Prepare for an overdose of red as ChiefLUG takes us to the red planet for some horror action. It turns out we’re not the alone (pardon the cliche), and the last band of marines are losing ground at Olympus Mons, surrounded by nasty alien creatures both big and small. Warning: clicking on the pictures will lead you to oversaturation of red.
This is the second time this weekend that we’ve shown flowers leading to deadly consesequences. Look at what Megan Rothrock has created – an overly abundant pink diorama with an insect decapitating a poor space explorer who picked the wrong flower. Lesson learned, don’t pick flowers.
Jeramy Cooke (icecoldmilk) recently finished a diorama intended for a certain contest a year ago :). It depicts a lone survivor guarding the last flower on Earth from an invading Black Fantasy creature. I love the dynamic chaos of the landscape and its contrast with a clean black and white tiled interior. Check through each photo in the gallery for notes from the builder on interesting details that you don’t want to miss.
The latest installment in Rodney Bistline‘s Space Action Hero series takes our intrepid hero into new dangers. Will he survive? Will he meet an untimely end on Slorox 5?
More in Rodney’s Brickshelf gallery. Via Klocki.
Kevin Fedde’s “larger project” Josh alluded to has apparently come to fruition:
A group of survivors cling to civilization in the middle of a wilderness. More on Brickshelf.
Huw Millington expands his 10193 Medieval Market Village set to include a full town square layout. The construction isn’t overly complex, but the effect is gorgeous. You can build your own with a baseplate and some additional plates to simulate the water, grass, and paved stones. Everything else is included in the set!
It’s been more than two years since Nathan Todd posted the first installment in his “Entrance to the Caves” story — illustrated in LEGO, of course.
“The Forgotten Beacon” was well worth the wait:
The mountain has an interior full of caves, and Nathan says that the beacon uses a new curved tower technique.
Check out lots more pictures on Nathan’s website.
ORRANGE has been playing Half-Life 2.
There are lots of details to check out in this diorama, including several custom minifigs (note Gordon Freeman himself and the poor dude parasitized by a headcrab).
With a pair each of jump troopers and exo-suits, Andrew Lee‘s Martian diorama has a lot going on.
Note the excellent use of diving platforms as legs for the yellow exo-suit.
Benlego presents a couple of winter wonderland scenes about to be interrupted by those rascally Power Miners:
As a bonus, check out this creative shadow puppetry:
And, finally, thanks to the new Castle and Pirate sets, minifigs can finally go fishing properly:
Chrispockst has created disturbing and disgusting wasteland full of toxic spills, rotting corpses and creepy mutants. Surely I’m not the only one reminded of Half-Life and Half-Life 2…
Echoing the works of M.C. Escher, as well as German Expressionism, Sly Owl‘s lopsided, sinking, crooked, all around messed-up castle is colorful and appealing in its craziness:
Also check out the other side of the diorama, featured a wonderful house that uses minifig flippers as roofing shingles:
Also a bonus, here’s a vignette of a poor soul getting sucked away by a twister:
