Tag Archives: Microscale

Some say “Go big or go home!” but it takes real talent to compress something down to just a few studs and still keep it recognizable. Of course, many of the micro models we feature here aren’t so small after all, whether it’s a vast cityscape or starship.

Tiny and swooshable ships by legosamurai

Flickrite legosamurai presents two lovely microscale space ships.

Freighter One:

Fleet Guard Cutter:

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In space, you can’t hear the multi-beams go “pew pew!”

Microscale master Tim “Spook” Zarki (Flickr) presents the Tsaitu Z37 Multi-Beam Frigate, armed with an Ion Capacitor Lance, C-PAC Beam, and multiple Point Defense Turrets:

See lots more on Next-Gen.

Micro mechas on the move

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.

The beauty of boilerplate done right

Keith Goldman has popularized the term “boilerplate” to critique the derivative nature of certain categories of LEGO creations, even applying the term to his own work (by outside standards, hardly unoriginal). I’m certainly guilty of the occasional bandwagon-jumping, but there’s a certain sense of satisfaction in pulling together all of the elements you like about something else and making it your own.

We know that Shannon Young is fully capable of truly original stuff, but his latest creation melds some of the best microspace innovations of others into a seamless whole that takes its place among my favorites of recent microscale LEGO.

Behold Onyx:

Color scheme evocative of a much-loved Space theme: Check!
Hinged hull: Check!
Lots of guns: Check!
Asymmetrical antenna emerging from the bow: Check!
Awesomeness: Yes indeed.

Mini Hellfire Dreadnought

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.

Kyle Katarn’s Moldy Crow by RogueBantha

One of the things that got me into Star Wars back in the 90’s was the PC game Dark Forces (released in 1995).

Tim “RogueBantha” Goddard has created a vignette to showcase his microscale Moldy Crow (an older creation):

I wasted far too many hours late at night blowing stormtroopers away with the concussion rifle and avoiding thermal detonators thrown by three-eyed Grans (“Tink tink tink…BOOM!”). Ah, good times…

Tim’s latest is actually a lovely little Theta-class shuttle, shown here with Palpatine and a pair of clones:

Mesa 6 standoff by Nnenn

Nnenn’s latest microscale fleets are as expansive as ever:

…but the standout is definitely the Jway ECM cruiser:

(Speaking of MicroBricks…)

Crises in the city!

The LUGPol “Policemen and Thieves” contest has Brickshelfer Crises chasing itty bitty crooks through the streets of an itty bitty city (complete with subway system).

(Via MicroBricks.)

I’m over the moon for Zach’s micro moonbase factory

Inspired by Space Police Precinct 9, Zach Clapsadle decided the moon needed a factory. With smokestacks (built from pirate cannons). On the moon. Where there’s no air.

Love it.

The sack of (insert city name here)

The diversly talented Shannon Young builds whatever he wants, gets whatever he wants, and certainly destroys whatever he wants. This is Shannon’s demonstration of his power, to put a random nameless city to rubbles. He quotes Machiavelli that “whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.”

Janey Cook micros 10184 Town Plan

Janey Cook bought 10184 Town Plan recently (and you can too!), so she decided to incorporate a micro version into her fantastic micro layout. (Via MicroBricks.)

And here’s a bonus NES Controller Janey built:

Space Police Precinct 9

I believe smaller is better. Lots of small is even even more better.

Andrew Lee presents a whole lotta small with this pair of micro moonbase modules inspired by the Space Police theme: