I first saw Paul Meissner’s (legosamurai) creation in person at our most recent LUGOLA meeting. While I am flattered that he credits my Daedalus Drop Suit as an inspiration, his Emilia Starboarder is so much more elegant and downright sexy in comparison. He cleverly incorporates a Belville doll head and uses Prince of Persia claw weapons to great effect as hands. I’m thinking we need to start a group dedicated to using LEGO doll heads.
Jubal Scharold (Sir Darc) has turned out a ship that really looks like a mover, The Blue Fury! Those beefy-looking thrusters give this a definite hot-rod feel. I’m also loving how the builder used the stacked, trans-blue radar dishes as an integral part in the engines themselves. Add to that some subtle angle changes and dropped nose, you end up with a rather menacing-looking craft.
After having been gutted by fire in 1933 and heavily damaged during World War II, the German Reichstag building sat forlornly in West-Berlin for decades, mere meters away from the Berlin Wall. After Germany was reunited, the building was extensively refurbished and fitted with a spectacular glass dome. Since 1999 it has housed the German parliament.
Check out the clever spacing of all the columns and the way in which Al Disley (aldisley) has built the windows on his microscale version of this grandiose building. Al built the model for an upcoming book called Brick city, by fellow Brit Warren Elsmoore, which will be out in early May. Expect a review of the book in a few weeks’ time.
Today, while you are eating corn beef and drinking green beer, enjoy this little four-leaf-clover-look back at some great St. Paddy’s Day or Leprechaun themed creations!
Nathan Proudlove (Proudlove)
Tyler (Legohaulic)
Okay Yaramanoglu (Oky – Space Ranger) & Peter Aoun (graznador2)
.TheBricks invites you inside his bathroom for a look around, and there is a great deal to see. The builder asks the timeless question “What is it with girls and bathrooms?”. I will leave it to you, constant reader, to answer that one. This model is an entry for the 2013 MocAthalon, under the category “What a girl wants.”
Completing a new model and posting the first pictures online is always a bit exciting. Seeing the model being blogged here is even more exciting. Now imagine getting the opportunity to contribute to this blog yourself.
It is with great pleasure that I introduce myself as the newest writer for TBB. I am a Dutchman and live in the Netherlands, but I spent several years living in the UK, where I was and still am an active member of The Brickish Association. Regular readers may know me as Mad physicist. I have been mad about LEGO since I could first put two bricks together and have built many different things, but nowadays I primarily build scale models of vehicles: cars, trucks, aircraft and helicopters.
For Model Show Europe (a show for scale models of heavy haulage and earth-moving equipment) that I attended yesterday, together with fellow Lowlug-members, I recently built this Dutch MAN truck with a step-frame trailer and a JCB backhoe.
With my aircraft building, I am currently having a bit of a Seventies kick and recently completed a US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II in the bright markings that were typical for the period.
I will post about my own work now and then, but I am looking forward to seeing all the wonderful stuff all of you are up to, picking my favourites and sharing them with the world.
Mr. Tumnus leaps off the ABS page in this striking model by Noah McClung, or Glory Forever as he is known on Flickr. Noah picked just the right wintery scene to make the most of the book as a foundation.
Tonight’s TBB broadcast is brought to you by Jeep and the Jeep Grand Cherokee, all new for 2013. Built by Rolands Kirpis, better known as Rolic, the Grand Cherokee comes standard with working doors, hatch-back, and hood. I think one of the comments on Flickr, by TechnicNick, sums it up best: “An ordinary car done extraordinarily well.”
Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional hero created by author George MacDonald Fraser and a big inspiration for builder workshysteve. In this latest installment, Flashman finds himself in America circa 1858 and in the company of abolitionist John Brown just before his raid on Harpers Ferry. This shack is a good example of Steve’s ability to make the series-standard 14×14 base look twice as big.
Steve is up to 12 scenes and says that he is only about halfway through Flashman’s adventures in LEGO, so that means we have some great models to look forward to.
I recently discovered two excellent models of the Tumbler and The Bat made by a Taiwanese Lego fan who goes by velociraptor. What interested me were the photo instructions he provided for both models, which you can view on Brickshelf (click on photo below) or Pockyland (Tumber and The Bat).
Specifically the Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind SdKfz 161/4, by A. Bellón, A.K.A. Panzerbricks. Enjoy tonight’s slice of WW2 history, and check out the builder’s website if you’re interested in more of his work.
