Extending the number of letters in the Star Wars fleet of fighters (X-wing, Y-wing, B-wing, A-wing, etc.) is a popular pursuit among Star Wars LEGO fans. From Bricks to Bothans, the Star Wars LEGO community, is holding a contest to build an R-wing fighter.
Here’s Mark Stafford’s entry in all its delicious orangy goodness (via Snoikle):
Wow, I have been out of the loop for the last week or so. But now I’m back and ready to blog again! Anyway, while perusing Brickshelf, I noticed this incredible mosaic of Darth Vader and I had to share. So here it is!
Chuybregts’ nifty Vader mosaic: 
What made this jump out at me was the fact that it jumps out at you! Done all on black, unlike most mosaics, Vader’s head appears slightly 3D. Very cool and “most impressive”.
Here’s the gallery if you want to see it, but there’s only the one pic.
Edit: Here are more pics of the Mosaic in progress! (thanks to sean mykael for the link!)
And here is a page of instructions that chuybregts made for this creation.
If you’ve been following Bruce’s posts on VignetteBricks, you know that FBTB Forums have been hosting a Star Wars vignette contest. The contest has spawned many great vignettes, but here are a few of my favorites. (FBTB Forums admin Onions has kindly posted a photoset on Flickr with all of the entries.)
Two vigs from bwu that use micro vehicles and minifig heads in an interesting way:
Han Solo drops a toolchest on Chewbacca’s head in a vignette from Mark Stafford:
Another micro vehicle entry — this one from yellost:
Finally, my personal favorite, an explosive scene from Return of the Jedi by Big_X:
I expect the “great builders” of the world to provide the rest of us with innovative building techniques now and then. But it’s also nice to find interesting techniques in unexpected places. “Darth Zamma” is a new LEGO blogger who sent me a link to his blog a little while ago, along with a link to his friend “Darth Malum’s” blog.
Here’s a minifig Darth Zamma posted recently:
Responding to one of his e-mails, I asked Darth Zamma how he attached that Exo-Force robot arm to the regular minifig torso, and he kindly posted a short pictorial how-to. It’s an interesting technique. Here’s a preview:
Star Wars minifigures these days are all about cutting, gluing, Sculpey, and painting. Well, more specifically, they’re all about the infinite variations of clone troopers in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Fun! So it’s refreshing to see something other than another Commander Gree or Captain Typho.
Here’s Moko’s Darth Vader:
And Dillon’s RIC-920 droid:
Brickshelf user PipCasbar just posted a nifty brick-built Bantha based on a model by BaronSat. This naturally prompted me to look up the original. Very nice indeed:
As if the Star Wars MINI scale weren’t small enough, builders have also been creating “micro-scale” Star Wars vehicles for some time — especially since the release of 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer.
New Brickshelf user Greg Mote has just uploaded a bunch of micro-scale Star Wars vehicles that take this scale to a whole new level.
Millenium Falcon:
Sandcrawler:
Jango Fett’s Slave I:
And more. Very nice work.
This is just too funny to pass up. A couple weeks before Girl’s Day (Hina-Matsuri) on March 3, families with young girls display a multi-tiered stand of dolls (picture). You can see a minifig-scale version in Nelson Yrizarry’s recent vignette in this picture.
Izzo has turned this idea on its head with his Star Wars Hinamatsuri:
Note the brick-built Jabba the Hutt between Boba Fett and the Gamorrean Guard, as well as the mini-scale AT-AT and AT-STs. Sweet.
Chris Deck is a man after my own heart. Here’s a quote from his FBTB Forums post:
Same rules apply for him as for all my other minifigs, too: No saw, glue or paint.
Ah, sweet, sweet music to my purist ears! ;-) Oh, and here’s the alien Bounty Hunter 4-LOM himself:
I would not have thought to use binoculars on his face. Nice job, Chris!
I recently blogged about Brickshelf user comic’s creations based on Hayao Miyazaki films, promising to highlight his blog here on Pan-Pacific Bricks.
Ichigou and Nigou regularly (sometimes daily) post new stop-motion LEGO Star Wars movies. You have to see them to believe them, so head on over to LEGO INC and check them out for yourself!
The movies are in Windows Media (WMV) format, so you’ll need Windows Media Player, available for free from Microsoft. The movies themselves are in English, with Japanese subtitles. They also maintain a master list of all the movies they’ve posted, broken out by episode. Pretty darn cool!
