Contests seem to bring out the best in builders. Chris Malloy joins the R-wing contest:
“But it doesn’t look like an R at all,” you may say. That is where you are gravely mistaken:
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FBTB R-Wing by Chris Edwards
Okay, so scanning 250 posts in the FBTB contest thread turns out to be worth it. Chris Edwards joins the dogfight with his own take on the R-wing:
What I like about this one is that it looks exactly like a typical Star Wars fighter. In fact, if a Y-wing and B-wing spent the night deep in the romantic gloom of a temple on Yavin IV, this is what might emerge a few months later.
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FBTB R-Wing: Maravah by Brayton Orchard
I haven’t read through all 249 posts in the R-wing fighter contest on FBTB, but I’m certainly running across some great entries on Brickshelf. Brayton Orchard’s entry just blew me away:
The brick-built, white-on-red detailing is just stunning. Both the weaponry under the nose and what I presume are the engines are delightfully greebilicious. It doesn’t scream “Star Wars!” to me (in fact, I mistook it for a micro-ship at first), but it certainly captures the R shape wonderfully.
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Mark Stafford’s R-Wing Fighter
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):
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Dark Lord Mosaic by Chuybregts
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.
Favorites from the FBTB Star Wars Vignette Contest
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:
Minifig Arm Swap How-To from Darth Zamma
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:
Brick-Built Star Wars Minifigs
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:
BaronSat’s Brick-Built Bantha
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:
Greg Mote’s Micro Star Wars Vehicles
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.