Adrian Florea (Olog) mashed together some of the curretly hot bandwagon themes into an action-packed diorama. Without scrolling down to the answers, what themes do you recognize?
Answers: cave racers, black fantasy, frogspace, post apoc, and fabuland
Kwi Chang‘s latest mecha has a unique cockpit configuration and an amazing number of missiles, in addition to the chin-mounted chain-gun:
As a side note, low-slung walker-type mecha seem to be more popular among Western builders (inspired by the iconic AT-ST or the MechWarrior games, perhaps), while Japanese builders tend toward the humanoid (most certainly inspired by Gundam and the like). Maybe I’m right, maybe I’m not. What do you think?
(Via Young Spacers Association Blog.)
Bipeds are all too common these days, but what’s a Junk Eater? Izzo (Brickshelf) has an idea inspired by the fantastical concept art of Junji Okubo. I’m trying to imagine this thing in black with orange eyes right now.
Mecha master Soren Roberts presents three teams of mini mechas. I like the concept of the presence of a distinguishable leader among the pack and the armament variations. The colors make me want to relate each set with a specific environment of operation.
While there are many mechas out there, few ever carry a striking feature that I’ll probably remember for the rest of my LEGO career. Check out the ammo rounds on Kidthor‘s Hunchback Assault Mech. The use of a lego string piece to connect the small black Technic pins is simply brilliant, and I’ll bet more builders will be inspired to use this technique.
Andrew Lee stomps into the Reasonably Clever Pumping Iron contest at the last second with an Iron Man/Gundam crossover:
See Andrew’s Iron Man photoset for more.
Mecha master Izzo‘s recent works take on darker toned colors, which are generally more uncommon than ordinary colors. The darker colors tend to give a more mature appearance to the model, and here they look absolutely splendid.
Yes, that’s right, Norbi Demeter (one pic borderline NSFW) gets a roundup post the first time he’s featured here. ;-)
Norbi is a LEGO builder from Romania who just recently started posting his creations to Flickr. It’s not often someone demonstrates such strong skills from the very first photo posted online, but Norbi clearly has talent.
First up, here’s Norbi’s big blue “Alien thingamagig”:
Next, a robot takes a walk in the park:
Finally, a Fuchikoma from Ghost in the Shell:
Can’t wait to see what Norbi will show the world next.
Alex Kahler minimized the Hellfire Dreadnought from Warhammer 40k into a micro vignette at the same time keeping all the defining details, making the model instantly recognizable to fans of the game.
The Pumping Iron: Extreme Armor Building Challenge is wrapping up over on Reasonably Clever.
Chris Doyle has a great example entry, “Late 1980’s Romantic Comedy Armor”. Ha!
With tons of Exo-Force and BrickArms prizes, less than 20 entries so far, and the contest ending on May 2, this may just be your chance to score some sweet loot. ;-)
Japanese mecha master Kwi Chang (Brickshelf) recently won Izzo’s Sci-Fi Industrial Mecha Competition (English info here on TBB) with another excellent heavy industrial mech, illustrated here in a cool background.
The actual model called Type-D9 is quite awesome by itself. You can see another amazing graphic that we’ve blogged earlier here.
Via Klocki
Kidthor (Brickshelf) is a fairly prolific builder I hadn’t noticed (sorry!) until he posted this brilliant mecha drop-ship:
If that’s not cool enough for ya (and it should be), the mecha has a separate “Lodestar Aerospace Booster”:
Check out more pictures in Kidthor’s Flickr photostream or Brickshelf gallery.