With a title taken from a Led Zeppelin song, you might expect our next featured model has something to do with ring-wraiths, dragons or apples of the valley. Yokohama builder(s) aurore&aube (w9gfo) apparently kept only the song title though as the subject matter is actually King Kong and his classic cinematic battle against a T-Rex.
“Oh well, the night is long, the beads of time pass slow. Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow.” I’m going to go dust off LZ4 and give it a spin.
This monster Peterbuilt tow truck by LEGO truck master Bricksonwheels looks just about big to move anything. It’s loaded up with chrome and neat details and seems equally ready for some serious towing or a bit of showing off at a car show.
Like many of us, Peter Blackert (lego911) spends too much time in gridlock where the mind eventually wanders to our favorite hobby. In Peter’s own words: “One saving grace of terrible traffic, is that it gives me more time to look longingly at the lovely white-and-lime tractors and harvesters at the local CLAAS distribution centre, next to the highway.” The official LEGO set #7636 from 2009 was also an inspiration for the massive harvester. Peter has also thoughtfully included some variants depending on what kind of crop you need harvested.
I only wish I could translate an object or location on my daily commute, but the Hustler Club and the Ocean-Spray factory don’t really cut it for me.
Every time I get the itch to build in the Castle genre I seem to run across something like “St. Gwydre’s Church by Luke Watkins Hutchinson (– Derfel Cadarn –) and I lose the urge entirely. I can’t think of too many builders who hit the scene harder than Luke did in 2009, churning out amazing, original models at a break-neck pace that has never let up. Gwydre has everything we’ve grown to expect from the builder: muted color palette, leaning walls, meticulous stone-work and nice contextual landscaping.
If you’re the kind of reader who likes a little back-story to go with a fine model like this, head on over to MOCpages and immerse yourself in the builder’s “Dark Isle Saga“.
Welcome back fight fans, to Sin City Nevada for another skull cracking edition of Friday Night Fights! Tonight’s middleweight bout features two veteran fighters in the prime of their building careers. Let’s go to the tale of the tape:
Fighting out of the red corner, the Bordeaux Bruiser…Eric Druon (Baronsat) and his “NAVETTE ULYSSE 31“.
And fighting out of the blue corner, from Nazareth Belgium….BeLgIuM ww2 bUiLdeR and his “sdkfz“.
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 Suboken Project gave his opponent a savage beating to the tune of a 9-0 victory, causing many in the fight community to wonder if the matchmaker has lost his wits. Only time will tell, tune in next week for more action!
Happy Independence Day for all of our American readers out there. While you enjoy the festivities today, have a peek at Lino Martin’s latest vehicle, a patriotically themed milk delivery truck.
captainsmog has knocked one out of the park with this build. I love the details, the color choices, the asteroids, the derelict and the presentation. Well played!
You really need to see this in a larger size in order to appreciate the details…
This sweet fantasy castle by Lukasz Wiktorowicz (AKA LL) is full of all sorts of goodness. The detailing on the two towers is very well done, the landscaping and waterfall is well-thought out and the clouds add a nice sense of height. Always a cool touch when a builder gives his creations some atmosphere.
Our good friend, Tommy Williamson has started his own blog and has announced the opportunity to win an exclusive model. Leave a comment on Flickr, follow the BrickNerd on Twitter or “like” him on Facebook. Three chances to win and help a cool guy get his blog off the ground too. Blog on, Tommy!
Damien Labrousse (AKA Legodrome just posted pictures of a piece he built for CNES, the French Space Agency. Two control rooms were built for display and include a working screen and sound system. I just love the clean lines of this build but my favorite detail has to be those adorable little rocket models next to the speaker. Awesome!
This month I had the honour of selecting the cover photos for The Brothers Brick Twitter and Facebook accounts. Pictures for this need to meet somewhat different criteria than the stuff we usually blog. An attractive picture is much more important than the model itself.
That said, the model was what first attracted me to my choice for Facebook, the ATV-4 “Albert Einstein” by Stefan Schindler (Brainbikerider). I may not be into science-fiction models, but I do like real-world spacecraft. I have previously blogged the commercially developed Dragon, which serves as a resupply vessel for the International Space Station. The ATV-4 is its European counterpart, developed by the European Space Agency.
So, the model itself is interesting and already blogworthy in my book. What makes this a great picture for the Facebook banner is that it has the Earth as a backdrop. Even when cropped to fit the aspect ratio for the Facebook banner, it seems to have depth.
On Twitter, the photo has a lot of superimposed text and a TBB logo in the middle. Therefore, our choice should have a fairly large area in the middle where the text can go without getting lost against the background, and there should be interesting stuff towards the edges of the photograph. A nice picture of a model against a white background, which is fairly normal on this blog, simply does not hack it. By themselves, the models in the winning picture, by ROOK, would not have made TBB. They’re Brand Ribbon Sets built by members of ToroLUG for the Yorkdale Mall Lego Store Grand Opening in Toronto. The way they are arranged and their bright colours against the dark background, however, caught my eye and make it a great cover photo.
The ones chosen by Dan for June were a hard act to follow, but I think you’ll agree they look pretty. If you’re interested in the possibility of having your photo featured in same manner, upload it to our Flickr group.
Proving once again that my brain doesn’t work like his, Pierre E Fieschi‘s latest large-scale microspace ship incorporates so many realistic bits and bobbles that the mind just boggles.
Pierre’s usual attention to detail encapsulates four large spheres (notoriously difficult to work with EDIT: And notoriously not LEGO, in this particular case…), three of which represent research biodomes. It’s been several months since Pierre posted his last large model, so I was very pleased to see this come through in my feed today.