These book-ends by Bart De Dobbelaer would make the perfect ends for any sci-fi book collection. In fact, Bart has me thinking that book-ends might be a fun new format to try building.
Bart has done his usual great jobs on these. The technical bits on the bottom have just the right amount of details to look interesting and clean at the same time. The contrast with the brightly colored organic tentacle shapes adds motion as visual interest for a scene that keeps me looking.
Nate Decastro seems to have a way with speeders. I just spotted this most recent creation on Flickr. I love the baby blue with the dark gray mechanical bits, and the touch of tan on the upholstery. As it turns out, there are quite a few other interesting speeders in his photostream.
We’ve been on something of a rover kick here lately, due in large part to the enormous outpouring of top-notch vehicles built for Febrovery. But our love of rovers extends past merely blogging about them, and so I had to squeak in here at the last second and build a rover of my own. So here’s my Space Maintenance Rover, a multi-purpose utilitarian truck outfitted with a lift-arm and long-range communications dish, and of course, a Space-thingy to sit beside it.
That is, if there’s lots of these cute little guys running about. Here’s a little model by Tyler Sky that’s basically nothing but a giant grey greeble, and yet it looks terrific and cohesive. It’s a Lunar Dust Dispersion Rover, or a street sweeper, as we terrestrials call them.
Not even those Christmas ornament balls with the snowflake pattern, as Simon Liu shows with this great addition to the FebRovery initiative.
Shannon Sproule continues his ongoing storyline of Battle for the Moon with this gloriously fun Battle Mech for the US forces. Last year Shannon had used the retro robot collecti-figs as large mecha within’ his A.T.L.A.S. Death Ray Complex micro-space build. You will often see builders expand upon a previous model, but seeing micro builds go minifig scale is such a treat. Well done Shanno!
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Missed this on the first pass, but I had to point out the wind-up key…fabulous detail!
These tiny space planes by Griffin! are fantastic models. At micro scale, every piece used counts, and this builder has made sure to choose carefully. Every element used in this creation appears to have a purpose, represents an important part of the ship, and contributes to the overall aesthetic. I think my favorite detail may be the binoculars as intakes, but the minifig skis as the fuselage are also fantastic.
I rarely blog LEGO models together, but these two wheeled beasts seem almost as though they were designed to be put on as a double act.
Sorting by date gives Shannon Sproule (Ocean) the top billing with his latest excellent addition to Battle for the Moon. And even by his own high standards this one is a winner. He presents the Soviet Lunar Katyusha for our edification.
Following on is Mark Stafford (nabii), taking a very different theme and adding wheels to Space Police 3. It’s another example from Mark of what I call set+ building. Somewhere between set style and over-the-top finicky AFOL style. I’m a big fan of that sort of build, at least in part because I can’t pull it off at all well and here it is made to look effortless.
Here’s a fun little build by Andrew Lee. He’s managed to pack a great deal of detail into a small package. I’m a fan of energy axes and circular magazines, so the armaments leave me happy.
It looks like Andrew posted a whole team of bots last night, so make sure to check out his photo stream.
Who says all big spaceships need to be covered with greebles to look great? This gorgeous space Destroyer by Dutch builder Red Spacecat employs clean lines and smooth surfaces, and it looks fantastic. Don’t let that fool you, though; it’s still packed with plenty of details, like the hidden torpedo ports.
Sometimes Pierre E. Fieschi makes it too easy to blog his LEGO models. Not only does he offer quirky but lovely models, but he presents them beautifully as well.
FebRovery is producing some nice results this year and my favorite to date is this little number by halfbeak. As the title suggests ***Keep Fingers Well Clear!*** or you just might lose one.
