I like the apparent simplicity of the overall design of this microscale space station by Ludgonious, especially the transparent yellow windows at the top and the round protrusions toward the bottom. Lots of good detailing without being too cluttered. A good balance.
We feature a lot of LEGO microscale creations, but it seems like the huge stuff always gets the limelight. Sometimes, though, it’s not about how much LEGO you own, but how you use what you’ve got.
These little spaceships by Craig Lavergne (Tayasuune) aren’t built from very many pieces, but demonstrate originality of design and several interesting parts uses.
The red ship looks like it could do some serious damage if it rammed the fragile white ship with the gravity rings.
Matthew Raehl’s (Puddleglum) Microbe Obliterator will obsessively clean your ship and any Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class that it encounters.
This creation uses curved slopes to achieve the shape of M-O’s head and body, which definitely results in an improvement.
Xhyn uz o’akh’in du e’ahsil mukh aght.
Don’t blame me for the alien language, blame Shannon Young. You don’t have to understand the text to know what’s going on in this story; the pictures speak for themselves.
Carter Baldwin has been busy building, or rather, he’s been slowly agonizing over this creation. I saw it as a work in progress way back at BrickFair in August of 2009. This thing has come a long way since then, with many more details being packed in, and a completely enclosed bottom.
This ship is inspired by those of the Homeworld games, like so many good space creations seem to be. This ship has some great areas of transition between angled sections, and there are plenty of nicely angled sections. Carter has also made good use of printed elements and brick-built details, in addition to the now-popular stickers.
Fredoichi‘s new creation has me Frinking out all right. I love the color combination in this ship. I’ve used orange, brown and a light blue together before, but I would never have thought that you could add dark tan and still end up with something that looks good.
The shape of this thing isn’t half bad either. I’ve long been a fan of armored panels over greebly bits, so this should come as no surprise. Add in some top notch sticker usage, and the result is the quite excellent Damare v3 Fighter.
Peter Reid has taken another run at his classic exo-suit creation. He’s just posted some photos of the MkII version on flickr, and the model just looks great. I think that the new claws are a huge step forward, and not just because they’re huge.
Also notable is the photography of this model, which does a great job of highlighting the model, while giving it a believable setting. The backdrop and supporting cast are great, and the depth of field of the photo really brings it to life.
Let’s take a look at the evolution of Peter’s Exo Mech over the years — it’s pretty cool to see all these iterations. This is an earlier version of the Exo-Suit from 2009, with an extended limb from the back.
The Exo-Squad ready for duty is one of my favourites from 2011!
The heavy weaponry version that we all want and need back (from 2012).
And the sci-fi action movie that’s waiting to be picked up by Hollywood (from 2014).
As I said in my last post, I’m using today’s snow day to build and search for creations to blog. I didn’t find too much stuff to blog that hadn’t already been covered by my Brothers-Brick cohorts, but I’m hopeful that the snow on the East coast of the US will force a building boom. And so, I give you the Contus Lancer Corvette, which I’m still not sure if I like.
This ship is meant to be a long-range attack craft. It’s armed with a single, massive, spinal mounted energy cannon, for attacking capital ships, and bunch of crazy-spindly sensors. For most of this build, I thought it was going to end up being unmanned, because I didn’t think I’d have room for a cockpit. Eventually it dawned on me that my idea for the front section could easily be hollow, and now there’s a pilot.
This simple design for a cell is flirting with perfect. I wouldn’t have thought to use the garage door pieces for a jail, but then I didn’t have to….Andrew Colunga did.
This freighter, by Soren, threw me for a loop. I didn’t realize it was micro-scale. Leprechaun is a very appropriate name, I’m thinkin’.
Nnenn is back at it again with this totally awesome recreational dogfighter: the ‘Zipper’. And it certainly appears zippy.
When I started building this stuff, I wasn’t sure what to call it. It’s certainly flattering to see other people build in this style, though, especially when the creations are as good as this one.
The Cortical Assimilator by Lloyd W looks pretty amazing. He’s managed to cram a ton of details into a very small package. He’s also done some sort of trick lighting or photography to get all his new gray pieces to look like old gray. He’s certainly outdone my latest in density of detail.
