Nick Chornay presents a handful of sculptures of characters from the land of Nintendo. They’re simple yet detailed and easily recognizable. Visit his MOCpages to see more.
Tag Archives: Sculptures
Misterzumbi’s Predator bust
Check out this amazing Predator bust by misterzumbi. Great use of those tentacles and nice work on the base as well.
Evil machine head – LEGO Terminator endoskull
Brickshelf user snyderman built a robotic machine head inspired by Terminator. It features moving eyes and jaw independently controlled by two motors.
The everyday world of Arvo
The last few LEGO creations by the Arvo brothers may have skewed toward the fantastic, but that doesn’t mean these two guys aren’t also masters of the everyday object.
Here’s their latest — a wonderful snorkeling mask:
You can discuss this creation in this thread on Hispalug. (Thanks for the link, Carlos!)
And since we haven’t featured them here before, a few more day-to-day items:
Here comes the ice cream van!
Steven Marshall is a talented builder who creates models of realistic subjects. Check out his latest creation, the Bedford Ice Cream Van. It looks so real that had I seen his model from a distance, I’d never thought it was lego.
Fairy tales
It’s been a while since we featured works by the Japanese master builder Moko. Those who know him knows that he builds a plethora of themes, but I never thought I’d see this!
Best. Couch gag. Ever.
For the life of me, I still can’t get any video to embed, so I guess you’ll have to just click the link for now. D’oh!
EDIT (AB): Embedded. :)
The Arvo brothers scare me sometimes....
Danish architecture firm uses LEGO to design “LEGO Towers”
Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group recently used LEGO to showcase its design for their proposed “LEGO Towers” in Copenhagen.
According to Dezeen, the LEGO version took 250,000 bricks and 5 weeks to build.
Here’s a time-lapse video of the build process:
(Via Dezeen and Gizmodo, with tips from readers Dale and Jaap.)
All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Janey “Red Brick” Cook celebrates the most delicious deity worshipped by Pastafarians everywhere, the Flying Spaghetti Monster (wiki-linki):
And of course, don’t miss Chris Doyle’s officially sanctified version of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster:
We’re not here to sell cookies!
Legohaulic presents a sculpture of Marcus Fenix from the Xbox 360 game Gears of War.
This creation has a lot going for it. In addition to being a great representation of a cool character from a cool game, Legohaulic uses pieces in some very interesting ways. Check out the tan minifig arms used for Marcus’ jaws, the tires and wheels on his arms, and the minifig capes around his hips.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative builder than to build a rose
Here’s a little something to offset Friday the 13th — an excellent rose by BrickJournal editor Joe Meno.
(And the original Henri Matisse quote: “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”)