Category Archives: Models

This is what we’re all about. We scour the web for the best custom LEGO models to share with you. From castles and spaceships to planes, trains, and automobiles, you’ll find the best LEGO creations from builders all over the world right here on The Brothers Brick.

You’re in good hands with the Imperial Medic Team

Being dispensable, famously banging your head on a doorway, or generally missing your targets can be taxing on the health of your average Imperial Stormtrooper. Thankfully, when calamity strikes, this LEGO stormy presented by Auto’s Builds is in the very capable hands of two Imperial Medics and also the cold steel hands of Medical Droid 2-1B. They’ll have this fellow back in the field and missing his targets in no time. He’s in for the best healthcare Emperor Palpatine’s Imperial medic team can provide; and based on the annoyed looks on their faces, I’m guessing it’s not much.

The Brothers Brick is funded by our readers and the community. Articles may include affiliate links, and when you purchase products from those links, TBB may earn a commission that helps support the site.

Fall in love with this beatiful autumnal temple and waterfall

Journey back in time to Edo-era Japan with this spellbinding “Pagoda by the Lake” by felix-workshop. The part that looms largest, of course, is the majestic multi-tiered temple, with its striking red coloring and the artful curves of its pagoda roofs (inspired by the real-life Seiganto-ji temple and nearby falls). Such roofing has always been a challenge to achieve with standard LEGO bricks, at least until 21060 Himeji Castle and 10315 Tranquil Garden gave us a new upturned roof piece. However, given the minifig scale, felix-workshop opts for a more complicated—and more rewarding—technique to achieve the slopes of the roof, stacking and curving rows of rounded plates. Don’t let the artistry on display distract you from all that’s going on, however—can you spot fishermen fishing, merchants traveling, assassins planning their attack, a Buddhist monk, and a happy couple drinking tea?

Paleolithic paleontology beneath the LEGO ice

We know what dinosaurs are these days. Big, reptilian-avian creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago, doing cool dinosaur things. But what would early humankind have made of fossils, had they found them a mere 10,000 years ago? This is the question that photomark6 is pondering. It’s a superbly staged photograph! The eye is drawn to the T-Rex fossil around which the scene revolves. But the bright colours of the minifigures make us focus on the real story here. What are they feeling? Wonder about this new discovery? Fear, that it might break out of the ice and devour them? Or cold, from their outfits that don’t look particularly well-suited to the ice and snow? (I know which one I’d be feeling the most!)

Santana starship is a smooth addition to the Star Wars fan canon

While Star Wars fans eagerly await more reveals of the next season of Andor, over in the Factions role-play community, LEGO builders are busy adding new stories and ships to that galaxy far, far away. Simulterious introduces the Santana light freighter, a ship built for speedy hauls and avoiding Imperials. Based on concept art from the artist Spacegoose, the Santana features smooth teal curves and four impressive ion turbine engines. Simulterious incorporates chain links for a ring of greebly texture, a technique also used in their brilliant take on the classic B-Wing Starfighter.

The two sides of water, captured in LEGO

Take a gander above and below the waterline in this gorgeous LEGO creation by Carter Witz. Color transitions play a huge role in this build, with light gray showing the dry stone and dark gray emulating wet. Common construction patterns are shown above and below the trans-clear liquid laters. However, the nature of erosion is different depending on where you look. Rooted vines and a tree eat away at the air-exposed rock, while seaweed the current buckle the bricks below. Carter once again shows his prowess working in natural forms.

Mindblowing LEGO Warhammer 40k Space Marines reporting for duty

As a fledgling tween nerd, I really wanted to get into Warhammer, but unlike my main plastic hobby, LEGO, the models didn’t look great without some serious painting skills and they weren’t much good for building anything but battlefields. If LEGO and Games Workshop had offered build-your-own miniatures half as cool as this squadron from vic mk2, there’s no way I could have resisted the call! These gold-clad warriors are no mere Space Marines — they’re the Adeptus Custodes, ultra-elite fighters who answer only to the Emperor. I believe they’re joined here by the angelic Primarch Sanguinius. Each of the 10 units has a unique weapon and power armor, which is all the more impressive in how Vic captures the Warhammer style so perfectly using mostly gold elements. There are some deep-cut parts, like Hero Factory robot heads.

As imposing as the Adeptus Custodes are, Vic has also assembled heavier firepower in LEGO, like this Blood Angels Leviathan Dreadnought. Vic achieves incredible curves in the mech’s torso without any constraction elements. Interchangeable arms allow for a range of configurations. This beast could give the Hulkbuster a run for its money.

LEGO cyberpunk creation towers above everything – including its creator!

Few collaborative LEGO builds can surely claim to have the reach that the New Hashima project has had. It’s seen offshoots pop up all over the world, and builders are still adding to it almost two years after it started. Blake Foster is the latest to construct another cyberpunk edifice – and quite a sizable one, at that! Blake tells us that Hashimacorp Tower took almost 18 months to complete, including a 20-hour (!) long building session. That’s commitment! And I think it warrants a closer look, don’t you?

Come and take a tour of this terrific tower!

Here’s one LEGO hedgehog who takes it slow

Small LEGO scenes like this make me smile. With just a few parts and a simple story, Eli Willsea crafts a fun and colorful vignette of a hedgehog taking a walk after a light rain. The chopstick element makes perfect spines, yellow rainboots are instantly recognizable, and he even has a frog friend along for the ride.

A long time ago, in a savannah far, far away...

After a galaxy-wide sigh of relief, one of the first things that will have crossed the newly-formed New Republic’s mind will have been ‘OK, but what do we do with all this stuff?’. After all, the Empire had a some pretty formidable weapons of war that suddenly needed new purpose. Fortunately, budding entrepreneurs like LEGO builder Dominique Boeynams were on hand to transform them into something better suited for peacetime. Dominique managed to get an AT-AT all the way back to Earth (don’t ask how – I gather he had to promise a lot of freebies), chopped its top off, and now arranges safaris with a Star Wars twist. It’s actually perfect for the job; that heavy armour comes in handy when the lions get hungry, see. They tend to have better luck picking off unruly tourists doing their best Luke Skywalker impression…

All the best LEGO builders are mad as a hatter

When you go chasing LEGO rabits, you never know where you’ll end up. Perhaps, like Alice, you’ll find yourself at a mad tea party, like the one created by Centuri Chan and Wendy Graham from over 80,000 bricks! This entirely bonkers display took home Best in Show and People’s Choice prizes from Christchurch Brickshow 2024, and it’s easy to see why with the incredible characters and whimsical details at such enormous scale. To get a sense of just how big this scene is, squint and you can see a minifig-scale tea party under Alice. Curiouser and curiouser!

Uninvited Alice sits at the head of the table with yellow hair that only a very rude host would say wants cutting. If you want to ask Alice how she got that lovely powder blue dress, it took three copies of the LEGO Creator expert Vespa 125 to source the required bricks. (The builders added a cheeky tattoo tribute!) I love the use of ~~pies~~ tarts for buttons. Hopefully there are no knaves around to steal them.

Click to feed your head like the Doormouse said!

Fuel for one’s car and one’s stomach

Lately, builder Alex Eylar has been absolutely knocking it out of the park with builds dedicated to creating a LEGO-made ambiance. I covered a pair of his brick-built spaces not too long ago, but I think I like Alex’s latest creation even more. A combination gas station and restaurant, this building and it’s superb lighting convey the desert at dusk perfectly. There’s so much detail, including the cacti, shelves inside the convenience store, and signage for the restaurant around back. But my favorite detail is the obscured brown car sitting along-side the building.

These meddling heroes are ready and willin’ to catch that villain

When it comes to solving mysterious dungeons that make lesser heroes shake and shiver, Jack McKeen has recruited a party of meddling adventurers you can count on. The LEGO minifig team is composed of Lady Daphne the Fair, Sir Fredrick the Foolhardy, The Orange Crone, The Wandering Gastronomer, and the Curse-ed Hound of Fear and Hunger (Although they are known to team up with the likes of Darkest Knight, Uruk’el the Vexing, and TV legend Don Knotts).

Jack’s medieval remix of the Scooby Gang is an inspired bit of figbashing that pairs the personality of each character with the perfect fantasy… parephernalia. He even built out an appropriately spooky dungeon diorama for the ensemble. The deathly statue is an especially chilling sight with its binocular bones.

This madcap builder is no stranger to pop-culture remixes. We loved his sci-fi twists on Breaking Bad and Mr. Freeze. As for this gang of medieval gang of mystery solving meddlers, Jack put them together for the Brickscalibur “Adventuring Party” category. The competition runs through January 15, 2025.