Japanese builder Moko brings us this awesome model of Gipsy Danger, the humongous alien-fighting war machine in Pacific Rim, Guillermo Del Toro’s high-budget homage to mecha.
Tag Archives: Space
Le Milan Noir
Did a Friday night of margaritas and tacos leave you feeling a little gassy today, constant reader? Then perhaps you will appreciate and enjoy today’s offering from regular contributor F@bz; a methane space-tanker with all the details and greebles that you’ve come to expect from the talented Frenchman. What really separates F@bz work from other builders in the genre is his consistent, effective use of negative space.
Thanks to Crimso Giger who suggested this model on the request-line and has an interesting new spacecraft of his own that is worth a look for the candy-color scheme alone.
Classic Space is back, bigger, faster
Matt De Lanoy (Pepa Quin) redesigned Classic Space set 6861 X1 Patrol Craft into this sleek X2 iteration. The trans-bright-green windscreen looks dashing on the all-grey ship body, and the updated engines are snazzy. And even though it’s quite simple, I’m also a fan of the brick-built starry space backdrop.
Matt built this as part of a collaboration for his local LEGO store’s community window, so if you’re near the Woodfield store in Schaumburg, Ill. you can check it out in person.
SHIP in a day
With SHIPtember underway, I am going to steal a quote from Tyler Clites as flickr is being inundated with photos of “long skinny technic frames”. Throughout the next month I am sure we can expect many of those long skinny technic frames to transform into wondrous spaceships of all shapes, sizes (provided they are 100+ studs long) and colours. However, for the impatient ones among us, Pascal (pasukaru76) was nice enough to whip up a little SHIP in the first day of SHIPtember for our viewing pleasure…12 hours only in fact.
With Pascal I have come expect minimalist clean styling, and the Lucky Dragon No. 7 certainly delivers on those points. But the addition of those solar sails results in a brilliant juxtaposition of organic and mechanical design features. I love it.
A Horse With No Name
But he does have a rather stylish hat. Théo (theolego) explains that this creation will be a part of the upcoming “moving oasis” display. Here’s hoping that the rest of the display is as entertaining and intriguing as this one! It looks like a fun take on post Apoc, or possibly space survival. Either way, I’m hooked!
D.I.Y. Sunday
If your creative well has run dry, TBB is here to help with a couple of projects to fill the hours before the factory whistle blows on Monday…or Tuesday if you live here in the States.
First up is the deceptively challenging How to build a K.E.W.B. by Jacob Unterreiner (4estFeller). The video is easy to follow, doesn’t require a Zhangian collection to build and it even has cool music that will make you feel like you’re in a hip clothing store. The only drawback is that Jacob doesn’t show you how to make his elegant stand to display your K.E.W.B., but we’ll let it slide.
For the advanced builder with LDD experience and a penchant for Sci-Fi, Chief Executive Overlord, Tanuki Corp. and wezra have you covered with a free instructional download of Red Spacecat’s USS Saratoga. I can assure you, constant reader, that the instructions are far easier to follow than my description.
To those of you who take the plunge, good luck! I have no doubt that the builders featured here would be happy to answer questions from you via Flickr if you get stuck. If you have your own D.I.Y. project to share with the readers, leave them in the comments.
“Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourselves!”
Friday Night Fights (Round 19)
Welcome back fight fans, to Sin City Nevada for another eye-gouging edition of Friday Night Fights! Tonight’s bout seeks to settle a nostalgic score between ancient and bitter rivals: PCS vs. 3vil. Or, as the suits prefer to call it: Star Justice vs. Space Skulls!. Let’s go to the tale of the tape:
Fighting out of the red corner, from dark heart of the galaxy…Mark “The Grand Admiral” Sandlin and his flagship Asmodeus.
And fighting out of the blue corner, from the bacon-scented halls of interstellar justice…Chris “Fazoom” Giddens and his flagship Vanguard.
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, joeluk66 struck a blow for digital builders everywhere with his 6-3 victory. Tune in next week for another action packed edition of Friday Night Fights!
Lego H0R-N3T Starfighter
This new creation by f@bz is the bee’s knees. With the pun out of my system, I can comment on the unique color scheme of this creation, which looks surprisingly good. The builder has also made use of some parts not traditionally seen on space craft, like the lizard tails above the cockpit. I don’t like how it seems to look from some angles, but I quite like this profile view, and expect if looks good in person.
Sunday Sci-Fi Roundup
“Pop a top, my friend” and enjoy your visual buzz before yet another weekend slips by and it’s back to the spice mines of Kessel, smashed into…well…who know’s what? . Tonight’s topic is science fiction and it’s many splendid forms brought to you by builders who run the gamut from obscure to famous.
We begin our journey through the ABS cosmos with in the good ship U-740 from TBB regular F@bz.
Then we slip momentarily into digital space for a run-in with the Crusader DropShip by Blackout (Kylie).
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Eventually we have to make planetfall to continue our explorations and we’ll be employing this trio of Alien Moonstalkers by onosendai2600.
Of course we’re bound to encounter some alien creatures along the way, like this Blue Bloodworm by A Plastic Infinity.
Even a weekend exploration of the Sci-Fi genre would not be complete without a model inspired by a film, and filling that role to perfection is the Elysium inspired ADS-64 JACKRABBIT by ∞CaptainInfinity∞.
We might need something to step on that Blue Bloodworm so we’ll keep this untitled mecha handy from Freedom01.
Our journey has been arduous, and we find ourselves in rough shape and in desperate need of a little…enhancement, courtesy of spook and his League of Privateers “Iron Warmonger”.
let’s end this thing with a bang from M.R. Yoder who didn’t stop building until he had an entire fleet.
Space Aces
Jose Fernandez (Lego-Man-at-arms) created a series of space racers each with a distinct style and pilot. The presentation and the cartoon drawings of the pilot bring together each model in the theme. Check out more in his Flickr set.
Sunday VTOL Roundup
Constant reader, the staff of TBB understands that you crave VTOL conveyances of all shapes and sizes, but you don’t have the time to scour the wretched corners of the internet to find them. With that in mind, please enjoy whatever is left of your Sunday night and allow your spirits to be lifted…vertically…by this crop of talented builders.
Let’s begin with the OspreyDrone 2063 by Cam M.
We’ll stay in the same general neighborhood with the W-09 Wasp by Anto-Nio.
Why not push it even further into the future…or perhaps another reality with The Savage Angel Airship by forrest_john…
…or maybe get small with Paul Cross and his Micro Space Cargo Ship.
More VTOL action after the jump!