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.

I’ve been busy

I’ve been quite a busy little bee lately and really getting back into building. There’s a few more new ones in my photostream (including some NoVVember fun) but I’ll blog my favourites from most recent.

First is my “Wombat” VTOL which I’ve fairly blatantly ripped off Ryan Rubino and Keith Goldman. I had fun trying to gett a variety of different angles to give it a real ‘stealth’ look.

Secondly we meet “White Rabbit”. A fairly straightfoward hot rod (or is it a rat rod?) with some fun SNOTwork to get the various subtle shapes.

And I’ve finally finished (insofar as it’ll ever be finished) my long-worked-upon Kuranda Scenic Rail train. In attempting to take photos of the whole train I discovered the difficulties of taking good photos of big things.

It’s been good to be back.

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BMP-5 “Zhukov” IFV

Aleksander Stein has created an incredibly detailed upgrade to the BMP family. I’m really digging the sloped design of the body and it can fit a lot of figs in there!

Miniland-scale FDNY Seagrave ladder truck by Ralph Savelsberg

For the November LUGnuts Fear and Loathing challenge, Ralph Savelsberg faces his fear of fire, heights, and loud noises with this FDNY (Fire Department, City of New York) ladder truck. The ladder itself extends, and the truck is covered in Ralph’s signature stickers.

See more of Ralph’s fire engines in his Fire photoset on Flickr.

Snowblowerman rides again, now with a leaf blower

As autumn gives way to winter in New England, Mike Crowley gives us another Snowblowerman vignette. This time around, our hero wages battle not against flakes but against leaves instead, thereby earning himself a new nickname — Leafblowerman.

Naturally, there’s also a potential love interest:

Winter comes to Zgrredek’s Poland

I’ve postponed blogging this wonderful winter scene by Zgrredek several times because I can’t seem to find the right words.

From the smoky chimneys and trio of rooftop birds to the brick-built horse and old-fashioned delivery truck, I can’t pick just one favorite detail.

Find your own favorite details in the Brickshelf gallery.

(Via Klocki, Brick Town Talk, and several e-mails from readers.)

A Sliding Scale of Plymouth Rocks

Ed Diment and Ralph Savelsberg have built the Plymouth Rock in multiple scales. From Micro to Mega and everything in between, these cars rock!

Swing low, sweet chariot

This great little car by Karwik (Noddy) has so many cool details I don’t know where to start. From the groovy hood to the simultaneously round and pointy rear, don’t miss all the photos on Brickshelf.

(Via LUGNuts, while trying to channel Tim. :P )

2009 LEGO City sets include a farm with cows [News]

Castle fans aching for 10193 Medieval Market Village aren’t the only LEGO fans who will be getting more civilian sets (and cows!) in 2009.

7637 has two cows, along with a big tractor, small tractor, and barn:

7635 includes a six-wide SUV with trailer and a brown horse:

8401 appears to be the first minifig and accessory pack for Town/City in many years:

See more (including all the new construction sets) on Eurobricks, Brickset, Brickshelf, or Flickr.

4999 Vestas Windmill [Review]

Eurobricks member Lasse D has obtained and reviewed the 4999 Vestas Windmill. Although this exclusive promo set is only available to Vestas employees, we the general public can now see in greater detail what we are missing out on. :(

You can see a short video of the model to get a sense of the windmill’s size and functionality.

Huts in town

As part of my patriotic duty I bring you all my latest bit of fun: a generic Australian worker’s cottage. These are quite common in certain suburbs in most Australian cities and date back to the turn of the 20th Century. I kept the design fairly simple to facilitate repetition and variation, just like the real things.

A new look at things

See anything interesting in Jarek‘s newest creation at a glance? Take a second look and you might notice the shift from minifig-scale to microscale between the foreground and background!

Indeed, Jarek is using forced perspective in his latest work, and he does it superbly.

Fire!

I’m loving sense of urgency in the this diorama by zgrredek. It has that wacky, silent movie feel. Almost the Keystone Cops turned fireman.

Those horses are swell, as well: