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.

Baby Hawklings will traverse a wormhole right into your heart

What’s more adorable than Ochre Jelly‘s Miniland Stephen Hawking? Why, a swarm of micro Stephen Hawkings, of course!

Check out MOCPages for the further adventures of the baby Hawklings, including guest appearances by micro versions of several of Ochre Jelly’s other Miniland characters.

Here’s a bonus Stephen Hawking by Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley:

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Tim Goddard respects the planet

Well, at least Kamino, anyway. Tim Goddard recycles two great microscale Star Wars vehicles we hadn’t featured here before into a new vignette showing the intense battle between Jango Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi:

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FMT-2940 torpedo frigate Suyampsis

I love anything green. I also love anything by nnenn. Green nnenn is even better.

nnenn’s torpedo frigate The Suyampsis looks like it could plow straight through just about any planet’s picket fleet:

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If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky...

Jerac‘s latest microscale ship sports enough missile tubes to lay waste to a dozen worlds.

When the missile cruiser Muisek takes up geosynchronous orbit over your city, it’s time to throw your kids in the astrovan and thank the stars you sprung for the long-range hyperdrive upgrade.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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…)

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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.)

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