In another last-minute entry for the Reasonably Clever Brick Science contest, Moritz Nolting gives us “Doctor Dank” and his submarine lair.
Here’s the fairly fishy Professor Dankervoort:
And the lair as it would appear to an intrepid agent bent on infiltrating the mad scientist’s domain:
Don’t miss more pictures in Moritz’ Flickr photostream or the full gallery on Brickshelf.
Adrian Florea applies various interesting techniques to his first-ever LEGO pirate creation.
The roof consists of slopes on their sides, a rounded walkway curves around the tower, and the dark green doors from the minecarts in 7036 Dwarves’ Mine make lovely awnings over the windows:
For a first-time creation in this theme, there’s a lot to like. Be sure to look through the rest of the pictures on Brickshelf.
Rodney Bistline has been posting some great dioramas recently that feature a “Space Action Hero.” It would seem he can’t land his little swoosh fighter very well, but we keep seeing him in interesting new — albeit sticky — situations.
In Rodney’s most recent adventure, Space Action Hero lands in an alien tree (more on Brickshelf):
In an earlier escapade, our Hero crashes on an alien planet (Brickshelf):
What I like so much about both scenes is the alien in each diorama:
(Hat-tip to reader Luther/Fisch!)
Fedde (aka Cthulhu or Karf Oolhu) enters the Reasonably Clever Brick Science contest with “The lunatic’s lunar lair”:
“Deep in his heavily fortified lunar lair, the lunatic Doktor Frank N. Staines plays re-creator of life.” Click through to the Flickr photopage to read Fedde’s full description, and see the Brickshelf gallery for more pictures.
Karwik (Noddy), the guy with the bikes, is throwing a big party at his motorcycle clubhouse, and gosh is the scene lively. With so many people and bikes to check out and details aligning every corner, this is something you don’t want to miss. Oh, and the fun‘s just getting started, check out the details gallery ;)
tiberium_blue is fast becoming a popular name on Flickr with his recent noteworthy creations. This interesting scene of Dr. Monochrome’s Monodome is his latest crowd pleaser (which he hopes will please the judges of the Brickscience Contest as well).
The new LEGO Pirates fan community at ForbiddenCove.com is certainly inspiring some wonderful pirate-themed LEGO creations lately!
One of my favorites so far is “Castaway t’ Neverland” by SlyOwl:
Brick-built creatures populating the desert island include a gull, hummingbird, crabs, and monkey. Note the horns for breakers and the microscale ship in the background, as if off in the distance. Brilliant!
Tom Snellan pulls out all the stops in this decidedly evil creation. Tons of awesomely detailed eye-candy in there! I’m impressed with the swirling orange panels behind the beast.
Thanks to Dano for pointing this one out.
BrickCon is just around the corner. In fact, if you don’t register before September 8th, the price goes up to $60 and you won’t be guaranteed personalized stuff like engraved brick badges.
My contribution to the LEGO Zombie Apocafest display we’re organizing is an auto repair shop and a fire station in a diorama that I’m currently calling “The Outbreak”:
Zombies converge on the residents of my modular buildings as they attempt to fight back. The architecture may have been the focus of my building energies for once, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t neglected some good, old-fashioned minifig action:
Please see my Outbreak photoset on Flickr for a ton of pictures.
Occasionally, a builder will seem to emerge — fully formed, as it were — onto the LEGO scene. Kevin Crimson Wolf Fedde has posted more gorgeous LEGO dioramas in the past two months than I can count, though we here at The Brothers Brick only became aware of Kevin when Nathan posted his Dragon Temple.
In this diorama, a group of explorers attempts to find the legendary Shangri La. Note the blending of the white with the gray and subtle details like the caves:
Also not to be missed is Kevin’s “Desert Hideout”:
For lots more, check out Kevin’s photostream on Flickr.
In Kristian‘s imagination, aliens are rather clumsy while landing their flying saucers and aren’t especially known for their hygiene:
The slime is rather amusing, and I can’t help but chuckle at the poor guy who didn’t manage to get out from under the saucer’s landing gear.
While we’re at it, here’s the sort of great zombie scene we’re encouraging Brothers Brick readers to bring to the LEGO Zombie Apocafest at BrickCon in October:
(And true to his “birdboykristian” user name on Flickr, Kristian also has some really great ornithological photography in his photostream as well.)
Richard A. McCarthy (RichardAM on Flickr) gets into the pirate spirit with this shipwreck scene:
Richard says he prefers standard blue baseplates to represent water, but I love the wave effect he’s achieved by building the water with sideways bricks (also known as the unfortunately named “SNOT water”).
