Tag Archives: Vignettes

Vignettes are like the haiku of the LEGO world. Usually built on a base 8 studs wide by 8 studs deep, vignettes show a little scene or a moment in time. But like written poetry, there’s plenty of variation on the basic theme.

No Real Than You Are

I was inspired by recent events and creations:

(Flickr page)

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Castle 2007, as remixed by Steve Vargo

Steve Vargo wasn’t quite satisfied with the skeleton army faction in the new Castle theme, so he tweaked it. Just a bit. Read Steve’s backstory for this diorama on Builder’s Lounge. Very Lovecraftian, Steve. (Via VignetteBricks.)

A vig that permits itself to be read

I breezed right past this vignette by Alex Eylar until Bruce pointed out an interesting feature on VignetteBricks — the two main characters are the only ones in color:

You can read the full text of “The Man of the Crowd” by Edgar Allen Poe online. (The title is a reference to a German quote that ends the story, “es lasst sich nicht lesen”.)

You still need tea time and golf, even after the apocalypse

Perhaps this post-apocalyptic trend as a whole is somewhat less hilarious now that Brickshelf is back, but that doesn’t change the fact that these two dioramas by Nick Dean are both cool and very funny.

Mini MOC Madness!

Lowlug’s Mini MOC Madness is upon us again! The theme this year is weather, and there are already some great entries. Check out the gallery, and click “Lees meer” to see bigger pictures of each entry. A few of my faves:

(Thanks for the tip, Martin Jaspers! I’d link to your gallery like I usually do, but it won’t exist on August 1, so I’m minimizing future broken links. :( )

EDIT: Sorry about the broken images — I’ll fix them later.

Bidding so long to Brickshelf

FBTB Forums member “Glorious Kyle” wishes Brickshelf a fond farewell. I like how Kyle has turned the Brickshelf logo into tombstones. (Via VignetteBricks.)

Sportstastic!

Brickshelfer Crises has two cool entries for the sports-themed contest over at Klocki:

(Via VignetteBricks.)

Yungang Grottoes by Tiger0207

Yungang Grottoes are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Datong, China. Tiger0207 presents a scene of a Buddhist monk meditating in one of the caves:

Via VignetteBricks.

“It’s No Use, John Clay” said Alan Saunders blandly.

Alan Saunders presents a vignette based on a quote from the Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Red Headed League”:

The light flashed upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes’s hunting crop came down on the man’s wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone floor.

“It’s no use, John Clay,” said Holmes blandly. “You have no chance at all.”

What could you build with just 10176 Royal King’s Castle?

Nelson Yrizarry recently set out to determine what he could make from just the pieces in 10176 Royal King’s Castle. The results are somewhat surprising:

That’s:

One Royal Smokehouse
Two castle vignettes
One SmithBot
Three microscale space ships

UPDATE: Nelson has added several new creations using only the pieces left over after creating all of the ones in his original batch. Read all about it in the thread on Classic-Castle.com.

Contests happening all over the place!

Given the potential for loot, I thought I’d pass on a couple of contests going on right now.

Klocki and zczuba.pl are hosting a sports-themed contest. Head on over to Klocki to read the details and see examples, but here’s some inspiration:

(News via VignetteBricks; “Red Card” by Nelson Yrizarry, currently going through brick-withdrawal. We feel your pain.)

Also via VignetteBricks, LEGO Europe just concluded a raffle for the gold-chrome C-3PO minifig otherwise only available randomly in sets here in the United States. The contest deadline was June 25, but you can see all of the entries on 1000steine.de. In my personal favorite, a rather enhanced R2-D2 steals the scene — as usual:

The final due date for the Classic-Space.com Moon Rover Contest is this Saturday, June 30th. You can see a list of all the great entries so far in this thread. Many of the entries feature wonderfully inventive wheels: