That’s right, Goobers, from our mutual friend Chris Maddison. Here is how it goes: Yellow Goober tells a joke at the expense of Red Goober and hilarity ensues! Welcome to the weekend.
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Welcome to the weekend.
Category Archives: LEGO
Friday Night Fights (Round 21)
Welcome back fight fans, to Sin City Nevada for another heart-stopping edition of Friday Night Fights! Tonight’s bout features two hungry SHIPwrights caught in the digital nets of Simon Liu’s month long challenge known as SHIPtember. Let’s go to the tale of the tape:
Fighting out of the red corner, from Dutch Moonbase Mission Control…”Psycho” sky4walker and his “Proteus“.
And fighting out of the blue corner, from somewhere between heaven and hell…”Dangerous” Disco86 and his “FB 21 – Freighter Class Botany”
As usual, constant reader, you are tasked with deciding the outcome of this pugilistic endeavor by way of comment. On the last edition of Friday Night Fights, the battle of minimalism, David Alexander Smith dispatched his opponent with a score of 4-2. Tune in next week for another action packed edition of Friday Night Fights!
Cool Scandinavian Scania
Many European truck lovers have a soft spot for the Scania brand. In some ways its reputation in Europe is comparable to that of a brand such as Kenworth in the US; they’re driven by proper truckers rather than by mere truck drivers. They are also popular among customizers, and Scandinavian custom trucks stand out, with lots of chrome and airbrush artwork. Truck builder extraordinaire Dennis Glaasker (bricksonwheels) has recreated this typical Scandinavian custom look in his latest Scania model.
This behemoth is more than 1.5m (5 ft.) long and remote controlled with Power Functions. The spectacular airbrush artwork, with a Pirates of the Caribbean theme, was made with a custom sticker and Dennis uses non-standard chromed pieces, with a very cool result.
Galidor Returns!
Angus MacLane (MacLane) brings us an awesome hardsuit, with a Galidor twist. He’s combined a great model with one of the worst things ever made by Lego. When he hears that Galidor was canceled, he’ll be crying himself to sleep on his colossal pillow.
Can you outsmart the black box?
Jason Allemann (True Dimensions) has been imbuing LEGO EV3 Mindstorms with a snarky personality in the form of this black box. You’ll just have to watch the video to see what it does.
For those of you who’d like to build your own black box, Jason has provided instructions on his website.
Moko Under a Silvery Moon
I guess September is the month of Moko. He continues his streak of amazing builds with the Silver Moon, a gorgeous mecha covered in silver and gold elements. It’s hard to pull off a complete look when certain colors are limited to a few element types. Well, hard for the rest of us mere mortals, clearly not hard for a master like Moko.
Autobots are go!
Sometimes a model doesn’t need to be hugely complicated or full of wonderfully clever new connections of parts to be great, although there is definitely some clever stuff going on here if you look closely.
If, like me, you grew up watching cartoons in the eighties, the Autobot logo built by Jason Alleman (True Dimensions) really needs no further explanation. If you want to build your own (and you know you want to), you can even download instructions from Jason’s own website.
Orange capital SHIP ahoy
I think Guss De Blöd accidentally spilled a little Novvember in his SHIPtember. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, well, don’t worry about it. For several years, the LEGO flickr community has enjoyed doing themed monthly build challenges, and this year they’ve become particularly pervasive, with Marchikoma, SHIPtember, Maktober, and Novvember just off the top of my head. We’re currently in the middle of SHIPtember, and flickr is awash in SHIPs (that’s Super Huge Investment in Parts, aka capital ships). Even if it does seem to get a little bandwagon-y at times, the themes challenge a lot of people to build outside their normal comfort zones, and get some people to just build at all. And so, back to Guss’s orange machine, which appears to be a mash-up of two themed challenges. Regardless of any of that, though, it’s a lovely spacecraft, and the orange highlights are very striking.
The mech from the deep
Indonesian builder Toto Hermanto‘s latest mech is this super cool blue and grey machine. With those split legs, this mech brings a bit of a different aesthetic from many of the mechs I see, which is refreshing, and Toto’s added some great greebles to it.
The 11th Doctor
Mariann Asanuma (Model Gal) has revealed her most recent mosaic portrait of Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor from the Doctor Who series. I’ve been privy to seeing her amazing technique up close and I still can’t get my head around how she does this. Rather than doing the traditional “studs up” approach to mosaics, she is able to capture the most subtle rendering of edges and forms, all from the side. She’s also able to employ an impressive array of ways to change the direction of the orientation of the elements in the tightest of quarters. I’ve seen these as works in progress, and I’ve studied them from behind, and they are both inventive and ingenious. It’s no wonder she is a former Master Model Builder from Legoland, California.
If you want to see how complicated her process is, check out the “blueprints” she makes to build this mosaic. Mariann is truly a Grand Master at LEGO Mosaics.
Watchmen’s Comedian in LEGO
Eero Okkonen (Pate-keetongu) has masterfully created Edward Blake, aka the manic Comedian from Allan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen. The Comedian was a rough, fatalistic superhero, and that character shows through in the model. You can read more about it at Eero’s blog.
Towering over the forest
Look twice, because this fantasy tower by Kris Kelvin (Montgomery Burns) is larger than it looks (Kris says it’s over 1.4m tall). The ramshackle, staggered look of the tower is terrific, and all the texturing on the walls gives a lot of personality to the structure.
