Especially when they’re inspired by Warhammer 40K.
Mark Stafford and Flickr’s CBLA_Member have both built new creations based on Warhammer 40K, and both are Red.
CBLA has built a pirate mecha (right) to scale for minifigs, which makes excellent use of a Jack Stone skull piece for marking on the shoulder.
Mark has built a space marine (below) from the blood angels chapter to scale with a big Knight’s Kingdom head.
Zach has built a droid, called a manticore that’s so bizarre that I can’t look away. I always thought that a manticore was a lion with a human head and a scorpion’s tail. Instead, I’m looking at a droid that has two feet, and that’s where the similarity to anything in nature ends for me. That’s also why I like it, it’s so different from anything else out there. The technique using wing plates to make a curve is used here to great effect, and integrated quite well.
Alex Fojtik uses a rainbow of color accents on a black mecha frame to create one of the most unique mechas I’ve seen. He further added the chromatic stickers from the Mars Mission sets for a great effect.
Pete Reid is well known for his Neo Classic-Space ships, and for his hyper-detailed robot models. He’s built another new robot, and this one is in a color scheme after my own heart. It’s full of fantastic little details, from the tip of the staff all the way down to the feet.
HAZEL isn’t all about amazing customization and Gears of War. This awesome mecha has some interesting part uses, including a snowboard above the cockpit.
Check it out with tons of very cool custom stickers:
Andrew Lee (Wintermute/Onosendai) has built quite an awesome pirate mecha. He has proven once again that he is the master of sticker use, using only official LEGO stickers. The weapons compliment is very nice as well, from the arm blades for breaching space-galleon hulls to the grappling hook.
While I may not be keen on Valentine’s Day as a holiday, I can’t fault Mark Neuman for the way he expresses his Valentine’s wishes. He’s built an adorable mecha/animal robot to offer up a cupcake. I love the expressiveness of the face he’s achieved, and the feet are just adorable. Since I’m 3000 miles away from Mark, I can’t eat the cupcake, so I wish it was made of LEGO too.
I might’ve overlooked this great Mobile Suit Gundam mecha by Solus Maximus as “Not LEGO” if reader Curtis hadn’t sent us a link.
Be sure to click All Sizes to check out all the details.
Tim isn’t the only guy around here who likes a good LEGO rendition of a robot. Tadashistate has posted a new robot that’s quite interesting. The neck guard is a really nice touch, and the weapons are quite original and different.
This beautiful Rong Yiren could work equally well in a microscale layout as it does here populated by Rong’s iconic primalbots:
But Rong Yiren’s latest is just an excuse to go back a couple weeks and blog my favorite creation in quite some time — “A Museum in an Alternate Universe”:
See more of Rong Yiren’s creations on Flickr or MOCpages.
