Michael Lasky-Saparito recently purchased 10182 Cafe Corner and has put his new bricks to good use in a wonderful beach house. I especially love the flying buttress, awning over the door, and front steps. Here’s hoping Michael keeps this up!
EDIT (12/2): Michael just added another house that may in fact be even cooler than his beach house:
Well I’m trying to be a bit better about blogging my own stuff relatively quickly. This loco is based on a die-cast model of a German HF 110C locomotive which is meant to have six wheels but since I wanted it motorised with the classic motor it only has four. If you look carefully you will notice that the boiler and rear coal tender are upside down. Hope you like it.
I was originally going to add a comment about this to Nannan’s post below but decided that while over a year old, this tank was worthy of its own post.
Magnus Lauglo’s excellent minifig scale Warlord tank is a very attractive model. What makes it even better is that it is fully motorised. What Magnus said. Enough said.
Tim
Steven Marshall is a talented builder who creates models of realistic subjects. Check out his latest creation, the Bedford Ice Cream Van. It looks so real that had I seen his model from a distance, I’d never thought it was lego.
In addition to being a band, “Pepper’s Ghost” is a stage technique in which actors appear as ghosts in the production. Alex Eylar has tried his hand at creating this illusion in LEGO:
Click the image to read Alex’s description of the building and photography process on MOCpages.
Karwik (aka Noddy) conjures the romantic atmosphere of a small intimate cafe called the Two Hearts Cafe, complete with bikes as expected.
This is the third time I blogged Noddy in what seems like such a short time frame, but his recent vignettes are so sentimental and nostalgic. It’s soft of me to say that, but one’s gotta take a break from all the space shooters and war-bots once in a while.
The highly familiar Misterzumbi has brought out another great vehicle (car? truck? monster???), the famous Grave Digger. The model is 100% pure LEGO, even the stickers (although they may be pushing the definition). It’s worth noticing the high level of detail in the shock absorbers and the rod and hand structure for the base.
I think this model also has the best photography I’ve seen from Misterzumbi and possibly the best I’ve seen of LEGO ever.
As we saw last week, Nathan Proudlove doesn’t just build great steampunk and space creations. Here’s his latest, a “Batrod.” Building at this scale provides ample opportunity for lots of interesting details, but I like the bat-shaped side windows in particular.
And speaking of cars… A Volkswagen fan site has a press release from LEGO announcing that the classic Beetle will be released as a set in mid-2008:
Now, there’s some history to this set, as you can see by reading the press release. Here’s a rundown of previous coverage here on The Brothers Brick:
Thanks for the link, Matt Wagner!
LUGNuts is a new Flickr group that focuses on LEGO vehicles. They’ve just concluded their first contest, “Modified Machines,” and here are a couple of my favorites…
Lino Martins‘ 1968 Pontiac GTO:
Nathan Proudlove‘s 1964 Chevy El Camino dragracer:
With talented builders like Lino, Nathan, Ricardo “Biczzz” Prates, and Steven Marshall as LUGNuts members, I can’t wait to see what the next contest, “I Smell a Rat,” will yield!
Brickshelfer Mahjqa recently won the Lowlug Mini MOC Madness contest with the highway pileup pictured above. (Via MicroBricks.)
