Tag Archives: Old West

Did somebody order an Uber to Deadwood?

Builder Ghost Hunter Gunn‘s vehicle game is strong. When it comes to old-timey roadsters, sci-fi dragsters, and steampunk whirligigs, Gunn is a LEGO ace. Turns out this Gunn doesn’t miss when he sets his sights on Old West conveyances either, as this LEGO stagecoach is a thing of beauty. The design owes a lot to the Lone Ranger Stagecoach Escape (one of our favorite Western sets), even using the same printed tiles, but fixing the scale with a tighter and sleeker package where every brick counts. The red carriage in particular uses some great SNOT techniques for the clean lines and curves that we’ve come to expect from Gunn’s vehicles, and the perfect minifigs capture the cutthroat spirit of the Wild West.

Stagecoach

LEGO Creation of the Week (#18): Wild West by W. Navarre

Every week readers of the The Brothers Brick Telegram channel choose the Creation of the Week: one project that impressed all of us the most. Something unimaginable happened last week. This competition is too small for seven builds… this is why only one stands! And it’s ilive with stunning Wild West diorama! Seriously, take a closer look if you are in search of some Western inspiration…

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How the Wild West was won

I don’t know why but I seem to love the Old West. No, seriously, I can’t explain why. It’s not like I dress like a gunslinger or watch Westerns or anything like that because really I don’t. So you can imagine how (unexplainably) pleased I was to see this amazing LEGO Wild West town built by ilive. This has everything you can expect from a booming Old West town: horses, train tracks, stagecoaches, even one of those western windmill dealios. You can get lost in all the amazing details. A layout this good makes me wish LEGO would bring back the Western theme from 1996. I mean, seriously, who didn’t lose their gunslinging, horse riding, cow rustling minds when Fort Legoredo came out?

Wild West

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Call of the West

Saddle up because it’s time to head west! Douglas Hughes’ new LEGO covered wagon just may be the best way to make it happen. He tells us this ain’t one of those big fancy swoopy-looking conestoga wagons you may have seen in the old Westerns. It’s a farmer’s wagon, which apparently was preffered by settlers as these smaller more nimble wagons get through rough and muddy terrain without bogging down. Makes sense, really. Be sure to hunker down and check out these other creations by Douglas Hughes that also makes a lot of sense to our logical minds.

Covered Wagon!

We all want $1000

One could argue that this LEGO creation by balticlegomoc is of a guy who wants $1000 presumably for a festive makeover. But that’s not how wanted posters work there, pardner! Wanted posters alert the public that a bounty is out on some steely-eyed outlaw or another for the crimes of extreme vagrancy or something. From a graphic design standpoint, there are two different brick-built fonts here neatly centered, which can be hard to pull off in LEGO.The use of grayscale give this an old-timey feel. I like that this particular steely-eyed outlaw is a brick-built bust with a literal handlebar mustache.

Poster "WANTED"

A man walked into a saloon

It’s been a fantasy of mine to walk into a saloon, and my very presence causes everything to halt to a silence. I’ve entered a few bars in my adult life, and apparently, despite all my squinting and scowling, I just don’t cut a badass imposing figure. This guy, on the other hand, looks like he means some serious business. KitKat1414 presents this scene in LEGO and you can just hear the gasps and the honky-tonk piano whimper off while mid-tune. I like the window, the crooked painting on the wall, and the overall lived-in feel of this saloon. If bars ever open up again, I’ll be sure to practice my best Clint Eastwood squint, and in a gruff, low grunt, I’ll announce to the barkeep that I’ll have “the hair of the dog that bit me.” Then I’ll just hope they don’t hand me a Zinfandel.

07 A Man Walked into the Saloon