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.

Legendary warrior revived as huge LEGO figure

Gatot Kaca, from the scriptures of the Mahabharata, is a legendary warrior with magical powers of flight. In the modern world he has become popular once more as a superhero in a game called Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. This is the version of the character depicted in LEGO by Dennis Qiu. The model took about 3 months to build, stands 1.4 meters tall, and consists of 19,780 pieces.

To get a better sense of the scale, here is Dennis standing beside the model. The inner frames were built using Technic parts for stability and sturdiness. With a tall build like this, the challenge is to find the center of gravity and the right arrangements of knees and ankle to ensure it stays upright.

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Giant LEGO F4U Corsair

One of the latest and greatest propeller-driven aircraft of WW2 is surely the F4U Corsair. The American fighter is instantly recognizable with its inverted gull wing. Brought to life in LEGO by Patrick MAGO this monster of a model is built at a scale of roughly 1:10. It has a wingspan of 1 meter and weighs in at a hefty 6 kg (13 pounds).

It took Patrick approximately 10 months to build the model, and he had to redesign it no less than 3 times during the process to deal with the weight. Beyond the structure itself, a big challenge in such a build is the limited selection of dark blue parts available.

Check out the video to see the wings unfolding, and more details like the cockpit interior…

Padishah’s plush palace

LEGO builder Greg Dlx continues to explore large-scale recreations of exotic architecture. Following from last year’s desert fortress, here’s a beautiful Persian Palace. The white and gold domes grab all the immediate attention, but it’s the arches with their fabulous purple touches and the surrounding greenery which draw you in further. The vines snaking across the elaborate facade are well done, and there’s lots of nice tilework on the floors. The surrounding gardens look beautiful and Greg has filled the grounds with a veritable menagerie of animal life. However, it’s perhaps a shame there aren’t some appropriate minifigures lending a little more action to the scene.

LEGO Space builders take over the moon [Interview]

This year’s season of LEGO shows in the UK saw a massive collaborative moonbase display, from some of the UK’s best-known and most talented builders. The model was absolutely enormous, 2.5m square, featuring a huge tower and multiple compartments. It was built with more than 50,000 bricks…

The moonbase plays host to an impressive collection of landing pads, with Neo-Classic spaceships and rovers of all shapes and sizes…

But below the lunar surface, there is even more action going on, with dozens of cutaway compartments and corridors, stuffed with lighting effects, motorised elements, and cool building techniques…

Brothers Brick caught up with Jason Briscoe, one of the collaboration’s organisers, to find out more…
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The secret weapon of Scuderia Ferrari

As Sebastian Vettel spectacularly claims his 50th pole position in the yesterday’s qualifying session of the Mexican Grand Prix, there is no better time to look back at the car that has won the very same race in 1970 — the legendary Ferrari 312B. A stunning 1:8 scale copy of the car by Greg998 captures all the glory of the machine that once was called “the secret weapon” of Ferrari and which brought the team 10 wins and more than 20 pole positions.

Of course, the part that deserves the most attention is the legendary flat-12 engine in the back of 312B. Bonus points are for shiny chrome round plates!

An exercise in loft poetics

You don’t need a lot of LEGO bricks to build something fascinating. Moreover, you only need a handful of plates and tiles to tell your viewers a (love) story. Nikita Lazarev explores modern spacious lofts, which seem to be so empty that every smallest detail becomes too important to be neglected. And once you’ve pictured the owners of the room, even that huge empty wall and a cold wide window suddenly become sweet and cozy.

A hell of a good character

Hellboy has long-been a favourite subject for builders. We’ve featured our fair of LEGO Hellboy creations in the past. But this version by LEGO 7 is an absolute cracker. Built at a premium action figure scale, this has poseability to match the fine sculpting. Hellboy’s horn stumps and massive right fist are perhaps the defining features of the character, but this model faithfully captures other elements of Mike Mignola’s creation — the coat with its long tails, the defined abs, and the Samaritan pistol. I particularly like the beard and sideburns, something hard to recreate at this scale. This is LEGO character building at its finest.

Jump up and get down

We like when LEGO builders take on the task of trying to recreate famous artworks, or reimagine the styles of well-known artists through the medium of brick. Grantmasters takes on Keith Haring’s iconic cartoon pop-art in this cool little creation. I had to take a closer look to scope out the selection of curved black pieces Grant used to provide the signature outline to the red character — nicely done. The stripped-back colour schemes of Haring’s work obviously lend themselves well to the LEGO palette, and the collection of black “motion marks” are perfectly-placed to echo Haring’s style.

The arrival of the Blue Comet

Fancy a train trip to New Jersey? Make sure you have your ticket booked as the iconic Blue Comet by Cale Leiphart is arriving! Its thoroughly designed body measures more than 40 studs in length and features a ton of the tiniest elements: valves, sand and steam domes, levers and regulators — all in blue, which makes this build a remarkable assembly of LEGO parts in regular blue color.

And it wouldn’t be a proper locomotive without a full set of carriages. As usual, Flick album has all the details of this impressive train.

Learn from a LEGO master at the Royal Academy

There’s a whole medieval world created by LEGO fan builders as part of a role-playing game called Nine Kingdoms hosted by German-language site RogueBricks. Even RPGs need educational institutions and Markus Rollbühler has built the Royal Academy, a place for students to come and learn from the masters. There are lots of interesting LEGO techniques that we can also study at the Royal Academy with some fine LEGO construction and parts use on show. My eye was immediately drawn to the tree, with its foliage uniquely constructed using plumes of green feathers. I also love the bird’s nest sitting on the roof of the Academy, my ornithological knowledge is rather limited but it looks like a stork has made a home up there.

There are almost too many gems to mention, as the Academy itself has some lovely architectural details such as the beautifully shaped dormer windows. Can you spot the brown minifigure hockey sticks in the scene? There’s a lot to love in this creation and if you like this build, you will certainly enjoy spending a quiet summer evening at Markus’ windmill.

Just another bug hunt

It’s not often that we see LEGO creations that incorporate the large Technic figures that LEGO included in sets back in the late 80’s through the 90’s. Similarly, most of the LEGO xenomorphs we’ve featured largely use standard System bricks to recreate the terrifying creatures from the Alien movies. Weilong Yao breaks with both of these traditions by building a work loader around a Technic figure and incorporating lots of Bionicle in the alien itself.

A harsh but satisfying life in the village of Avalon

Four young builders join forces to bring us this extensive medieval village diorama. While I often complain about lack of variety in top-end castle-themed LEGO builds, there is a very bright side to this; if I had not known this creation was a collaboration, I would never have figured it out. The main image is hosted by Timothy Shortell, but the others involved are Micah the fire-breathing hobbit, Mountain hobbit and Cole Blood.

There are many details to see all over the diorama; the market has many interesting elemets, houses are all exceptionally done with interesting textures and angles everywhere, and the plant life facilitates the time and place where this diorama is set up – dried grass, autumn leaves and pine trees show us a cold but habitable place.