house in California. I really like the house design and how Michel also equipped the whole interior with futuristic furniture.
Well would you look at that...
Mike Yoder (M.R. Yoder) has always been one to typically keep us up to date with progress shots of his builds. Case in point, his City Ruins project that Andrew had featured a week or so back. Well Mike pulled a fast one on all of us when he posted his VogStar this past Monday. That ship was quite frankly brilliant in more ways than one and came out of nowhere. But now he totally upped the ante with this Chinese Imperial Flagship which is built on the same general hull frame. The mixing of reds & oranges works so wonderfully well.
This is a fantastic addition to his Chinese Imperial Navy, again previously featured by Andrew.
With both this and the VogStar, the aft section in particular is designed exceedingly well!!
