Karf Oohlu continues his Monkey Madness with a leggy Spider-Monkey. Not something I would like to meet in a dark alley…
Tag Archives: Mecha
Glorious chunkification
Mmm, yesss… Adrian Florea‘s new mecha is beautifully chunky. Check out the chairs on its ankles and the windows around its neck. Very cool.
Smashing angel
Mark Stafford‘s Sentai Angel is by far from a delicate mecha. It looks like this raging robo can dish out some serious damage. The most interesting bit of this creation is unarguably the use of train heads on the legs! Who’d have thought?
Urban Combat Anti-Armour Unit 7
Scotty Whitesell has been adding to his collection of motorcycle bodies since we featured his Spinnenartiges Tier several months ago:
The rounded “thorax” and large forward cannon are excellent design choices.
(Via TFOL.)
No toying with the Inquisitor
Tyler Clites‘ Inquisitor mecha is sinister enough to crush your minifigs in its deathly grip if it doesn’t step on them first. Inspired by this image, this retro-looking mechanical monster stays true to its reference source. The subtle details on the landscape completes this work with an earthly alien setting.
Boldra by Rong Yiren
Rong Yiren just keeping churning out these incredible biomechs, one after the other. I think this one is his best yet. You gotta love the complexity of this thing’s legs!
Greebtacular Exo Suit
Peter Reid‘s Exo Suit is the latest smash hit in his Neo Classic-Space genre. It doesn’t take any pointers for one to see how ingeniously awesome this is. When it comes down to details on your next mechanical biped, Peter is the man to dish out the greebs.
Ed Diment finishes HMS Hood — in 20-foot-long minifig scale!
Personally, I’ve been waiting for this for a long time!
Ed Diment has completed his minfig-scale HMS Hood. Packed with incredible details, this is my favorite of the big ship builds, which have included the USS Harry S. Truman and the Titanic, among others.
The working derrick on the main mast is powered by a 9-volt system:
Here’s a close-up with a minifig, which gives you some sense of the massive scale of this ship:
The highly detailed superstructure is worth a closer look:
Ed built a full complement of boats to go along with Hood:
Even photographing a LEGO creation of this size is a challenge of its own:
Ed was also gracious enough to answer a few of our questions:
The Brothers Brick: How long did it take you to build it?
Ed Diment: 7 months.TBB: Does the curve stress the bricks?
Ed: No brick stress needed, it is all stepped plate and tile on its side.TBB: How many bricks did you use?
Ed: Just under 100,000.TBB: How much did it cost?
Ed: Difficult to say, some of the LEGO goes back 30 years, but if you were to buy all the brick new about $15,000.TBB: Where do you keep it?
Ed: In sections in my LEGO room. Nowhere in the house is big enough to display it.TBB: Are you going to keep it together?
Ed: I’ll be keeping it together for at least a couple of years. A couple of museums have expressed an interest, so perhaps longer.TBB: How much is motorized?
Ed: All four turrets are motorized with power functions for rotation and elevation. I’ll try and get some pictures on YouTube.
Thanks, Ed!
Check out Ed’s HMS Hood photoset on Flickr for 184 pictures — including work-in-progress shots that show how this amazing creation is constructed.
Taking science to questionable bounds
Tyler Clites (Legohaulic) presents two unusual creations dealing with the deviant wonders of science. His newest work is a Frankensteined version of the Slave I from Star Wars (built for Reasonably Clever’s Spooky Star Wars Contest).
His other recent work is a mech owned by the twisted Dr. Kringe. You can now see a video clip of the builder discussing this creation on LAMLtv!
It craws on eight legs
A few days ago Adrian Florea (Olog) posted a motorized steampunk battle machine, one with aesthetics blended into a clever mechanism inspired by Theo Jansen’s walkers.
See it in action!
Mech Bay Zero
Whew, back to normal blogging! We’ve missed highlighting a few non-BrickCon related creations over the weekend, but we’ll get to them.
Aaron Andrews (DARKspawn), who’s normally a castle builder, switches fancy and builds a big mech bay instead. It’s sufficient to say one might say that he’s been up to building mecha all his life, but that’s just because this Aussie builder is incredibly talented. Enjoy the creation before Aaron surprises us with something else!
Tekka Croe goes decal-crazy
Tekka Croe apparently spent 3 hours applying 41 decals to this very cool racer mech:
EDIT (TG): The mech is based on Chuck Citrin’s racing mech frame.