Tag Archives: Town

Towns in the world of LEGO have everything cities in the real world do — police stations, fire engines, trains, hairdressers and veterinarians. Check out all the beautiful buildings and vehicles we’ve featured here on The Brothers Brick.

The palace of TenderShadow’s dreams

I think reader ShiYue is right that we’ve never blogged anything built by a LEGO fan from mainland China.

With an impressive palace measuring 92 x 42 studs and 59 cm tall, Beijing builder “TenderShadow ” (zgreenz on Brickshelf) helps us introduce the world to a community of LEGO builders with whom we might not usually interact.

Looking over the pictures, I’m impressed with how much Technic TenderShadow has incorporated into the build. We all use Technic for structural integrity and studs-not-on-top (SNOT) construction, but it’s unusual to see quite this much Technic in the detailing for a LEGO Town creation.

For those of you reading The Brothers Brick in China who might not already know this, Lelezhen.com is a LEGO fan site with hundreds of active members.

Thanks for the tip, ShiYue!

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Soviet ZIL-131 pumper by Aleksander Stein

As Aleksander Stein notes in the photo’s description, North American and Western European fire engines are fairly common in LEGO form, while those designed eastward of the old Iron Curtain are more rare. Aleksander remedies this with his Soviet-era ZIL-131 pumper:

Both the front and rear wheel well designs are impressive. Inverted chairs enclose the rear tires, and I suspect that much of the rear half of the vehicle is built upside down.

Come fly with me

Nick Dean seems to have transformed into a plane builder lately and I, for one, have no complaints about this. His Douglas DC-3 in classic Pan-Am colours is a wonderful example of the extremely difficult job of LEGO plane sculpting.

I swear I walked past this place on my way home tonight

This vignette by Wojciech Scrat captures the ambiance of drinking dens all over the world. I’ve been waiting to blog it for a while, but it is sort of timeless. Sad peasant face is sad.

I love this for so many personal and professional reasons, which will remain terribly mysterious.

A cozy cottage

Ricardo Prates wishes you a Merry Christmas with this adorable little scene.

Not quite depressing

I’ve been having big problems blogging here lately due to some strange delays in writing posts making it a much slower process than usual. That’s the main reason why I’ve tended to double up models in my latest posts. To keep with the tradition I’m doubling up my two latest models: my version of a LMS Jinty and an old-style Northern English tram. The `stickers’ are applied virtually but I intend to add them for real.

Not a Routemaster

It seems that most of the buses we blog are variants of the iconic London Bus (the Routemaster). Today I’d like to introduce you to the more modern buses seen in Europe. Both make excellent use of the new windscreen piece.

This bus by Nieks (mrbrick) runs in Breda, the Netherlands.

While this one by MasterChief1 is a common site in many English towns and cities. I do have to send the purists a warning that there is some use of double sided tape here.

Firefighting LEGO Unimog reveals the joys of complicated builds

Moritz Nolting (nolnet) beat me to it, but I don’t begrudge him this awesome Unimog.

What makes Moritz’s Unimog extra-cool is the extra ground clearance he achieved by building the chassis studs-down.

Two by two, cranes of blue

I just discovered Maciej Drwiega‘s flickr gallery today and was really impressed by both the models and photography. This railroad support crane struck as particularly nice due to its use of studes out tiles, plates and wings to create a visually interesting monochrome surface. The windscreen is also particularly nice.

Bus Driver’s Prayer

I’m pretty sure we’ve blogged this before.

OK so we’ve kind of blogged it before but Ralph Savelsberg (madphysicist) has given Firas’ scene a redux for the latest LUGNUTs challenge. This is truly the best Routemaster I’ve seen at minifig scale.

Handsome masonry heralds the end of the 10182 era

The latest 10182 Café Corner building from L.G. Orlando (lgorlando) arrives just as the set that inspired it all begins to come and go, hearkening the end of the set’s availability.

L.G.’s brickwork under the porch is excellent, and little details like the round 1×1 plates in the window frames break up the plane of the wall.

It’s been nearly two and a half years since LEGO released Café Corner, inspiring thousands of LEGO builders to try LEGO Town creations — many of us for the first time. Though we all know that LEGO sets aren’t available indefinitely, it’s hard to imagine this inspirational set being gone forever.

See more photos of L.G.’s Brickstone Manor on MOCpages.

LEGO Nakagin Capsule Tower captures the Metabolist spirit

A new builder going by SPACE, TIME, & REALITY has posted a microscale version of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo.

The technique used for the round capsule windows is excellent, while the mix of light and dark windows adds interest.

Via twee affect.