Ukranian builder flambo14 brings us a lovely little fantasy cottage. I like the wonky towers and the haphazard roofs, and the minifig choice is simply perfect.
The rocky base could maybe do with a little more greenery to break up the gray and tan, but that’s nit-picking at an otherwise great little creation. I want to see more scenes from this fairytale.
If you’ve seen the movie with Matt Damon or read the book by Andy Weir, then this scene from The Martian should be instantly recognizable. Builder Paul Trach perfectly captured the scene where Mark Watney, the story’s main character, seals the NASA habitat in plastic and cultivates soil to grow potatoes. I love the way Paul used the backside of those masonry bricks to create lined soil for planting. Also, Paul used actual LEGO bags as the plastic for his build. Now that’s some truly epic nice parts usage (NPU)!
We like a good starfighter, and here’s an absolute belter of a model from F@bz. The brutal and unusual shaping catches the eye, but look closely and you’ll also see some great details — a sweet double cockpit, functional-looking greebling and textures, and restrained-yet-effective use of color.
The “hero shot” with the planet backdrop is smart, but check out the rear view for close-up action on all those lovely engine details…
If you’ve been feeling a little under-the-weather, this hospital room model by BrickBuilder7622 is bound to cheer you up. The bed and the other hospital furniture are all spot-on, and I’m enjoying the little touches like the angled TV mounted on the wall. But the best bit of this creation is that IV drip — a clever combination of bottle and welding equipment pieces which somehow ends up looking perfect.
Letranger Absurde is no stranger to the pages of The Brothers Brick. We regularly feature his models (including this recent LEGO Exorcist creation). Here he is again, with a brilliant steampunk Dalek…
This has some lovely angles and detailing, immediately recognisable as a Dalek, but with just enough steamy retro-scifi goodness to mark it out as something different. I also like the raked-back angle it’s got — like some sort of Victorian/Alien hotrod. Nice work.
(Post title stolen shamelessly from Karf Oohlu’s comment on the photo on Flickr)
Now that LEGO’s Disney Collectible Minifigures are available in stores around the world, if you’re anything like us you’ll be furiously digging through cases in the store, trying to feel the blind packs to get full set of the 18 figures, or maybe just your favorites. Never fear, we’re here to help, and having already sorted quite a few ourselves we can offer some tips to help ensure you get the figures you want.
As we mentioned in our review of the Disney Collectible Minifigures, they come in a case of 60, with each case containing three full sets plus some extras. A case breaks down like this:
Three each of Aladdin, Alice, Ariel, Buzz Lightyear, Captain Hook, Cheshire Cat, Daisy Duck, Donald Duck, Maleficent, Minnie Mouse, Peter Pan, and Ursula.
Four each of Genie, Mickey Mouse, Mr. Incredible, Stitch, Syndrome, and the Toy Story Alien.
Click to read the feel guide for each figure
Caleb Flutur says he’s not normally a car builder. Well, he should consider it more often because his rendition of a 1956 Nash Metropolitan convertible is just beautiful. The color scheme is eye-catching and attractive, but it’s the smooth lines and the touches of chrome around the grille and bumpers which really make this build pop. That chrome stripe down the side is just magic, and “purist” too — cut from the leftovers of an official LEGO sticker sheet.
This is one of those cracking models which looks just as good from the back. Check out the way the spare tyre is set into the bodywork — lovely stuff.
This build was a present for Caleb’s dad. I hope he liked it as much as I do.
Chris McVeigh proves once again that he’s the master of technology nostalgia with this perfect recreation of an 80s/early-90s workspace.
The desk and chair are nice work, but it’s the details on the desktop which make this brilliant — the phone, the lamp, the stapler, the computer itself, all good. But best of all? The floppy disk storage box — a long-departed office fixture which remains immediately identifiable.
And of course, everyone who works with technology deserves to get the occasional upgrade…
We feature a lot of cute and fun stuff here on The Brothers Brick, but it’s not often we showcase a LEGO model which is genuinely creepy. This fabulous shrunken head creation by AnActionFigure sent a shiver up my spine when I saw it for the first time.
There’s some complicated brickwork going on to create the facial features here, and the use of rubber bands as stitching around the mouth adds a nice touch of the macabre. All-in-all a disquieting little build, and an (un)pleasant change from cuter LEGO creations.
Jonas has built a funny scene featuring a statue that’s clearly not enjoying feeling exposed.
The statue itself is a cracking build, making good use of Mixel joint pieces to enable great posing. But I’m also a fan of the terrain and the added visual interest provided by the inclusion of the farmer and his cart.
Several months ago, Kenneth Vaessen built a Soviet MiG-23M ‘Flogger’, which we failed to blog at the time. His latest model is a German Marineflieger Panavia Tornado IDS. Both are classic Cold War warriors, but somewhat unusual as LEGO models, which makes them even more interesting.
The Marineflieger version of the Tornado was used for anti-shipping missions over the Baltic and North Sea, armed with two belly-mounted Kormoran missiles, while the ‘Flogger’ was mainly used for air-to-air missions. These missions may seem very different, but the jets’ configurations have a major feature in common: the swing wings. In their most forward position these improve slow-speed manoeuvrability and allow more efficient cruising flight; to reduce drag for high-speed flight they are swept back.
When these jets were designed in the sixties, this was all the rage. The variable sweep on the wings works, the models have detailed weapons, retractable undercarriages (certainly no mean feat on the MiG), opening canopies and other nifty working features. They look great in their excellent brick-built camouflage.
LEGO builder AnkTales enjoys creating nifty little scenes and animating the construction process, giving viewers a look at precisely what parts go into his builds. His latest creation is a miniature Batcave to showcase LEGO’s official mini Tumbler model. You could easily build your own Batcave by watching the video.
And if you happen to not own the 30300 LEGO Tumbler set, AnkTale helpfully provides a construction mini Batman Tumbler video to create your own, and the best part is that it doesn’t use any rare pieces.