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.

Anaconda Stealth VTOL

Like many of you, I have a weakness for all things VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing): jet-packs, fighters, helicopters or spaceships etc. Pascal (pasukaru76) feeds my need for vertical speed with his latest microscale wonder the Anaconda Stealth VTOL. I didn’t know rotary engines were capable of stealthy locomotion, but maybe it has “whisper mode” technology like the chopper in T.V.’s Airwolf.

Ralph, if you’re reading this buddy, you really need to take a crack at Airwolf. Strinfellow Hawke demands it!

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The Golden Empress Airship

Guy H. (V&A Steamworks) built this beauty, which heavily employs aftermarket parts. It’s a gorgeous piece of art, and a terrific Eastern take on the usually European steampunk theme, but it does cause me to wonder: just how much of a model can be aftermarket parts before it stops being a “LEGO creation”? Whatever you decide, I hope Guy builds more stuff like this.

Micro Aliens dropship and APC by Legohaulic

We’ve seen plenty of LEGO models inspired by the Alien universe over the years, including some lovely Ripley and xenomorph minifigs by Tyler (Legohaulic) back in 2008. Tyler’s latest LEGO upload takes him back to LV-426, this time in microscale, and with a bit more firepower.

Tyler’s APC fits inside his UD-4L Cheyenne Utility Dropship:

But look at that adorable power-loader and alien Queen!

Visit Oechsnerville & see the sights!

Long-time readers are probably most-familiar with Thomas Oechsner because of his stellar Neo-Classic Space models, but Thomas recently posted a big batch of Micropolis modules.

Thomas used four base modules to assemble this cluster of gorgeous tan skyscrapers. (I’m including some pretty tall pictures in this post so you can get a sense of the sheer height of Thomas’s LEGO buildings.)

This neighborhood of townhouses includes some lush backyards and lovely mottled brickwork.

The antenna atop N. Nielson Center first drew my attention, but scroll down for a wonderful tribute to a great builder.

See dozens more photos on Flickr.

Friday Night Fights (Round 9)

Welcome back fight fans, to Sin City Nevada for another concussive edition of Friday Night Fights! Tonight’s bout has all the makings of a barn-burner between two up and coming fighters in the hotly contested Super Flyweight Division. Let’s go to the tale of the tape:

Fighting out of the red corner…from nowhere in particular…LowestFormOfWit and his Seneschal.

And fighting out of the blue corner…from the files of the Young Spacers Association Blog…Jeremy Crouch (Marchides) and his Crone I-V 3

As usual, constant reader, you are tasked with deciding the outcome of this pugilistic endeavor by way of comment. On the last edition of Friday Night Fights, Tokyo madman Ryuhei Kawai just barely squeaked by his opponent to the tune of a 4-3 victory. Sorry Taz, you can’t vote for yourself in this arena.

Oh, and now for the boilerplate: these are both MFZ models, for the MFZ game. Promotion-promotion, yadda-yadda-yadda.

Red White and Blue Spaceships

I don’t always go in for renderings of LEGO models, as I often find them lacking compared to real photographs of brick-built creations, but these renders by the fantastically-named Awesome O’saurus are terrific. Over the past few months, he’s been slowly churning out some lovely microscale spaceships in the hard sci-fi vein. Here are his latest two, the Sumerset, a patrol ship, and the larger Kettler, a colony ship.

M:TRON vs BlackTRON Micro-style

Its itty-bitty size and sheer level of cute should not detract from the seriousness of space. Right? Or something like that.

This micro-battle by Filip Soukup (FilipS™) is all sorts of eye-catching. It’s instantly recognizable.

Vera Crone

TBB first-timer Jeremy Couch (Marchides) might have dubbed his mini-mech “Vera Crone,” but with a green color scheme and white stripes, it might as well be the perfect Brothers Brick-bot.

The Vera Crone appears to be fully pose-able, including transforming from chunky bipedal mecha to flight mode.

Thanks to reader Curtis for the tip, via Facebook.

Posh

Of course I’m talking about Victoria, the latest microscale-space build from LEGOLIZE IT MAN. This outstanding model almost made the cut for my micro-space roundup on Friday, but it didn’t fit the theme I had going. Since Sunday seems a little quiet, I don’t see any reason not to add one more, especially when it has such nice detail on each surface. I just hope the builder continues the naming convention and we see the MelB, MelC, Geri and Emma.

4-Course Microscale Space Dinner

Trying to get a table at the TBB brasserie on a Friday night/Saturday morning with no reservations is unheard of, but you constant reader have enough juice to get past the stuffy maître d’. Please take a look at the wine list, your server will be with you shortly. Tonight’s menu is prix fixe.

The first course is an appetizer by chef Red Spacecat, the Viper Gauntlet RVR04…

…followed by Chef Tim Goddard’s (Rogue Bantha) TBX shuttle…

…followed by Chef Tim Zarki’s (Spook) main course the Metis Class Rapid Transport…

…and the meal is capped off by renowned pâtissier Karf Oohlu’s and his Turtle class highspeed cruiser.

We hope you enjoyed your meal, please come again.

The Value of a Piece

The_jetboy is taking the concept of a “seed part”* to a whole new level. He’s used a single piece, the wide track link, 92 times to create this crazy microscale citadel. It’s not often I find visually interesting models made of only one part type.

*A seed part is single part type that must be used in a model, ideally in a highly ingenious manner. “Seed Part” contests are a staple among fan sites. If you’re not as crazy as the_jetboy, you also use other parts in conjunction with the seed part.

CVF-104 – Microscale Aircraft Carrier

Jacob Unterreiner (4estfeller) says he was inspired by Stijn’s awesome Marine Air Ground Task Force and that inspiration has resulted in quite the spectacular near-future microscale aircraft carrier. This thing just screams to be played with…and we all know Jacob is sitting in his room right now pew-pewing and swooshing to his heart’s content!

Check out Jacob’s full Flickr photoset for detail shots of the air fleet and the build progress.

And here is a video of the play features:

To top it off, community poster maker and all around nice guy Pascal did the photo editing for Jacob. Now is that the sign of a great community or what? ;)